by All4114All » Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:37 pm
Merkel visit is no more than Geopolitics and with the growing threat of Turkey going east and not west, the continuation of EU (Germany and France) using Cyprus as a smoke screen to block its chapters. Germany would do whatever it could to block Turkey's-EU accession. The entire EU who is in financial crisis is weaker today than it was 7 years ago, while there is a country with a population of 75 million, geographical importance with mass amounts of energy, gas and oil pipelines (connecting Russia), your going to tell me EU would rather be standing behind 1 million people on an island? The Cyprus issue has become more a conflict between Turkey and forces that want to slow down Turkey’s growth than a clash between Turkish and Greek Cypriots. Hence Israel coming into the picture to give support to the south because it is concern of Turkey's east Mediterranean presence's.
So the T/C has all rights to be upset because Merkel did not even speak to any Turkish Cypriot officials and then she supports the ‘settlement’, if you don’t acknowledge the T/C officials then what ‘settlement’ do you support when you don’t even know who is on the other side of the fence.