During the phone conversation on Friday, Erdoğan and Brown discussed regional issues and bilateral matters in addition to exchanging views on summits on Afghanistan that will take place in both countries, the Anatolia news agency said.
Erdoğan briefed Brown about the Afghanistan-Pakistan-Turkey summit that will take place in İstanbul, and Brown gave details on an international conference on Afghanistan that will be held in London next week. The two leaders agreed that efforts should be intensified for the resolution of problems in Afghanistan as soon as possible, Anatolia said.
Erdoğan and Brown also agreed that the leaders in Cyprus should be assisted in regard to the ongoing negotiation process on the Cyprus issue. Erdoğan told Brown that some have tried to use the Orams case to prevent the negotiation process on the Cyprus issue from succeeding. The British Court of Appeals’ latest decision on the Orams case was disappointing, Erdoğan said.
The British court ruled Tuesday that a British couple cannot keep their holiday villa in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC). The court of appeal decision upheld an earlier European Court of Justice ruling that the property should be returned to Meletis Apostolides, whose Greek Cypriot family had to leave the northern part of the island in 1974 after a Turkish military intervention.
