LONDON - As long as Turkish troops are present in Cyprus, the Greek Cypriots will not feel safe and will not have proper security, British Minister of State for Europe, Chris Bryant, has said as he referred to the solution of Cyprus problem.
Talking to Turkish and Turkish Cypriot journalists during a reception at the Foreign Office, in honor of Egemen Bagis, Turkish Minister for EU Affairs, Bryant said that Aristotle’s definition of tragedy was the rehearsal of an event that inspires pity and fear and leads to catharsis.
“And it is certainly a pity in Cyprus because all of us, I think, pity the people living in the north who have no economic opportunities. The people in the south who have been alienated from their properties in the north and people in the north who have been alienated from their properties in the south,” he added.
There is fear, he pointed out, “because a lot of people still live in fear if there are (Turkish) troops there, they will not have proper security.”
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What needs to be done is to get to that moment of catharsis when the whole of the island is reunited, he noted, saying that what all agree is the unity of Cyprus “on the basis of a bi-communal , bi-zonal federation”.
Bagis paid a one-day visit to London where he was one of the speakers in a seminar about Turkey.