A first reaction to this document must be that for a nation of 556,000, this was a very elaborate and very rigid constitution. It runs to 199 articles and of these the 48 “basic” ones were to remain unalterable in perpetuity.
The remainder could in practice only be altered by mutual agreement of the two communities. Drafted with the help of a Swiss constitutional adviser, the constitution was of the consociational variety which gives the preservation of the ethnic balance higher priority than majority rule.
Moreover the constitution, thus heavily freighted, was screwed into the international system by the accompanying treaties. Under the Treaty of Guarantee with Britain, Greece and Turkey, the Republic of Cyprus undertakes to uphold its own independence and its own con-st...
Lizbon Antlaşmasının labirentlerine girmeden önce sevgili okurlarımın KURBAN BAYRAMI’nı kutlar, sağlık ve mutluluklar dolu nice bayramları görmelerini dilerim.
13 Aralık 2007 tarihinde AB Devlet ve Hükümet Başkanları Konseyi’nde imzalanan Lizbon Antlaşması’nın ve Nihai Senet’in resmi olmayan çevirisini edinmek isteyen okurlarım bana e-mail göndererek söz konusu çevirileri edinebilirler.
AB’nin temelini oluşturan topluluk antlaşmaları 1950’li yıllarda Avrupa’da ortaya çıkan ulus-devlet krizinin ve aşırı milliyetçiliğin ortaya çıkardığı güç mücadelelerinin sona erdirilmesini amaçlıyordu. Kömür Çelik ve diğer topluluk antlaşmaları ile Avrupa ülkeleri bu çabasında başarıl...
Rum gazetelerine ve Kıbrıs Rum Yönetimi başkanı Papadopulos’a göre BM Güvenlik Konseyinin 14 Aralık tarih ve 1789 sayılı kararı büyük bir zafer.
Gerçekten de bir zafer mi?
Biz her şeyi kaybettik de Rumlar Kıbrıs konusunda yeni kazanımlar mı elde etti?
Her şey bitti mi?
Bunu yanıtı, kısa ve öz olarak “Hiçte öyle değil”dir.
Bu olaya nereden, hangi açıdan ve neyi hedefleyerek baktığınıza bağlı.
BM Güvenlik Konseyinin son aldığı 14 Aralık 2007 tarih ve 1789 sayılı kararını, yıllar önce alınan ve izolasyonlara temel teşkil eden 18 Kasım 1983 tarihli 541 sayılı karar ve 11 Mayıs 1984 tarihli 550 sayılı kararla ve bunların üstüne inşa edilen tüm diğ...
Cyprus gained her sovereign independence by virtue of a consti-tution and three treaties — the Treaty of Guarantee, the Treaty of Al-liance and the Treaty of Establishment, all of which came into force on the same day — Aug. 16, 1960.
They were interrelated so that, for example, the 48 “basic articles” of the Constitution were incorporated into the Treaty of Guarantee while the two Treaties of Guarantee and Alliance were in turn men-tioned to “have constitutional force” in Article 181 of the constitution.
The third treaty, the Treaty of Establishment, makes it clear that the boundaries of the Republic of Cyprus do not coincide with those of the island, in that Britain retains absolute sovereignty over two en-claves, totaling 99 square miles which contain the...
The island of Cyprus has been attempting to resolve its internal and external political associations for the past 52 years.
The roots of the Cyprus problem can be traced back to the 1950s, when Greek Cypriot and Greek aspirations to achieve enosis (the island’s union with Greece) took the form of a terrorist campaign against Turkish Cypriots as well as British colonial rule. Despite at-tempts by Greece to exploit the issue in the UN, the UN General As-sembly has not upheld Greek demands designed to achieve annexation under the guise of self-determination, but urged negotiations among the parties concerned. So when Britain gave Cyprus independence in 1960, a series of sui generis agreements had to be reached, designed to compromise the conflicting interests of the Turkish and Greek ...
