Hi guys, sorry to say but I think your knowledge about Cyprus prob. is very limited. i am not here to enlightened you I just want to comment on this whole so called isolation of TCs. Well it has nothing to do with who was responsible for the Cyprus tragedy, if GCs used violence against TCs and so on. Perhaps it is true that TCs are the ones who suffered the most as a result of Turkey's intervention in 1974, but it is not so black and white as ukturk presents it.

Well the whole embargoe issue is that TRNC is not a recognised country therefore TRNC cannot trade directly with other countries until the Cyprus dispute is over, an attempt to do that is de facto recognising TRNC and therefore legalising ethnic cleansing.

The Republic of Cyprus which I admit was at times unfair with TCs, cannot be blamed for the isolation. The government is recognised globally as the only legal administration over the whole of Cyprus with the northern part being illegally occupied. The problem of RoC is that while it is legally responsible for the North, it is not able to control it so it was the right of the government to declare the legal ports of Cyprus and the imports/exports of the Cyprus products. The government is happy to allow TCs to trade their products only through the legal ports but TCs refuse.

So the whole problem of embargoes is not about GCs trying to isolate TCs, in fact the RoC helps TCs significantly and since 2003 when the Turkish administration accepted to open the buffer zone and the benefits offered by the government to them, the economy in the north boomed and reached almost the same levels as the South. In fact I believe the isolation was a deliberate game played by Turkey to make ordinary TCs go against their compatriots, blame them for all their troubles and allow the Turkish military indirectly ruling TRNC to justify its presence.

So the matter is not about GCs trying to isolate their compatriots, it is a political game where the one party is trying to avoid permanent partition and the other party is trying to secure it. I wish we Cypriots one day stop blaming the other for our problems and start work together and with mutual respect and cooperation find a mutually acceptable settlement.