Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday made contemporary statements in help of the north’s potential accession to the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS), going additional than he had beforehand to help the north changing into a full member.
He stated his nation is making “diplomatic efforts” for the north to turn out to be an observer member of the OTS, with the north’s observer standing having been agreed upon by the OTS’ leaders’ summit in 2022, however with parliamentary ratification from the 5 member states nonetheless pending.
Moreover, he stated, “we help the TRNC changing into a full member of the OTS. That is very pure, as a result of traditionally, the TRNC is part of the Turkic world. The Turks dwelling there are our brothers.”
His phrases had been hailed by Turkish Cypriot chief Ersin Tatar, who stated on Friday that Aliyev had “expressed the truth that the Turkic state within the Japanese Mediterranean, the TRNC, is an integral a part of the Turkic world in each manner.”
“The brotherhood of Azerbaijan and the TRNC will reside without end as members of the identical nation. Our brotherhood from Nicosia to Baku can be everlasting,” he added.
The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel additionally expressed his “countless gratitude to Ilham Aliyev on behalf of the Turkish Cypriot folks” for his remarks.
“The sturdy ties between Azerbaijan and the TRNC are getting stronger daily with the imaginative and prescient of ‘three states, one nation’,” he added.
He additionally stated he hopes the north will obtain full membership of the OTS “within the not-too-distant future”.
Aliyev has made a sequence of statements in latest months and years which have indicated a Cyprus drawback stance leaning in direction of recognition of the north.
He had insisted in February that “the president of the TRNC will attend” an OTS summit which is because of happen within the Azerbaijani city of Shusha subsequent month.
“The president of the TRNC will attend the summit to be held in Shusha upon my invitation. This may speed up the unity of the Turkic folks,” he stated.
In October final 12 months, Aliyev had once more referred to Tatar because the “President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” following a bilateral assembly through the go to of a 200-strong Turkish Cypriot delegation to Azerbaijan.
Aliyev’s and Azerbaijan’s stance on Cyprus has not escaped the eye of the Republic, with Home President Annita Demetriou promising in April to “ship a message” to Azerbaijan over the creation of an ‘inter-parliamentary’ group with the north’s parliament.
She stated she would write a letter to her Azerbaijani counterpart, Sahiba Gafarova, to sentence the group’s creation, and in addition raised the matter throughout a gathering with different European Union parliament audio system the next week in Spain.
“Sadly, this isn’t the primary time Azerbaijan has made such an effort. We should as soon as once more do all the things in our energy to cease it. It’s unacceptable and reprehensible,” she stated.
