Lordo wrote:Sotos wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:If a united, sovereign Cyprus was accepted internationally, including by Turkey, what legimate excuse would Turkey have for invading?
We had that in 1960. An excuse was created regardless. How legitimate the excuse is doesn't seem to bother Turkey that much.You feel safer with 40,000 Turkish troops in the north rather than than 6,000 in 2011, set to fall after that? OK.
With the 1960 agreements there were only a few 100s of Turkish troops. Did this stop Turkey from invading in 1974?
What is most important for our security is to have stability and for Turkey not to have any good excuse to invade. With a bad solution it is not only our security that will worsen but also democracy will end, and Cyprus will become a worst place overall... less European and more Turkish with Erdogan being the puppet-master of the whole island.
so if the reason for the intervention in 1974 i so weak. the overthow of a government and being replced by a known terggish cypriot murderer was a poor excuse, perhaps you can use both your brain cells and tell us what you consider a legitemate reason for terggy to intervene?
go on I dare you. tell us.
Samson didn't kill any TCs. Unlike the Turkish Generals, who made 3 coups in Turkey, and have killed 10s of thousands of Kurds and 1000s of Cypriots.