Erdoğan Deli for Cyprus: If we had pushed harder in 1974, we would have taken it all.

In new provocative statements he went on to talk to Turkish officials. As Manolis Kostidis told Skai, Erdogan said that if Turkey had pushed harder in 1974 it would have taken all of Cyprus. “A half a century ago, Turkish Cypriots returned from the brink of genocide. In the 1974 ‘Peace operation’, 498 soldiers from all corners of our country, officers, lieutenants and individuals protested. Despite all the pressure, if Turkey did not intervene, there would be no “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” or Turkish Cypriots today. In fact, maybe if we had pushed southward, there would have been no more south and north and Cyprus would have been completely ours,” Erdogan said, in a statement he has never done before. Turkey’s president also promised the country to take a second carrier and drones. “Turkey has many enemies and needs to be prepared for any possibility,” he noted.