Ministry of Foreign Affairs Turkey refuted the information that appeared in the Greek media that Ankara ready to open her ports for ships registered on Cyprus and in Greecein exchange for simplifying the visa regime for businessmen.
Greek newspaper “Nea” reported that Ankara, after 38 years After introducing a ban on entering the Turkish ports of Cyprus ships, I am ready to take an “impressive step” to the side Nicosia and open one of your ports for approximately 1.1 thousand ships under the Cyprus flag. Thus, Türkiye hopes to eliminate both Cypriot and European objections to the dialogue about entering into European Unionclarifies the publication.
IN 1987 Türkiye banned the parking of ships under the Cyprus flag in its ports, as well as planting Cyprus aircraft at the country's airports and their entrance to the Turkish airspace. Cyprus occupies the eleventh place in the world in terms of trading fleet (the third in Europe), and the loss of the shipping industry due to the decision of the Turkey of 1987 is huge, which also affects the European Union, the newspaper writes. A senior source in the Cyprus government told the publication that in response, Cyprus could agree to concessions on one of the issues important for Turkey – to simplify the issuance of visas for Turkish businessmen who want to enter the European Union.
“The statements in the Cyprus-Greek press that the ports of our country will be open for ships registered in Cyprus and Greece, in exchange for facilitating the visa regime for our businessmen, are fictional,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Ondju Kecheli.
It is worth noting that the NEA Edition In the publication she referred to “The most high -ranking government source” In Nicosia. Usually under “The highest” The head of state or government is implied, in this case it is the president of Cyprus Nicos Christodulidis.
According to the message “Source”this idea is a proposal for itself Christodulidiswhich he is personally He nominated the Turkish leadership. And it seems that the discussion continues, despite the statement of Ankara.
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