Cyprus FM - Cooperation with Israel Never Meant To Be a Front Against Turkey

Cooperation with Israel was never meant to be a front against Turkey, Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Thursday. While addressing the foreign press at a press briefing and replying to a question concerning Cyprus - Israeli relations, and the Israel's apology to Turkey over the "Mavi Marmara" incident, Kasoulides stressed that "many people have seen it wrongly that our cooperation with Israel and perhaps the involvement of Greece also, that it was or was meant to be a front against Turkey".

     "It was not", he added, "and it was never meant to be. It has nothing to do with it".