Jeff Flake: “I think that one would have to suspend disbelief, as you mentioned, to assume that the regime was not in charge of this.”

I will. I was pleased to see after the December visit by Erdogan to Cyprus that the United States Government spoke out, as did the U.N., that any of the action that was contemplated with Varosha, for example, would violate Security Council…

There is no two-state solution in Cyprus. It needs to be a bizonal, bicommunal federation negotiated between the parties.

We need to make clear that that is inconsistent with democratic values and inconsistent with commitments that have been made.

Ankara has had at least a transactional relationship with Russia on a number of issues.