{"id":109757,"date":"2015-05-07T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T05:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/?p=70524"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T12:06:26","slug":"newly-elected-turkish-cypriot-president-akinci-pays-first-visit-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2015\/05\/07\/newly-elected-turkish-cypriot-president-akinci-pays-first-visit-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly elected Turkish Cypriot president AKINCI pays first visit to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m not a wizard says TRNC President Mustafa AKINCI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Newly elected Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 made his first official visit to Ankara\u00a0on May 6, a little more than a week after engaging in a war of words with President Recep Tayyip\u00a0Erdogan\u00a0over the status of the relationship between Turkey and Turkish Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>Ak\u0131nc\u0131 arrived in Ankara\u00a0on the invitation of Erdo\u011fan and was welcomed by Foreign Minister Mevl\u00fct \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu and\u00a0Ankara\u00a0Deputy Governor Mehmet Ali Uluta\u015f at Esenbo\u011fa Airport.<\/p>\n<p>After visiting the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atat\u00fcrk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, he had a meeting with Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto\u011flu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mustafa AKINCI with Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and Erdo\u011fan are expected to hold a joint press briefing on late May 6.<\/p>\n<p>Ak\u0131nc\u0131, a leftist moderate who has promised to press for a peace deal in Cyprus, was elected the Turkish Cyprus president in a run-off on April 26. Ankara\u00a0was irked by Ak\u0131nc\u0131\u2019s remarks that the status of the relationship between Turkey and Turkish Cyprus should change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be a relationship of brothers\/sisters, not a relationship of a motherland and her child,\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n<p>Erdo\u011fan slammed these remarks on April 27. \u201cDo his ears hear what he says? Even working together as brothers has its conditions. We paid a price for northern Cyprus. We gave martyrs and we continue to pay a price&#8230; For Turkey, northern Cyprus is our baby. We will continue to look at it the way a mother looks at her baby,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said.<\/p>\n<p>Peace talks between the Greek\u00a0Cypriot administration and the Turkish Cypriot government, which have been on hold since October 2014, are expected to resume in the second half of May, following a meeting of on May 11 between Ak\u0131nc\u0131 and Greek\u00a0Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/haberkibris.com\/staticimages\/aafoto_5250583_060520151820230000_r_gen_20150506000000_aa-picture-20150506-5250583-high.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Tarih\"><span id=\"ctl00_ctl01_ctl00_lblNewsDate2\" class=\"Tarih\">May\/06\/2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a wizard says TRNC President Mustafa AKINCI Newly elected Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 made his first official visit to Ankara\u00a0on May 6, a little more than a week after engaging in a war of words with President Recep Tayyip\u00a0Erdogan\u00a0over the status of the relationship between Turkey and Turkish Cyprus. 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