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Erdogan: Turkey ready to build Cyprus naval base 'if necessary'

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2024-07-21 | 04:44

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Erdogan: Turkey ready to build Cyprus naval base 'if necessary'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that his country was ready to build a Cyprus naval base "if necessary", the official Anadolu news agency reported him as saying.

"If necessary, we can construct a base and naval structures in the north" of the divided island, Erdogan was quoted as saying after visiting northern Cyprus on Saturday to mark 50 years since Turkish forces invaded.

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