Lordo wrote:Turkish Yeni Aktuel magazine (30.08.12-12.09.12), journalist Alper Gormus reports that the policy of the Turkish side for Cyprus
dated 8 November 2004 from the diaries of former Commander of the Naval Forces Ozden Ornek:
'Visit of Ambassador Baki Ilkin? Mr Baki is a person whom we know as family, our families know each other. He was departing because he had been appointed to the United Nations and he came to say goodbye. Because he was the actual responsible deputy undersecretary during the Cyprus negotiations, he felt the need to tell me about the developments. That is, he wanted to explain to me what strategy they were implementing in the way towards the referendum and told me the following:
In any case, the Annan Plan could not be accepted by the Greek Administration of South Cypriot because of the issues it was including. It could not be accepted because [it provided for] their abandoning the state and reestablishing a new state, the continuation of the existence of the Turkish army and securing the return to their properties with a delay. The risk we have taken was not a big one. We started working by accepting that that if we say yes they will say no. We have informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that our aim was not to solve the Cyprus problem, but to turn it into an obstacle in the way towards the EU. In the end our assumption came true and the Greek Administration of South Cyprus said no'.
These lines tell us that: 'during the period of the Annan Plan in 2004 as well, our policy in Cyprus was that the 'non-solution is a solution'?"
you see they accepted it knowing the greek cypriots would say yes. they did not want it at all.
Nice try by Mr. Alper Gormus to present a Turkish all out defeat as a triumph of Turkish diplomacy. How very Turkish of him.
The truth is that the Turks believed that they and their patrons had set the prefect trap: If we voted yes they would dominate over Cyprus and all their crimes would be legitimized, while if we voted NO then Cyprus would not be admitted to the EU and the illegal regime of the north would be legitimized. Well, their trap snapped and caught their noses while they were setting it.
Face it. Tiny little Cyprus (or rather, the GREEK Greek Cypriots), defied your mama, the USA, Britain, NATO and all the other bullies who were trying to terrorize us into voting yes. And ridiculed you all. I will never forget the triumphant declarations of Erdogan and Gul when Annan Plan 5 was finalised. But, I will not feel greater joy till I die, than the one I felt when I saw the faces of those same two clowns (and all their friends and Patrons) when the result of our referendum came out. And when I heard their hateful declarations and their threats and their cries about the poor TCs having been "left out into the cold" and felt their panic and their desperation from having seen their dreams and their aspirations being shuttered. By the GREEK Greek Cypriots who voted NO! Boy, they must have felt very stupid after having boasted day after day for months, prior to the referendums, about the great triumph of the Turkish foreign policy huh? Who was it who said that revenge is a dish to be eaten cold? Boy! Was he right! I am still enjoying it after so many years.
