Turkish Cypriot Leader Warns Cyprus Could Turn Into Gaza

Greek Reporter ^ | April 6, 2024 | Tasos Kokkinidis

[nickcarraway]

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar warned on Friday that “one tiny mistake” could turn Cyprus into “a new Gaza”.

Tatar, not recognized as a head of state by the international community, also suggested that Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan may soon recognize the north. Turkey is the only country that recognizes the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

in an interview with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, said, “A mistake or a misunderstanding such as the shooting of a Turkish soldier on the Green Line… would provoke a bomb between the two populations.”

“If you shoot one Turkish soldier, you will have 10,000 soldiers on the ground,” he added.

To this end, he said “everyone should be calm and reasonable. Turkish Cypriots are not alone – we have got 85 million Turks behind us, and they are just 40 miles away.”

Grecian Delight supports Greece “A little flare-up, that is what people are fearing. Look at what happened in Gaza. And before that, Ukraine. Before that, Bosnia,” he said.

In the interview, he went on to describe potential efforts towards a federal solution to the Cyprus problem as “a waste of time,” and added, “That’s all past. All those opportunities have been exhausted.

“How can you unite an island like this after so many years? You cannot possibly unite Cyprus. You have to accept the facts and accept reality,” he said.

With this in mind, he said the “only way forward is a two-state solution,” and suggested that Azerbaijan, Bangladesh and Pakistan may soon recognize the north, though this has not yet come to fruition.

Following his meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York on Friday, Tatar said that on July 20, 2024, they will celebrate the anniversary of the “Turkish peacekeeping operation in Cyprus”, as he referred to the Turkish invasion.

He expressed the hope that the international community “will wake up” and see “the reality” that there are “two peoples, two democratic states, two authorities” in Cyprus and that for there to be a permanent solution, this should be done through the cooperation of “the two existing states in Cyprus”.

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Cyprus responds to the Turkish Cypriot leader The Cyprus government responded to Tatar’s comments. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said they “do not contribute positively and do not reflect the future of our common homeland.”

He advised that Tatar should do this “instead of making statements which do not contribute positively and do not reflect the future of our common homeland as a country in which its inhabitants will live together in peace, security and prosperity.”

To this end, he said President Nikos Christodoulides “will continue to make every possible effort in cooperation with [UN Secretary-General] Guterres and his envoy Maria Angela Holguin, to recommence negotiations and find a final solution to the Cyprus problem.

“We are looking to the future of Cyprus as a modern, reunited European country which will ensure the future of the next generations and the wellbeing of all Cypriots,” he said.

[nickcarraway]

This will never happen. Because as much as certain people say, "I'm not anti-Jewish, I'm just anti-Israel," they never get worked up about the treatment of other (including Muslim) groups.

For example, Myanmar can treat the the Rohingya worse than Israel, but they never get called out or called Nazis.

The Chinese have treated a orders of magnitude larger number of Muslims far worse than Israel has treated Gazans. (Or at least how it is claimed.) But you don't hear anyone calling out the Chinese, or calling the Nazis. In act, it's virtually illegal to mention it out loud in the U.S. For example, you can be kicked out of the NBA for mentioning it.

And so forth, and so on, with other groups. Somehow, the actions alleged, only call out to people's humanity, when the alleged culprits are Jewish. Prove me wrong. [For what it's worth, I am a gentile.]

[Gay State Conservative]

Know Islam,no peace
No Islam,know peace

[Paladin2]

The problem is Islam.

From the Green Line to the Northern Sea...

[DIRTYSECRET]

Both are in NATO. Go figure.

[packagingguy]

This is not my interpretation, it’s from a woman whose husband is Greek.

Long story short they are leaving our city because of crime (IOW Democrats).

He’s Green, she’s Ukrainian and he now has a job in Cyprus.

I asked if there are problems with the Turks in Cyprus.

She said no. They regular people are just fine with each other.

The politicians are the ones to worry about she said.

That’s the same thing Serbian and Albanian immigrants have told me.

[hanamizu]

” “A little flare-up, that is what people are fearing. Look at what happened in Gaza.”

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Ah, so October 7 was just a ‘little flare-up”

[sheik yerbouty]

👍👍👍

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said they "do not contribute positively and do not reflect the future of our common homeland." ...he said President Nikos Christodoulides |will continue to make every possible effort in cooperation with [UN Secretary-General] Guterres and his envoy Maria Angela Holguin, to recommence negotiations and find a final solution to the Cyprus problem.| [/snip]

[jerod]

When the Ottoman empire came to it’s end the Islamist Turks should’ve left Cyprus... They didn’t, but their exit could still be arranged. The only thing standing in the way... The ‘United Nations’ of Islam. The sooner the UN is dissolved and abandoned as a ‘peace’ organization, the sooner peace will be had throughout this world.

The United Nations is a joke... It’s workers in Palestine are members of Hamas... And it’s workers in Cyprus are likely Turks. The UN exist to promulgate Islamist BS.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Don’t kick Turks out of Greek Cyprus. Instead kick Turks out of Turkey. /spit