TY  - JOUR
TI  - SECURITY FENCES IN THE CYPRUS ISLAND: POLITICAL SECURITY AND THE ANNAN PLAN
AB  - Cyprus imbroglio has always been on the agenda of UN, on andoff, since 1968. Latest UN plan was offered in 2002 namedComprehensive Settlement Plan which seperate simultaneous referandawere held on 24 April 2004.The plan was approved in the TurkishCypriot referandum by 65% of the votes whereas 76% of the GreekCypriot people rejected the plan. The only reason for the irreconcilabilityof Greek Cypriots is based on the ideology of Hellenism. Helenism is notonly the sole target but also the sole ideology of the Greek Cypriotpeople. As a mattaer of fact that the ideology to get the whole island asbelonged to them come up during the Annan plan. All processes fail,due to the continued reluctance of Greek Cypriots to share equalsovereignty with the Turkish Cypriots of the island, because of, thespeech act over protection of so called “Republic of Cyprus” successfullysecuritized in political security. This paper seeks to analyse thecontribution of the Constructivist theory of International Relations withCopenhag School’s Securitization theory to analyse 2004’s referandaresults in the context of political security. The result is political securityunderstanding of both sides deeply differ. In the event, this study doesnot evaluate the Annan plan’s advantages or disadvantages, only focusthe political perspective of both sides, but particularly Greek Cypriots.In sum, Greek Cypriots were not ready to the political equality andadministrative partnership between the two nation. Although,functional federative system was not supportive by the Greek Cypriotsbecause they afraid to loose their “sole sovereignty” in the name of“Cyprus Republic of 1960”. This makes to think an idiom of the “goodfences(borders) make good neighbour” as necessarily.
AU  - Gözügüzelli, Emete
DO  - 10.29228/TurkishStudies.22839
PY  - 2019
JO  - Turkish Studies - Economics, Finance, Politics 
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
SN  - 2667-5625
SP  - 319
EP  - 334
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/341817
ER  -