Kikapu wrote:Bir, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Turkey recognising the government of the RoC between 1963 and 1974, and if so, this is the government that Turkey should have strived to replace after the coup of '74 with the TCs returning to their posts in the government, because despite the 13 point proposals by Makarios, they had not been changed. But no doubt, Denktash was never going to accept Turkey supporting the reinstatement of the RoC government with or without the TC element, or else Küçük and Denktash would not have refuse the request made by Inönü for them to go back to the government after the 1963 problems. The response from the duo was, “they would rather move to Turkey than go back to the RoC government”.!
I think there was de facto recognition,Kikapu...Turkey had her ambassador in the Turkish Cypriot enclave in Nicosia,so officially did not recognise the RoC government as legitimate...If Turkey wanted the TCs to return to the Republic i doubt that Denktas or Kuchuk could have resisted for long...On the surface at least,this gives credibility to GC claims that Turkey had other ideas for Cyprus,put into her head by the British and the USA no doubt...