Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Turkish Cypriots' expectations from the European Union

"Turkish Cypriots' expectations from the European Union

In Short:

It has been more than a year since the Turkish Cypriots, responding to the calls of the international community and embracing the values of the EU integration process, convincingly voted in favor of the Annan Plan. The Union should accept that Cyprus, for the time being, is an unusual case of a federal bi-communal member state in which the central level of government had, by default, put itself into a situation of having zero jurisdiction in one entity and should not, therefore, let the Greek Cypriot Administration be a stumbling block for the economic development of Turkish Cypriots, says Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in an article published by the Turkish Policy Quarterly."

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