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President Ersin Tatar criticized the Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides for portraying himself as putting forward a compromising approach, but implementing a policy of intimidation against Turkish Cypriot people to trap them in a corner.
Assessing the policy of Nikos Christodoulides in an interview to the TAK News Agency, Tatar said, “I am following Christodoulides’ statement with astonishment. He has completely forgotten all the promises he made in the presence of the UN Secretary General in Geneva.
Tatar said, “Christodoulidis now comes out and says in front of the press, ‘We have a key; we have a strategy.’ So, which door does that key open exactly? That key opens the door where the basic human rights of the Turkish Cypriot people have been usurped and where unjust and unlawful isolation continues.
“However, the Turkish Cypriot people will no longer go through that door because the Turkish Cypriot people are tired of being deceived and being made to wait on the doorstep,” he added.
Tatar stressed that Christodoulides’ mindset did not support collaboration and solutions, saying that they were confronted with a very severe issue after reviewing what the Greek leader had stated and leaked to the media since last Monday.
The President noted that Christodoulides manipulated his own people by saying he was heading to Geneva with a five-point proposal to resume negotiations raising false expectations.
President Tatar said: “The general attitude of Mr. Christodoulides is not that of a leader who favours a compromise or a settlement. He is paying lip service of wanting a settlement and compromise at the table, however, in complete contrast to this, he is acting with an instinct of how to further the actions of intimidation and oppress the Turkish Cypriot People on the Island. This is not diplomacy but a masked game. The Turkish Cypriot people have watched this game many times before. They played the same scenario in Crans-Montana. We are faced with a leader who forgets what he said at the table as soon as he returns to the Island.”