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Turkey’s Taliban Ties Worry Cyprus
''Turkey has nothing that contradicts Taliban’s faith,” said Turkey’s president, a country that is also a NATO member.
The comments were made by Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 20 to members of the press while visiting Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus.
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His comments accompanied an escalation of multiple human rights abuses toward Cyprus, abuses rooted in historical atrocities on par with those currently displayed by the Taliban.
Such actions are inexcusable from a human rights perspective and unacceptable by a NATO ally, particularly one that is also attempting to become the Taliban’s lifeline toward the outside world…