Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Levy Report and the ‘Occupation’ Narrative [View all]kayecy
(1,417 posts)The International Community has differing views on whether Northern Cyprus is under Turkish occupation, but few, if any, think like you that the situation is comparable to the West Bank.
1. Whilst many Turkish Cyriots want the Turkish army numbers (35,000) to be reduced, almost non of them want the Turkish army to leave.
2. The Turkish army and the people you say are under occupation are of the same ethnicity, religeon and speak the same language.....Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 to protect the local Turkish population.
I invite you to compare these basic characteristics of the Turkish control of Northern Cyprus with Israel's control of the West Bank.
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Wikepedia states the following as its definition of "Military Occupation":
Military occupation is effective provisional control[1] of a certain power over a territory which is not under the formal sovereignty of that entity, without the volition of the actual sovereign.The intrinsically temporary nature of occupation, when no claim for permanent sovereignty is made by the occupying entity, distinguishes occupation from both colonialism or annexation
Since Israel is definitely in "effective control" are you claiming it is not an occupation because the Israeli control is not of a "temporary nature"?