halil wrote:TC's are asking guarantees of Turkey .... who cares what relation EU and Turkey has got between themself .
Majority of the Turkish Cypriots feels better and secure with Turkey's guarantees .For Turkish Cypriots wanting to join EU does not mean that their security will be ok .TC's wants guarentees of Turkey over their security that no one can dare to spoil their lifes again .It does not mean that they can have lots of troops in Cyprus .They will have rights to protect us in a such a way that seconed coups will not happen again .
Halil, can you explain something to me.
It seems that the TC's want Turkey's guarantees if Turkey is not in the EU, but TC's do not ask for Turkey's guarantees once Turkey is in the EU. Why does the guarantees of Turkey depends whether Turkey is in the EU or not. Cyprus is in the EU, so why is that not enough for the TC's to feel secure without Turkey's guarantees. In another words, if you don't trust the GC's when Turkey is not a EU member, why would you trust them, if Turkey is a EU member. What does anything change if you do not trust the GC's to begin with.? To me, this seems like a ploy to get Turkey into the EU and has nothing to do with the TC’s security, because I cannot find any other explanation to the TC’s and Turkey’s demands of needing / giving guarantees.!
The other explanation would be of course, that Turkey has ZERO chance of ever being a EU member, therefore, this would allow them to have a intervention / invasion rights in Cyprus indefinitely.!