hi there guys
ive decided to write a post on what these embargos mean and how they affect n cyprus, these embargos placed on north cyprus dont have no authority of any u.n security council resolution under article 41 of the u.n charter, but due to the misunderstood un resolution 186 passed on 4th of march 1964 the Greek Cypriots have been able to legitimise their status as the sole recognised authority in Cyprus and effectively deny Turkish Cypriots their legal, political and basic human rights.

The u.n resolution 186 was the u.n plan to stop all the violence caused by the greek cypriot coup in dec 1963 Resolution referred to working with the “Government of Cyprus”, which at that time was 100% staffed with Greek Cypriots.
Greek Cypriots have used this as the sole “legitimate” authority on the island, even though this contradicts with the 1960 Constitution of Cyprus where both Turkish and Greek Cypriots are politically equal

what does this mean

the n cyprus postal administration has been denied any status within the Universal Postal Union and turkish cypriots do not have internationally recognised addresses or telephone numbers. All mail and calls to and from north cyprus must go via Turkey, as a result the entire 220,000 citizens of North Cyprus are relegated to a PO Box, with all mail to and from north cyprus having to go via Mersin 10, Turkey

Turkish Cypriots are not allowed to participate or host international teams, or sporting/cultural events In April 2005 the cyprus fa prevented Huddersfield Town from playing a friendly match in north cyprus. This was in spite of the English Football Association having no objection to this game and overlooks the historical right of Turkish Cypriots to their own football federation which dates back to 1955.

In 2004, Greek Cypriots prevented the Olympic torch from travelling into North Cyprus as part of its global journey before reaching Athens for the 2004 Olympic Games

29 April 2004 the e.u passed the EU Green Line Directive to establish direct trade between North and South Cyprus. Since then north cyprus has promoted trade enabling south cyprus produced goods to be sold in the North and for commercial vehicles registered in the South to operate in the North yet to date south cyprus has failed to to do the same

Embargoes have meant the North Cyprus cannot be recognised as a candidate for loans by the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank

in 2004 the e.u pledged a 259 million euros (£176m) aid package for Turkish Cypriots to help bolster the economy, this aid has been consistently blocked by greek cypriots who continue to benefit as one of the most subsidised countries in the world

Many countries do not recognise a passport issued by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, forcing many Turkish Cypriots to obtain adocument from either Turkey or from the Republic of Cyprus so they can travel around the world, which adds cost and time, and loss of identity

Greek Cypriots use the number of Turkish Cypriots holding Republic of Cyprus passports as a tool to claim they are the only legitimate authority on the island but fail to add that it is through the Greek Cypriot imposed embargoes that Turkish Cypriots are forced to apply for these

here are some examples where the greek cypriot's have tried and stoped north cyprus prospering as a independant self runned country

Norwegian company Trygve Tonjum Import AS for a long time had been importing potatoes from north cyprus the Norwegian agricultural authorities accepted certificates issued by the Turkish Cypriot authorities.

In 1997 as a result of constant protests from the gc's the norwegian ministry of foreign affairs, in a letter dated 9 April 1997, told its Ministry of Agriculture that only certificates issued only by the “Republic of Cyprus” would be accepted for imports from Cyprus that required health certificates. and certificates issued by turkish cyprus would not be reconized

When hsbc bought out turkish bank demirbank in 2002 and they announced they were opening branches in n cyprus a senior manager from the greek cypriot central bank went to London to pressure the british financial services Authority to stop hsbc's operations in the north but this one protest the greeks did not win even thou they are still protesting about it

even with the only mixed villiage the greek government prevent both greek cypriots and visiting tourists from buying anything from turkish cypriots people that purchase such goods are arrested and fined or jailed by the greek cypriot authorities.

20 March 2001 the greek cypriot police stopped the car of greek cypriot theofilos papapetru on the Larnaca-Pyla road and found four cases of fish worth 337 Cyprus Pounds in his possession the fish was confiscated and Papapetreu was put under arrest for two days.

27 October 2000 British expatriate robert jagger who lived in paralimni south cyprus was arrested by greek cypriot police for shopping in a Turkish Cypriot owned shop in Pyla they were arrested and then taken to larnaca airport and fined 30 cypriot pounds

I hope this enlightned a few people on what the turkish cypriots have been through and still are going through with these embargos this has to stop because this a blatant human rights violation!!!!
regards
ukturk

Im on a bit of a roll at the moment,as you might have seen on the other posts.
So what can be done about the embargo`s as this is bang out of order.
Why is there only one side of the story (GC SIDE) BEING TOLD
regards get2nc

hi mate
yeah you are defo on a roll
to tell you the truth mate there is nothing that the joe public can do, even thou pettions have been started nothing gets done about it, and you are right most of the world listen to the greek propaganda as usual, cos they are in the e.u now they think they can complain about everything and anything that north cyprus does cos they are rubbing shoulders with the big boys i.e france-germany-britain etc but these countries are starting to see how petty greece and south cyprus are toward turkey and north cyprus, so all we can do is hope and pray that some sense prevails (looks like britain are trying to fight in the north cyprus corner)
regards
ukturk

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.