The Failed Test of Legality

Yıl 2010, Cilt: 3 Sayı: 1, 25 - 32, 01.01.2010

Rauf R. Denktaş

Öz

The right of Turkish Cypriots “to life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” as stated in the US Declaration of Independence has been denied to them by several resolutions of the UN Security Council starting from March 1964. Greek Cypriot attempts to subjugate and exploit Turkish Cypriots by denying their fundamental human rights have been endorsed by the UN Security Council by refusing to put a proper, impartial diagnosis on the so-called Cyprus problem, which has been occupying the agenda of the UN since 1954 with only a short break between 1958 and 1960, when the partnership Republic of Cyprus was declared to be an independent state and accepted as a full member of the UN and its deliberate destruction by the Greek Cypriot partner in December 1963.