Erdogan calls for recognition of Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus as an independent state

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, successful his speech astatine the UN General Assembly, called for planetary designation of Turkish-occupied bluish Cyprus arsenic an autarkic state.

“There are two abstracted states and two abstracted peoples connected the island. The Turkish Cypriots are adjacent co-owners and will ne'er judge being a minority,” said Erdogan, calling connected the planetary assemblage to extremity what helium described arsenic the “unjust and inhuman isolation,” of the Turkish-occupied bluish portion of the island. 

“I telephone connected the planetary assemblage to admit the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and to found diplomatic, political, and economical relations,” helium added.

Furthermore, Erdogan stated that a λύση connected Cyprus cannot beryllium based connected a national model, saying that it “has been tried galore times and failed.”