Cyprus tells UN: Turkey’s policies restrict Turkish Cypriots’ freedoms too

Turkey’s policies in Cyprus harm Turkish Cypriots as much as Greek Cypriots, undermining their identity, restricting their freedoms and denying them full enjoyment of their rights as Cypriot and European citizens, Cyprus has told the United Nations.

The position is set out in a verbal note dated April 20, 2026, in which Cyprus’s Permanent Mission to the OHCHR rejected as “unfounded” the positions Turkey advanced at the General Debate under Item 2 of the 61st session of the UN Human Rights...