The Caucasus conflict affects Cyprus

The daily Politis argues that the Caucasus conflict will also influence the Cyprus problem. "From now on ... Russia will exercise greater influence on international problems. The times when [US] policy was the one and only policy have come to an end. Our country will also be ... affected. Some argue that if South Ossetia is granted the right to independence and sovereignty, the same rights should be granted to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Those who demand this are ignoring the fact that Turkey's position is more contradictory now than it was in the past. On the one hand it backs the US and Europe and calls for the withdrawal of the Russian army from Georgia, but [in doing so] it puts itself in the position of having to explain its refusal to withdraw the army it has had stationed in Cyprus for 34 years now."   

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