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Nikos Christodoulides with European Parliament president Roberta Metsola (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

Cyprus calls for EU support against Erdoğan

Cyprus and Turkey have traded harsh words on their frozen conflict, in a sign recent elections on both sides changed little.

The "open wound" of Turkey's 50-year old occupation of northern Cyprus formed the centrepiece of Cypriot president Nikos Christodoulides' speech at the European Parliament on Tuesday (13 June).

He spoke after Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Turkish-occupied Cyprus one day earlier.

Erdoğan went there on his first foreign trip since re-...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Nikos Christodoulides with European Parliament president Roberta Metsola (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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