Improving Cyprus-US relations ‘may push Russia to recognise north’

Improving relations between Cyprus and the United States may push Russia to recognise the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s international relations advisor Hasan Unal said on Thursday.

Speaking to Turkish newspaper Milliyet, he said the Greek Cypriot side’s “persistent efforts to bring the US to the island will work against it in a multipolar world”.

“This goes as far as Russia recognising the TRNC,” he said.

He said the US will claim innocence in the move...