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Erdoğan steps away before Cyprus president's welcome, Turkish report says

Footage from the Antalya climate summit shows Christodoulides waiting before entering to be greeted by UN chief António Guterres alone.

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Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides waits at the entrance while Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan leaves the leaders' welcoming point. When Christodoulides enters, UN Secretary-General António Guterres receives him alone.

Turkey's CNN TÜRK presents the sequence as a diplomatic gesture at the UN climate summit in Antalya. Its report says Erdoğan and Guterres had been welcoming leaders together, but the protocol changed when Christodoulides's turn arrived.

According to the presenter, Christodoulides was kept waiting so Erdoğan could step away. During that pause, the hall's screens displayed a large Turkish flag, a detail the report emphasizes. Erdoğan then returned to the welcoming point after Christodoulides had passed through.

The encounter reflects a longstanding diplomatic divide. Christodoulides leads the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus, which Turkey does not recognize. The island is divided by a UN buffer zone, and Turkey alone recognizes the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Antalya, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, is hosting COP31, the UN climate conference. This brief report focuses on the reception ceremony rather than the climate negotiations, showing how the Cyprus dispute surfaced in the summit's diplomatic protocol.