Viewpoint wrote:3 years of negotiations lets see if the GCs will leave the table, Erdoğan has clearly stated the time has come to sort your act out and find a solution by year end and go to referendum by Jan/Feb or forget this union thing because we will go our own way.
Rise to the challenge or walk GCs.
Erdogan is not going anywhere, and neither is the "trnc". Turkey does not want a clean cut 2-state solution. Turkey wants a 2-state solution loosely connected together through a confederation. It is the ONLY way Turkey will ever have a chance to take control of the WHOLE of the island in due course. That's what the AP was all about and that's why Erdogan keeps bringing the AP up over and over again, just as all the NeoPartitionist do so often here on the CF. Had Turkey wanted a 2-state clean cut partition, she wouldn't have waited this long to threaten the RoC with it. She would have done it long before the RoC became an EU member. Erdogan is rolling his last hope dice, in the hopes that the RoC will panic and accept a AP type of a plan before next year when the RoC will take over the EU. Erdogan is on his very last hope, hence all the threats, for not returning any land back and that he will promote for recognition for the "trnc". The truth is, Erdogan does not want a recognition for the "trnc" because he doesn't want just the "trnc", but the rest of the 63% also.
Anyone who buys into Erdogan's idle threats will need their heads examined. Anyone who takes Erdogan seriously in believing that he can deliver what he says he can deliver, is deluded just as much as Erdogan already is. The talks will continue as long as Eroglu shows up to "shoot the shit" with Christofias (or his replacement) until when the RoC will take over the EU Presidency in which the RoC will have the full attention of the EU (and Turkey) for whole six months to discuss the Cyprus problem without any more negotiations taking place in that time period, unless of course, Turkey and the "trnc" are ready to discuss a BBF settlement based on Democracy, Human Rights, International Law and the EU Principles. If they are not, the RoC will continue doing what they have been doing for the last 37 years, while Turkey waiting at the EU door trying to get in by still throwing temper tantrums to be accepted into the EU club with his 16th century Ottoman mentality rather than reforming to western values in the 21st century. The "trnc" would remain the "corrupted society" that is today, thanks to the so called leaders for the TCs in the north, still unrecognised and still embargoed . The TCs can thank their "host", Mr. Erdogan, for they not having the life they deserve.
