Cyprus-Forum.com

[Viewpoint]

This is just a sign of things to come.

If you can explain to me how "recognition" of the "trnc" will help Turkey's EU accession I'd like to know.

Bear in mind...

Turkey: improve relations with Cyprus or no EU

http://www.euronews.net/2010/11/09/turk ... -or-no-eu/

The EU will no longer have the thorn of a divided Cyprus in its side and Turkey will then recognize the GC south.

[SKI-preo]

One big complication Mr Asheron - ALL OF CYPRUS enterred the EU. Mr Straw can go suck his Kalamaki

[ZoC]

Cyprus is a GREEK isle...

I happen to like Italy and Italian culture but that doesn’t make me hallucinate that Cyprus is an Italian island!

greek a in non turkish or british you prick. Stamata tes malakies sou re, hade na se dw.

i prefer french... where d'you think la Narqua, le Missole and le Vegosia get their names from?

[Hermes]

This is just a sign of things to come.

If you can explain to me how "recognition" of the "trnc" will help Turkey's EU accession I'd like to know.

The EU will no longer have the thorn of a divided Cyprus in its side and Turkey will then recognize the GC south.

Don't be daft. The EU has already accepted the ROC as sovereign government of the whole of the island into the EU. The terms of the ROC'S accession prohibit recognition, or even direct trade to the north. You think the EU would agree to partition a member state? Against that member's wishes? It just won't happen.

Besides, the ROC will not accept partition - no chance - so will block Turkey's EU entry for good. So the question remains: how does partition of the island help Mr. Straw to get Turkey into the EU? It would have precisely the opposite effect. It would permanently block Turkey's accession. This is all just silly fantasy that stops Turkey from accepting the inevitable.

[Get Real!]

For an official reaction to the European Commission’s annual progress report on enlargement policy, euronews asked Turkey’s chief negotiator, in Ankara, Egemen Bağış.


Bağış: I think that rather than assessing the report on its own, it’s appropriate to compare it with previous reports. This is not the first but the thirteenth report the European Commission has rendered on Turkey. These have been published since 1998.
Past reports made mention of unsolved crimes. Today, there is no such mention.

http://www.euronews.net/2010/11/09/turk ... accession/

Unbelievable!


euronews: Does Turkey intend to make any kind of gesture on Cyprus?

Bağış: Listen, at the UN summit in Switzerland in January 2003, Turkey’s Prime Minister [Recep Tayyip Erdogan] told the Secretary-General [then], Kofi Annan, that both Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus would always be one step ahead of southern Cyprus and Greece. At the moment we are not one step ahead; we are a thousand steps ahead.

[SKI-preo]

If you think the EU blundered by admitting Cyprus, you are dreaming. The only Turkeys to enter the EU will be the type you roast or a modernized Turkey which is democratic, has removed its illegal settlers and troops from ethnically cleansed Cyprus and no longer fanatically fascist and Islamic. In other words just the ornithological variety of Turkey has a chance in the next 50 years.

[bsharpish]

Why is anybody listening to what Jack Straw says? He is not in the British Government and probably busy looking after his drug addict son!

PreparationH BS as usual.

Without attempting to sound like an islamaphobe ............
His constituency is predominantly Pakistani Muslim isn't it ?????

[Hermes]

At the moment we are not one step ahead; we are a thousand steps ahead.

So far ahead they've fallen off a cliff...

[bsharpish]

UKPollingReport characterises the constituency of Blackburn as "a mix of deprived inner-city wards dominated by Muslim voters, white working class areas and Conservative voting suburbs"

[Hermes]

Actually the reason for Jack Straw's recent outburst is to be found in his "mission" to Cyprus as Foreign Secretary in 2006 when he insisted on meeting Talat in his offices. As a result, the visit was downgraded in the ROC to the extent that he was snubbed by Pres. Papadopoulos, met by a lower-ranking Foreign Ministry official, was whisked from the airport immediately and wasn't joined for a joint news conference by then-Foreign Minister George Iacovou.

This happened shortly after Straw went to Ankara to be awarded a prize from a Turkish organisation for his "contribution to Turkey’s EU accession course".

Enough said...