Turkey’s CHP’s Ozel decries ‘bankruptcy’ of country’s foreign policy over Cyprus

Ozgur Ozel, the leader of Turkey’s largest opposition political party the CHP, on Saturday decried the “bankruptcy” of the country’s foreign policy in the wake of the signing of a joint declaration by five central Asian states and the European Union which ruled out the prospect of any of them recognising the north  as an independent country.

Four of those states, Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, have majority Turkic populations,