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.

AFP