The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) Fuat Oktay made evaluations on the rights of the Turkish Cypriot people in the Mediterranean while in Rome, where he participate in the “MED Mediterranean Dialogue Forum”.

Underlining that all the resources around the island belong to all islanders, Oktay reiterated that the resources should be shared for the wealth of the island on the basis of equity.

The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Fuat Oktay made evaluations to Anadolu Agency in Rome, where he took part in the “MED Mediterranean Dialogue Forum” organized for the 10th time this year by the Italy-based think tank International Institute for Political Studies (ISPI) with the contributions of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Touching on the Cyprus problem, Oktay underlined that all the resources around the island belong to all the islanders and reiterated that the resources should be shared on the basis of equity for the wealth of the island.

Oktay said, “Again, we have the Cyprus issue there. There is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and its resources. A nation that exists, the existing Turkish nation is wanted to be considered null and void there. We have already given the necessary answer with the 1974 operations. In other words, we gave the necessary answer as a guarantor country there. We have always said that all the resources there now belong to the entire island people and we said that this should be shared on the basis of equity. It should be shared for the wealth of the island. In fact, all the resources of the Mediterranean are in the same framework.”

Oktay stated that they want to use parliamentary diplomacy more effectively as a parliament in the forum and said that they want to assist so that they can pave the way forward and contribute to the ongoing work.

“We will be explaining and clarifying all of Türkiye’s theses here. We will continue to explain them from now on,” said Oktay.