DT. wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:http://www.yeniduzen.com/detay.asp?a=14815&z=19
Turkish Cypriot Teachers' Union (KTÖS) General Secretary Şener Elcil has been elected to the Cyprus national chair of the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE). Elcil beat his Greek Cypriot rival by 2,232 votes to 808 and will represent the whole island on the committee for a period of three years.
Where's VP and his need for undemocratic weighted votes now? Where's the paranoia that left to democracy a TC would never be elected for anything? WHere's VP?
He invested for this post by accusing Turkey with some rhetorics that GCs like very much to hear.
From their website:
From 1956 – 60, Cyprus became an international concern. The growth of Turkish nationalism and the development of the Greek Cypriots armed struggle resulted in the establishment of an Independent Republic of Cyprus. In 1950, the newly elected Archbishop Makarios attempted to get the Greek government directly involved in the Enosis campaign and to take the Cyprus question to the United Nations. The Turks, fearing annexation, sought aid from Turkey. The eruption of Turkish Cypriot nationalism during the 1950’s came as a suprise to the Greeks but they were more concerned with driving the British out of Cyprus. Having failed diplomatically, they resorted to violence and terrorism supported financially by the Greek mainland.
Attempts by Britain at forming a working partnership between the two communities failed as Greece insisted on self determination. Violence intersifiend and in 1956. Makarios was exiled for his involvement in terrorist activities. This left Grivas, the leader of E.O.K.A. (a terrorist organisation) the opportunity to battle with the British troops. During this period, the first intercommunal fighting began. The Turkish Cypriots formed their own underground organisation, Volkan, and demonstrated their opposition by fighting violence with violence. As successive British Governors sought to find an acceptable solution, the two communities pressed for their own demands. The Greeks for Enosis, and the Turks for self determination through the partitioning of the island. Intercommunal clashes increased with high casualties in both communities until 1958 when the threat of Turkish intervention and a possible Greco-Turkish war forced the Greeks to rethink their negotiations. Informal talks at the N.A.T.O. conference of 1958 resulted in the creation of an Independent Republic and the end of British rule.
http://www.ktos.org/en/index.php?option ... 8&Itemid=8
One way or another, they have a great impact on accelerating the actions of concerned parties of Cyprus problem.
