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Using weapons against Turkey means end of Greek Cypriots, Anastasiades says

by DAILY SABAH

ISTANBUL Jun 26, 2020 - 4:30 pm GMT+3
Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades (L) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Mustafa Akıncı (C) talk as U.N. Special Advisor of the Secretary-General Espen Barth Eide looks on as they leave talks aimed at reunifying the ethnically divided island, Sept. 14, 2016. (AP photo)
Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades (L) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Mustafa Akıncı (C) talk as U.N. Special Advisor of the Secretary-General Espen Barth Eide looks on as they leave talks aimed at reunifying the ethnically divided island, Sept. 14, 2016. (AP photo)
by DAILY SABAH Jun 26, 2020 4:30 pm

Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades spoke out against a military solution to the Cyprus impasse, which “will end Greek Cypriots on the island,” Greek daily Kathimerini reported Friday.

According to the article, which is said to be a short excerpt from a news show that will be aired in the country on July 1, Anastasiades backtracked his administration’s long-running hostile statements against Turkey and Turkish Cypriots.

Last week, Greek Cypriot Defense Minister Savvas Angelidis called on the EU to establish a navy in the Mediterranean to counter Turkey’s actions.

“If we consider that we can provide a solution militarily, through militarization, this will be the end of Cypriot Hellenism, which is something I do not want,” Anastasiades said.

The Greek Cypriot leader added that the statement doesn’t mean pessimism or surrender, but “quite the opposite.”

“You have to know the facts if you choose weapons,” he said, adding that the only “weapon” used by Cyprus is diplomacy.

The island of Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when a Greek Cypriot coup took place after decades of violence against the island's Turkish community and Ankara's intervention as a guarantor power. It has seen an on-and-off peace process in recent years, including the latest initiative in Switzerland under the auspices of guarantor countries Turkey, Greece and the U.K. that collapsed in 2017.

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