Posted on 12/19/2002 6:24:45 AM PST by WaterDragon
Turkey has rejected as unacceptable the European Union's decision last week in Copenhagen to invite the divided island of Cyprus to be member of the Union by 1 May 2004.
In breach of international agreements
''The EU does not have the right to take unilateral decisions about the future of Cyprus by violating international agreements and to create international obligations,'' the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement stressing that Turkey does not accept the Copenhagen Summit's final declaration on Cyprus.
The statement pointed to the 1959-60 agreements, which established the Republic of Cyprus and authorised Turkey, Greece and Britain to guarantee the new state. "A single state, government and parliament authorized to represent the whole of the island does not exist since the demolition of the partnership state by the Greek Cypriots by gun force in 1963,'' the statement said. In response to a Greek Cypriot coup, backed by Athens, Turkey invaded the north of Cyprus in 1974. Turkey still has some 30,000 troops stationed there, but it is the only country in the world to recognise the breakaway of the Turkish Cypriot part in the north...(snip)
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Why oh why did Britain not simply hand Cyprus over to Greece in 1960?
The stalling by the EU is NOT because of Cyprus, but because of elitist euro-bigotry, pure and simple (IMHO), and sucking up to Greece, the most socialistic state in all of Europe (which is saying a lot). The best thing the EU could do would be to REPLACE commie infested Greece with Turkey (again, IMHO).
For Turkey to be accepted as a civilized country, and for it to be part of Europe, it must first acknowledge its holocaust against the Armenians, and let Cyprus, and the Kurds be free.
Turkey Out of Cyprus NOW!
Return Hagia Sophia to Christians NOW!
Good grief, you sound like a puling "down with the oppressors" leftist. Turkey fought, and won, a civil WAR against Kurd seperatists (who used terrorist tactics), and magnanimously concluded a just peace giving Kurds considerable local autonomy, right to cultural preservation (teaching in their own language) and etc.
Get over it!
Turkey Out of Cyprus NOW!
Return Hagia Sophia to Christians NOW!
Who are you? I did not know that I have a twin?
God bless you
If you said this is the Socratic method, of what ethnic group was Socrates?
If all else fails, of what linguistic origin are "philo" and "sophy"?
I'm not saying the Kurds are leftists, I'm saying YOU sound like a leftist whining about the Kurds who fought, and lost, a civil/separatist war. Moaning about Turks "slaughtering" Kurds when they were fighting a WAR to defend their sovereignty is leftist style agit-prop of the same class as claiming the Israelis are "slaughtering" Palestinians or Americans are "slaughtering" Afghans. It is every bit as much out of touch with reality considering that at present Turkey is at peace with their Kurdish population, have extended them considerable local control, have legalized use of the local language, and etc.
Again, get over it!!!
When Turkey does the same thing one should get over it?
If Turkey keeps this up then no chance they will get into EU.
Even if they NATO members. NATO is dead and soon to be replaced by EU Army.
NATO will be left with states like US, UK and Turkey.
Yugoslavia did some stupid things but there are some rules to the seperatist game.
A rebel group does not start a war if it does not get support from outside the coutry political, arms or logistics.
A seperatist group can't fight an endless war if it is not promised a recognition BEFORE they start fighting.
You can not create a state unless you have the army (peacekeeping troops) to back it with.
In Yugoslavia the Albanians were promised support and recognition of a state BEFORE one shot was fired. The whole thing was over in 1 year. Tell me one seperatist group that achieves that in 1 year without external support.
The Tamil Tigers, the Kurds, the Karen in Burma, the Christians in Sudan have been fighting for decades and still have not achieved anything.
In 1991 within 9 months of war in Yugoslavia Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia were regonised as Independent States. Isn't that amazing. So Yugoslavia did not implode in a self-inflicted way it had a plenty of support to implode.
As for Cyprus there were more issues in 1974 at the time of the Turkish invasion than just Greek-turkish hatred. Some of these issues like fear of Greek socialism by United States and the possibility of Greek Socialist state so close to Israel and that part of the Mediterean are just coming up again.
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