From on July 18 the president of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) of the official opposition in Turkey will also be found in the occupied territories, Ozgur Ozel, as he announced on Tuesday. Ozel and other high-ranking members of his party will attend the July 20 celebrations of “50 years of the peace operation”, as he provocatively called Attila I.

The CHP leader even… appeared to paraphrase the Pope before visiting the occupied territories for the anniversary of Attila I. “Peace at home, peace on the island, peace in the world” said Ozel characteristically, recalling “Urbi et orbi” the papal blessing which means “in the city (meaning of Rome) and in the world”,

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the occupied territories, there will also be the Tayyip Erdoganthe leader of the far-right Nationalist Action Party Devlet Bakhceli and a number of members of the opposition parties.

Ozel declined the Turkish president’s invitation to travel together on the same plane.

The CHP president is in Sarajevo on Wednesday.