Organisations representing the UK Cypriot diaspora have penned letters addressed to the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss noting that this Wednesday marks 48 years since Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus and the start of the ongoing illegal occupation of more than one third of Cypriot land.
The Board of British Cypriots call out Turkey’s continuing violations of international law and, as UK citizens, “are demanding that [the] British government, under her obligations as Guarantor Power… intervene for putting an end to these illegal actions.”
They also appeal to the Foreign Secretary to “put pressure on Turkey to abandon its new outrageous proposal for a two state solution, which legalises the de facto situation” on the island of Cyprus.
EKEKA, the Federation of Cypriot Refugees in the UK, note Turkey’s pursuit of “arrogant expansionist policies that started with the illegal Cyprus invasion and occupation (and) continues ever since.”
They urge the Foreign Secretary and the UK Government “to review the relationship with Mr Erdogan’s Turkey, stop Turkey’s neo-Ottoman aggressive and provocative policies and actions and take steps that would terminate the de facto illegal military occupation of Cyprus.”
Source: Cyprus News Agency