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Is Turkey looking to annex the occupied part of Cyprus?

Cyprus is lodging a complaint to the UN over Turkey’s new financial assistance deal with Turkish Cypriots and over Turkey’s decision to designate the Turkish Cypriots’ unrecognized main airport as a domestic flight route, effectively turning it into a Turkish one. There is a fear among Turkish Cypriots as well that both the financial deal and the airport designation are the clearest signals yet that Turkey wants to eventually annex the occupied northern part of Cyprus. Nicholas Danforth, a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, joins Thanos Davelis to break this down.

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:

Cyprus to UN: Turkey seeks full control of breakaway north

Greece rejects all Turkish arguments on island demilitarization

No deal yet with Russia or Turkey to unblock Black Sea, Ukraine says

Russian, Turkish defence ministers discuss Syria, grain exports from Ukraine

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