"Yakis: Turkey won't implement Ankara protocol before isolation lifted
Parliament's European Union Harmonization Commission head Yasar Yakis said late Tuesday that Turkey won't implement the Ankara Protocol unless the EU ends the isolation of the Turkish Cypriots.
Yakis made the remarks at the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC) held in Vienna, Austria.
Underlining that the Cyprus peace plan prepared by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan foresees the membership of a reunited Cyprus in the EU as a whole and also considers both Turkish and Greek Cypriots as the founder states, Yakis said, 'We told our European counterparts that if a reunited Cyprus becomes a member of the bloc, we will recognize it.'"
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