CopperLine wrote:Just to clarify further, Get Real, when you said "You’ve answered that yourself… “routing via Turkey is required” so they’re not direct flights" the only reason that they're via Turkey and not direct is beacuse Turkey is the only state that recognizes TRNC at the moment. But by definition if other states recognised TRNC then flights could be direct from that state to TRNC. Why ? Because a flight agreement could be a simple bilateral agreement.
You made a scene earlier in pointing out that there is no such thing as a formal recognition paper exchanged between states and we agreed that it is the mutual ACTIONS between states that indicated their acknowledgement of each other yet now you talk of... "if other states recognized TRNC..."
Methinks you're beating around the bush...
If I've understood Andros correctly, he's right to point out that the legal question is secondary to the political realities on the ground. Let's say, for sake of argument, that GCs are 100% right on the legal front, in the end as they sat in English law, 'possession is nine-tenths of the law'. In the end it is not law which will deteremine the future of Cyprus it is the day-to-day politics of ordinary people.
The problem with that attitude though is that 10, 20 or 50 years from now Turkey’s military strength may diminish and the RoC may then see fit to toast the “TRNC” and I’m sure that many fools will then cry foul and wonder what went wrong and someone might then remind of how decades ago justice was not served so it is being served now because when the rule of law is ignored it can come back and haunt you later…
As I’ve said on other threads and forums, the Turkish Cypriots may laugh now but unfortunately their future generations will pay later.