The relations between the EU, Cyprus and Turkey
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The time of mutual threats, carefully considerations and complaints is over again for one more time and the EU accepted at its assembly on December, 15 the proposal of the commission and thus the accession negotiations with Turkey have been shelved in eight points. Now, Turkey will enter a slowed-down period of negotiations in order to become a member of the EU.
Among the shelved points of negotiations are topics like the free circulation of goods, transport, customs union, agricultural economy, fishing and external relations. The reason for shelving these points of negotiations has been announced as the not-opening of the airports and ports for the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey. According to the protocol of Ankara, firmed already in the past, the government had agreed to open its air- and seaports for the Republic of Cyprus. But as a precondition of being able to fulfil this, the lifting of the embargo against Northern Cyprus has been demanded. As the embargo against Northern Cyprus was not lifted, the government did not accomplish the conditions in the firmed protocol.
The Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) of the EU decided at an assembly on December, 20 to open the negotiations between the European Union and Turkey on one point. The expectation of Turkey was the opening of the negotiations on four points. Due to the pleading of the Greek part of Cyprus, the points of negotiations were reduced to one.
As always, also this time some of the EU-countries gave some moral support to the Turkish bourgeoisie. Some said: "Go on with the reforms, don't abandon your hopes, someday you will become a EU-member." With such promises Turkey has been kept waiting since the beginning of the 1960ies until today for almost forty years in order to get the candidate status. As it has been seen that this keeping waiting would not work anymore, a EU-delegation chaired by Xaviar Solana, which came at the time of the Helsinki summit at a midnight-hour in 1999 to Turkey, informed the Prime Minister of that time, B. Ecevit, that the candidate status for the EU-membership had been accepted. On that day, the phase of the EU accession negotiations started.
The position of Germany and France, as leading countries of the EU, is to make Turkey not a member of the EU but to prevent also its breaking away completely from the EU.
England and Spain are of the opinion that the accession period of Turkey should not be dragged out more. Therefore, Zapatero said that they consider it as important to keep the doors of the EU still open for Turkey and Blair said it would be a serious mistake of the EU on a long-term-basis to give Turkey a negative response at this stage.
Germany and France, as imperialist countries of the EU, which became masters of extension of the accession negotiations, as well as other countries, which say that Turkey shouldn't be member of the EU but also not break away completely, now are using the problem between Greece and Turkey, which are since 2004 problems between Greence-Southern Cyprus and Turkey, as a new obstacle before the accession negotiations instead of the "reforms" which Turkey already accepted to apply. Now, the problems shall be transformed into problems between the EU and Turkey; that means to problems which have to be negotiated during the accession negotiations of Turkey. In this sense, the not-opening of the air- and seaports today is a topical reason for the discrepancy. Tomorrow they will surely find another one.
The problem of the accession of Turkey to the EU is really a problem of world politics, at least one which is of interest for world-politics in the context of the USA-EU. For the EU, which wants to turn the Black Sea into a inland sea of the EU, Turkey is an indispensable country. From the point of view of the EU, which wants to have influence in the Middle East and in the Caucasus, Turkey has an indispensable position. At the same time, the EU cannot do without Cyprus, even only out of its plans to expand its sphere of influence in direction to the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkey and Cyprus are expanding the hegemonic sphere of influence of the EU to the Caucasus, the Middle East and the Near East. But at present the US imperialism has the hegemony in the same area and it wants to keep its position. For these reasons, nor the EU nor the USA can do without Turkey or Cyprus. Only if Turkey would completely break away from the USA, its EU-membership may be possible. The USA will continue to support the EU-membership of Turkey in order to enforce its own position within the EU.
The course of development of the struggle of competition between the USA and the EU on our region will determine if Turkey will become member of the EU or not.
 

 

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The time of mutual threats, carefully considerations and complaints is over again for one more time and the EU accepted at its assembly on December, 15 the proposal of the commission and thus the accession negotiations with Turkey have been shelved in eight points. Now, Turkey will enter a slowed-down period of negotiations in order to become a member of the EU.
Among the shelved points of negotiations are topics like the free circulation of goods, transport, customs union, agricultural economy, fishing and external relations. The reason for shelving these points of negotiations has been announced as the not-opening of the airports and ports for the Republic of Cyprus by Turkey. According to the protocol of Ankara, firmed already in the past, the government had agreed to open its air- and seaports for the Republic of Cyprus. But as a precondition of being able to fulfil this, the lifting of the embargo against Northern Cyprus has been demanded. As the embargo against Northern Cyprus was not lifted, the government did not accomplish the conditions in the firmed protocol.
The Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) of the EU decided at an assembly on December, 20 to open the negotiations between the European Union and Turkey on one point. The expectation of Turkey was the opening of the negotiations on four points. Due to the pleading of the Greek part of Cyprus, the points of negotiations were reduced to one.
As always, also this time some of the EU-countries gave some moral support to the Turkish bourgeoisie. Some said: "Go on with the reforms, don't abandon your hopes, someday you will become a EU-member." With such promises Turkey has been kept waiting since the beginning of the 1960ies until today for almost forty years in order to get the candidate status. As it has been seen that this keeping waiting would not work anymore, a EU-delegation chaired by Xaviar Solana, which came at the time of the Helsinki summit at a midnight-hour in 1999 to Turkey, informed the Prime Minister of that time, B. Ecevit, that the candidate status for the EU-membership had been accepted. On that day, the phase of the EU accession negotiations started.
The position of Germany and France, as leading countries of the EU, is to make Turkey not a member of the EU but to prevent also its breaking away completely from the EU.
England and Spain are of the opinion that the accession period of Turkey should not be dragged out more. Therefore, Zapatero said that they consider it as important to keep the doors of the EU still open for Turkey and Blair said it would be a serious mistake of the EU on a long-term-basis to give Turkey a negative response at this stage.
Germany and France, as imperialist countries of the EU, which became masters of extension of the accession negotiations, as well as other countries, which say that Turkey shouldn't be member of the EU but also not break away completely, now are using the problem between Greece and Turkey, which are since 2004 problems between Greence-Southern Cyprus and Turkey, as a new obstacle before the accession negotiations instead of the "reforms" which Turkey already accepted to apply. Now, the problems shall be transformed into problems between the EU and Turkey; that means to problems which have to be negotiated during the accession negotiations of Turkey. In this sense, the not-opening of the air- and seaports today is a topical reason for the discrepancy. Tomorrow they will surely find another one.
The problem of the accession of Turkey to the EU is really a problem of world politics, at least one which is of interest for world-politics in the context of the USA-EU. For the EU, which wants to turn the Black Sea into a inland sea of the EU, Turkey is an indispensable country. From the point of view of the EU, which wants to have influence in the Middle East and in the Caucasus, Turkey has an indispensable position. At the same time, the EU cannot do without Cyprus, even only out of its plans to expand its sphere of influence in direction to the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkey and Cyprus are expanding the hegemonic sphere of influence of the EU to the Caucasus, the Middle East and the Near East. But at present the US imperialism has the hegemony in the same area and it wants to keep its position. For these reasons, nor the EU nor the USA can do without Turkey or Cyprus. Only if Turkey would completely break away from the USA, its EU-membership may be possible. The USA will continue to support the EU-membership of Turkey in order to enforce its own position within the EU.
The course of development of the struggle of competition between the USA and the EU on our region will determine if Turkey will become member of the EU or not.