Turkey Criticizes US Move on Cyprus Security Partnership
- Island added by US to a security cooperation program
- Turkey says US can no longer play fair role in Cyprus dispute
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Turkey on Monday condemned the US’s decision to add Cyprus to a security cooperation program, saying that Washington is losing its impartiality in the dispute surrounding the divided island.
The US move came two weeks after it lifted a decades-old arms embargo on the internationally-recognized Greek Cypriot government located in the south of the Island.