(MENAFN) Türkiye announced the facts on a decades-long Cyprus argument and declined the recent comments of Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.
"Greek Cypriots violated the 1960 Constitution and destroyed the partnership Republic in 1963.
Türkiye had to intervene after the Greek coup d’état in July 1974, aiming to stop bloodshed & violence against Turkish Cypriots," the Turkish Foreign Ministry tweeted, replying to Dendias, who had said that Cyprus was "illegally" occupied.
The ministry went on: "Greece & Greek Cypriots never showed the necessary will for a permanent settlement on the Island. Greek Cypriots rejected the Annan Plan in 2004, left the table in Crans-Montana in 2017.
"The inherent rights, sovereign equality & equal status of Turkish Cypriots should be reaffirmed for an equitable, just & viable settlement on the Island," the ministry stated as opposed to Dendias, who on Sunday shared on Twitter that the federal solution is the "only" one for the argument.
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