Turkey's new "ambassador", Metin Feizyoglu, former President of the Turkish Bar Association, arrived in the occupied territories today.
According to T/C media reports, Mr. Feizioglu posted on his personal social media account an aerial photograph of Cyprus - the northern occupied part - and wrote alongside it "The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is alive.The Turkish Cypriot people and all our citizens are our leaders."
According to the GMP, the online Bugun Kipris writes that Feizyoglu met separately with the Turkish President and Vice President at the Presidential Palace yesterday in closed meetings.
After the meetings, he said he received President Erdogan's instructions. "I once again express my gratitude to our President for giving me the opportunity to serve our national cause of Cyprus and for deeming me worthy of their trust. I am always at the service of my state and my nation. Until my last breath. Long live the Republic of Turkey."
Metin Feizyoglu also met with Rifat Hissardziklioglu, President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) of Turkey.
Turkey's former "ambassador" to the occupied territories, Ali Murat Bascieri, left yesterday and returned to Ankara.
Feizioğlu is a political appointment by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in early October. Turkey's first non-diplomatic "ambassador" was born on July 7, 1969 in Istanbul, is registered with the Ankara Bar Association since 1991 and was elected president of the association in 2010, receiving 58 percent of the vote. In May 2013 he was elected to the presidency of the Turkish Bar Association.
In 2012, he was elected as a member of the party council of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), but resigned from this position upon his election to the presidency of the Turkish Bar Association in 2013. In 2019, he also resigned as a member of the CHP.
Source: CHP
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