Cyprus: A federal or two-state solution?

Year 2017, Volume: 19 Issue: 43, 15 - 36, 01.06.2017

Hasan A Deveci

Abstract

The Republic of Cyprus came into existence in 1960 as a Greek-Turkish bi-communal partnership. Intercommunal strife and the ultimate coup against the fist president prompted Turkey’s intervention in 1974 which quelled the violence since but partitioned the island. Despite repeated and often encouraging promises, endeavours to reunite the island have so far been in vain. In the context of the accumulative respect for human rights sanctioning secession as the exercise of the right of self-determination, the potential contribution which political dynamism in the Eastern Mediterranean and the discovery of energy reserves in the Levant can make to a future settlement, this article reconciles statehood with the status of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus TRNC; analyses the question of secession as it relates to Northern Cyprus; and discusses the prospect for a federal or a two-state solution. It concludes that exporting Levant energy to Europe via Turkey is economically the most viable option and that a unified Federal Republic of Cyprus, with a constitutional right of secession, or two fully independent states within the supra-national framework of the European Union EU are viable alternatives

Keywords

Cyprus, disenfranchisement, energy, geo-politics, self-determination

Kıbrıs: Federal yoksa İki-Devletli Çözüm

Abstract

Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti 1960’da Rum-Türk ortaklığı olarak İngiltere, Yunanistan ve Türkiye garantisi altında kuruldu. Kuruluşundan 3 yıl sonra başlayan halklar arası mücadele, 1974’de zamanın cumhurbaşkanına karşı darbeye ve can güvenini sağlayan ama ayni zamanda adayı bölen Türkiye’nin müdahalesine yol açmış. Bu güne dek sulh korunmuş olsa da, ümit verici birçok görüşmelere rağmen, bölünen adada federe devlet kurulamamıştır. Konu edilen araştırma uluslararası gelişmekte olan insan haklarını, Doğu Akdeniz’de keşfedilen enerji kaynaklarını ve siyasi gelişmeleri konu eder ve Kıbrıs’ın iki bolümlü federe devlet olanağını veya Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti’nin KKTC’nin tanımını inceler. Araştırma Doğu Akdeniz Bilâdü’ş-Şâm Levant bölgesinde keşfedilen enerjinin Karpaz-Türkiye boru hattı üzerinden Avrupa’ya dağıtımı en uygun seçenek oldugunu ve Kıbrıs Federe Devletinin kuruluşu veya iki özgür devletli Kıbrıs’ın Avrupa Birliği’ne AB üye olabileceğini savunur

Keywords

Kıbrıs, temsil-dışlanması, enerji, küresel-siyaset, özgür-yönetim

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