AP reports from Athens that the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office rejected claims by Turkish-Cypriot self-declared Premier Ersin Tatar that direct flights could be made to the northern third of Cyprus that’s been occupied since an unlawful 1974 Turkish invasion.
Only Turkey recognizes the self-declared Republic that is otherwise isolated on the global stage while the Greek-Cypriot side is a member of the European Union that Turkey has been trying to join since 2005, while not recognizing that government barring its ships and planes.
“These reports are untrue. The UK’s position on this has not changed. Direct flights between the UK and the north of Cyprus would not be in line with the UK’s international obligations,” a Foreign Office representative noted, reported Kathimerini Cyprus.
The statement comes after Tatar, speaking on Turkish Cypriot television, claimed the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson – who has some Turkish heritage – had given orders to look into the possibility of launching direct flights to the Turkish-occupied north.
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