Some Support Talat and Some Do Not By Linda Cartwright At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Efforts to solve the Cyprus issue are being evaluated in different ways in Turkey. While the Turkish Government supports the Turkish Government supports the Turkish Cypriot President Talat’s efforts, the main opposition party (CHP) has criticized Talat after a long period.

Orders to the ambassadors from Babacan

Turkey’s Minister of foreign Affairs Ali Babacan emphasized that “As part of the UN”S established parameters they (Turkey) will continue to support the efforts to find and extensive solution to the Cyprus issue.”

In his speech during the opening of the Ambassador’s Conference on 15th July at the Bilkent Hotel in Ankara, Babacan touched on the Cyprus issue when he commented that providing the Turkish Cypriots security and supporting its economy while maintaining the balance and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean are the two main strategic targets of Turkey’s Cyprus politics.

“Sacrifices being wasted”

Meanwhile, the main opposition party GHP’s leader, Deniz Baykal, stated that President Mehmet Ali Talat and Greek Cypriot President Demetris Ghristofias have “come to an agreement concerning the future of a united Cyprus’s single sovereignty and single citizenship” and supported that “There can only be one conclusion of such an agreement; this means that Northern Cyprus will be annexed to the Greek Cypriot authority and the Cyprus Turkish citizens will be put under the Greek authority and reduced to a minority status.”

His evaluation of the latest developments in Cyprus was made during his party’s group meeting in the Turkish Grand National Assembly, when he also said: “Single sovereignty, whose sovereignty? Whose sovereignty in single government, North Cyprus’ sovereignty? What will happen to the TRNC, and Turkish Cypriot citizens when sovereignty and citizenship reduces to one? If this happens all the soldiers will leave and the Guarantor Agreement will not be valid.”

“Single sovereignty, whose sovereignty?”

The party leader continued to say: “This situation will end all the advantages gained from the self-sacrifices of the Turkish nation made since 1974 in one go, and Turkey’s important, strategic main supply road will be surrounded.”

Baykal stated that Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs do not say a word concerning this issue and that this is very sad, because this agreement is 100 percent contradictory to the Cyprus Politics’ basis revealed in the Nationals Security Council on April 24th, 2008. There were no statements from the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs on this issue he said.

Thanks to the United Nations Annan Plan, in April 2004, the European Union has made pledges toward lessening the economic isolation of northern Cyprus, which is of course entirely dependent on Turkey for financial, as well as other forms of aid. This pledge included both aid and trade, with 259 million euros in aid being offered.

“The tensions and political discussions can be solved. However our privileges in international relations which will be lost can not be returned. I invite everyone to be sensitive in this matter,” said CHP’s Chairman Baykal who supported that the period’s most important historical developments took place in Cyprus but that the media and the public authorities do not show an interest in this at all.

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