TRNC Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret Özersay has stated that, while there are some people who draw parallels between the ‘invasion’ issue in Azerbaijan and the situation in the TRNC, the two are incomparable as the intervention in the TRNC was based on an international agreement.

 The Deputy Prime Minister was speaking at the “International Leaders Forum on Education,” organized by the Azerbaijan-Cyprus Turkish Friendship Society and the Turkish Union Solidarity Association, held in the TRNC Ministry of Foreign Affairs Uğur Umar Conference Hall yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kudret Özersay delivered the opening lecture of the forum.

 In his speech, Özersay discussed the Cyprus issue and the 50-year long negotiation process. Stating that the Cyprus problem was not unique but a “frozen ethnic conflict” and also an international discrepancy, Özersay said that a partnership republic was established in 1960 according to an international agreement and constitutional law.