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A SHIFT IN TURKEY’S CYPRUS POLICY! · penna!

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  SPEAKER_00: President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Kristodolidis, has announced that he will attend the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference in Turkey.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_00: The 2026 UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Antalya from 9th to 20th November 2026.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: For the first time since 1974, a Greek Cypriot leader, namely the President of the Republic of Cyprus, will be traveling to Turkey, whether officially or unofficially.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: Incidentally, I would have understood if the invitation had been unofficial, but the invitation in question is official.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Turkey may not have officially extended the invitation.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: The meeting is organized by the United Nations, but the venue is in Turkey.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Turkey and Australia will co-chair the 2026 UN Climate Change Conference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now there are meetings here in our country regarding the Organization of Turkic States, or whatever it's called.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've also convened with our journalist colleagues.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Organization of Turkic States, acting on behalf of the TRNC and in the name of a two-state solution, is a fiasco.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the perspective of Turkish foreign policy, it is an absolute disgrace.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is, quite literally, a case of we tried, but it failed.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we look at the issue from the perspective of recognition of the TRNC as an equal and sovereign state, all the Turkic states have not only left Turkey in the lurch, but have stabbed it in the back.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Not a single Turkic state has responded to the Turkish president's call at the United Nations General Assembly, made five years running, to recognize the TRNC.
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  SPEAKER_00: No one has recognized the TRNC.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not even a single one has so much as glanced in the TRNC's direction.
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  SPEAKER_00: This situation amounts to a complete disgrace for Turkey's Cyprus policy.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fact that Nikos Kristodolidis is due to attend the event in Antalya as president is nothing more than a clear indication that Turkey's Cyprus policy has completely collapsed.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: To sum up, Turkey appears to have changed its Cyprus policy.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Among the nearly a thousand fictitious projects that the UBP has been touting with great fanfare over the last few days, is the fact that our state's equal sovereignty not emphasized, or indeed mentioned at all, perhaps one of the signs of a change in Turkey's policy?
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: I believe it is.