Illegal Bayrak (10.01.15) broadcast that Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu has called for the introduction of a timetable in the Cyprus negotiations process, stating that the talks cannot continue open-ended forever.
Speaking during the visit he paid in occupied Keryneia, Eroglu claimed that negotiations in Cyprus had been going since 1968 and alleged that the Greek Cypriot leadership abandoned the talks by citing poor excuses.
He alleged that the Greek Cypriot side had no intention of solving the Cyprus problem.
Pointing out that President Anastasiades had announced his decision to suspend the negotiations just days before the talks could entered the third phase of give and take, “by citing exploration activities carried out by the Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa research vessel as an excuse,” Eroglu said that Anastasiades’s predecessor Christofias had resumed talks in 2011-2012 when the Turkish Piri Reis ship was conducting seismic research in the area.
Alleging out that the next few years will be critical for the Cyprus problem, Eroglu said he believed the negotiations could be concluded successfully during this period of time. “We have prepared ourselves for both possibilities” he added.