Kikapu wrote:YFred wrote:1. You keep harping on about 70 million turks and trade with them. Turks can produce evrything cheaper and better than TRNC roc or even Greece. So to even think it never mind posing such an idea show how much you undertand.
So what you are saying is, 70+ million Turks (almost 75 million) at $700+ Billion Dollar economy (GDP), 18th in the world at $10,000 per capita as very proudly stated by Erdogan as to why the EU needs Turkey more than Turkey needing the EU, they can't even afford to but products from the north. If that is the case, how on earth is Turkey going to buy anything from the EU when their labour cost alone is 5-10 times higher than they are in Turkey. So what you are saying is, the EU won't be able to sell anything to Turkey and if so, why does Turkey thinks EU needs them more than other way around.? Perhaps the EU needs the Turkish cheap labour to produce it's products and sell them at a premium in the EU by paying cheap labour cost to Turkey for their efforts. The EU has that in Turkey now, so why make them into a member.?? Also tell us what does the north have to sell to the EU that the EU can’t get from the south and also why can’t the north sell it’s products through the RoC, because some are just doing that as we speak. The reason why Turkey wants free trade for the north is so that she can stop paying the north every year to keep it going. If the north were able to trade freely, Turkey will just cut the funds, therefore the north will be back to where they were financially, which is nowhere. In any case, free trade is not in the works nor the direct flights because those would be detrimental for the settlement talks. Lets face it,
“if you can get the milk for free, why would you want to buy the cow”. It doesn’t make sense, does it.?.
YFred wrote:2. If Turkey ever gets into EU, god help Greece and roc, their industry will be decimated.
No, not really. The EU members will get other cheap countries to produce their products since Turkey will become too costly for them to be made in Turkey as a EU member. No doubt some Turkish manufacturing industries will suffer as a result..
3. Turkey has always had a plan for a vote to prove to the world that it's the GC that were intransigent, but Denktash grabbed the tiger by the tail and wouldn't do what was best for the TCs, hence eventually they stopped supporting him. So he lost.
OK.!!!! I don't know how that is relevant to what we are talking about, but thanks for the info all the same.! As it happens, the leadership in the north are still not doing what's best for the TCs but only what is best for themselves and Turkey, so nothing has changed, have they.?.!
YFred wrote:4. If Talat had designs on two seperate states, he would not be at he negotiation, you just do not know the man or his team. Unification with BBF has always been his target.
Well, if he as his own man and not a puppet perhaps he can come to an agreement since BBF is on the table as a Federation and not as a Confederation. I don't see him embracing a BBF Federation very much, do you.?
YFred wrote:5. This idea that the TCs would trade with goods from stolen lands is just bullshit and you know it, because the GCs have been doing it since 1963 long before the Turks arrival.
This is what happens when a country has the legality and world recognition. There are certain benefits that go with such recognition and as long as the UN says that the north is an illegal entity, that's how it will remain which receives NO benefits, legally or economically, officially anyway.
YFred wrote:6. This idea that It's against true democracy and international law is another one of your bullshit ideas, because wars are fought all the time and there are losers and winners with no redress from courts. Talk to the Palestinians.
Wars is it now.? Who declared war on anyone.? I thought it was just a "peace operation" under the guidance of Turkey's guarantor power to restore the RoC's government in the event. So it is war now and that the RoC lost and Turkey won. Is that it.? OK, so why doesn't Turkey then annex the north as a trophy of her victory and do as she likes with it, because you are saying the north now belongs to Turkey which also means it does not belong to the TCs either, since it was not the TCs who invaded in an undeclared war and won the north. That being the case, The TCs have ZERO leg to stand on to demand any kind of recognition or even free trade with anyone. Thanks for the clarification on the war part, because I really thought Turkey came to bring peace to the islands people as a guarantor.!
YFred wrote:7. As to partition if the talks fail or the GCs vote no again, time will tell. We can only guess, but the time is not on GCs side any more. Judging by what leaders in general are saying, Cyprus is no longer a problem. You can see that by the way UN treats their presence in Cyprus and how they portray their soldiers as wasted manpower especially when they are needed elsewhere.
I do not think anything will be offered to be voted on unless both leaders are assured that the people from both sides will say YES this time around. Don't think you can present the south with another AP for them to vote on so that you can get another OXI. That will not happen, because Christofias has few aces in his sleeve to use against the TCs if the north insists on undemocratic measures and that is they will also put in the referendum that all the Turkish Troops leave as well as all of the settlers and that every GC having the right to return to their homes. Now lets see how fast the north will say OXI on those issues. As for the UN staying or leaving, how does it change anything.? Anyway, they are not leaving despite what Turkey says at the UNSC level.
YFred wrote:8. Sooner rather than later they will pull out.
As soon as there is peace and all the foreign troops pull out, so will they and good riddance to all of them.!