"Mr Talat: please take down the bridge and open Ledra
I WAS at a loss for words when Bekir Azgin, a close friend of mine who is a professor at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, recently asked me: “Have you noticed that suddenly everyone’s forgotten about the opening of Ledra Street? Why do you think that is?”
I must confess I had a hard time coming up with a satisfactory answer.
In commenting about the Ledra Street issue in this column before Christmas, I had pointed out that if the government could not open a checkpoint a few metres wide it would be ridiculous to expect it to solve the Cyprus problem.
As soon as the Turkish Cypriots began construction work on their side, it was clear President Papadopoulos had every intention of stonewalling this effort. So irrational was his reaction that he went so far as to say the Turkish army was advancing into no-man’s land."
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