Erdogan: There is no country named Cyprus

Erdogan: There is no country named Cyprus

Reactions to Erdogan’s statement that “there is no country named Cyprus”
Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper (02.11.12) reports that Omer Kalyoncu, “MP” with the Republican Turkish Party (CTP), reacted yesterday to the statement made by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to Germany that “there is no country named Cyprus in the world’. Addressing the “assembly”, Kalyoncu said: “Actually, there is not respectable state named TRNC. Neither Turkey nor the National Unity Party behaves as if such a state exists. We live in a country where the president of the republic violates the constitution and the government does not comply with the laws. No one can argue the opposite.”

Meanwhile, Yeni Duzen (02.11.12) reports also that Izzet izcan, general secretary of the United Cyprus Party (BKP) has said that there is an island named Cyprus and that the Republic of Cyprus is neither a Greek island nor an extension of Anatolia. In a written statement issued yesterday, Izcan noted that Erdogan’s statement that “there is no country named Cyprus” showed once more the insincerity of the Turkish Prime Minister. Izcan pointed out that the Republic of Cyprus is a state in which the Turkish Cypriots and the Greek Cypriots are politically equal. He said that the solution to be found to the Cyprus problem will be secured by turning the Republic of Cyprus into a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation.