The northern Cypriot entity of the aptly named President Tatar employs the same brand of “diplomacy” that its brothers Azerbaijan and Turkey and their step-brother Ukraine do. Brutish diktat, insult and threats.
Ankara has no more interest in seeing northern Cyprus an independent nation than it does Crimea rejoining Ukraine. Instead it plans to reunite both with the neo-Ottoman “Motherland.” Consummating the result of the invasion of 1974 and undoing the result of 1856, respectively.

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Turkish Cyprus slams Greek archbishop’s ‘racist, arrogant’ remarks

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) has rebuked the Greek Cypriot archbishop over “racist” and “arrogant” remarks toward the island’s Turkish Cypriots.

“The Archbishop’s (Chrysostomos II) bigoted statements demonstrate that the Greek Cypriot mentality, which has no tolerance for the Turkish presence on the Island, has not and never will change in any way,” said an official statement released on Monday by the Foreign Ministry of the TRNC.

It further said that the archbishop’s comments amounted to an attempt to “brainwash” Greek Cypriots and “instill racism”….

“It is a fact that there are two States on the Island, a Greek and a Turkish State….

“Our new vision, which was decided in the light of these facts, has been shared with the Guarantor country Turkey and has received full support as usual. The unwavering support of the Motherland gives confidence to the Turkish Cypriot People.”