Turkey’s AKP Leader: UN Plan for Cyprus is Workable

About 30,000 Turkish Cypriots protested Thursday, denouncing Mr. Denktash’s inflexible bargaining and calling for his resignation. Mr. Denktash opposes some aspects of the U.N. plan, which calls for an arrangement much like that in Switzerland – a national government with equal Greek and Turkish states.
February 28 is the EU suggested date for an accord. The recent EU summit in Copenhagen invited Cyprus to join the grouping. But union officials say unless agreement is reached, membership and economic benefits will extend only to the roughly two-thirds of Cyprus controlled by the island’s Greek-led, internationally recognized government.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the island after a Greek-backed coup in Nicosia.