The Cypriot wrote:
The north were told to vote "yes" and everything would be OK as they would join the EU in a "reunited" Cyprus. What the north wasn't told, (or maybe didn't want to hear), was that those in the free areas would have to be convinced to vote "yes" too. This "yes" was, wrongly as it transpired, taken as read.
The Annan Plan was, of course, so skewed in Turkey's favour to ensure that it would allow its minions to vote "yes" that the people in the free areas saw no upside in voting "yes" and overwhelmingly voted "no", rendering any promises to the north null and void.
I agree that the AP was skewed in Turkey's favour. Of course, Cyprus's accession to the EU was already on track, regardless of how the vote would go in the referendum. the AP pandered to the pertitionists in the north by sowing the seeds for future strife, and much of the support for the AP came from those quarters.
whilst we are on this subject, given that the settlers from Turkey also voted in the referendum, and given that all the settlers had a vested interest to vote "yes", it would be interesting to work out what percentage of the TCs actually voted "yes" - it would put the 65% "yes" in a different perspective.
