On Tuesday 24 July, the day after the visit of United Nations Special Envoy Jane Holl Lute to Cyprus with a view to a possible resumption of negotiations for the island's reunification (see EUROPE 12064), Turkey stepped up the pressure.
"If we rush to negotiate and fail again, negotiations may not be reopened. The process cannot bear another failure”, Turkey's Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stated, after a meeting with the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci. He...