RichardB wrote:Halil wrote
President Talat – who is in Istanbul for various contacts –was speaking at a program on Samanyolu Haber channel.
But the Council of Europe say
Cyprus : PACE ready to support negotiations under UN auspices
Strasbourg, 23.03.2008 - The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Lluís Maria de Puig, today welcomed the announcement by the Cypriot President and the Turkish Cypriot leader to resume talks on the reunification of the island.
Is Talat a leader or a president? or just a president in the eyes of the illegal republic?
Surely only one president per nation ?
not everybody agrees with you !
Talat is TC's president ...... Below article is from .
http://www.biconews.com/?p=6835
Mr. Chistofias was sworn in on Friday, February 29th and has promised to work with the Turkish north on a plan to reunify the two nations as soon as possible. The new president is very upbeat about this possibility, in particular because his counterpart in the north,
TRNC president Mehmet Ali Talat of the Republican Turkish Party (also Socialist-Communist), is also a strong supporter of the union.
Both presidents have expressed hope to have the two nations join by the end of 2008. It seems that all it takes to settle a 34 year old dispute is two communists running things.
Cyprus gained independence from Great Britain in 1960, as a strange half-state that never really knew what it was on about. Roughly 2/3 of the population is Greek, the remaining 1/3 is Turkish. The nation was granted its independence merely because no one had any better ideas what to do with it. The Greek majority generally want to join Greece itself, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) was created because of the Turkish invasion in 1974.