Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan categorically rejects the possibility of visiting Nicosia during the Cyprus Presidency. The invitation was announced about a month ago by the Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides.

As the SKAI correspondent reports to Constantinople Manolis Kostidis, in the shadow of his provocative visit to the occupied 51 years after the Turkish invasion, the Turkish president … “came out above”, saying that “We do not recognize ” southern Cyprus ” as a state. Therefore, such a meeting with them does not have a place in my teapper. “

‘I have no intention To visit the south. Just as they do not recognize ” TRNC ” as a state, so do we We do not recognize ” southern Cyprus ” as a state. Therefore, such a meeting with them does not have a place in my teapper. These are marginal initiatives that do not reflect the will of the Turkish Cypriot people … Cannot call Turkey’s heroic sons, who came to the island of Cyprus exclusively for peace, ” conquerors ”. The Turkish Cypriot people will not even question the guarantee of their mother’s homeland, Turkey, and its legal presence on the island. The Greek Cypriot side has repeatedly proven that it does not want a solution. It does not seek equality and justice. He wants to make Turkish Cypriot pariahs in their own homeland » The Turkish president claimed.

“The key to a solution in Cyprus is a two -state solution. There will be no compromise on it » Erdogan repeated.