{"id":150973,"date":"2026-02-25T14:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=150973"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:33:28","slug":"ozturkler-decries-demetrious-remarks-on-turkiye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/ozturkler-decries-demetrious-remarks-on-turkiye\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d6zt\u00fcrkler decries Demetriou\u2019s remarks on T\u00fcrkiye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the Assembly of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Ziya \u00d6zt\u00fcrkler has strongly criticized remarks made by Annita Demetriou, President of the Greek Cypriot House of Representatives, stating, \u201cDemetriou\u2019s accusation in Brussels that T\u00fcrkiye is an occupier goes beyond a lack of historical knowledge and reveals political ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his written statement, \u00d6zt\u00fcrkler emphasized that the Turkish Cypriot people endured great suffering until 1974, paid a heavy price, fought for their existence, were subjected to genocide and massacres, yet did not yield and through resilience and determination, they established their own state.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zt\u00fcrkler further underlined that Turkish soldiers are not occupiers on the island, stating \u201cThey serve under the umbrella of the Security Forces Command and the Cyprus Turkish Peace Forces as guarantors of peace and security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker also stated \u201cThe audacity of Demetriou\u00a0to portray T\u00fcrkiye as an occupier in Brussels as the Speaker of a state indulged by the EU does not grant her the right to speak on behalf of the whole island. The Turkish Cypriot people will yield to no pressure and will never remain silent in the face of injustice or unfounded accusations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the Assembly of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Ziya \u00d6zt\u00fcrkler has strongly criticized<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":150966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150973","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\/150973","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150974,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150973\/revisions\/150974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}