Cyprus of North

The Turkish Republic of Cyprus of North (RTCN, in Turkish: Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti ) is the State autoproclamé the November 15th 1983, after the Turkish military intervention in the North of the island of Cyprus in 1974. This intervention was carried out in reaction to the coup d'etat of the Greek nationalists wanting to attach the island (independent of the the United Kingdom since 1960 and allowed to sit at the United Nations) to the Greek nation ( Enosis ). The Greece being then under the Dictatorship of the colonels, these dramatic events contributed this same year to the collapse of the dictatorship and the establishment of a democratic regime in Greece.

This republic of North (in October 2007) is recognized only by the Turkey which maintains there a military force of almost 43 000 men. Certains States expressed, in a more or less affirmed way, a will to treat the RTCN like a State (in Europe the Albania and the Bosnia-Herzégovine in spite of their adhesion with the the Council of Europe, and in Asia the Azerbaïdjan (of Turkish cultural tradition) and the Pakistan but no State other than Turkey to date proceeded to an official recognition. But since 2004, the Organization of the Islamic conference grants to this entity de facto , the statute of observer under the name of the Turkish State of Cyprus .

Other States and international organizations (of which the the Council of Europe, the European Union and the United Nations) recognize like only State legitimates the République of Cyprus, which belongs to the European Union since 2004. The territory of the RTCN is recognized by the international community like a territory of the République of Cyprus occupied by a foreign power.

The European Cour of the human rights in its stop Loizidou C Turkey recognized the responsibility for Turkey in the damage undergone by the applicant one (Cypriot Greek) following the invasion of what today is the RTCN.

A plan of reunification proposed by UNO was subjected to a referendum the April 24th 2004. This plan was accepted by a vast majority of Cypriot Turkish (65%) but it was however rejected by a very vast majority of the Greek Cypriot electorate (75%) which saw there aspect unjust in particular concerning the rules relating to the acquisition of property in the future State. Thus the results of the referendum prevented in fact the fastening of RTCN to Cyprus.

North did not enter technically either the European Union on May 1st 2004 although this territory forms part of it juridically (and that their citizens resident are entitled and were invited to take part in the poll for the election of the Cypriot representatives to the the European Parliament). Thus Cyprus of North forms well part of L `European Union, but the major part of EU law does not apply to it, this territory being excluded for the moment from the unions economic, monetary, tax or customs, and of the Shengen Space (as can the being also of other parts of the territory of ten of other Member States EU, which are sometimes in other unions or have special statutes).

The Turkish positions on Cyprus (in dispute with Greece concerning the blocking of the access of the ships Turkish to the Greek ports, measures operated reciprocally in Turkey for the Greek ships) can constitute according to European diplomatic sources a major obstacle with the continuation of the negotiations on the entry of Turkey in the EU, impetuses the 3 October 2005.

Separation between the two States is always under the monitoring of blue helmets, but also of the the United Kingdom (which takes part in this monitoring), this last having preserved two bases of sovereignty at Cyprus where it maintains military bases with Akrotiri (in the Greek Southern part) and Dhekelia (at the frontier zone where also Cypriot Turkish and rural Greeks live). The question of the territorial attribution of these bases not being distinct, these British bases (located in the frontier zone) are under a double joint administration shared between the two Cypriot States, with a different legislation for the British residents, but a civil legal system largely copied that of the Greek Cypriot State, with installations for the Cypriot residents Turkish of Dhekelia.

These British zones of sovereignty (where the Greek Cypriot legislation cannot completely apply, since it never yet was sovereign there, and that the United Kingdom is held to preserve a certain neutrality to intervene in the missions of peace and monitoring in the frontier zone with the blue helmets) are also used as place of exchange, negotiation and passage between the two communities of the island; but if they form part of the European Union normally, they are not it either technically, although Cyprus (plain) and the United Kingdom are both members.

See too

Island of Cyprus
Republic of Cyprus

External bonds

Almanac of Cyprus of North
the Cypriot question about the site of European Turkey

Roa-rup: Republica Turtsescã di Chipro di Aratsile Simple: Turkish Republic off Northern Cyprus Zh-yue: 北塞浦路斯

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