Expatkiwi wrote:insan wrote:Anyway... There is already an international treaty that signed by all concerned parties which legally allows Turkish troops to stay in Cyprus.. the excessive number of Turkish troops in TRNC arise from the defacto situation; unresolved Cyprus problem...
There r laws and regulations in TRNC constitution related with Turkish troops...
Under the ongoing, unchanged defacto situation, there's no need for TRNC and Turkey to sign any other military treaties...
Since 1974, TC-Turkish officials reiterated for thousands of times that only the mutually accepted number of Turkish troops would stay in Cyprus after a comprehensive solution found to the Cyprus problem...
Hope it helps, Expat... and anti-partitionist Tim...
Insan, Turkey not signing any military Treaty of Alliance, or a Status of Forces Agreement with a government it obstensively recognizes as sovereign gives credence to the argument that the TRNC is a puppet state under tacit Turkish military rule. TRNC's utter reliance on Turkey for its links to the outside world, and for underwriting its economy also doesn't help its sovereignty claim either. I know that the current geopolitical situation forces TRNC to rely on Turkey, but if its at the cost of undermining the TRNC's raison d'existance, then it might as well annex itself to Turkey.
I support TRNC because I believe that it is the surest way to preserve the Turkish Cypriot populace, and its culture. If however Turkey is not being mindful of this, then its current overt military presence and Anatolian migration policy is going to do the TRNC far more harm than good, which puts the TRNC between the rock and a hard place in every sense of the word. If Turkey is an ally of TRNC, then let Turkey conduct itself like an ally: as a protector power mindful of the government of the territory it is in.
I agree with u expat but things r very complicated in Cyprus especially for TRNC and Turkey who changed it's 27th government since 1974 beside take into account the domestic problems of Turkey u will see that every Turkish government had abt 1.1 years to make plans abt Cyprus and maintain it...
In this geo-political location with a historical background like ours(TCs and Turks); things r not easy... there r hundreds of internal and external self-interested poltical groups and even countries that try to pull/destablise Turkey, TRNC and their people in direction of their interests..
When u add these the incapability, illiteracy, self-interested attitudes of TRNC politicians things move very slowly and insufficiently...
There r lots of thing to be done but under such cicimstances and such politicians; u can't expect too much in a very short time...
