Demonax wrote:bill cobbett wrote:
Naturally Occupied Varosi won't be the end of things for many, many of us... there will still remain the reclamation of places like Morphou and the Karpas and all places in-between.
... and this much wider campaign will be helped once the Varoshiotes are able to return cos for the first time they'll be able to give the world a first-hand and close-up account of the levels of destruction and thefts caused by the Turkish Occupier to that town, rather than the from a distance, from the other side of a fence view that we've had for nearly 40 years.
I'm with bill on this one. The issue of the return of Varosha is separate from a wider settlement. In fact, its whole point is to open up the possibility of a settlement by obliging Turkey to show good will. It doesn’t in itself change the status of the ROC. In fact it strengthens it by forcing Turkey to accept the Ankara Protocol and obliges the occupied areas to trade through Famagusta port under EU supervision. It allows the TCs to trade legally with the EU without compromising the sovereignty of the ROC.
And for that reason I think Turkey will reject a deal. Because Erdogan isn’t interested in the sovereignty of Cyprus but in domination and legalised partition. That has always been their aim.
Excellent post if you don't mind BillC saying so Demon.
The other thing the less idiotic and more more devious amongst would have appreciated weeks ago about this "deal" was that Turkey would never have shown the good will that Demon refers to.
Turkey ... along with its puppet "trnc" , as well as the likes of VP and Vordo, were 100% certain to turn it down.
They were bound to show the same Bad Will that we've seen for 60+ years... didn't we all know that, FFS...!!!
Further, hasn't it been a sorely-missed chance to show some Unity knowing full well that the proposal was a no-risk one cos it was bound to be turned down...???