Responding to Chancellor Merkel Erdoghan yesterday said: " Turkey will not return a single gram of Cyprus".
On the same day Eroglu demanded that each constituent state should have the power to sign international agreements.
So what the hell are we negotiating and why are we still insisting on defining the goal as FEDERAL? The other side obviously is hellbent on partition with no return of territory and will agree to a CONFEDERAL solution at best.
Predictably some here, notably Bananiot, Bir, Deniz, will rush to assure me that this is all political grandstanding. How is the clear statement about not returning one gram of Cyprus get reconciled with grandstanding? Where does this statement leave the TCs who supposedly are free to negotiate as "an independent entity"?
To the above add moves to take the Famagusta issue to Turkish courts and have ALL property in the new city of Varosi declared Evkaf land and deny the rights of the city's inhabitants.
We must wake up and realise who and what we are dealing with.