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31 May, 2024A cross-party group of 50 influential politicians have urged Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron to end the UK’s “punitive and unfair ban” on direct flights to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
According to the British newspaper ‘The Independent’, the launch of direct flights to the TRNC is also supported by Lord Straw, former British Foreign Secretary, and Sir Iain Duncan Smith, former Leader of Conservative Party.
The article also pointed out that the initiative coincides with the 50th anniversary of the 1974 events. Politicians, including MPs, expect that the demand for direct flights to the TRNC will have an impact on the policy of the new party that wins the elections, rather than the current government.
The letter sent to Lord Camron expressed serious discomfort about the practices to which the TRNC was being subjected, and called on the UK to start direct flights to Ercan.
According to the article published in the Independent newspaper, the British parliamentarians wrote to Lord Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, raising serious concerns over the treatment of the TRNC and calling for “the commencement of direct flights from the United Kingdom to Ercan Airport.