Bananiot wrote:Bananiot wrote:Bananiot wrote:Hermes wroteThat's why I posted it. I have no problems with the UN quote you posted either. What it doesn't advocate is a confederation or permanent derogations or political inequality. Unfortunately, Turkey is clearly not sticking to the UN guidelines. This is widely understood, isn't it?
Well, I am genuinely glad you said the above. BBF is not widely understood nor is it supported by most of the GCs writing in this forum.
Unfortunately most GCs are only too aware that Turkey has chosen to interpret BBF, to use Rauf Denktash's expression, as "dismemberment": a confederation of what is actually two protectorates, so that Turkey can assure itself full control in the north and co-management of the entire island of Cyprus.
The reason for this is clear. In a European environment, a BBF as the Turks conceive and pursue it (read, partition) cannot survive, i.e., hedging two "sovereign" states on the island, ghettoizing two "ethnically pure" populations, without freedom of communication and movement of goods and people. Thus, the bi-zonality of the Turkish way constitutes the negation of everything that Europe has conquered since the time of the French Revolution, and, of course, since the founding of the EC and the EU.