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Northern Cyprus tells UN forces to recognize it or leave shortly

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: Agencies
  • 5 Oct 2022 22:24
4 Min Read

Northern Cyrpus demands UN recognition or nothing.

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  • UNFICYP peacekeepers patrolling the buffer zone
    UNFICYP peacekeepers patrolling the buffer zone

The Northern Cypriot government handed on Wednesday the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) an ultimatum about the breakaway state's status: either recognize Northern Cyprus or leave within a month, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported.

Northern Cypriot Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertugruloglu underlined that if the UNFICYP does not reach an agreement with North Nicosia, the forces will be asked to abandon their stations in the north.

"The hospitality is over. Either they sign a military agreement with the Turkish republic of northern Cyprus or they leave," Hurriyet quoted Ertugruloglu as saying.

The UN forces play the role of a buffer between self-proclaimed Northern Cyprus and Cyprus, which have highly tense relations due to the secessionist being backed by Turkey, which also has high tensions with Cyprus.

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean Pierre Lacroix to hand them a draft 'status of forces of agreement' (SOFA), the Northern Cypriot foreign minister said.

He underlined that the government in the north would take further steps toward the recognition of the breakaway state.

The United Nations will review the draft text, Ertugruloglu revealed.

"[The UN] said they would respond as soon as possible, but we gave them an extra month," he said. "As TRNC we tell them clearly ‘look, it is not the Greek-Cypriot administration who will approve your mission here, but us. We have been hosting you all these years, but now this is over."

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"Even if they give us a negative answer, we won’t hesitate to take the necessary steps. Since 1974 we have been living with the security provided by the Turkish army. If the UN military leaves 'TRNC', they will leave," the top diplomat added.

During a visit to Northern Cyprus last year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his support for a two-state solution.

Erdogan accused the Greek Cypriot authorities of a lack of integrity in finding a solution to the divided Mediterranean island.

The Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs of the United States, Victoria Nuland, asserted a day later the United States' rejection of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's proposal for two states in Cyprus.

Ankara and Nicosia have been stuck in a diplomatic row for years, with various unresolved issues between the two that date back centuries. 

Turkish military drones, as per Turkish media, recently captured images of Greece's illegal deployment of armored vehicles on the Aegean islands with non-military status.

Two Greek landing ships on their way to Sisam and Midili in the Aegean Sea were filmed by Turkish drones, according to the report, and were carrying 18 tactical wheeled armored vehicles to Sisam and 23 to Midili, the agency said, which is against the law since the islands have a non-military status.

Tensions recently continued soaring between Greece and Turkey as Greece received the first 2 upgraded F-16s out of a total of 83 jets to be equipped with advanced electronics, radars, and weapons under a $1.5 billion program to modernize the Greek air fleet by 2027 in cooperation between Hellenic Aerospace Industry and US manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

Erdogan even went as far as accusing Greece of plans to destabilize the region, following a report that on August 23 Greece's S-300 locked on Turkish F-16 jets flying west of Rhodes, at 10,000 feet, according to Turkish Defense Ministry sources.

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