Turkey's FM meets Turkish Cypriot counterpart, UN envoy in Antalya

ANKARA – Anadolu Agency

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (L) shakes hands with Jane Holl Lute, UN special envoy to Cyprus in Antalya on March 11.

Turkey's foreign minister met on March 11 with his counterpart from Turkish Cyprus in the Mediterranean Antalya province.

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu met Kudret Özersay, 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, Çavuşoğlu said the two officials discussed "bilateral issues and recent developments on Cyprus issue".       

Çavuşoğlu 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.