Turkey’s Bagis Denies EU Deal on Cyprus Ports, Anatolia Says
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Turkey’s chief European Union negotiator, Egemen Bagis, denied reports that Turkey has agreed with the EU to open its ports to vessels from Cyprus, the state-run Anatolia news agency said.
Bagis said in a Twitter message that the reports were untrue, Anatolia reported. Turkey’s position that it will open ports to Cypriot traffic only in return for the simultaneous opening of Cypriot ports to Turkish vessels is well known, the agency reported him as saying in response to a question.