Turkey, a guarantor power of Cypriot sovereignty, keeps going on and on and on about wanting to help solve the Cyprus problem.
"Turkey has been assuming a zero-problem policy with its neighbours. Our constructive position on the Cyprus problem is a concrete expression of our peaceful policies. We are ready to solve the Aegean problem. Let it be our main aim to let peace reign," is the latest statement from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Well, I urge the Turkish government to assume a zero-tolerance policy with its military.
O Turkey, o proud inheritor of an empire spanning three continents and six centuries, how about we see a concrete expression of your peaceful policies?
Time to put your long-standing interests in Cyprus to good use before they are consigned to the dustbin of history. Time to honour your commitments to Cyprus as you did to Anatolia, preventing its partition by the Allied Powers after World War I. Time to give your military an ultimatum.
"If the democratically elected government of Turkey has not received satisfactory assurances from its military, by 25 December 2009, of the withdrawal of its occupying forces from the north of Cyprus, a state of civil war should exist between Turkey's military and elected government – and therefore people."