Cavusoglu meets Turkish Cypriot counterpart in Antalya

ANKARA

Turkey’s foreign minister met Monday with his counterpart from Turkish Cyprus in the Mediterranean Antalya province.

Mevlut Cavusoglu met Kudret Ozersay, deputy prime minister and foreign affairs minister of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), who was in Antalya to attend the opening ceremony of TRNC Consulate.

Later on Twitter, Cavusoglu said the two officials discussed "bilateral issues and recent developments on Cyprus issue".

Cavusoglu also met Jane Holl Lute, UN special envoy to Cyprus: “Emphasized at our meeting with Ms. Jane Holl Lute, the official assigned by the #UN Secretary-General, that all options are on the table for a permanent solution in Cyprus; yet, in any case, political equality of the Turkish Cypriots is a must!” he wrote on Twitter

*Writing by Sibel Morrow and Sena Guler