Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan have officially declared Turkey as an ‘occupying power’ in Cyprus. They endorsed UN Security Council Resolutions 541 and 550.

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by kalbinibirak

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  1. This is an awful map. You can’t see what zones are controlled by what country.

  4. To the surprise of absolutely nobody (brain-rot turanists aside).

  5. Just a few days ago many people were wondering here about sense of the EU-Central Asia summit and considered few billions EU promised in investments as waste… Considering cultural ties between CA and Turkey it must be quite stinging for Erdogan and especially for MHP.

  6. Honestly, this should be more of an issue than it is. Turkey is just as bad as Russia and Israel.

  8. The capital city is divided, by a wall, with armed guards.
    Yes it’s an occupancy.

  9. That’s a surprise. One would think that they’d be more inclined to side with Turkey on this issue, them being Turkic and all.

    Maybe Turan is further away than the Grey Wolves think.

  13. What happened in Cyprus – Turkey is what’s happening now in Ukraine – Russia. I wonder how many people who stand with Ukraine stand with Cyprus?

  14. What’s the viable solution for Cyprus anyway. It’s been over 50 years of Turkish occupation now. Over a hundred thousand people are from or descended from the Turkish mainland since then. The Cypriots aren’t going to simply let them carry on as normal, and the Turks won’t accept deportation as a solution.

    Even if by some miracle an agreement is found to unify the country, it probably won’t last long before it descends back into sectarian chaos.

    So be careful what you wish for, and sometimes partition and walls and borders can at least create peace.

  15. Russia tries to hammer a wedge between Europe and Turkey I see. Not that I wouldn’t agree with the resolution, but the timjng and the fact that Russian satelites decided to endorse it just right now is…. interesting.

  16. Source ?

    If true, that is a surprise as all four of those countries are Turkic countries and they just did something against interests of the biggest Turkic country (i.e. Turkiye).

    It is especially surprising, since none of those countries are democratic and, usually, dicktators support dicktators.

    Again, if true, it means that something must have changed. There must have been some external influence/pressure/bribe for them to do so (Russia? Arabs? Israel?)

  17. Yeah I know absolutely nothing about this conflict, and that’s funny because I’m british and we probably started it.

  18. Cyprus is proof that Turkey already is in the EU, just not in the way people think.

    And for the record, it has no business being in it.

  19. there seems to be some confusion mixing up ambassador appointments with initial recognition.

    * **Recognition happened decades ago:** Countries like Kazakhstan (1992), Uzbekistan (1997), and Turkmenistan (2007) **already recognized** the Republic of Cyprus (the internationally recognized government in the south) many years ago and established diplomatic relations back then. They do not recognize the TRNC (Northern Cyprus), only Turkey does.
    * **What’s happening now:** The current news is about some of these countries (like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) **appointing resident ambassadors** to the Republic of Cyprus for the first time.

    So the title is misleading in a way that acts like it happened right now, even though it has always been like this for decades. So nothing new

  20. Three years earlier Kazakhstan refused to recognise Donetsk and Lugansk.

    “Modern international law is the United Nations Charter,” Tokayev said, commenting on a question by Margarita Simonyan, who heads the Kremlin-funded Russia Today Channel.

    “Two UN principles, however, have come into contradiction – the territorial integrity of the state and the right of a nation to self-determination. Since these principles contradict each other, there are different interpretations of them,” he explained.

    President Tokayev believes that if the right to self-determination is put into practice worldwide, then there will be over 600 countries instead of the 193 states which are currently members of the United Nations. 

    “For this reason, we do not recognize either Taiwan, or Kosovo, or South Ossetia, or Abkhazia. Apparently, this principle will also be applied to quasi-state territories, which, in our opinion, are Lugansk and Donetsk,” Kazakhstan’s president said, sitting next to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who recognized the two eastern regions of Ukraine as independent entities.

  21. I lived on the Turkish side for a year. I didn’t have any problems.

  23. Time to start another conflict ! Looks like Vladimir is moving pieces on the board.

  24. Has there been any serious attempt by the EU or the West recently to resolve this conflict?

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