YFred wrote:The Cypriot wrote:miltiades wrote:Get Real! wrote:Belatedly, the government of Turkey, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is making serious conciliatory overtures in search of an end to the impasse. The ball is now in the Greeks’ court.
Not surprisingly, he stopped dead in his tracks from telling us what these Turkish “conciliatory overtures” are…
Junk article...
Lets find out by asking this journalist what are the serious conciliatory overtures !!!
Perhaps some one on the forum knows .
Not sure this constitutes 'serious conciliatory overtures' but according to my sources...
Erdogan, Gul and the new Foreign Minister Davutoglu have all repeated in the past month the same message of support for a solution based on a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation (this stems from British and American pressure). Ankara continues to freeze out Denktash and has changed Eroglu overnight – who now speaks not of confederation but of a more 'ambiguous' two-state (ie. two-zones, two-component states) solution.
'Ambiguity' is needed to slowly bring people round to a 'reunification mind frame'. Eroglu's and Turkey's continued support is necessary to win a YES vote in the north as current opinion polls suggest a more likely NO vote this time. Turkey (or the government at least) is moving in the right direction and seems ready to accept a solution.
TCs voted yes in the last vote before the last elections, but they were let down by the EU and no longer trust them never mind RoC. I suspect whatever Turkey says or does, they will vote no next time and Turkey will just have to continue to pick up the bill for stupidities of the past.
Surely they can rig the election - or buy the electorate? We are talking of an unrecognised state where anything goes.
*knods head* in agreeance with GR and Oracles 
