Newsgroup: it.politica
Titolo: Mai la Turchia nell'EU, MAI.

www.telegraph.co.uk
 
Wednesday 12 March 2003     
Turkey's EU hope dashed as Cyprus talks falter
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
(Filed: 12/03/2003) 
The European Union vowed yesterday to press ahead with the 
admission of a divided Cyprus in 2004 despite a breakdown in peace 
talks that has virtually doomed Turkey's hopes of joining the EU in 
the foreseeable future.
The 13-month talks collapsed late on Monday after Rauf Denktash, 
the Turkish Cypriot leader, wrote off a United Nations-brokered deal 
as "unacceptable".
He feared that many Turkish Cypriots would lose their homes as 
Greeks reclaimed their expropriated properties in the north, which 
is under the occupation of 30,000 Turkish troops.
The EU will now inherit the intractable conflict. It does not 
recognise the breakaway Turkish republic created by Mr Denktash in 
defiance of the UN in 1974 after Athens orchestrated a coup aimed at 
uniting the entire island with Greece.
Brussels insists that the island be absorbed whole, so it could now 
find itself in direct confrontation with Turkish forces just yards 
across the heavily-armed "Atilla Line" that runs through Nicosia.
The European Commission issued a formal statement regretting the 
collapse of the talks, but insisted that "the accession process will 
go ahead as foreseen according to the existing timetable".
EU leaders approved Turkey's bid to join at a stormy summit in 
Copenhagen last December provided it cleaned up its human rights 
record.
But a Commission spokesman said yesterday that it would be "very 
difficult" to start entry talks before the festering conflict in 
Cyprus was resolved. 
"If by the time of the report at the end of 2004 there is still no 
settlement on Cyprus, we will be facing this rather weird situation 
where a candidate country knocking at the door does not recognise 
one of our own member states," he said.
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, who flew to The Hague for a 
final round of peace talks on Monday, had hoped for a deal creating 
a Swiss-style federation with power-sharing arrangements and 
safeguards for the Turkish minority.
It would have cleared the way for a referendum in both parts of the 
island at the end of March, just in time for the signing of the 
accession treaties by the EU's 10 new members on April 16.
EU and UN diplomats have long blamed 79-year-old Mr Denktash for 
failing to meet the Greek Cypriot side half-way in negotiations, and 
singled him out yesterday as being the real barrier to a settlement.
"I am sad about it, but I do not think that Mr Denktash left him 
[Mr Annan] any alternative," said Lord Hannay, Britain's special 
envoy to Cyprus.
But there was also strong suspicion that the Turkish government 
chose to let the talks break down rather than face internal strains 
with the Turkish armed forces, known for their strong sympathies for 
the Turkish Cypriot cause.
The Greek government described Mr Denktash and his backers on the 
Turkish mainland as "intransigent".
"It's not possible that Turkey can hope to advance on the European 
track if it maintains its intransigent attitude on a major question 
which determines its future at the heart of Europe," said Christos 
Protopapas, the government spokesman.
But Abdullah Gul, the outgoing Turkish prime minister, sought to 
calm the waters, promising to keep pushing for a settlement for 
Cyprus. "Efforts for a lasting solution will continue," he said.
The head of Turkey's ruling party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was 
appointed prime minister yesterday, four months after his party came 
to power in general elections.
"The president has given me the task of forming the new 
government," said Mr Erdogan, who heads the Justice and Development 
Party (AKP), after a meeting with President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
Mr Erdogan's appointment follows his election to a parliamentary 
seat in a by-election at the weekend. Earlier yesterday, he was 
sworn in as a member of parliament, and the outgoing prime minister, 
Abdullah Gul, from the same party, resigned.
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2003.
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La questione di Cipro impedisce l'inizio dei colloqui per l'ingresso delle
orde ottomane nell'EU...
Ciò è cosa buona è giusta. Mai i turchi potranno entrare. MAI.
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 Ciò è cosa buona è giusta. Mai i turchi potranno entrare. MAI.
I turchi chi? Quelli senza alcun rispetto dei diritti civili, reprimono i
curdi (passando per benemeriti), tollerano la pena di morte e stan anche
cercando di farsi corrompere dagli USA?
Quello e' pane per denti americani, con l'europa non c'entrano niente.