by Nikitas » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:25 am
Can you imagine a nation sending 50 ambassadors to the USA, one for each state? No! It sounds funny to even suggest it. Can you imagine the UK entering into an agreement to have direct trade with the state of Georgia? Not on your life!
The reason is simple, it is because the USA is a federation that respects itself and all states have entered the Union realising full well the consequences of their actions.
Here we are asked to enter into all kinds of acrobatics. That the federal state should have the same relations with Turkey as it has with Greece. But that is not possible because Greece is in the EU as is Cyprus, and the relations between EU members are totally different. In case anyone forgets, the EU provides funds, has rules binding on all members, and members submit to a EU-wide legal regime and so on. Turkey will not be able to achieve the same level of relations with Cyprus or any other EU state until it becomes a member. Cyprus before its accession to the EU did not have any these special ties with Greece. Cyprus also has special ties with Commonwealth members states that it does not have and will not have with either Greece or Turkey.
Now, if we are talking cultural ties, naturally each community will have closer cultural ties with its respective mainland nation state. It would be foolish to expect anything else.
So what is all the fuss about?