A cross-party resolution condemning Turkey’s illegal occupation of Cyprus was tabled in the House of Representatives by MPs Nicole Maliotakis, Gus Bilirakis, Chris Pappas and Dina Titus. The goal of the legislators is to highlight the issue of the Cypriot, in view of the arrival of the new president Donald Trump. In this context, the MPs ask the new president to put the solution of the Cyprus issue as a top priority in his foreign policy. “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s authoritarian leader since 2003, bases his policies on an extreme form of religious nationalism and seeks to establish himself as a hegemonic power in the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and the Caucasus by taking provocative actions against NATO allies, the European Union and the wider region”, the resolution notes, among other things. The Resolution • Condemns the continued occupation of Cyprus and calls on Turkey to immediately withdraw its approximately 35,000 troops from the island. • He calls […]
Source: News Beast
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