{"id":9032,"date":"2024-04-21T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2024-04-21T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T08:00:37","slug":"our-view-the-sterile-practice-of-using-cyprus-eu-membership-to-punish-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=9032","title":{"rendered":"Our View: The sterile practice of using Cyprus, \u2019 EU membership to punish Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/our-view-the-sterile-practice-of-using-cyprus-eu-membership-to-punish-turkey.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>President Nikos Christodoulides expressed his \u201cparticular satisfaction\u201d that his stated objective of linking the EU-Turkey relations with the Cyprus issue was achieved at the special meeting of the European Council on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-1978209762\">\n<div id=\"cypru-1726403041\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-8677125967205-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFrom the start, we set a target, the substantive linking of EU-Turkey relations with the Cyprus issue, and this emerges clearly from yesterday\u2019s conclusions, but also from the discussion we had,\u201d he said the next day. \u201cLast night we sent a positive message to Turkey and the transformation of this message into specific, positive developments in EU-Turkey relations depends on the progress on the Cyprus issue,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe EU conclusions were not so clear-cut, saying the \u201cEU attaches particular importance to resumption of and progress in the Cyprus settlement talks in further enhancing EU-Turkey cooperation.\u201d Nevertheless, government sources in Nicosia briefing journalists said the conclusions were \u201cadequately clear\u201d and the Council offered Turkey the opportunity to make gestures (on the Cyprus issue), which would have results in EU-Turkey relations.<br \/>\nThe government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis\u2019 reading was that the \u201cpositive message\u201d of Cyprus and the EU was that \u201cwe desire to be constructive, and there could be progress on the points, the chapters that interest Turkey, as long as there is the corresponding progress in the Cyprus issue.\u201d Nicosia\u2019s narrative has also involved the UN secretary-general\u2019s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin in Turkey-EU relations with government sources telling Phileleftheros that during her visits to Paris, Berlin and Brussels \u2013 before her arrival in Cyprus in May \u2013 she would be given a \u201cclear sign\u201d of what the EU expects of Turkey.<br \/>\nIt seems the government has let its imagination run wild, reading whatever it wants into the conclusion of the European Council, which said that it \u201cis ready to play an active role in supporting all stages of the UN-led process, with all appropriate means at its disposal\u201d. How this was interpreted to mean that the EU would tell Holguin what it expects from Turkey is difficult to understand, but there is a tradition of reading texts relating to Cyprus in whichever way that suits us. There is no way governments in Germany and France or the European Commission would interfere in the work of Holguin, although Nicosia sources hoped they would \u201cconvey the messages to the Turkish side of how it should move on Cyprus\u201d.<br \/>\nTurkey wasted no time expressing its displeasure about the conclusions as it had hoped the Joint Communication of the High Representative and the Commission on political, economic and trade relations would have been adopted by the European Council without any caveats. The Turkish foreign ministry issued a terse statement, saying the linking of the Cyprus issue to EU-Turkey relations would never be accepted. \u201cThe approach that restricts the multi-faceted Turkey-EU relations to the Cyprus issue must be abandoned; such a mentality cannot contribute positively and constructively to the Cyprus issue,\u201d it said.<br \/>\nThis reaction could be viewed as an indication of Christodoulides\u2019 success in Brussels, but the linkage he secured seems more in line with the sterile practice of using Cyprus\u2019 membership of the EU to punish Turkey for the occupation rather than to create conditions that would lead to a Cyprus breakthrough. There have been several such attempts, which started with the blocking of chapters in Turkey\u2019s accession negotiations with the EU by the Tassos Papadopoulos presidency. The Anastasiades government also tried the same tactic after the Crans-Montana collapse, when Turkey was violating the Cypriot EEZ, without any success.<br \/>\nPunishing Turkey appears to have become an end in itself, because it has been shown not to lead anywhere. It certainly does not create favourable conditions for reaching a settlement, which is supposedly the objective of Cyprus governments. President Christodoulides insists this is his number one priority, because the status quo is unsustainable, but does he seriously believe he can achieve this objective by linking Turkey\u2019s relations with the EU to progress in the Cyprus issue? Perhaps he knows something we do not, but past experience has shown that such tactics do not yield the desired results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nikos Christodoulides expressed his satisfaction that his objective of linking EU-Turkey relations with the Cyprus issue was achieved at the special meeting of the European Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5496,4586,4147,2510,1031,1240,4369,3146,5732,3475,3,1539,6933,4985,379,7268,7298,1841,6421,499,576,250,3330,415,3029,899,3755,1346,6815,4442,1864,3331,406,193,4271,6121,635,6730,680,1214,1069,6951,1021,4843,2405,503,3840,3522,3043,2184,2173,1827,1026,1006,2752,2843,3125,177,414,380],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-abandoned","tag-anastasiades","tag-berlin","tag-brussels","tag-christodoulides","tag-clear","tag-collapse","tag-communication","tag-conditions","tag-cooperation","tag-cyprus","tag-cyprus-issue","tag-cyprus-settlement-talks","tag-developments","tag-eu","tag-eu-conclusions","tag-eu-turkey-relations","tag-european-commission","tag-european-council","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-google","tag-google-news","tag-government","tag-government-spokesman","tag-interest","tag-journalists","tag-meeting","tag-membership","tag-message","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-nicosia","tag-nikos-christodoulides","tag-occupation","tag-opportunity","tag-our-view","tag-paris","tag-personal-envoy","tag-phileleftheros","tag-positive-developments","tag-positive-message","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-president-christodoulides","tag-president-nikos-christodoulides","tag-progress","tag-relations","tag-satisfaction","tag-secretary-generals-personal-envoy","tag-settlement","tag-statement","tag-talks","tag-trade","tag-trade-relations","tag-tradition","tag-transformation","tag-turkey","tag-un","tag-us"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Our View: The sterile practice of using Cyprus, \u2019 EU membership to punish Turkey<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"EU-Turkey relations. 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