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	Turkish Cypriots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turkish Cypriots are those inhabitants of Cyprus who are ethnically Turkish, as opposed to those who are of Greek (the Greek Cypriots) or other ethnicities.
		According to Turkish-Cypriot newspapers, over one third of Turkish Cypriots emigrated from the occupied area between 1974-1995 because of the economic and social deprivation, mainly a result of the ongoing international embargo on the TRNC.
		On the contrary, some Turkish settlers from Anatolia moved to the island, whose number reached around 115.000 (2001 figures), which is in fact a violation to the Geneva Conventions Protocol of 1977 since the Turkish occupation has been declared illegal by the UN.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkish_Cypriot (1040 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Turkish Cypriot president insisted that the key to a Cyprus solution was the recognition of the principle of equality on the island and stressed that the moment the world starts addressing the two peoples of the island, attaining a solution to the Cyprus problem will be much easier.
		He had half done this because the Greek Cypriot side was treated as the government of the whole island, although within the four walls when we met with the secretary-general we were the two leaders representing the two equal communities of the island.
		Greek Cypriots by integration with Europe are not being annexed by Europe, they are not uniting with Europe, they are not discarding their title of the government of Cyprus.
	www.b-info.com /places/Turkey/news/95-12/dec04.tdn (4702 words)

	Minorities At Risk (MAR) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1983, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was declared by the Turkish minority on the island.
		Relations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots deteriorated in the 20th century, culminating in the de facto partition of the island in 1974.
		As of mid-1999, the Turkish administration in the north was insisting that the island’s two sides be joined in a confederation that would give the TRNC internal and international recognition as an equal partner to the Republic of Cyprus.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/cypturks.htm (1701 words)

	Office Of The President, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat said the international community has no option but to end the economic isolation of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) if it wants to make the intransigent Greek Cypriot administration sit at the negotiating table to find a solution to the partition of Mediterranean island.
		Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat does not agree with the assumption that intensive efforts by both Ankara and the KKTC tıo bring an end to the Turkish Cypriot economic solitude have so far yielded title.
		The Turkish Cypriot leader said preventing exports from northern Cyprus would mean the breach of an EU principle since the bloc was based on free trade.
	www.trncpresidency.org /news/yusuf_kanli.htm (992 words)

	Cyprus: Coping with a Quarter-Century of Separation
		Turkish jets then bombed Greek Cypriot positions on the island and the U.N. intervened, sending in UNFICYP, which is there to this day, giving it the dubious honor of being the longest-serving U.N. peace keeping force in the world.
		In his view, the Turkish Cypriots are a minority within that republic, an internal problem, and as such have no automatic right to representation and certainly no right to be delegates in negotiations with other countries, or with the EU.
		Turkish Cypriot intellectuals often bemoan the fact that now the old cannot remember how to speak Greek, and it is a language the young have never learned; bi-communal Cyprus is already an historical curio.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/0999/9909067.html (2157 words)

	Hamamböcüleri Alternatif Haberler
		Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul Tuesday slammed Greek Cypriot proposals to postpone a referendum on the reunification of Cyprus, saying it was a ploy aimed at hampering Turkey's EU membership bid, Anatolia news agency said.
		The Greek Cypriot south, which enjoys international recognition, has been promised EU membership regardless of whether a reunification deal is reached with the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north.
		Gul charged that Greek Cypriots were seeking to delay the referendum until after May 1 in order to join the EU as the sole legitimate representative of the whole island.
	www.stwing.upenn.edu /~durduran/hamambocu/haberler/fullnews.php?id=793 (2694 words)

	Cyprus - 1960 Constitution
		The Council of Ministers was to be composed of seven Greek Cypriots and three Turkish Cypriots, with the former appointed by the president and the latter by the vice president.
		The House of Representatives's president was to be a Greek Cypriot and its vice president, a Turkish Cypriot.
		Turkish Cypriots have long cited this issue as evidence of the Greek Cypriots' intention to undermine the Turkish Cypriots' separate communal identity.
	countrystudies.us /cyprus/52.htm (915 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - Cyprus: Turkish Cypriot President meets Olli Rehn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn and Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat held talks on the political and economic developments on Cyprus
		Turkish Cypriot President, Mehmet Ali Talat held official talks with EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn regarding financial asistance and regulation.
		Rehn mentioned that it's important to end the economic problems of the Turkish Cypriots part, ahead a possible future reunification of the island and if the regulations are issued, there would be strict confidence in terms of politics.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20050512140304185 (316 words)

	Turkish Cypriot Network
		At the beginning of this month, the Greek Cypriot army started to strengthen their positions by digging new trenches on the hills to the south of the village and increased the number of their soldiers in the area, which caused concern amongst the Turkish Cypriot population.
		Turkish Cypriots cannot travel freely, they cannot communicate directly with the rest of the world, they cannot trade internationally and our young people are not allowed to participate in international sports activities.
		The illegal Greek Cypriot regime is still treated as the legitimate government of all Cyprus by the international community, while the Turkish Cypriots are deprived of their basic human rights and their equality given to them by international agreements, which Britain is a signatory.
	www.tcn-cy.freeuk.com /tcn48.htm (4187 words)

	Turkish Cypriot Network
		President Denktash recalled that at the Glion talks the leader of the Greek Cypriot Administration Glafcos Clerides rejected discussion of the issue of sovereignty, expressed a wish to change the existing guarantee system and hence altered the parameters for a federation.
		President Denktash continued by saying that, the Cyprus problem did not stem from the Guarantee System but from the fact that the Greek Cypriots by force of arms and bloodshed ousted their partner, the Turkish Cypriots from the partnership state and tried to turn Cyprus into a Greek island.
		President Denktash went on to explain that, the Turkish Cypriots are against the 1960 Guarantee System being altered and the UN Security Council had also confirmed the continuation of the existing guarantee system.
	home.freeuk.net /tcn-cy/Tcn32.htm (3905 words)

	Untitled Document
		The first stirrings of debate about Turkish entry, moreover, are in danger of colliding with the politician and media-induced hysteria about immigration in general and Muslims in particular.
		The report is also critical of the role of the Turkish military and presses for civil control, aligned with the practise in EU member states.
		The assassination of the president of Iraq's Governing Council makes it crystal clear the US is failing to create the minimal law and order needed for any sort of orderly transfer of power to take place by June 30.
	www.freedom-for-ocalan.com /bulletin/2004/eMay18.htm (2830 words)

	Greek, Turkish Cypriot Leaders Praise Mass Border Crossing
		NICOSIA (AP)--Greek and Turkish Cypriot political leaders welcomed the crossing of tens of thousands of their people across the U.N. buffer zone that has divided the island for nearly 30 years.
		But there was a sour note, with the attack Sunday on an elderly Turkish Cypriot couple by the current occupants of their former home in Limassol.
		The crossing by Turkish Cypriots, which was also in thousands the first five days, dwindled to a few hundred on April 28, Monday, a working day for Muslims.
	www.theturkishtimes.com /archive/03/0503/f-kibris.html (501 words)

	Cypriot EU Accession: An Impending Crisis in the Turkish-American Relationship
		Since the 1974 Turkish invasion and the division of the island, the UN and the EU have been unsuccessful in their attempts to broker a solution because the opposing Cypriot groups and their respective backing nations have been unable to agree on the terms of unification.
		While Cypriot leaders on both sides, as well as their Greek and Turkish patrons, must come to their own agreement, the United States, in conjunction with the UN and the EU, should urge this outcome, which is in the interests of both Cypriot communities.
		Turkish Cypriots, representing 18 percent of the population, control 37 percent of the island.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Europe/bg1601.cfm (3931 words)

	Politics of Cyprus
		The 1960 Cypriot Constitution provided for a presidential system of government with independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches, as well as a complex system of checks and balances, including a weighted power-sharing ratio designed to protect the interests of the Turkish Cypriots.
		The executive, for example, was headed by a Greek Cypriot president and a Turkish Cypriot vice president, elected by their respective communities for 5-year terms and each possessing a right of veto over certain types of legislation and executive decisions.
		Turkish Cypriots held multi-party "parliamentary" elections in 1993, removing the long-ruling National Unity Party in favor of a coalition of the Democratic and Republican Turkish parties.
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Cyprus.html (1150 words)

	Assembly of Turkish American Associations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sovereignty recognition of the Turkish Cypriot State would be one of the most effective means of providing the Turkish Cypriots with the sense of security that they need and are entitled to.
		Turkish Cypriot insistence on sovereignty should not be misconstrued as an attempt to "pocket and run away with it", as the Greek Cypriot side claims.
		It is the earnest desire of the Turkish Cypriots for a just and sustainable settlement that prompts them to insist on sovereignty, as a means of achieving rather than preventing it.
	www.ataa.org /ataa/ref/exclusion.html (802 words)

	Office Of The President, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Explaining that the Greek Cypriot side for years had successfully manipulated and used these sanctions and embargoes as a method to increase the international isolation of the Turkish Cypriot people, President Mehmet Ali Talat said this distressing development does not contribute to efforts aimed at finding a solution to the Cyprus Problem.
		President Mehmet Ali Talat said that the international community could no longer provide a reasonable basis or justification for the continuation of the international isolations, ever since the Turkish Cypriot people voted overwhelming in favor of the Annan plan in last years referendum.
		“The Turkish Cypriot people should not be exposed to the same unfair and unjust treatment as they have been in the past, especially after openly and clearly showing willingness to a solution on the island-one that is supported by the international community” he said.
	www.trncpresidency.org /news/embargoes_imposed.htm (257 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Turkish Cypriots choose pro-unity president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ISN SECURITY WATCH (18/04/05) - Turkish Cypriots on Sunday voted for pro-unification Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat for president, heralding a new course for the divided island, whose outgoing Turkish Cypriot president, Rauf Denktash, had opposed efforts to unite with the Greek Cypriot side.
		In May last year, the Greek Cypriot government was granted full EU membership, though the Turkish Cypriot government remains under sanctions.
		Turkish Cypriots voted last year in favor of a UN reunification plan, but Greek Cypriots rejected it.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /securitywatch/details_print.cfm?id=11127 (248 words)

	Turkish Press
		Turkish officials have previously hinted that Ankara is ready to sacrifice its membership for the interests of the Turkish Cypriots and its own interests in Cyprus.
		Former Turkish Cypriot properties in the south are occupied by Greek Cypriots and vice versa.
		Greek Cypriot claims to properties in the north have come under international public scrutiny, while cases of occupied Turkish Cypriot lands have been passed over in silence.
	www.cyprus.com.cy /turkish.htm (352 words)

	Turkish Press Review
		According to the Turkish Cypriot sources, the meeting between Denktas and Verheugen, like the meeting between the Turkish Cypriot President and Annan, was arranged at the request of the EU commissioner.
		However, despite the fact that the years long rivalry on GAP is beginning to ease, the Turkish side refused to get into a debate on the issue of water, stating that the topic is in the field of the foreign ministries of each side.
		The Turkish Diplomatic Mission in Tehran issued a statement addressed to Iranian officials, in which it was stated that reports to the effect that Turkish warplanes would be conducting military exercises in Azerbaijan had no truth in them.
	www.byegm.gov.tr /YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2001/08/01x08x24.HTM (2131 words)

	JURIST - Cyprus: Cypriot Law, Legal Research, Human Rights
		The Cypriot Constitution and the basic law governing the Turkish Cypriot community provide for an independent judiciary, provisions which generally are respected in practice.
		In the Turkish Cypriot community, civilians charged with violating military zones or military regulations are subject to trial in a military court.
		The Turkish Cypriot authorities have taken some steps to improve the conditions of Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the territory under their control, but the treatment of these groups still falls short of Turkish Cypriot obligations under the Vienna III Agreement of 1975.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/cyprus.htm (709 words)

	All talk and no action - Turkish Daily News Apr 24, 2005
		The replacement of Denktaş by Talat as president has boosted international expectations that efforts to end the 30-year-long division of the island could be resurrected if all the parties to the dispute manage to grasp it as a motivating opportunity.
		The Turkish Cypriot people, by approving the U.N. blueprint, also sent a strong signal to the outside world that they favored reuniting with the Greek Cypriot south in a federation based on the principles defined in the U.N. blueprint.
		Both Turkish and Turkish Cypriot officials feel that they were left empty-handed despite promises being made by the West to help the KKTC economically.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=11479 (794 words)

	Turks.US Daily News: Top US diplomat holds settlement talks in Cyprus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Turkish Cypriot President Talat said that he reiterated the the vision of Turkish people for reunificiation.
		She met the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, Speaker of Republic of Cyprus Parliament Dimitris Christofias and Nicos Anastassiades, the leader of the main opposition Democratic Mobilization Party (DISI).
		Kennedy, held a press conference at Larnaka airport after her talks with the leader Greek Cypriot President of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20050506074854808&mode=print (392 words)

	Kokkalis Program
		The President is both the chief of state and head of government.
		President is elected by popular vote for a 5 year term.
		Following the 1974 hostilities, the Turkish Cypriots set up their own institutions with an elected president and a prime minister responsible to the National Assembly exercising joint executive powers.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /kokkalis/region_cyprus.html (264 words)

	Talat gets key invitation from Washington - Turkish Daily News Oct 18, 2005
		Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat received an invitation to visit Washington on Oct. 28 for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a move hailed by Talat as “very positive,” but likely to anger Greek Cypriots.
		The Turkish Cypriot leader hopes the visit will lead to concrete steps on the part of the United States to help end the three-decade isolation of Turkish Cypriots.
		A set of proposals to allow direct trade with and financial assistance for Turkish Cypriots have been blocked in the EU by Greek Cypriots, who joined the bloc as a full member in 2004 although they rejected the plan.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=26118 (563 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Turkish Cypriots may vote again
		Turkish Cypriot President Rauf Denktash says new elections may have to be held following Sunday's inconclusive vote.
		Mr Denktash's position as president is not directly affected by the vote, but opposition leaders had said they would replace him as the Turkish Cypriot negotiator in reunification talks.
		Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has called on all sides to act calmly and find a solution.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3320417.stm (449 words)

	IHLAS HABER AJANSI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Turkish Cypriots are voting in early polls to elect 50 parliament members from seven parties in order to shape new government.
		Nearly 148,000 Turkish Cypriots are voting in early polls to elect 50 parliament members from seven parties in order to shape new government.
		CTP promised for a revival of peace talks and to allow the isolated Turkish Cypriots to integrate with the international community.
	www.iha.com.tr /bin/directory.dll/pub/news/getdoc?sec=3&nid=25404 (647 words)

	Turkish Cypriot leaders warned not to complicate Turkey's EU bid - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance
		Turkish Cypriot leaders warned not to complicate Turkey's EU bid
		The disagreement between the two leaders came in the aftermath of the December 14 general election in Turkish Cyprus, which ended in a draw between supporters and opponents of the Annan plan.
		The UN proposals envisage the island's reunification in a federation of two equal component states, and territorial adjustments in favour of the Greek Cypriot majority, which would require the displacement of thousands of Turkish Cypriots.
	www.eubusiness.com /Cyprus/031220165156.loscxzf8 (483 words)

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