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[Viewpoint]

Is the pope catholic ?


Fact : Ercan airport is a functioning airport.
Fact : Ercan airport receives and dispatches a typical variety of short and medium range jet aircraft, all approved by ICAO.
Fact : Flights to and from Ercan have the UK and Germany, for example, amongst their destinations/origins, as well as Turkey, all subject to ICAO regulation.
Fact : Ercan is an airport which provides facilities for a number of airlines with international routes all governed by ICAO.

Fact : Ercan airport is not ICAO registered, broadly for the reasons Get Real gave.

But so what ? Does it make a huge amount of practical difference ? Non-recognition is annoying, it increases operation costs, it contributes to 'isolation' but, in general, people are still using Ercan like any other local airport.

(So your scare quotes should not be around airport - it unquestionably functions as an airport - the scare quotes, if used, should be around 'legal' ! And why the definite article before Ercan ?)

Nobody questions that it is an airport. Like forged money is still money, and several people might be using them either willingly or unwillingly as normal money. This doesn't make them legal though.

The facts which are related to the legality of the airport are:

Fact: In Cyprus there is only one state - the Republic of Cyprus
Fact: Only the state can designate the legal airports in its own territory Fact: The Republic of Cyprus has not designated Tymbou/Ercan as a legal airport

Hello do planes land there?

Can you stop them?

Then live with it you have no other option.

[Get Real!]

CopperLine and VP,

The thread set about to query the LEGALITY of Ercan and not whether or not it is use so paying attention to a thread’s title should save you plenty of unnecessary posts in the future.

It’s a thread that was made necessary as a result of Observer’s sweeping statements…

“The claim that Ercan is illegal is just plain rubbish.”

“As I’ve often said before, it’s not illegal just because you don’t like it.”

So it became my job to prove him wrong. End of story.

[Viewpoint]

What difference does it make, the only inconvenience is cost a 30minute wait in Turkey, a small price to pay. If theres no forcable penalty for the illegality then passing resolutions its illegal means very little at all.

[Oracle]

I don't think these people seriously comprehend what the term legal means!

GR! ... I think you need a dedicated thread to get to the bottom of the true meaning of legal and the major difference to the antonym, illegal ....

[Get Real!]

What difference does it make, the only inconvenience is cost a 30minute wait in Turkey, a small price to pay. If theres no forcable penalty for the illegality then passing resolutions its illegal means very little at all.

Regardless of the inconveniences and moral challenges that users of this port may face, it is still one of the typical arguments that we engage in here in our quest to explore and conclude over the legality of one thing or another pertaining to the CyProb, as has been done myriads of times.

But why do I need to spell out the obvious?

[Get Real!]

I don't think these people seriously comprehend what the term legal means!

GR! ... I think you need a dedicated thread to get to the bottom of the true meaning of legal and the major difference to the antonym, illegal ....

Hmm... you just might be onto something there!

[bill cobbett]

I don't think these people seriously comprehend what the term legal means!

GR! ... I think you need a dedicated thread to get to the bottom of the true meaning of legal and the major difference to the antonym, illegal ....

Hmm... you just might be onto something there!

I have a dictionary if that would help ....but I guess there's no helping the morally corrupt.