A bluff gone sour!

I believe Turkey is playing her last round at the Cyprus poker table. Cyprus, over the years, played her game well given the prevailing power balance. Today we sit on a UN ID, an EU membership, and a potential treasure. We have every reason to be cautiously optimistic. By July 1st 2012 all players will show their hand. Choosing sides means that they all have to state unequivocally their support for the RoC. The alternative means siding with Turkey. Extremely doubtful given the present power balance & Turkey's Islamic tendencies and flirting in all the wrong places.

Kaizen

My favorite Japanese word is neither Toyota nor sushi. It's kaizen. It stuck with me since my MBA days. It is a philosophy of constant, meticulous improvement, in quality and process.

Most of us think revolutions happen overnight because of the abrupt way they manifest themselves. The fact is they happen in kaizen sort of ways, either positive or negative countless steps in the same direction, daily, person to person, soul to soul ... signature to signature.

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tCypriot imperfections!

tCypriots have felt stuck between a rock and a hard place for a long time. Inaction used to be an option. No longer. Turks treat them condescendingly, accusing them of being lesser, imperfect Turks. Their "imperfections" however are exactly what make them Cypriots. It is those "imperfections" that make us all Cypriots, regardless of language. I say to tCypriots: Choose with your heart and the last 50 years will feel like a bad dream in less than 12 months! Vote your agreement or disagreement here (you need to be logged on Facebook).

Daniel Pipes: Is Turkey going rogue?

Daniel Pipes: Is Turkey going rogue?
Daniel Pipes Sep 27, 2011 – 7:30 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 26, 2011 5:14 PM ET

In a Middle East wracked by coups d’état and civil insurrections, the Republic of Turkey credibly offers itself as a model thanks to its impressive economic growth, democratic system, political control of the military, and secular order.

But, in reality, Turkey may be, along with Iran, the most dangerous state of the region. Count the reasons:

Turkish Cypriot isolation: another neo-Ottoman myth!

   

Civil war

Emre Uslu "Two things have changed. The perception of “Kurds” among Turks has changed. In the 1990s Turks differentiated the Kurds from the PKK. Therefore, they did not associate their Kurdish neighbor with the PKK. Now, however, there is an increasing tendency for Turks not to separate ordinary Kurds from the Kurdish nationalist PKK and its sympathizers. Second of all, the recruitment pool of the PKK has shifted from the southeastern Kurdish-dominated cities to the major metropolitan centers such as İzmir, İstanbul, Mersin and other Aegean coastal cities. Therefore, the new generation of PKK militants now knows how to operate within the urban centers and is able to hit and hide...Its new war strategy is to trigger a civil war between the ordinary Kurds and Turks."