Prime Minister \u00dcnal \u00dcstel stated that the a New Year video released by the Greek Cypriot National Guard contained threatening statements targeting the TRNC, noting that it clearly demonstrated that the Greek Cypriot mindset remains unchanged.<\/p>\n
In a written statement, \u00dcstel said that the video shows Greek Cypriot sailors explicitly expressing a wish for ‘warships to reach the ports of Girne and Gazima\u011fusa in 2026. He added: \u201cThis is not the language of peace. It does not foster trust, nor can it be described as the language of a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00dcstel further stated that the Greek Cypriot administration has made a habit of harassing the TRNC and the Turkish Cypriot people at every opportunity, while continuing to pursue its fundamental objective of asserting control over the entire island. \u201cThis mentality has not changed. The dream of Enosis* continues to influence the political and military decisions of the Greek Cypriot side, despite the passage of decades have passed\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Emphasizing that \u201cThe historical facts are clear,\u201d \u00dcstel, noted that following the withdrawal of the British from the island, the processes were not undertaken by the Greek Cypriot administrations with the aim of sharing the island equitably with the Turkish Cypriot people as equal partners. Instead, he said these efforts were aimed to transforming the island into a \u2018Greek Cypriot-Greek island\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n *Enosis is a political term meaning \u2018union\u2019 in Greek, referring specifically to the objective of uniting Cyprus with Greece.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister \u00dcnal \u00dcstel stated that the a New Year video released by the Greek Cypriot [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":150262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150282,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150281\/revisions\/150282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}