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[Malapapa]

Why hasn't this been reported by Bayrak?

Disagreement on Turkish side causes concern for settlement in Cyprus

A referendum over a reunification agreement is possible, but there are concerns about internal Turkish Cypriot divisions, according to Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister Hüseyin Özgürgün.

Özgürgün, speaking Friday in Ankara, complained about the negative results stemming from both disagreements with President Mehmet Ali Talat and the various opinions of Turkish diplomats in Ankara.

“We have disagreements on critical issues with President Talat,” Minister Özgürgün told a group of diplomatic correspondents Friday during a round table meeting in Ankara.

Consultations between Turkey and northern Cyprus have increased as Talat has recently paid four official visits to Ankara.

While the Turkish government pushes the Turkish Cypriot administration to conclude a settlement immediately, a political crisis has shaken Nicosia.

Özgürgün, who refused to accompany Talat during one of his recent visits to Ankara, confirmed the existing problems.

“There are serious disagreements even among us. The Foreign Ministry in Ankara is also divided on which way to go. They have failed to display a clear stance. It is to the advantage of the Greek side,” Özgürgün said.

Özgürgün accused Talat of making too many concessions against the rights to political equality rights on the island.

“The question is how far we can step back from the sine quibus non. The settlement has become bogged down with the chapter on administration and power-sharing,” he said.

Özgürgün said the discussions on administration and power sharing have been ongoing for a month, adding that Turkey may lose its unilateral intervention rights based on 1960 agreements.

“I’m worried because [the rights] were basis by which Turkey protects Turkish Cypriots,” Özgürgün said. “It is very critical point. If we let the new situation get worse than it was in 1960, then why were thousands of our people killed by the Greeks?”

The currently discussed resolution does not grant the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community the right to veto any law in contrary to the Cyprus Republic system agreed upon in 1960, Özgürgün said.

Turks on the island are thus being forced to accept a settlement far below Annan parameters, according to Özgürgün. “That’s why the Greeks refused the Annan Plan. They refused any Turkish influence on political decisions.”

Ready for surprises in Cyprus

“Surprise developments may to happen [on the island],” Özgürgün further said. “A draft resolution may be set forth ahead of the upcoming presidential elections. People may go to a referendum to vote on a narrow decision package.”

Turkish Cypriots will go to presidential elections in April 2010. Before that, however, Ankara will push for an immediate settlement while pro-reunification Talat is still in power.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, meanwhile, will ask U.S. President Barack Obama to back an urgent solution to the 35-year-long conflict when he visits Washington on Dec. 7.


You don't say, Sherlock...


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php? ... 2009-12-04

[insan]

His misinterpretation of consociational democracy and demilitarization process...

Ozgurgun is a young politician completeley under influence of old guns of cold war era... a basket case.

[Malapapa]

His misinterpretation of consociational democracy and demilitarization process...

Ozgurgun is a young politician completeley under influence of old guns of cold war era... a basket case.

But he's panicking because he knows Turkey will lose right to intervene, correct?

[runaway]

Thanks for confirming Türkiye had the right to intervene south cypriot malakapa.

[insan]

His misinterpretation of consociational democracy and demilitarization process...

Ozgurgun is a young politician completeley under influence of old guns of cold war era... a basket case.

But he's panicking because he knows Turkey will lose right to intervene, correct?

Supposedly and eventually at the end of demilitarization process of Cyprus ...

It is not something new... it was a part of final Annan Plan that Özgurgün and his political party were against it.

[Malapapa]

Thanks for confirming Türkiye had the right to intervene south cypriot malakapa.

Why do I need to confirm it, runny-nose? It's in the abortion of a Treaty of Guarantee that we're trying to do away with, take-a-running-jump.

[Malapapa]

His misinterpretation of consociational democracy and demilitarization process...

Ozgurgun is a young politician completeley under influence of old guns of cold war era... a basket case.

But he's panicking because he knows Turkey will lose right to intervene, correct?

Supposedly and eventually at the end of demilitarization process of Cyprus ...

It is not something new... it was a part of final Annan Plan that Özgurgün and his political party were against it.

Was it? That Turkey would lose its right to intervene - (supposedly and eventually)?

[Oracle]

All part of the panic measures which will see Turkey kicked out of any EU accession talks (next week) and preparation for the EU to reclaim its territory from this illegal occupation.

Finally, we may see the realisation of what Makarios started ... the full Democratization of the 1960 Constitution which will give each individual ONE vote, and Turkey a one way ticket back to where they came from, never to darken these shores again ....

[insan]

His misinterpretation of consociational democracy and demilitarization process...

Ozgurgun is a young politician completeley under influence of old guns of cold war era... a basket case.

But he's panicking because he knows Turkey will lose right to intervene, correct?

Supposedly and eventually at the end of demilitarization process of Cyprus ...

It is not something new... it was a part of final Annan Plan that Özgurgün and his political party were against it.

Was it? That Turkey would lose it's right to intervene - (supposedly and eventually)?

Yes, in final Annan Plan there was a relevant part that citing depending on the circumstances and the opinions of concerned parties, the military issues would periodically be discussed, planned and decided what to do in the following years.

If i'm not mistaken the intervention right of guarantors would have been abolished when Turkey became an EU member.

[Malapapa]

I don't think this is what Ozgurgun is panicking about now though; that Turkey may lose its intervention rights... one day... depending on the circumstances... and the opinions of concerned parties... after discussion... if it became an EU member.

I think he's panicking because Turkey may lose its intervention rights straight away.