Erhürman says Guterres shares concern over obstacles to trust-building in Cyprus

President Erhürman said that UN Secretary-General Guterres, in a reply letter dated 16 October 2026, noted concerns over developments affecting Turkish Cypriot cultural, sports, political and diplomatic activities. Erhürman said Guterres found initiatives of this kind discouraging and at odds with his calls to strengthen mutual trust.

Erhürman said his aim was to help create favourable conditions for a process toward a lasting solution, through new confidence-building measures, as the Secretary-General has repeatedly stressed. He said actions preventing confidence-building, as Guterres defined them, were incompatible with this effort, and noted the importance of the Secretary-General sharing a view he had raised many times.

He hoped the letter would guide all those assessing actions that isolate Turkish Cypriots contrary to earlier decisions by international organisations. Erhürman said he would continue working on confidence, a solution and connecting Turkish Cypriots with the world through diplomacy and dialogue.