TURKPULSE No:111
THE TURKISH
CYPRIOT PEOPLE’S REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT
TURKPULSE No:111
THE TURKISH
CYPRIOT PEOPLE’S REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT
At an impeccably free, transparent and democratic election on Sunday (14th), the Turkish Cypriot people proved their maturity as an independent people and showed the way out of an international impasse that has been going on for the last 40 years since the Greek side attempted to throw into the dustbin the validity of the 1959 London and Zurich agreements and the 1960 Guarantee agreement on Cyprus. As it is impossible to unilaterally and arbitrarily scrap a valid international agreement, the Greeks themselves suffered the most from this unwise attempt when Turkey, in July 1974, used its treaty right to intervene under the Guarantee Agreement with a surprisingly successful overseas military operation. The TRNC (Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) that was consequently founded in November 1983 lived through the most critical days of its survival in recent months and on 14 December 2003 the Turkish Cypriot people put an end to it all with a tacit reply to the plans engineered through years long toil against their survival with heavy external pressures. For the details of this unique occurrence in world history which “confused” the American coordinator Weston, as well as his bosses’ national interest calculations over oil and natural gas and what to expect for the future, please see the article below.