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Turkey remains opposed to creating a unified Cypriot federation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday during events on the island commemorating the 50th year of Turkey’s invasion. “We believe that a [single] federal solution is not possible in Cyprus,” the Turkish leader said on Saturday while visiting the Turkish-controlled north of the divided island. In 1974, nationalist Greek Cypriots and the then-ruling dictatorship in Athens wanted to unite Cyprus with Greece, which led to a military coup on the island. To prevent a union with Greece, Turkey intervened militarily. Since then, …

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