Denktas: EU Uses Cyprus Question as Pretext Not to Make Turkey Full Member
Friday, 19 March 2010
Former President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Rauf Denktas said on Friday that European Union (EU) used Cyprus question as pretext not to make Turkey a full member.
Addressing a symposium in Canakkale, Denktas explained the strategic position of Cyprus and noted that Greece did everything to possess Cyprus through Greek Cypriots.
Denktas said Greece was trying to expel Turkey from the Island, adding "the United States and the world consider as friend the people who had executed people totally by shooting. The EU accepted those people as legal government of Cyprus. They close their ears to our opposition."
"We desire a two-state solution based on two peoples. It should be a formula in which our borders would not be eliminated," he said.
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