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18 July 2005 - 06:13 AMT

GREEK COMMUNITY OF CYPRUS THREATENS AZERBAIJAN WITH DIRECT FLIGHT TO NAGORNO KARABAKH

The Greek community of Cyprus threatens Azerbaijan with a direct flight to Nagorno Karabakh but they will not succeed, Mehmed Ali Talaat, the president of the unrecognized Northern Cyprus has told the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, according to the Azeri news agency Trend. He said Azerbaijan’s rapprochement with Northern Cyprus would help offset the international isolation of the Turkish Cyprus. On the eve of his recent trip to Russia, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has said that the latest steps of Baku represent Azerbaijan’s factual recognition of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. “Hopefully, Azerbaijan’s steps towards it would continue”, he said, Yerkir Online reports.