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The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Oct. 9 slammed a joint declaration issued following a trilateral summit between Egypt, Greece and the Greek Cypriot Administration on the Cyprus issue, saying it contains "baseless claims" against Turkey. 

Turkey has criticized a joint statement issued by Greece, Cyprus and Egypt in Cairo Tuesday, saying it contains "baseless claims" against Ankara.
The three countries urged Turkey to "end its provocative actions" in the Eastern Mediterranean, including exploring for oil in Cyprus' territorial waters, which they called "a breach of international law."

Turkish Cypriot officials have had meetings with Italian Eni, which struck a license agreement with the Greek Cypriot side to extract natural resources in the Eastern Mediterranean and have made presentations to representatives of U.S. energy companies licensed by the Greek Cypriots, said Kudret Özersay, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs for the Turkish side.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Tuesday that negotiations to resolve the Cyprus problem can only get under way if they have been preceded by proper preparation to see if there is scope for a solution.

A settlement in Cyprus is almost impossible unless the two sides on the island manage to confess the crimes they committed and apologize to each other. How can the two people of the island establish peace and start building a common future of confidence in each other while they have totally conflicting approaches as to how the Cyprus problem started?

By Constantine Tzanos, Contributor Nuclear engineer, PhD*

July 7, 2017, marked the failure of another effort to solve the over 40-year-old problem of the division of Cyprus. Turkey, in defiance of the international law, refused to terminate its military occupation of Northern Cyprus.

Talks to reunify the divided island of Cyprus collapsed in the early hours of July 7, with Ankara accusing the Greek side for the failure in the process widely seen as the most promising in generations to heal decades of problem.

Talks to reunify the divided island of Cyprus collapsed in the early hours of July 7, with Ankara accusing the Greek side for the failure in the process widely seen as the most promising in generations to heal decades of problem.

Talks to reunite the island of Cyprus ended in failure in Crans-Montana on early July 6, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said.

"Unfortunately, the Cyprus talks in Crans-Montana failed despite all efforts," Çavuşoğlu told reporters. 

"It was the last conference and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he concluded this conference," he added.  

High-level talks in the Swiss Alpine resort of Crans-Montana hit a brick wall in the early hours of Friday morning with no deal on a strategic agreement that could have paved the way for a comprehensive settlement of the decades-old Cyprus problem decades-old Cyprus problem.