Erdogan, May discuss Cyprus

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday his discussions in Ankara with British Prime Minister Theresa May, included the recent Geneva process on Cyprus.

“We discussed what we can still do in Cyprus, what steps we can take as the three guarantor powers, Turkey, Britain and Greece,” Erdogan said during a joint news conference with the British Prime Minister.

The foreign ministers of the guarantor powers met in Geneva with the two Cypriot sides on January 12 to discuss the issue of guarantees and security. No deal was reached but discussions continued the following week with a technical working group in Switzerland.

It is not known when they sides will schedule a new political meeting.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.