{"id":3497,"date":"2024-03-07T18:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:11:01","slug":"eroglu-north-must-embrace-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=3497","title":{"rendered":"Eroglu: North must , \u2018embrace reality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Turkish Cypriot Leader Dervish Eroglu said on Thursday the north must \u201cembrace the reality\u201d<\/strong> that the Greek Cypriot side never intended to accept the Turkish Cypriot side\u2019s red lines to solve the Cyprus problem.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Kibris Postasi, he said \u201cwe must all therefore embrace the reality of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus \u2026 and find ways to glorify our state and leave some of our problems behind.\u201dFor this reason, he said, \u201cI do not think [United Nations Envoy Maria Angela] Holguin\u2019s efforts will yield positive results<\/strong>.\u201dHe pointed out that she had met with former President Nicos Anastasiades and his own successor Mustafa Akinci, and added, \u201cif she wants to meet me, my door is open. I would be happy to tell her the facts.\u201dThose facts, he said, are that \u201cthe Greek Cypriot leadership and the Greek Cypriot church have never accepted Turkey\u2019s status as a guarantor power.<\/strong>\u201cThey did not and will not accept our active participation in a government, our right to a veto, or a rotating presidency. Neither Turkey nor the TRNC can accept an agreement which does not include these things.\u201dHe then touched on the issue of international embargoes which have been placed on the north, saying they \u201cdo not help\u201d in resolving the Cyprus problem.\u201cThis situation is a source of shame for the world and for the Greek Cypriots<\/strong>, who claim to be civilised and to respect human rights,\u201d he said.He added that there has been no improvement in the situation or relaxation of embargoes despite promises to the contrary, saying \u201cunfortunately, the EU and the world forgot the promises they made to the Turkish Cypriots so they would say yes before the 2004 referendum.\u201cUnfortunately, they continued to punish us while rewarding the Greek Cypriots<\/strong>.\u201dHe added, \u201cwe are Turks, and we know well the realities of the world. They will not be willing to give us our rights. We will have to take them.\u201dTo this end, he said \u201cGreek Cypriots and Greece saw Cyprus as a Greek island yesterday, and they see Cyprus as a Greek island today.\u201cAs [late UN Secretary-general] Kofi Annan stated in his report to the UN Security Council after the 2004 referendum, they do not want to share the island\u2019s administration and wealth with us<\/strong>.\u201dHe also poured scorn on the five permanent UN Security Council members, the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom, saying they \u201care not acting fairly due to their own concerns and interests, despite the Greek Cypriots\u2019 wrong attitudes. They do not accept our rights.\u201dHe then moved on to reflect on the post-Annan plan negotiation processes, touching first on the period when former Turkish Cypriot Leader Mehmet Ali Talat and late President Demetris Christofias were interlocutors.\u201cWhen the Talat-Christofias negotiations started in 2008, there were two leftists, two comrades, two supporters of a federal solution who met for about two years<\/strong>. People said they expected a solution in a short time, but they did not get anywhere,\u201d he said.Speaking of his own time in office between 2010 and 2015, he said he was the victim of a \u201cmajor international smear campaign\u201d after he was elected.\u201cIt was claimed that I did not really want a federal solution and that negotiations to that end would collapse within weeks. However, as soon as I was elected, I wrote to the UN Secretary-general that I was committed to the common ground reached up to that date,\u201d he said.Despite the goodwill he said he had expressed, he said he did not find Christofias to be as committed to finding a solution as he had hoped.\u201cIt was clear at our first meeting that Christofias\u2019 intention was not to reach an agreement but to exit the process by blaming the Turkish Cypriot side<\/strong>,\u201d he said.He added that the Greek Cypriot side \u201cresorted to various tricks\u201d with the aim of sinking negotiations, but that \u201cmy determined attitude prevented these tricks from being successful.\u201dWhen Christofias was replaced by Anastasiades in 2013, Eroglu said, Anastasiades was presented as a \u201cpro-consensus leader\u201d as he had voted \u2018yes\u2019 to the Annan plan nine years previously.He said that the reality was that Anastasiades was beholden to agreements he had made with Diko and the Archbishop and that therefore progress could not be made.He blamed a \u201clitany of excuses\u201d for Anastasiades\u2019 lack of will to enter negotiations, with fresh preconditions being set as time went on.\u201cHe announced he would not come to the table unless Varosha was handed over as a downpayment. When this did not work, he demanded to negotiate directly with Turkey<\/strong>. Then, he insisted on a joint statement by me and him,\u201d he said.He said he had said yes to the idea of the joint statement, which was issued in February 2014, \u201cto bring him to the table\u201d, but praised the fact that the statement clarified that sovereignty in a future united Cyprus would be sourced from both sides of Cyprus rather than from its central government.Eroglu was replaced as Turkish Cypriot leader by Mustafa Akinci in 2015. Negotiations for a federal solution between Akinci and Anastasiades ground to a halt two years later and are yet to resume.Of this, he said \u201cthe federal solution process collapsed as the Greek Cypriot side had different intentions. They do not want to share with us the administration and the riches and the blessings of the island of Cyprus<\/strong>.\u201cThe Greek Cypriot side preferred to fight us with the hope of returning to the pre-1974 state of affairs and making Cyprus Greek rather than making an agreement with the Turkish Cypriot people. Everyone must know this.\u201dFollow the
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Former Turkish Cypriot Leader Dervish Eroglu stated that the Greek Cypriot side has never intended to accept the Turkish Cypriot side’s conditions for solving the Cyprus problem. He expressed skepticism about the success of United Nations Envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s efforts and highlighted that the Greek Cypriot leadership and church do not accept Turkey’s status as a guarantor power, nor do they accept the Turkish Cypriot’s participation in government, veto rights, or a rotating presidency. Eroglu criticized the international embargoes on the north, describing them as shameful and a failure to respect human rights. He mentioned that despite promises made before the 2004 referendum, there has been no easing of embargoes, with the EU and the world continuing to punish the Turkish Cypriots while rewarding the Greek Cypriots. Eroglu also reflected on the negotiation processes after the Annan plan, mentioning his own tenure and the negotiations with former President Demetris Christofias and Nicos Anastasiades, indicating a lack of progress towards a federal solution and attributing it to the Greek Cypriot side’s unwillingness to share the administration and wealth of the island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[486,233,3,413,1034,379,988,499,250,415,747,115,187,882,1004,1021,19,827,177,268,649,414,1035,197,544,380,18],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-china","tag-church","tag-cyprus","tag-cyprus-problem","tag-dervis-eroglu","tag-eu","tag-fight","tag-france","tag-google","tag-government","tag-greece","tag-human-rights","tag-international","tag-nicos-anastasiades","tag-power","tag-presidency","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-cypriot","tag-turkish-cypriots","tag-un","tag-un-envoy","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\nEroglu: North must , \u2018embrace reality\u2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cyprus problem. 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