Nicholas Danforth joins Thanos Davelis to break down Turkey's latest moves on Cyprus - a new financial assistance deal with Turkish Cypriots and a decision to designate the Turkish Cypriots’ unrecognized main airport as a domestic flight route - which have raised concerns that Turkey wants to eventually annex the occupied northern part of the island.
Cyprus is lodging a complaint to the UN over Turkey’s new financial assistance deal with Turkish Cypriots and over Turkey’s decision to designate the Turkish Cypriots’ unrecognized main airport as a domestic flight route, effectively turning it into a Turkish one. There is a fear among Turkish Cypriots as well that both the financial deal and the airport designation are the clearest signals yet that Turkey wants to eventually annex the occupied northern part of Cyprus. Nicholas Danforth, a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, joins Thanos Davelis to break this down.
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