Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu has completed his London visit. Ertuğruloğlu held a number of important and constructive meetings during his visit, including bilateral discussions with two former UK Secretary of States for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Rt Hon Jack Straw and the Rt Hon Sir Malcom Rifkind QC. The Minister also met with a [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu met this week with former UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Jack Straw. Ertuğruloğlu informed Straw about the latest developments in Cyprus and the new process at the meeting which was held in London. Ertuğruloğlu said that the Turkish Cypriot people expects from the UK, one of the [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu is holding meetings in the UK’s capital, London. Minister Ertuğruloğlu will hold meetings with some leading MPs and Peers at UK’s Parliament, give briefings to the UK Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group for the TRNC, and will hold interviews with the press. Ertuğruloğlu began his London contacts with a visit to [...]

At a press conference last Friday, Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been pursuing a policy to remove the uncertainty imposed on Turkish Cypriots for many years. When questioned about speculation from the Greek Cypriot media and politicians regarding negotiations being resumed, Ertuğruloğlu asked, “Which negotiations? Is there something [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu has stated that if the Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the TRNC need anything, the TRNC Ministry of Labour and Social Security will intervene to address their concerns.   Stating that there is no present need for UN convoys to bring goods to Greek Cypriots and Maronites in the TRNC, [...]

Following the United Nations General Assembly, Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu has flown from New York to hold meetings in Washington D.C, where he met with US State Department officials and Turkish Ambassador Serdar Kılıç. During his meeting at the Turkish Embassy, Ertuğruloğlu informed Ambassador Kılıç of the latest developments in Cyprus and expressed the Turkish [...]

Foreign Minister Ertuğruloğlu spoke at the Annual Coordination Meeting of OIC Foreign Ministers on 22 September 2017 in New York. In his speech Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu touched upon the long-standing Cyprus question, which is at a very important juncture and said the following: “As known, despite the constructive efforts of the Turkish Cypriot side [...]

Foreign Minister Ertuğruloğlu continues to hold working meetings with government officials during his US trip, which continues this week in Washington DC. Meeting with members of the US Congress yesterday, Ertuğruloğlu discussed recent developments on the Cyprus issue. He also attended a roundtable discussion at the International Republican Institute (IRI). Discussing the latest developments in [...]

Foreign Minister Tahsin Ertuğruloğlu addressed member countries at the informal meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Economic Cooperation Organisation. In his speech, Minister Ertuğruloğlu said that it is a great injustice for Turkish Cypriots to be victimized by the continuation of the Cyprus problem, the responsibility for which cannot be attributed to them. [...]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Tahsin Ertugruloğlu has said that the only thing which should be said about Cyprus is that the 50 year long negotiation process has ended and a new page should be opened in Cyprus. Ertuğruloğlu said that the parties responsible for the failure of the Cyprus Conference in Crans-Montana, the culmination of [...]