President Derviş Eroğlu has once again hit back at GreekCypriot leader

No1Doyen


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31/05/2011 21:05

http://www.brtk.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28648:erolu-says-thorny-issues-in-the-talks-remain-unresolved&catid=5:kktc&Itemid=28



President Derviş Eroğlu has once again hit back at the Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias who claimed that Turkey was his cullocutor.

Evaluating the Cyprus negotiations process during a visit paid to him yesterday, President Derviş Eroğlu said that discussions on the Economy Chapter had neared completion.

“We have failed to recieve a positive response to our demand in the EU Chapter concerning primary law. There are convergences on the issue of internal security, one of the areas where discussions can be closed” he added.

No1Doyen


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31/05/2011 21:06

The President also said that it was difficult to say that they had reached a point of agreement on the chapters of “Territory”, “property” and “Goverance and Power sharing”.



Stating that the chapters of Territory and Security will be the last to be discussed, Eroğlu said “We are seeking ways of reaching convergences and agreements on easier chapters. However it would be hard to say that we could reach an agreement tomorrow.”

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Message Posted:
31/05/2011 21:19

Ah well, at least they are still talking ..

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
31/05/2011 21:24

Msg 3

More like a free jolly on expenses for travel & fine dining knowing nothing will ever be achieved!



Richard

andre514


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Message Posted:
31/05/2011 23:29

it seems to me that the momentum to keep these talks at least ticking over

is coming from a turkey that still wants to be seen as engaging with the outside world

...or the west if you prefer to call it that



turkey's strategy has been foursquare to develop its oriental business interests:

think baku-london railway project, syria/iran, central asia, china, the general moslem world:

while at the same time, preserving its historical western interests intact



but displaying any "weakness" by creeping away from cyprus is most probably not part

of the package

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Message Posted:
01/06/2011 12:35

Dear Andre514



Most of us realise that TR has it's own reasons for wanting to keep a presence in CY ( 'to protect it's soft under belly')



It's all part of the business of negotiating from big numbers to smaller ones

andre514


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Message Posted:
02/06/2011 01:51

message 6 mark:



an uncharacteristically obscure post, you may have to do your "explaining"



as regards "soft underbelly" um...that was surely a choice phrase of churchill's

the british equivalent of rauf dentash?



but wasn't winston also the very chap who once sent thousands of anzacs to their

fate in the botched dardanelles campaign against underestimated turkey in 1915?



but I digress



surely one of us believes turkey intervened in 1974 to protect their people...

the other of us says the turks invaded in 1974 as part of an international conspiracy?