This is the Turkish position today:
- Rotating Presidency to be on a 3:2 ratio.
Thats 3 years GC followed by 2 years TC
Both President and VP have right of veto
- Federal Cabinet made of 7GC's and 5TC's
- 2 separate Flight Information Regions on the island
- Turkish nationals wanting to reside on the island will enjoy the four basic freedoms.
- separate jurisdictions over coast and EEZ.
- Legislature: The proposal underlined that while representation in the senate will be on a communal basis, at the House of Representatives representation will be on the basis of “internal citizenship status.” Thus, a Greek Cypriot who might reside in the Turkish Cypriot constituent state will not be able to be elected either to the Senate or the House from the Turkish Cypriot contingencies.
There is more but I'll begin with these ones.
The GC side has moved from all its former positions and accepted a rotating presidency for the 1st time on a ratio of 4 years GC 2 years TC. The response was for the Turkish side to move away from the rotating presidency at first and move to a council presidency. (thus deleting any chance of a strong central power in the federation much like the Annan Plan) The Turkish side has now "returned to the rotating presidency with one small amendment, a ratio of 3:2.
COnclusion:
The red line cross by the President for the sake of goodwill with rotating presidency is returned with an amended ratio from 4:2 to 3:2.
The GC side then proceeded to offer up the concession of 50,000 settlers remaining. Thats 10,000 more than the Annan Plan did.
Result: The Turkish side demanded that ALL Turkish citizens should have the right to live, work, stay and move about freely in Cyprus.
Conclusion we say 50,000, Turkey responds with 70 million.
Hang your heads in shame GC's, we are the intransigent ones. [/b]