EPSILON wrote:MrH wrote:GCs who reach a certain age MUST complete their Military Service with the "Cyprus National Guard" as part of their claim to Citizenship - Will the TCs (with their newly acquired EU-ROC passports) also have to do military service?
If not, why?
You have to study again the 1960 treaty- You will easily find the reply.
No that's incorrect. From crappy wikipedia but I couldn't find an english link anywhere else:
The General Staff of the Cyprus National Guard in known domestically by its Greek designation "ΓΕΕΦ", or transliterated in the Latin alphabet as "GEEF".
The full name is "ΓΕΝΙΚΟ ΕΠΙΤΕΛΕΙΟ ΕΘΝΙΚΗΣ ΦΡΟΥΡΑΣ" which translates in English as "GENERAL STAFF OF THE NATIONAL GUARD". This name was assigned to the General Staff Headquarters organisation that commanded the National Guard in 1964, before which time and since 1963, the organisation had been briefly designated "Ειδικό Μικτό Επιτελείο Κύπρου" (ΕΜΕΚ), or translated in English as "Special Mixed Staff Cyprus" (EMEK).
The formation of GEEF in 1964 coincides directly with the establishment of purely Greek Cypriot ethnicity National Guard, following the outbreak of nationwide civil disturbances between Greek and Turkish Cypriot groups. Thus, as of 1964, the Turkish Cypriot minority were forced to abandon the original provisions to them of Article 129 - 132 of the 1960 Constitution, and withdrew any further participation in the National Guard, to which they had been entitled 40% of the total manpower, i.e. 2000 men.
The GEEF was made constitutional in July 1964 by vote of the Cypriot Parliament, from which the Turkish Cypriot Vice President (along with his right of veto) and the Turkish Cypriot senators were removed, by which time the country had begun to slide into a total socio-political breakdown along ethnic lines.
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