The annual exercise is aimed at improving mutual training, cooperation, and interoperability between the Turkish Cypriot Peace Force Command and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Security Forces Command, according to the ministry statement.
The armed forces of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) have started joint military exercises in Northern Cyprus.
Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay announced on Twitter that the five-day exercise, Mediterranean Storm, is a demonstration of their will to stand against those trying to confine Turkey to the Gulf of Antalya while ignoring the Turkish Cypriots.
"The security priorities of our country and the TRNC are indispensable, along with diplomatic solutions in the eastern Mediterranean," he said on Sunday.
Oktay wished success to the nations’ soldiers, the guarantors of peace in the Mediterranean Sea.
The drill in the TRNC, Martyr Captain Cengiz Topel Mediterranean Storm Exercise, was named after a Turkish Air Force pilot killed during Turkey’s peace operation after the inter-communal conflict on the island in 1964.
The ministry said in a statement on Saturday that the annual exercise is aimed at improving mutual training, cooperation, and interoperability between the Turkish Cypriot Peace Force Command and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Security Forces Command.
The exercise will be held with air, naval, and land elements from Turkey, the statement added.
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