The Cyprus Dispute: What is the Cause for an Unachievable Reunification?
Yıl: 2018 Cilt: 1 Sayı: 53 Sayfa Aralığı: 39 - 61 Metin Dili: İngilizce İndeks Tarihi: 03-12-2018
The Cyprus Dispute: What is the Cause for an Unachievable Reunification?
Öz: Cyprus has become a diplomatic graveyard having frustrated generations ofnegotiators. It has now been exactly 53 years since Cyprus became a politicallyseparated nation and for 43 years it has been a physically divided country. Apermanent solution to end these divisions still proving to be elusive. There have beennumerous, unsuccessful rounds of UN sponsored direct and indirect negotiations toachieve a settlement in Cyprus. Negotiations focused on reconciling the two sides’interests and re-establishing a central government. They foundered on definitions ofgoals and ways to implement a federal solution, yet talks have failed to yield anyconcrete agreement acceptable to both parties. The most intensive and “optimistic”negotiations which had been ongoing for the last three years achieved no progress,not only at the leaders’ level but also at the negotiators’ level. Turkish CypriotLeader Mustafa Akıncı and the Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades held theirlast planned leaders meeting, on 17 May 2017, at the UN building reserved for thenegotiations in the buffer zone in Lefkoşa produced no result. A new round of talksover reunification of Cyprus enforced by the UN in Switzerland’s Crans-Montana on28 June also ended in failure on 7 July 2017. There are numerous books and articlespublished regarding the Cyprus dispute, each expressing various views of opinionsregarding the history, the dispute and the talks to find a lasting solution for thedivided Island. This paper aims to point out the matters making Cyprus reunificationunreachable. It gives an outline of the historical account of the events that led tothe political and physical division of the Island and then analyses the most recentmediations and negotiations aimed at finding a lasting solution to reunite Cyprus asa political entity. The paper also attempts to answer the following questions: Whatare the roots and causes of the Cyprus dispute and what explains the reasons behindfailed attempts at settlement negotiations? Why has there been no solution for theCyprus dispute for such a long time and what makes it so difficult to achieve a set ofagreements acceptable to both Cyprus Communities? What is the possible strategyfor achieving a lasting, just, solution for the Cyprus reunification and what reducesthe scope for conflict resolution in Cyprus? What should the dispute resolutionsfocus more on? What is the impact of history on the conflicting parties and on thedispute resolution process?
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Kıbrıs Anlaşmazlığı: Ada’nın Yeniden Birleştirilmesi Neden Mümkün Değildir?
Öz: Kıbrıs, 53 yıldan beri siyasi olarak birbirinden ayrılmış iki halkı, 43 yıldır de fiziksel olarak bölünmüş bir ülke olarak sayısız müzakere kuşaklarını tüketerek adeta diplomatik bir mezarlık haline geldi. Bu bölünmeleri sona erdirmek için kalıcı bir çözüme ulaşmanın hâlâ zor olduğu kuşkusuz. Bununla birlikte, Kıbrıs’ta kalıcı bir anlaşmaya varmak için BM tarafından doğrudan ya da dolaylı olarak düzenlenen ve hepsinin de başarısız sonuçlandığı müzakerelerin birçok turu yapıldı. Müzakerelere katılan taraflar belirledikleri amaçlar etrafında tanımlamalar yapıp federal bir çözüme varmak için çeşitli yollar aradılar, ancak görüşmelerde taraflarca kabul edilebilir somut bir anlaşma sağlanamadı. Son üç yıldır sürmekte olan en yoğun ve ‘olumlu’ görüşmeler sadece liderler düzeyinde değil, aynı zamanda müzakereciler düzeyinde de ilerleme kaydetmeyi amaçlamasına rağmen, beklenen olumlu hava sonuç vermedi. Bu bakımda, bu makale, Ada’nın siyasi ve fiziksel bölünmesine yol açan olayların tarihsel hesabının bir özetini vererek, Kıbrıs’ı politik bir varlık olarak yeniden birleştirmek için kalıcı bir çözüm bulmaya yönelik düzenlenen en son arabuluculuk görüşmelerine ve müzakerelere odaklanıp Kıbrıs’ın yeniden birleştirilmesini ulaşılamaz hale getiren sebepleri belirtiyor.
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