Nicosia has proceeded to denounce Ankara’s move to impose ban on entry of Greek Cypriots in Turkey in a memorandum sent to Brussels and New York, requesting the EU and the UN to intervene.

Turkey, in its electronic visa system which went into operation last week, has deleted the Republic of Cyprus and as such passport holders can only choose their state of nationality as the “Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyrpus”.

For this reason, the Cypriot Foreign Ministry issued a statement asking the citizens of the Republic not to travel to Turkey under these conditions.

The Cypriot government considers that this move by Turkey is a serious challenge and cannot degrade the “talks climate” despite whatever third parties may try to do.