TURKISH CYPRIOTS' EXPECTATIONS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

It has been more than a year that the Turkish Cypriots, responding to the calls of the international community and embracing the values of the EU integration process, convincingly voted in favor of the Annan Plan. The Union should accept that Cyprus, for the time being, is an unusual case of a federal bi-communal member state in which the central level of government had, by default, put itself into a situation of having zero jurisdiction in one entity and should not, therefore, let the Greek Cypriot Administration to be a stumbling block for the economic development of Turkish Cypriots.