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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that his country was ready to build a Cyprus naval base “if necessary”, 50 years after Turkish forces invaded the now-divided island. “If necessary, we can construct a base and naval structures in the north” of the divided island, the official Anadolu news agency reported him as saying. “We also have the sea,” Erdogan said he flew back to Turkey after visiting northern Cyprus on Saturday to mark 50 years since Turkey’s invasion. He also accused rival Greece of wanting to establish a naval base of its own on Cyprus, on whose future both sides …

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