Turkey working actively to solve the Cyprus Problem - Turkish Foreign Minister

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said that Ankara will never abandon the Cyprus cause which was one its national causes, adding that Turkey was working actively to solve the Cyprus Problem.

They call this a frozen conflict but we are taking the necessary steps to solve the Cyprus Problem he said.

Speaking at a conference organized by the Sabahattin Zaim University’s Politics Club, on Friday, December, 28, Çavuşoğlu said that that defending national causes was one of Turkish Foreign Policy’s top responsibility and priority.

One of these causes is the Palestinian cause and the issue concerning Jerusalem, he added.

Speaking on the Cyprus Issue, Çavuşoğlu said Turkey was working actively to solve the Cyprus Problem.

Another national cause is Cyprus. Cyprus can be described as a frozen conflict. We are taking the necessary steps to solve this problem. Reaching a settlement does not depend on us alone.

There are two other guarantor countries and two sides in Cyprus. What we are saying now is that negotiating for the sake of negotiating is nothing but a loss of time. We need to determine beforehand what we are going to negotiate and how we are going to negotiate it. We need a timetable…we need a result oriented process as we have no energy to lose. We are following the Cyprus cause closely, he said.