Turkey says UN peacekeepers intervention of Turkish Cypriot roadworks unacceptable


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  • Tuesday, 22 Aug 2023

FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to media as he visits Anitkabir, the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, ahead of the annual meeting of the Supreme Military Council (YAS) in Ankara, Turkey August 3, 2023. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the physical intervention of United Nations peacekeepers during roadworks in the south of ethnically split Cyprus last week is unacceptable.

"The physical intervention of U.N. Peacekeeping Force soldiers on the territory that falls under the sovereignty of the TRNC is never acceptable to us," Erdogan said following the weekly cabinet meeting.

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