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9/13/05

Stressing the obvious

Turkish Daily News

"Stressing the obvious
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

TDN editorial by Yusuf KANLI
It's sometimes difficult to understand diplomacy. After much wrangling Britain and France have agreed on “compromise wording” for a counter declaration the European Union will issue to Turkey's July 29 declaration stating that extension of the customs union to cover all new EU members including the Greek Cypriot state did not amount to Turkish recognition of the internationally recognized EU-member government in southern Nicosia.

Right from the beginning of the latest flurry of activity between Turkey and the EU and between EU term president Britain and the French-led “Turkey-skeptics,” it was known that excluding the Tassos Papadopoulos regime in southern Cyprus, neither Paris, nor Vienna or any other capital was demanding Turkey's outright recognition of the Greek Cypriot state as a condition for the start of the talks, and even the Greek Cypriots had started mellowing. "

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