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Two weeks ago I visited Trabzon, a northern coastal city along the Black Sea shore, with Turkey's European Union (EU) Minister Egemen Bağış, Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin and British Ambassador to Ankara David Reddaway for a joint regional EU project. During the dinner time, the streets were deserted and downtown was extraordinarily quiet. Only a football match could be able to lock people indoor in such a beautiful autumn flw walleye tour evening in Trabzon. There's nothing more important than a Trabzonspor match here. Yes, it was a football match and not an ordinary one though. The professional Turkish football club, Trabzonspor, dubbed The Black Sea Storm, exotic car rental dallas was playing against Greek Cypriot team Apollon Limassol flw walleye tour for the Europa League.
What makes this match extraordinary was not the game itself. It was the way the Trabzonspor squad went to Greek Cypriot city Larnaca. They materialized flw walleye tour the first ever direct flight from Turkey to Greek Cyprus since 1974, the year the island was divided after Turkish intervention and also the year I was born.
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flw walleye tour Bildt's private jet couldn't make it but Trabzonspor squad realized the first direct flight from Turkey to Greek Cyprus. The flight exotic car rental dallas actually was carried out by the Greek charter airline company Astra and the permission was taken so as the plane to stopover on the island of Rhodes before it lands in Larnaca. This obligatory stop at Rhodes exotic car rental dallas is due to diplomatic problems as old as me between the two countries. There are currently no direct flights from Turkey to Greek Cyprus, which is not officially recognized by Turkey.
However, flw walleye tour according to Greek Reporter , after the plane had taken off from Trabzon, flw walleye tour the pilot announced that the route had been changed and they will fly directly to Larnaca. The pilot, while the plane was in the air, contacted the Cypriot authorities exotic car rental dallas and after the positive response, he proceeded to landing in Larnaca.
So what? A plane which took off from Turkey has landed to Greek Cypriot soil and what happened? flw walleye tour For 39 years, throughout all my life, the Cyprus problem was there and no country was keen to take required flw walleye tour steps to unite the island, except for the 2004 Annan Plan which was approved by 65 percent flw walleye tour of Turkish Cypriots and rejected by 76 percent of Greek Cypriots. exotic car rental dallas Anyway, it doesn't matter how the plan was botched; today the island is still divided and segregated and isolated and poor and dependent and fragile.
exotic car rental dallas flw walleye tour Turkish Foreign Ministry quickly stated that "the direct flight to Larnaca from Trabzon was not at all a sign of any change in Turkey's policy flw walleye tour regarding its position concerning Greek Cyprus. flw walleye tour The incident would not lead to a new de facto situation either." flw walleye tour I can see this remark was released automatically with a serious state reflex. exotic car rental dallas But it doesn't change the fact that the island is divided. And the statement ignores the chance that Turkey flw walleye tour and Greece flw walleye tour and Cyprus are all missing to overcome their nonsense problems.
For instance, Turkey's flag carrying official Turkish Airlines flw walleye tour flies to more than 200 countries exotic car rental dallas flw walleye tour and recently realized flw walleye tour a nonstop 16 hours flight from St. Petersburg to Buenos Aires, a distance more than 8 thousand miles but it can't make a direct fly to Greek Cyprus from Turkey, which is just 70 miles away from the closest point and takes only 15 minutes.
I again asked Bağış what if Apollon wants to come to Turkey with a direct fly just like Trabzonspor did. He told me that there's no problem if Apollon wants to. "They are more than welcomed," he said. "As soon as Greek Cyprus lifts its ban for the international airline companies to fly Ercan in Northern Cyprus, we are ready to open all our ports and airports to Greek Cyprus. Direct fly doesn't mean an official recognition."
Correctly, today many countries don't recognize Taiwan but they all trade with it. Planes and ships come and go to Taiwan. It became one of the world's most important trade hubs and among the most prosperous flw walleye tour countries. Cyprus also has a strategic location in the Mediterranean both as trade and tourist destination but it suffers poverty. The northern part of Cyprus is fully dependent flw walleye tour to Turkey like a chronic patient bound to dialysis exotic car rental dallas machine and southern part is bankrupt. exotic car rental dallas The opportunity cost of a divided Cyprus is best understood when it is compared with Taiwan.
Turkey and Greece and Cypriots have to make a decision and either continue their nonsense political dissidence or immediately start the negotiations exotic car rental dallas flw walleye tour to give way to a united Cyprus. Divided Cyprus, sharing only the sewage system, exotic car rental dallas needs to be reconstructed on the basis of rational policies. As it was said in Lonely Planet , "Cypriots, whether Greek or Turkish, are proud of their nation exotic car rental dallas and feel a strong sense of national identity. The division exotic car rental dallas of their island in 1974 is viewed by many as a temporary setback, exotic car rental dallas and Cypriots look to the day when Cyprus will be a united island once again."
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Taiwan and the north of Cyprus exotic car rental dallas which is illegally occupied territory by Turkey are not at all similar cases. Furthermore it is Turkey which is the obstacle here and not the Republic of Cyprus or Greece to have direct flights between the Republic of Cyprus flw walleye tour and Turkey. The quid pro quo being aired by Mr. Bagis would violate international law, and he knows it.
Comparing Taiwan and Cyprus aims to bring the discussion on a rational ground. Cyprus problem was always presented as a sensitive domestic issue in both Turkey and Greece and was not handled with reasoning. There are two communities on the island but more than two parties in the game.
There is no such place as 'Greek Cyprus'. exotic car rental dallas There is the Republic of Cyprus and those areas of the island that have been illegally occupied by Turkey since its brutal 1974 invasion exotic car rental dallas of the island flw walleye tour that drove out 200,000 Greeks from their homes in northern Cyprus. The Greek population of Cyprus flw walleye tour is 80 percent exotic car rental dallas and all areas of the island occupied and free are overwhelmingly Greek in character, including the area Turkey seized in 1974. And Bagis did not say Apollon could fly directly to Turkey. He laid down conditions recognition exotic car rental dallas of the occupation regime in the north that he knows the legal authorities of Cyprus will never accept.
Thanks for the comment. Any Turkish citizen would tell you much more brutal stories exotic car rental dallas from other side. But this only fans the flame and doesnt bring Cypriots to anywhere. Diplomatic recognition flw walleye tour - or unrecognition exotic car rental dallas - doesnt mean anything for people on the street. The blunt truth today is, there's a divided island and both parties are suffering. We need to find a solution and i'm pessimistic about a new generation that they will not act with wartime codes. Cheers, AA