"The way Soyer sees it
By SIMON BAHCELI
SIMON BAHCELI sits down with the Turkish Cypriot leader on the way ahead
‘PRIME Minister’ Ferdi Sabit Soyer’s Republican Turkish Party (CTP) came to power out of a widespread belief among Turkish Cypriots that no good would come to their part of the island without an end to decades of economic and political isolation. After almost four decades, Turkish Cypriots, particularly the young, were desperate to join a rapidly globablising world.
The CTP’s success stemmed from the apparent bankruptcy of then-leader Rauf Denktash’s quest for a sovereign and independent north Cyprus, and his refusal to accept that most Turkish Cypriots would rather unite with the EU than Turkey; and that likewise, Turkey preferred to unite with the EU than merge with the mini-state it had created in the north. "
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