Ozgurgun replies to the Cypriot Foreign MinisterAnkara Anatolia news agency (10.08.11) reported that Huseyin Ozgurgun so-called foreign minister of the breakaway regime has harshly criticized Foreign Minister Dr Erato Kozakou-Markoullis over her remarks about Turkey’s reaction to plans for oil and natural gas projects around the island.

“Insulting Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots simply for protecting their legitimate rights and interests, to say the least of it, is going way over the line” Ozgurgun alleged in a written statement.

Dr Markoullis had described Turkey’s reaction to Greek Cypriot plans as “bullying and arrogant.” “If there is anyone in our region acting like a bully, it is the Greek Cypriot administration which was unlawfully and unilaterally accepted in the European Union. And the real arrogance is the Greek Cypriot attempt to take advantage of its position to make other EU members comply with its law defying attitude” Ozgurgun claimed.