Onar meets with diplomats in New York
27 September, 2024President Tatar criticizes UK troop deployment to Cyprus
27 September, 2024President Ersin Tatar has met with Ambassador Kubanychbek Omuraliev, Secretary General of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS).
According to the statement from the Presidency, during the meeting that was held at the TRNC Representative Office, President Tatar stated that he and his official delegation are visiting New York for the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, and are holding contacts to “show the existence of the Turkish Cypriot People”.
President Tatar said: “President Erdoğan also made a fresh call to the world to end the unjust isolation on the Turkish Cypriot People, and referred to our legal rights and interests in the eastern Mediterranean. There is a need for our State to be formally accepted and recognised. Türkiye is a guarantor country located just 40 miles from the Island of Cyprus and has the longest coastline in the eastern Mediterranean. Her views are therefore important. There are indeed two separate States and two separate Peoples in the Island of Cyprus. A settlement in Cyprus cannot be found without Türkiye. As we are continuing to reiterate, if there is going to be a just, realistic and sustainable settlement to the Cyprus issue, this has to be on the basis of two States.”
President Tatar continued:
“The TRNC has its border, is a sovereign democratic State with its own Presidency, Parliament and Judiciary. Our State has its own police force, security forces, institutions and state organs. The Turkish Cypriots are a People that have a separate language, culture and religion. Our State exists and is a reality. We are therefore asking the international community and OTS to help the Turkish Cypriot People, to end the injustice our People are facing, and the recognition of our State. As you are aware, the TRNC was accepted as an observer member to the OTS unanimously at the Summit in Uzbekistan in 2022. I once again with to thank President Erdoğan for his arduous efforts in making this happen, and also to all the Turkic States, for giving their consent to our observer membership, with our constitutional name,” President Tatar said.”
The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu, TRNC New York Representative Mehmet Dana, President’s Special Representative Güneş Onar, Advisor on Legal Affairs Sülen Karabacak, and Confidence Building Measures and Bilateral Technical Committees Coordinator Seniha Birand Çınar.