Cyprus Annan Plan?

Question

I always see greek cypriots complaining about the turkish side but if then why didn't they accept the Annan plan ?Turkish side accepted but Greek side didn't.if they don't want to unite or solve this problem I don't want to hear them complaining.

Note that Greece,USA,E.U,Turkey,North Cyprus accepted the plan

Thanks everyone for answering me except antonis.Antonis both side of Cyprus voted as you can see I didn't said Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus I said North Cyprus,I divided Cyprus into two region and plus in my country Turkish side of Cyprus is a country so I have rights to call it a country which I didn't I know your searching for a fight I'm not going to fell for it

Answer 1

The plan was not fair, and the turkish cypriots have to do their best to create a stronger economy also as the greek cypriots did...
But this is not the point...The plan was completely unfair,and i can not understand why they had according to the others to accept it since it was not convenient for them...
Let s leave the cypriots decide for it, they know better than us...

Answer 2

Hi Ayshe,

The Annan plan is dead. The Greeks of Cyprus had the democratic right to reject it because it was an unfair plan. The turkish minority accepted it because it was good for them, it was so good that even the the turkish settlers of cyprus accepted it.

The Annan plan is dead because Cyprus is now in the EU and the laws of the Annan plan were not based in the European Unions laws. Actually the Annan plan was a constitution that was never used and work in any country.

The turks are keep on using the Annan plan as an example of their willingness for solution but, some of them, what they really want is to hide behind the Annan plan their criminal actions as the invasion of 74, the illegal occupation and achieve a recognision for the illegal state in northern cyprus.

Answer 3

Hypocritical outrage at an obvious truth
By Loucas Charalambous

I FAILED to understand why government and pro-government circles, headed by the super-patriots of Phileleftheros, took offence at the recent comments of Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat. What Talat had said was the crude reality, as we have been experiencing it in Cyprus over the last years.

Turkish Cypriots, Talat said, wanted the reunification of the island and for this reason had voted in favour of the UN settlement plan, leaving aside the idea of partition which was their original wish. But after the rejection of the plan by the Greek Cypriots, he explained, they started turning in favour of the two-state solution, which gained ground in their thinking, as several opinion polls in the north showed. And once they realised that the Greek Cypriots did not want them, they decided to live on their own, Talat said, concluding that there could not be marriage by force.

So what was the problem of the super-patriots, who immediately accused Talat of “cementing the deadlock” because he had dared to tell a truth that no rational person could dispute? If anything, the sulking journalists of Phileleftheros should have welcomed Talat’s comments as, in reality, they desire partition as much the people running the country. Was this not what they were promoting, in effect, with their rabidly hostile reaction to the only viable settlement, envisaged by the UN plan of 2004? Is there anyone who genuinely believes that there is the slightest possibility we would be offered in the future a more favourable settlement than the one outlined in the Annan plan?

On the contrary, it would be rank stupidity to believe that even that plan could be brought back in its original form. The three-year period since the referendum has created new conditions which cannot be ignored in the drafting of a new plan, which could be accepted by the Turkish Cypriots. Only the intellectually challenged could believe, for instance, that there would be a chance of the Turkish Cypriots living in the Morphou area voting in favour of its return to the Greek Cypriots. If the Morphou Mayor Mr Pittas thinks this is a myth, he should take a walk in the occupied town and ask the Turkish Cypriots, instead of touring foreign embassies, like some beggar, distributing meaningless resolutions.

Consequently, all the idiots who have been accusing DISY and AKEL, as part of the presidential election campaign, of planning on bringing back the Annan plan, should stop worrying. There is no chance of that happening. If we were rational people, we would have been prepared to kiss the backside of the person who brought back the Annan plan.
Under the circumstances, the only option left open to us is the two-state solution. After all, whether we like it or not, this is the wish of the majority of the people as has been indicated by a series of opinion polls. The president, Phileleftheros and the business establishment, who killed the opportunity for a settlement so as to hold on to power and all its benefits, contributed decisively in the forming of public opinion with their anti-settlement rhetoric.

It is the ultimate hypocrisy for them now to pretend that they are outraged because Talat spoke the bitter truth – that as we cannot have a marriage by force, we would have to sleep in separate beds.



Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007

September 2, 2007 Sunday Mail (a GC newspaper published in English)

Answer 4

Beacuase that plan was GROSSLY UNFAIR.To put it in a historical perspective that kind of plan would equal to a prpoposal in 1942 to have peace with the Nazis and in exchange to let them have what they had conquered!

Answer 5

They want a solution that is fair and that guarantees its sustainability. The fact that they are not ready to accept THIS solution doesn't mean they have to accept the present situation.

Answer 6

it was very unfair to the cypriot side..where you added the countries that accepted it, you shouldn't involve N.Cyprus, because there's no such country..the country is named REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS..! and if you wanna keep calling in that way, i don't wanna hear anything about you either..

Answer 7

Hi Ayse,

Nice question.
I read it all answers and everyone says, Annan Plan is Dead Plan or Unfair Plan, like that ...
Please let me, I want to ask a question for my friends...
I wonder,
First of All, Why did Mr. Papadapolus accept this aggrement and why did not he said 'This Plan was unfair' ?

Regards