Turkey with its "Pontiopolitan" stance is trying, while maintaining a neutrality, to gain economic and political benefits from both sides, Interior Minister Nikos Nouris said on Sunday, noting that a country like Turkey, which systematically violates human rights, first with the crime it has committed against Cyprus and with its continued instrumentalization of the migration issue, is the last country that would be expected to assume a mediating role.
Asked by a journalist, after the annual national memorial service for the hero Dimitrakis Papamiliades, at Agia Marina Xyliatou, about Turkey's role in Ukraine and what it is trying to gain, the Interior Minister said that "Turkey, which systematically violates human rights, first with the crime it has committed against our country, and with its continued instrumentalization of the migration issue, is the last one that would be expected to assume a mediating role", adding that "despite this, in diplomacy everything is allowed".
According to Nikos Nouris, "Turkey is proving for the umpteenth time that it moves relatively flexibly at the diplomatic level and, yes, what is happening today is an oxymoron for us".
"A country," he said, "that is a member of both NATO and other international organizations and that systematically violates human rights and instrumentalizes migrants, is asking and trying to intervene as a mediator in the Ukraine-Russia crisis," he concluded.
In relation to the Cyprus problem, he said that "at this moment and with the problems we are facing, we want to hope that with the different ways of managing the national problem, namely through the diplomatic route, no additional sacrifices will be required, but brave efforts will certainly be required to be able to break the deadlock on the Cyprus problem."
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