EU should ‘stop being a slave to Greek Cypriots’

The European Union should “stop being a slave to the Greek Cypriot side”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Thursday evening.

Tatar was reacting to the outcome of this week’s extraordinary European Council summit in Brussels, which reaffirmed the EU’s support for a bicommunal bizonal federal solution to the Cyprus problem.

He said the European Council’s conclusions constitute a “surrender to the Greek Cypriot side” and “emphasize the fact that the EU cannot be neutral”.

“First of all...