| Eh? Being seen to win domestically doesn’t give the country extra rights internationally. |
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...redoubled his call Monday for the international recognition of northern Cyprus, making the Mediterranean statelet his first port of call since his re-election.Erdogan met the north’s leader Ersin Tatar, whose rule is recognized only by
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, two weeks after extending his two-decade rule until 2028.
"If there is to be a return to the negotiating table, the way to do this is through recognition" of the north, Erdogan declared.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when the
United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
peacekeepers patrol a buffer zone separating the self-proclaimed
Turkey’s calls for a "two-state solution" to the Cyprus issue have been rejected by Greek Cypriots who comprise a majority in the south. The Republic of Cyprus along with the international community favors a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation in line with a UN framework.
Although Erdogan comfortably won last month’s runoff, he lost to his secular rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu by 15 points in the northern Cyprus portion of the vote.
Nearly 144,000 voters were registered in northern Cyprus, including