Turkey & Cyprus
Turkey & Cyprus
How can this issue be resolved?
- appleton
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RE: Turkey & Cyprus
Sorry for the bump. No replies here so...
Turkish side of Cyprus isn't recognised by the UK. Greek side is.
Who invaded the Island (and took half)? It was the Turk's? No?
Turkey doesn't want to give back half of Cyprus and Greece is not going to co-operate unless it gets the whole island back. Nobody wants to budge again a situation that will stand still for the next 30 years
My opinion
Turkish side of Cyprus isn't recognised by the UK. Greek side is.
Who invaded the Island (and took half)? It was the Turk's? No?
Turkey doesn't want to give back half of Cyprus and Greece is not going to co-operate unless it gets the whole island back. Nobody wants to budge again a situation that will stand still for the next 30 years

My opinion
"Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back" - John Maynard Keynes
RE: Turkey & Cyprus
That's right. A deadlock. A deadlock it will remain and I think if the EU expansion continues they will sort this problem out. 

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RE: Turkey & Cyprus
There we are! Thank Brussels for the EU 

"Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back" - John Maynard Keynes
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Turks were always arch enemies of the Europeans. How ironic it is to grant them membership to EU? 500 years of massacring, forcible conversions and abduction of Balkan Europeans by Turks forgotten in 5 seconds.
Meanwhile I won't be forgetting this:

Meanwhile I won't be forgetting this:

Enough of (ZA)Nu Labor. BNP is the only real alternative.
RE: Turkey & Cyprus
Never seen that painting before, what does it illustrate?
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RE: Turkey & Cyprus
[quote=Per]
Never seen that painting before, what does it illustrate?
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It is a very famous painting known as "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire" by Ilya Repin. To find out more click on that image.
The painting is based on the reply sent by the Russians and Ukranians in 1676 to Turkish Sultan.
Never seen that painting before, what does it illustrate?
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It is a very famous painting known as "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire" by Ilya Repin. To find out more click on that image.
The painting is based on the reply sent by the Russians and Ukranians in 1676 to Turkish Sultan.
Enough of (ZA)Nu Labor. BNP is the only real alternative.