President Tatar to the world: “Keep your promises”

North Nicosia, The Gulf Observer: TRNC President Ersin Tatar called on the UN, EU, USA and other international actors to keep their promises they made to the Turkish Cypriot people during the Annan Plan referanda held in 2004. 

President Tatar stated “It is with deep regret that, despite the passing of 19 years following the Annan Plan referenda, none of the promises have effectively come to fruition. We are compelled to express our disappointment at every anniversary of the Annan Plan referenda”.

The President added “My call to the UN, EU and the US, is to stop supporting the Greek-Greek Cypriot duo, who have only paid lip service to wanting a settlement but always rejected any equality-based solution, and to effectively implement the promises they made to the Turkish Cypriot people during the Annan Plan period in 2004.” 

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Ertuğruloğlu has said that “We are waging a struggle for our honour”
He made this statement to Baku TV, which has been filming a documentary in the TRNC on the Cyprus issue.

The Foreign Minister Ertuğruloğlu made a comprehensive assessment of the past and present of the Cyprus issue, relations with Azerbaijan, the observer membership to the Organisation of Turkic States and underlined that the Cyprus issue is a question of status.

Emphasizing that the Turkish Cypriots underwent untold suffering and persecution at the hands of the Greek Cypriots years before the ethnic cleansing campaign that had occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the middle of Europe, Ertuğruloğlu said: “We were subjected to all kinds of atrocities; we did not surrender, and we did not succumb. We are waging a struggle for our honour with the support of Türkiye.”