RecursiveParadox

That has been the plan since the oligarchs took off their masks.

Turkey will never be admitted to the EU so long as it continues to illegally occupy 1/3 of Cyprus. Cyprus will never vote to admit them until Turkey leaves.

And given Turkey’s strategy of giving houses and land to uneducated and virtually skill-less peasants from the Anatolian highland, reintegration may never be possible anymore.

Once Cyprus joined the EU all hope for admitting Turkey was utterly and completely lost.