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AA (23 September 2025)

By Efe Ozkan, Seda Sevencan and Gizem Nisa Demir

‘Turkish Cypriots will not accept being a minority,’ says Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stressing that international community must end half-century isolation

In his address to the UN General Assembly, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan highlighted the “unjust isolation” of Turkish Cypriots, saying the international community must put an end to this half-century practice.

Erdogan noted that the island of Cyprus has two states and two peoples and that “the Turkish Cypriots will not accept being a minority,” reiterating his call from the last three UN General Assemblies for “the international community to recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and to establish diplomatic, political, and economic relations with it.”

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