Gülbahar calls on President Erhürman to change political stance

Aziz Gülbahar, chairman of the Milli Mücadele Vakfı (National Struggle Foundation), has called on President Tufan Erhürman to change his political stance. He said the Greek Cypriot administration continues to obstruct the rights of the Turkish Cypriot people and to disregard their sovereignty, with obstacles appearing in economy, trade, transport and sport.

Gülbahar questioned what a meeting with Christodoulides in Pile, where zivania was drunk, would achieve, noting that no positive response had been given even to a proposal for the Pile–Yigitler road. He urged the president to tell Holguín at the planned three-way meeting on 9 November, with Christodoulides present, that the Greek Cypriot position is not temporary and that the TRNC's sovereign equality should be registered by the United Nations.

He called on the United Nations, relevant countries and international organisations to take a firm position on registering the TRNC's sovereign equality. He said the future of the Turkish Cypriot people cannot be left to the consent of the Greek Cypriot leadership, and that consultation with Turkey should be turned into concrete steps.