The impact of the Cyprus case on Turkey's membership in the European Union 1960-2006 (From Turkey's point of view)

Abstract

Turkey has faced nearly 50 years ago many other problems that prevented it from obtaining membership in the European Union, and among those problems is the Cyprus problem, the essence of this problem is that the island of Cyprus which has an important strategic location, as shown in Appendix No. (1) inhabited by two minorities They: The Greek minority, numbering approximately (750) thousand people, and the Turkish minority numbering about (350) thousand people, the first and behind it the state of Greece is trying to take over the entire island, and control the Turkish minority Not only that, but it also included the island in Greece in order to achieve the goals of the two racist organizations Enosis and Mykola Megola, which do not accept the participation of the Turkish minority in the island. Turkey continued its defense of the Turkish Cypriots the Turkish Cypriots, being its first people, and because Cyprus is very close to its southern coast, as the entire Greek, For this reason, it strongly defended the Turkish Cypriots, and its military intervention in 1974 to protect the Turkish Cypriots, and to keep its military forces on the boundary between the two sides of the island so far is only evidence of that interest, which has become a reason for the European Union countries bias in favor of the Greek Cypriots, so the latter two were accepted as members of Union, while Turkey is still waiting. In spite of Turkish implementing the European dictates, The Union did not respond to it and did not implement international treaties related to the Cyprus problem. Rather, it set before it other impossible conditions, including the withdrawal of its forces from the island, and the abandonment of the Turkish Cypriots, In addition to many other demands related to relations with Greece, in particular the dispute with the latter over the continental shelf, the rights of Turkish minorities, and the control of the military establishment over the regime and others, for all these reasons, Turkey has not achieved its goal that it dreamed of during these five decades, and it did not obtain membership in the European Union.