Cyprus Financial Crisis: Turkey & Reintegration Forgotten?
Posted: 03/21/2013 12:19 pm
Will Turkey support and Cypriot Turks be expected to reintegrate into a unified Cyprus if the Kremlin is handed even a bigger role in the economic future of the Island and the exploitation of its natural gas reserves? The recent financial crisis has not infected the part of Cyprus under the control of Turkish Cypriots and effectively defended by Ankara. Now that an EU-backed bailout has been voted down by their Parliament, Greek Cypriot leaders have turned to another more recent patron, Russia, for help and in return are offering ever closer economic and political links to Moscow.
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