The Turkish President remains consistent in Turkey’s communication strategy

  

Statement by Georgos Loucaides, AKEL C.C. Press Spokesperson

AKEL C.C. Press Office, 1st September 2014, Nicosia

 

Through Erdogan’s illegal visit and his statements so far, as AKEL we would like to point out the following:

– The Turkish President remains consistent in Turkey’s communication strategy over the past few years with regards the Cyprus problem, given that he is attempting in a provocative to portray Turkey as being determined to achieve a solution, whilst simultaneously attributing responsibility to the Greek Cypriot side for the non-solution of the problem.

– Mr. Erdogan has not referred to the most substantive issue concerning Turkey’s outlook on the content of the solution of the Cyprus problem, since he did not even make a clear reference to a bi-zonal-bicommunal federation.

– Instead, the Turkish President focused on the promotion of the pseudo-state as supposedly being a model of democracy and economic development in the region and on the efforts that Turkey is making to strengthen it, so that it will become self-sufficient. In this way the fundamental long-standing Turkish objective for the upgrading of the pseudo-state and for its exit from the regime of international illegality is reaffirmed.

– The protest meetings held by Turkish Cypriot parties and other organized groups on the Turkish President’s visit to the occupied areas reveal the feelings of a large section of Turkish Cypriots, who are suffocating in view of the on-going process towards the full Turkification of the occupied areas, the neoliberal economic policies imposed by Turkey, but also as a result of the AKP Turkish government’s unwillingness to permit the solution of the Cyprus problem. In this context, we denounce the suppression by the so-called authorities of the pseudo-state, as well as the arrests of Turkish Cypriots who were protesting against Erdogan’s visit.