A national parade was held on Dr. Faz\u0131l K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck Boulevard in Lefko\u015fa as part of the commemorations marking the 52nd anniversary of the July 20 Peace Operation.<\/p>\n
The ceremony was attended by President Tufan Erh\u00fcrman, Turkish Vice President Cevdet Y\u0131lmaz, senior TRNC and Turkish officials, military commanders, political leaders and visiting delegations from various countries.<\/p>\n
The two leaders were addressing the main Peace and Freedom Day ceremony held in Lefko\u015fa to mark the 52nd<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the 20 July Peace Operation.<\/p>\n In his address, President Erh\u00fcrman reaffirmed that the Turkish Cypriot people\u2019s determination to remain an equal partner on the island, calling for a just, lasting and sustainable settlement to the Cyprus issue while rejecting continued isolation and discrimination against the Turkish Cypriot people.<\/p>\n Turkish Vice President Cevdet Y\u0131lmaz, for his part, reiterated Ankara\u2019s unwavering support for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,stressing that T\u00fcrkiye would continue to stand by the Turkish Cypriot people politically, economically and in the field of security, while declaring that \u201cthe Century of T\u00fcrkiye will also be the century of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A national parade was held on Dr. Faz\u0131l K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck Boulevard in Lefko\u015fa as part of the [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":153234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153246","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\/153246","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=153246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153247,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153246\/revisions\/153247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}