European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, has called on Turkey “to reverse the actions undertaken in Varosha since October 2020” and said that Turkish President Erdogan’s and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s statements on Varosha were “an unacceptable unilateral decision” to change the status of the fenced off area. She repeated the EU’s commitment to a solution based on a bizonal bicommunal federation with political equality and that the EU expects Turkey to do the same.
Von der Leyen was responding in writing to a letter by Cypriot MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek (AKEL – GUE/NGL) dated 15/7/2021 on the involvement of the Turkish government in the affairs of the Turkish Cypriot community.
Source: Cyprus News Agency