Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu has expressed his desire for  efforts to begin towards achieving international recognition of the TRNC. In his message issued due to 20th July Peace and Freedom Day, Ertuğruloğlu said that the date 20th uly 1974 is the date on which the Turkish Cypriot people were reborn, taking the chance to live in security [...]

Today, the decades-old Cyprus conflict and the 50-year-long negotiations to resolve it have reached a historic end. This is because of the Greek Cypriot side’s inability to demonstrate the necessary political will to resolve it on the basis of a bi-communal bi-zonal federation with political equality and a new partnership. This is not an assessment [...]

​We welcome the statement of H.E. Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, made on 29 June 2017, and thank him, particularly for clearly stating, once more, the decisive position of Turkey regarding the vital issue of security and guarantees. As is well known, the Turkish Cypriot people regard the [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu travelled to Crans Montana this week in order to attend the Conference on Cyprus in Switzerland. The latest session of the Cyprus Conference, which started in Geneva on 12 January 2017 and aims to find a comprehensive settlement in Cyprus, began in Crans Montana on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu will [...]

Discussing the presence of the Turkish Armed Forces on the island ahead of the Conference on Cyprus in Switzerland on 28 June, Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu said, “The Turkish Armed Forces will continue to exist in Cyprus.” Foreign Minister Ertuğruloğlu was replying to questions from an AA reporter regarding the Cyprus negotiation process and the [...]

Minister Ertuğruloğlu was received by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday in Ankara, where he travelled to hold meetings ahead of the Cyprus Conference, which will start on 28 June in Switzerland. During the meeting held at the Turkish Presidency, the Cyprus negotiation process was discussed ahead of the Cyprus Conference in Crans-Montana. The delegations [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held an interdelegation meeting in Ankara. Following the meeting, the two ministers made statements to the press. Minister Ertuğruloğlu said, “I want to emphasize that a guarantee system which does not include Motherland Turkey’s right to unilateral intervention is not really a guarantee system, and [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu made statements to Turkish News Agency regarding the issue of security and guarantees ahead of the five-party Cyprus Conference set to take place in Geneva. Stating that he would like the negotiation process, ongoing between the two sides in Cyprus, to culminate in a settlement, he also emphasized that this does [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu met with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu who was in the TRNC to hold official meetings.  The Cyprus negotiation process and the cooperation and collaboration between the two ministries was discussed at the meeting, which was held at the Foreign Ministry. Foreign Minister Ertuğruloğlu welcomed Cavusoglu at the entrance of the [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu briefed students from the History and Political Science Department of the US Coastal Carolina University on the Cyprus issue and the ongoing negotiation process. Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mustafa Lakadamyalı and General Director Kemal Köprülü accompanied Minister Ertuğruloğlu during the briefing, which took place at the Conference Hall [...]