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 :Responding to this and the reply in the above section (why start a new one again?), the situation is essentially one of any break away state. Everyone but Turkey recognises the Republic of Cyprus as the only sovereign body governing the whole of the island of Cyprus. The TRNC, in the eyes of the EU and the UN et al does not exist. The Cypriot and European government is merely unable to exercise its authority effectively in the northern territory. There are loads of territories around the world that have broken away to the extent that central government is ineffective (Abkasia, South Ossetia, Northern Nigeria, Southern Sudan, Chechnya, Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria and so on. But we do not say that Transnistria is not part of Moldova because of it. Legally it is, de facto they do not. Do you see? That is why Northern Cyprus doesn't normally appear on official EU maps, because in our eyes it isn't there.-  "