User talk:3meandE
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Welcome & TRNC
Hello and welcome to the Wikipedia;
I see that we have some common interests and hopefully in futere we'll be cooperating ;)
About the discussion in the TRNC page. As you can see we had a long long discussion there about this subject. "de facto independent" is a term used for such countries (
"de facto" says to the reader that it's "in fact" there, but lawfully doesn't exist.
The sources about this are totally independent and NPOV (Such as the Guardian newspaper, a book by an American middle east expert etc.)
So Turkey recognizes TRNC as a "de jure" independent republic, while it's a "de facto" independent republic for the rest of the world.
I know it's confusing, but no one yet could come up with a better, NPOV explanation for this, and this seems to partly satisfy everybody. Plus I wish the situation in Cyprus was not like that, but unfortunately it is;
I guess that was a bit tense of a subject to step in wikipedia;
Welcome again;
Regards, Kerem Özcan 07:36, 23 August 2007 (UTC)