DT. wrote:YFred wrote:Malapapa wrote:Does ATOL (UK Air Travel Organisers' Licensing) and ABTA (UK Travel Association) cover tour operators to the self-styled ‘TRNC’ – that part of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus illegally invaded, occupied and settled by Turkey?
The vast majority of property in the ‘TRNC’ area, over which the Republic of Cyprus maintains legal jurisdiction, rightfully belongs to Cypriots displaced by Turkey’s invasion. This includes most holiday accommodation.
Following the recent high profile Orams case, holidaymakers to the ‘TRNC’ and their tour operators now face the real prospect of legal claims for trespass, and these claims are enforceable against them in the UK and throughout the EU.
The ATOL and ABTA names lend considerable credibility to tour operators and the holidays they offer. I would have thought neither ATOL nor ABTA would want their good names associated with operators selling holidays that can unwittingly land the public in expensive foreign litigation.
What do others think?
ATOL
http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=27[email protected]ABTA
http://www.abta.com/contact-us
You do yourselves no favour with just thinking about this never mind taking action. You are driving the TCs towards Turkey. Don't ever say you haven't been warned.
If your intentions are to starve the TCs to submission, it will not work. You will lose 37.5% of cyprus if not more.
I'd steer clear of percentages and decimal points if I were you.
I found this article last night. I wondered if Yfreds reference to 'that percentage' came from here?
I highlight it in red.
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MICHAEL STEPHEN
Michael Stephen is Master of Laws (LL M) of the Inner Temple Barrister and a former member of
the British House of Commons. He is also member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Chatham House and author of The Cyprus Question, London, 1997.
The crux of the current Cyprus problem is not the failure of Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots to
reach agreement, but the internationalisation of the issue, and the failure of the international
community to recognise the enormity of the injustice done for nearly forty years to the Turkish
Cypriots by the Greek Cypriots and by the international community itself. The failure of the
international community to acknowledge the reality of Cyprus and to refrain from seeking to impose
its own framework for a solution, starting from the fiction that there is today only one state and only
one government in the island, has made a Cyprus settlement impossible. Until this international
attitude changes, no amount of talks or diplomatic pressure will succeed or will deserve to succeed.
If the Turkish Cypriots are to engage in further talks, these must be with the Americans and, to a
lesser extent, with the British and the EU, who have the power to change the international status quo.
It is a fallacy to suppose that the UN has any substantive role to play, but if realistic international
conditions were to be established, talks under UN auspices could be resumed with reasonable
prospects of success.
The fundamental cause of the problem is that the international community has been, and still is,
willing to overlook a systematic attempt at genocide by the Greek Cypriots in 1963 and again in
1964, 1967 and 1974, and the destruction by the Greek Cypriots in 1963 of the republic which was
established by the 1960 Constitution and guaranteed by international Treaty. They have also been
willing to overlook the fact that for 11 years after 1963 the Turkish Cypriots were driven from their
homes, farms and businesses, and squeezed into defended enclaves comprising
only three percent of
the island, deprived of the basic necessities of modern life - all this despite the existence of a solemn
international guarantee and UN troops actually in Cyprus since 1964.
Greek Cypriot policy after 1963 was summarised as follows in Fileleftheros on 20th September
1992:
"We the Greek Cypriots are now in full control of the government. We do not have the
Vice-President with his veto or the three Turkish Cypriot Ministers in it. All the Ministers are
Greeks. Our government is the only one recognised internationally - why should we bring the
Turkish Cypriots back in? The Turkish Cypriots today control only 3% of the land. They have no
rich resources and they are living through difficult times from an economic point of view. They will
ultimately have to accept our point of view - or go."
