Turkish Cypriot daily Volkan newspaper (27.06.14) reports that the Turkish Cypriot negotiator Kudret Ozersay has criticized the European Union (EU) for calling on Turkey to recognize the Republic of Cyprus. According to Volkan, Ozersay commented in his Facebook account on the “Joint Attitude Document” and alleged that “the EU must seriously question whether in this manner it is supporting the solution process or it is becoming an obstacle”. “In this manner, not only the status quo is not questioned, but it is almost welcomed”, he claimed.
Ozersay alleged: “The EU officials ordered the ‘normalization of Turkey’s relations with the Greek Cypriot side. The negotiations, which have been continuing for 46 years for solving an international discrepancy that is on the UN Security Council’s agenda for 50 years, are being carried out for putting an end to an abnormal situation and establish a new normal order of things. With this approach, the EU wants for an abnormal situation to be treated as normal as it is. Treatment as ‘legitimate government’ even though there is no solution, membership to the EU even though there is no solution, unilateral use of the hydrocarbon resources in the sea even though there is no solution. If all these are possible without a solution, the conclusion reached by the UN Secretary-General in 2004 continues to be valid today and therefore no one can accuse the Greek Cypriot leadership: ‘If all these are possible without a solution, why should we share the power and the wealth with the Turkish Cypriots with a solution?’…”