Nicosia, 10 May 2025

Following statement is issued by TRNC government

General Assembly of the European Parliament (EP) added yet another document to its series of biased and disconnected assessments disregarding the rights and interests of the Turkish Cypriot People through the adoption of the 2023–2024 Türkiye Report at the plenary session held yesterday (7 May 2025).

The Report’s reitaration of the position that the “settlement of Cyprus issue should be based solely on a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation” basis, openly demonstrate the EU’s deliberate refusal to recognize the political and factual realities on the island. Federation-based settlement efforts have long ceased to be a viable option due to the uncompromising and unilateral position of the Greek Cypriot side.

Calls within the Report urging Türkiye to abandon the two-state solution approach in Cyprus, along with preconditions placed on Türkiye’s EU accession process, clearly indicate that the European Parliament remains disconnected from the realities in Cyprus. The vision of a two-state solution, based on sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot People, constitutes the firm policy of the TRNC and is strongly supported by Motherland Türkiye.

We strongly condemn the European Parliament’s decision to hold a separate session in relation to the recent visit of H.E. Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the Republic of Türkiye to our country. The relations between the TRNC and Türkiye are based on the will of two sovereign states. The EU and the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus have no say regarding the nature or scope of these relations. We find the criticisms in question unworthy of consideration.

The political, economic and financial support provided by Motherland Türkiye is of vital importance for the welfare and future of our people. Such initiatives disregarding the free will of the Turkish Cypriot People are considered null and void by our side.

We call on the European Union to refrain from biased and unfounded assessments and instead to encourage the Greek Cypriot side to accept the sovereign equality and equal international status of the Turkish Cypriot People in order to achieve a fair, sustainable, and realistic agreement in Cyprus.

Tatar criticizes Christodoulides for two faced policy
President Ersin Tatar criticized the Greek Cypriot leader Nikos Christodoulides for portraying himself as putting forward a compromising approach, but implementing a policy of intimidation against Turkish Cypriot people to trap them in a corner.

Assessing the policy of Nikos Christodoulides in an interview to the TAK News Agency, Tatar said, “I am following Christodoulides’ statement with astonishment. He has completely forgotten all the promises he made in the presence of the UN Secretary General in Geneva.

Tatar said, “Christodoulidis now comes out and says in front of the press, ‘We have a key; we have a strategy.’ So, which door does that key open exactly? That key opens the door where the basic human rights of the Turkish Cypriot people have been usurped and where unjust and unlawful isolation continues.
"However, the Turkish Cypriot people will no longer go through that door because the Turkish Cypriot people are tired of being deceived and being made to wait on the doorstep,” he added.

Tatar stressed that Christodoulides' mindset did not support collaboration and solutions, saying that they were confronted with a very severe issue after reviewing what the Greek leader had stated and leaked to the media since last Monday.

The President noted that Christodoulides manipulated his own people by saying he was heading to Geneva with a five-point proposal to resume negotiations raising false expectations.

President Tatar said: “The general attitude of Mr. Christodoulides is not that of a leader who favours a compromise or a settlement. He is paying lip service of wanting a settlement and compromise at the table, however, in complete contrast to this, he is acting with an instinct of how to further the actions of intimidation and oppress the Turkish Cypriot People on the Island. This is not diplomacy but a masked game. The Turkish Cypriot people have watched this game many times before. They played the same scenario in Crans-Montana. We are faced with a leader who forgets what he said at the table as soon as he returns to the Island.”