Turkey: fascists: "Cyprus crucially important for Turkey"

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September 8, 1997

MHP: Cyprus crucially important for Turkish foreign policy

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Turkish Daily News

Ankara - The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) declared Sunday that the
Cyprus problem was vitally important for Turkish foreign policy.

Speaking in Corum, MHP's Secretary-General Muharrem Semsek said if
Turkey compromises and gives the image of a "loser" country in the
Cyprus issue, it will lose its credibility in the Turkish world as
well.

Semsek said a "defeat in Cyprus" would have drastic impacts not only
on the credibility of the Turkish foreign policy but also result in
Ankara losing its psychological strength in the region.

He said such a defeat would create the impression that Turkish
diplomacy has lost the fight against the Greek diplomacy and that
Greece has captured the "upper hand."

The MHP secretary-general said rather than pursuing unrealistic
polices such as the creation of a Turkish-Greek Cypriot federation on
the island, "Turkey should wake up" and start telling the world that
there was only one solution to the issue and that was side-by-side
coexistence of two states on the eastern Mediterranean island.

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