Provocative speech by Erdogan at the UN: Projects excluding Turkey and “northern Cyprus” in the Eastern Mediterranean will not succeed

Referring to the Cyprus issue and the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed the UN General Assembly, reiterating Turkey’s long-standing docket for a “two-state solution” connected the island.

“Turkey has rights and jurisdiction westbound of Cyprus, portion Turkish Cypriots person morganatic rights astir the island,” helium stated, emphasizing that “projects excluding Turkey and the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’(sic) successful the Eastern Mediterranean volition not succeed.”

The Turkish president erstwhile again rejected the national model, saying, “The solution to the Cyprus contented cannot beryllium based connected the national exemplary that has been tried galore times and failed.” He added emphatically: “There are 2 abstracted states and 2 abstracted peoples connected the island. Turkish Cypriots are adjacent owners and volition ne'er judge being a minority.”

At the aforesaid time, helium called connected the planetary assemblage “to extremity the unjust and inhumane isolation of Turkish Cypriots” and went further, requesting “official designation of the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’(sic)” and the constitution of “diplomatic, political, and economical relations” with it.

Erdogan besides revived the connection for a Conference connected the Eastern Mediterranean, aiming, arsenic helium said, “to make communal ground” connected vigor and maritime issues successful the region. “We privation to spot the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean arsenic a basin of stableness and prosperity, wherever the morganatic interests of each parties progressive are respected. We are acceptable for constructive practice connected each issues, particularly vigor and the environment. We expect the aforesaid from our neighbors,” Erdogan said.

The Turkish president’s connection astatine the UN is seen arsenic a renewed effort to unit the Republic of Cyprus and its EU partners, forcefully reasserting Turkey’s well-known positions that clash with UN Security Council resolutions connected Cyprus.

References to Gaza

Erdogan’s code besides included extended references to the concern successful the Gaza Strip and the plight of the Palestinian radical amid the war. “Today, we are present connected this level to talk connected behalf of the Palestinian people, whose voices are silenced, on with our ain citizens,” Erdogan said, thanking each the countries that person recognized Palestine.

He urged each states that person not recognized Palestine (around 40 of the UN’s 193 members) “to enactment without delay.”

He besides stated that for 23 months Israel has been sidesplitting 1 kid each hr successful Gaza, emphasizing that “these are not numbers, but guiltless lives.” “Every day, 2.5 cardinal residents of Gaza surviving successful 365 quadrate kilometers are displaced, forced to determination to different area. Innocent tiny children, conscionable 2 oregon 3 years old, without arms oregon legs, unluckily person go a communal show successful Gaza today.”

“The satellite has not witnessed specified barbarity successful the past century,” the Turkish person stressed.

He continued: “Which conscience tin endure, which tin stay soundless astir what is happening successful Gaza? Can determination beryllium bid successful a satellite wherever children dice from hunger and deficiency of medicine?”

Erdogan harshly criticized Israel, saying, “The Israeli concern nether the pretext of October 7 is not an anti-terrorist enactment but a argumentation of expulsion, exile, genocide, and wide killing.” He added that “Israel is not constricted to Gaza and the West Bank. With its attacks connected Syria, Iran, Yemen, and Lebanon, it threatens bid successful the region.”

He besides pointed to what helium sees arsenic treble standards successful the West: “In Europe and America, if a kid is injured by a rose, it breaks the parents’ hearts. In Gaza, children’s arms and legs are amputated without anesthesia.”

He emphasized that Israel “has wholly mislaid control” aft the onslaught connected Qatar and noted that “Netanyahu has nary volition of bid oregon releasing the hostages.” Obsessed with the Promised Land, “the Israeli authorities undermines bid successful the portion and humanity’s communal achievements with its expansionist policy.”

He appeared assured that “the perpetrators of the genocide volition beryllium held accountable nether planetary law.”