NICOSIA: Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he sees no point in continuing UN-led talks on the divided Cyprus’s future. He expressed these remarks in Northern Cyprus on Saturday marking the 50th anniversary of the Cyprus Peace Operation, TRT reported.
He said that they believed that a federal solution is not possible in Cyprus. He added, “It is of no benefit to anyone to say let’s continue talks where we left off in Switzerland years ago”. Decades of UN-backed talks have failed to reunify the region. The last round of peace negotiations, in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, collapsed in 2017.
Greek Cypriots in the globally recognized south of the island in 2004 overwhelmingly rejected a UN-backed reunification plan in a referendum.
“The Turkish Cypriot side should sit at the table as equals with the Greek Cypriot side. We are ready to talk and achieve long-term peace and a solution,” said President Erdogan.
