Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has expressed hope that Turkey would reconsider its ongoing provocations in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean.
Responding to questions by members of the press on his way to the unveiling ceremony of the bust of Americos Argyriou in Limassol, on Friday, President Anastasiades, asked whether the government was concernedabout the escalating Turkish provocations in the Aegean and the Mediterranean, he said “any provocation, should definitely be of concern.”
He expressed hope that, “prudent, or wiser thoughts” would prevail on the part of Turkey “and that this revisionism that is being observed will not continue”. He added that it will not continue, if, “finally”, those who, today, react to something similar to what happened with Russia, “and who are doing the right thing”, express the same sensitivity in this case as well.
Asked about the fire that erupted earlier in the day in the Turkish occupied area of Kormakitis, he said that the government had expressed its readiness to provide any assistance needed “because our homeland, Cyprus, is one, and therefore, regardless of the regime it is currently under, the occupation, that is, it does not cease to be a part we feel for, that we definitely want to protect.”
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third. Repeated rounds of UN-led peace talks have so far failed to yield results.
Source: Cyprus News Agency