Unfair Play

Hence the monograph proposed that, while the Aegean dispute should be settled by the International Court of Justice, the Cyprus problem should be handled on the basis of the numerous legal/political pronouncements and decisions of such international organizations as the European Union and the United Nations. [...] As the relevant section of the Opinion put it, “At issue are the unity, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Cyprus, in ac- cordance with the relevant resolutions of the United Nations.”34 Unfair Play: Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, the UK and the EU 17 Universal was also the condemnation of the 1983 unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) by the illicit regime of occupied Cyprus (. [...] The division of the island is not acceptable and causes suffering to the population (...) We call for full respect of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of all Cypriots’.”48 This statement, which echoed the leitmotiv of the Republic’s appeals to the international commu- nity since 1974, confirmed the validity of the sympathetic thesis, i.e. [...] Thus, just as Greeks and Turks from the mainlands had falsified the clichés of entrenched hostility through “citizens’ diplomacy” after the 1999 earthquakes, the same applies to the Cypriots, despite the prolonged agony and anger caused by the invasion and the occupation.62 A week later, the government of the Republic announced a series of social and administrative measures to support the Turkish. [...] According to Professor Selim Deringil, the Ozalian “vision” was trans- regional and comprised the following: “Turkey as the only member of the ‘European Club’; Turkey the leader of the Middle East in economic and Unfair Play: Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, the UK and the EU 33 political terms; Turkey the leader of the Turkic peoples in a Soviet Union now in disintegration”.72 From the perspective of 2005.