[PDF] The Turkish Cypriot State eBook

Author : Nikos Moudouros
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030568733

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This book examines the evolution of the state of exception in which the Turkish Cypriot community has developed and how its relationship with Turkey has been transformed. It aims at a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances which led to the emergence of a Turkish Cypriot state of exception, as well as the procedures which led to the strengthening of resistance against its normalization. For a more comprehensive decoding of the aforementioned, this book studies the presence of Turkey in the everyday life of Turkish Cypriots in the framework of colonial politics. It examines in detail the transformation of the Cypriot space as it resulted from the pursuit for normalization of the state of exception. At the same time, however, this research underlines the ways in which the Turkish Cypriot opposition hinders the normalization of the state of exception through an alternative political program against the partition of Cyprus. The book aims to contribute to the broader academic research on states of exception and non-recognized state structures, through analyzing the ruptures caused in the hegemonic project. The research concerns the 1964–2004 period and is mainly, but not entirely, based on a large volume of primary sources.

Author : Costas Yennaris
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :

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This account of Turkish policy towards Cyprus since the 1950s was first published in Greece to considerable critical acclaim. What makes the book of such particular interest is the author's detailed study, often from primary sources, of Turkish ambitions to create a 'legal' basis for the Turkish Cypriots' demand for separate self-determination and sovereignty. The often painful consequences of cultivating mistrust between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot population are fully explained. The author also considers the implications of creating reunification of Cyprus as a bi-communal member state of the European Union, where the human rights of all Cypriots are fully safeguarded.

Author : Rebecca Bryant
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812252217

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What is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing an entity that looks like a state and acts like a state but that much of the world says does not or should not exist. In international law, the de facto state is one that exists in reality but remains unrecognized by other states. Nevertheless, such entities provide health care and social security, issue identity cards and passports, and interact with international aid donors. De facto states hold elections, conduct censuses, control borders, and enact fiscal policies. Indeed, most maintain representative offices in sovereign states and are able to unofficially communicate with officials. Bryant and Hatay develop the concept of the "aporetic state" to describe such entities, which project stateness and so seem real, even as nonrecognition renders them unrealizable. Sovereignty Suspended is based on more than two decades of ethnographic and archival research in one so-called aporetic state, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). It traces the process by which the island's "north" began to emerge as a tangible, separate, if unrecognized space following violent partition in 1974. Like other de facto states, the TRNC looks and acts like a state, appearing real to observers despite international condemnations, denials of its existence, and the belief of large numbers of its citizens that it will never be a "real" state. Bryant and Hatay excavate the contradictions and paradoxes of life in an aporetic state, arguing that it is only by rethinking the concept of the de facto state as a realm of practice that we will be able to understand the longevity of such states and what it means to live in them.

Author : Marshall Goldman
Publisher :
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN :

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Cyprus “is on the sea lane of the great maritime highway connecting the Mediterranean Sea through two sea gates - the Suez and Bab al-Mandab - with the Indian Ocean”. It links to “the Strait of Hormuz, leading to the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Malacca, connecting to the Pacific”. Cyprus is only 3,572 square miles in size. Turkey “lies just forty miles from its northern coast. To the east, Syria is only seventy-five miles away. Mainland Greece lies approximately five hundred miles west”. Cyprus “has been regarded as vital territory by almost every empire that has wished to assert control over the wider Eastern Mediterranean region”. Moreover, circumstances during the past 100 years have exposed long simmering grievances between Turkey and Greece. Consistent with this contention, during the latter part of the twentieth century, fighting ensued between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Conflict was followed quickly by the introduction of outside peacekeeping assistance by the United Nations. Notwithstanding the efforts of the UN, the Turkish military intervened in 1974 declaring a ceasefire after securing 37 percent of the island. This move was followed by two others: the proclamation of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus in 1975 and the dissolution of this state and its replacement by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) in 1983.The purpose of this paper is ascertain whether the TRNC satisfied the four Montevideo Convention criteria for statehood when it proclaimed itself to be a state. The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States contains the best known formulation of the basic benchmarks for statehood under customary international law. This paper concludes that the TRNC has failed to satisfy the fourth Montevideo criterion for statehood, a conclusion that raises vexed questions in light of the fact that the TRNC is currently entangled in the Syrian refugee crisis. Additional challenges arise in light of the fact that both internationally-recognised and aspiring states must pursue a delicate balance between their self-interests and international engagement. In any case, this paper shows that the ongoing dispute regarding the statehood of the TRNC likely ensures that Cyprus remains a vital territory in world affairs for the foreseeable future.

Author : George Kyris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131703273X

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The Europeanisation of Contested Statehood: The EU in northern Cyprus acts as a case study of the impact of the EU on institutions, political parties and civil society in 'contested states', self-declared states which remain unrecognised in world politics. Research drawn from qualitative analysis of official documents, public discourse and interviews with various officials and political and social elites within the EU and at a local level provides new insights as to the impact of the EU on northern Cyprus as well as a fresh understanding of the relevance of the EU to contested states in general. By doing so, the book reflects on what contested statehood means for Europeanisation and lays out a conceptual template for the study of contested states of the wider European periphery, such as those in the Caucasus, Transnistria, Kosovo or the occupied Palestinian territories, which continue to represent specific challenges to the international affairs of the EU.

Author : Michael Stephen
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Atrocities
ISBN :

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SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collection.

Author : James Ker-Lindsay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 019975716X

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For nearly 60 years, the tiny Mediterranean nation of Cyprus has taken a disproportionate share of the international spotlight. In The Cyprus Problem, James Ker-Lindsay--recently appointed as expert advisor to the UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Cyprus--offers an incisive, even-handed account of the conflict. Ker-Lindsay covers all aspects of the Cyprus problem, placing it in historical context, addressing the situation as it now stands, and looking toward its possible resolution.