Military buildup in Cyprus ‘should not be permanent’, Erhurman says

The buildup of foreign military assets in and around Cyprus should not be permanent, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhruman said on Thursday.

“I do not think that the military assets which have come here will be permanent, and I am saying very clearly that they should not be,” he told Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, with Greece, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom all having deployed naval or aerial assets to the island and its vicinity in recent weeks after it was hit by an Iranian-made drone.