Fidan renews two-state call ahead of Guterres’ Cyprus visit
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan reiterated Türkiye’s support for a two-state settlement in Cyprus during talks with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ personal envoy in Ankara on July 24, days before the U.N. chief visits the island.
Fidan and Maria Angela Holguín Cuéllar exchanged views on recent developments in Cyprus, according to Turkish Foreign Ministry sources.
Fidan said Türkiye, as a guarantor power and the Turkish Cypriots’ motherland, believed “the most realistic solution to the Cyprus issue lies in the coexistence of the two states on the island.”
Approaches that did not recognize the Turkish Cypriot people’s “inherent rights to sovereign equality and equal international status” would not help advance a settlement, he added.
