Turkish Occupation of Cyprus

Mitsotakis addressed the Turkish people directly, highlighting the importance of peace and harmonious co-existence, so that his message would reach Turkish society unfiltered, through the social media.

The “Blue Homeland” theory is an integral part of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s expansionist, neo-Ottoman vision, developed by his former PM and foreign minister Mehmet Davutoglu.

'I have come as a pilgrim to a country geographically small, but historically great, to an island that down the centuries has not isolated peoples but brought them together, to a land whose borders are the sea.'

“Let them not test our power because there will be a heavy price to pay,” Akar declared today in Turkish-occupied Cyprus.

'We shall continue to decisively demand from Athens the return of all those linked with the terrorist organisation FETO (as Ankara calls Gulen’s Hizmet movement) and to protect the rights of the Turkish minority in Western Thrace.'

'Political equality' between the two communities in Cyprus has long been in the vocabulary of the UN in settlement efforts, but it has taken on a new meaning now that rich offshore gas and oil deposits have been found in Cyprus’ (EEZ)

'It [Cyprus] being drawn into U.S. and NATO plans in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East will inevitably lead to dangerous and destabilising consequences for Cyprus itself,' warned the Russian Foreign Ministry.