{"id":70416,"date":"2015-05-05T18:49:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/?p=70416"},"modified":"2023-07-26T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T08:08:19","slug":"cyprus-talks-to-resume-says-turkish-cypriot-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2015\/05\/05\/cyprus-talks-to-resume-says-turkish-cypriot-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyprus talks to resume, says Turkish Cypriot president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRNC President Mustafa Akinci<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cihan Photo<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations between the Turkish Cypriot government and the Greek\u00a0Cypriot administration to find a solution to the ongoing dispute over the divided island are to resume, the recently elected Turkish Cypriot president has announced.<\/p>\n<div>New Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 made the announcement on Monday after holding talks with Espen Barth Eide, the U.N. Special Adviser on Cyprus, in his Nicosia presidential office.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/Content\/337245\/espen%20barth%20eide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"238\" \/><\/div>\n<div><strong>Espen Barth Eide<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThere is an important opportunity for the solution of the Cyprus issue and the talks will resume,\u201d Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said in the press conference with Eide.<\/p>\n<p>Eide said the talks represented the \u201cbest opportunity\u201d of the decade to resolve the ongoing dispute between Turkish and\u00a0\u00a0Greek Cypriots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicos Anastasiades<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A date for the talks is expected to be set during a meeting on May 11 between Akinci and Greek\u00a0Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades.<\/p>\n<p>Ak\u0131nc\u0131 said TRNC Foreign Minister \u00d6zdil Nami, who will represent Turkish Cypriots in the negotiations with the\u00a0Greek\u00a0Cypriot side, is to pay a one-day visit to Ankara\u00a0on May 6 to hold talks with Turkish authorities.<br \/>\n\u201cBoth sides must show a will and resolution to solve the Cyprus issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaders must convene and discuss all issues. Above all, it must be seen whether they share the same vision, or not,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Eide said Turkey should seize the opportunity of the next phase of the negotiation process, adding Ankara\u00a0was well aware that a solution on the island would also benefit the country.<\/p>\n<p>Peace talks between the Greek\u00a0Cypriot administration and the Turkish Cypriot government have been on hold since October.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish Cypriots and Greek\u00a0Cypriots have tried to find a comprehensive settlement to renew their partnership since a joint government on the island collapsed in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>The island has been divided into a Turkish Cypriot government in the northern third and\u00a0Greek\u00a0Cypriot administration in the southern two-thirds after a 1974 military coup by Greece\u00a0was followed by the intervention of Turkey as a guarantor power in Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>Peace talks were unilaterally suspended by the Greek\u00a0Cypriot side last October after Turkey issued a navigational telex on behalf of the TRNC for seismic research off the coast of Cyprus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Tarih\"><span id=\"ctl00_ctl01_ctl00_lblNewsDate2\" class=\"Tarih\">May\/05\/2015<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRNC President Mustafa Akinci Cihan Photo Negotiations between the Turkish Cypriot government and the Greek\u00a0Cypriot administration to find a solution to the ongoing dispute over the divided island are to resume, the recently elected Turkish Cypriot president has announced. New Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President Mustafa Ak\u0131nc\u0131 made the announcement on Monday after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":782203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}