Hüseyin Işıksal
Professor Dr. Hüseyin Işıksal is the Special Advisor to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) President on International Relations and Diplomacy, a Member of the Negotiation Team, and the Chairperson of the International Relations Committee. He graduated from Türk Maarif College in Nicosia. He achieved a B.A. degree as a high-honour student from the Department of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University in 1998. He completed his M.A. at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom where he studied as the “Chevening Scholar of Cyprus”, awarded by the British Council Foreign Ministry & Commonwealth Office to the most successful graduate of the year. He received his first Ph.D. from the Keele University-United Kingdom, Department of Politics and International Relations with the thesis titled “Asymmetric Negotiations: Dichotomous International Order and Turkey-EU Relations”. He achieved his second Ph.D. from the Middle East Technical University-Turkey, Department of International Relations with the thesis titled “The Subordination of the Arab Regional System: The Cases of Egypt & Iraq”.
Since 2002, he has been a full-time lecturer in various universities in Turkey, England, and the TRNC. He has two different Associate Professorship titles obtained from the TRNC and the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in Turkey. In 2019, he became a full Professor in the field of International Relations. He has delivered speeches at many international conferences on subjects including the Cyprus issue, self-determination and statehood rights of the Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Foreign Policy and Maritime Boundary Delimitation and Hydrocarbon problems in the Eastern Mediterranean. He has over fifty publications written in English and Turkish in various peer-reviewed academic journals including Electoral Studies, Bilig, Alternatives, Asia Pacific Review, Gazi Academic View, SAM Papers, and International Journal of Ecological Economics. the Review of Research and Social Intervention. He is the editor of six books including Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium (Peter Lang), Blue Apple: Turkey-European Union Relations (Gazi), Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring (Springer Nature), Historical Examinations and Current Issues in Turkish-American Relations (Peter Lang) and Cyprus: Alternative Solution Models (Peter Lang). In 2014, Professor Işıksal was appointed as one of the members of the Consultative Committee of the TRNC Presidency for the negotiations. He was also the Near East University Representative of the TRNC Higher Education Supervision and Accreditation Board International Relations Planning and Co-ordination Group between 2018-2020.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Bülent Gökay, Prof. Dr. Rob J. Walker
Address: Lefkosa, North Cyprus
Since 2002, he has been a full-time lecturer in various universities in Turkey, England, and the TRNC. He has two different Associate Professorship titles obtained from the TRNC and the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) in Turkey. In 2019, he became a full Professor in the field of International Relations. He has delivered speeches at many international conferences on subjects including the Cyprus issue, self-determination and statehood rights of the Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Foreign Policy and Maritime Boundary Delimitation and Hydrocarbon problems in the Eastern Mediterranean. He has over fifty publications written in English and Turkish in various peer-reviewed academic journals including Electoral Studies, Bilig, Alternatives, Asia Pacific Review, Gazi Academic View, SAM Papers, and International Journal of Ecological Economics. the Review of Research and Social Intervention. He is the editor of six books including Turkish Foreign Policy in the New Millennium (Peter Lang), Blue Apple: Turkey-European Union Relations (Gazi), Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East: Political Encounters after the Arab Spring (Springer Nature), Historical Examinations and Current Issues in Turkish-American Relations (Peter Lang) and Cyprus: Alternative Solution Models (Peter Lang). In 2014, Professor Işıksal was appointed as one of the members of the Consultative Committee of the TRNC Presidency for the negotiations. He was also the Near East University Representative of the TRNC Higher Education Supervision and Accreditation Board International Relations Planning and Co-ordination Group between 2018-2020.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Bülent Gökay, Prof. Dr. Rob J. Walker
Address: Lefkosa, North Cyprus
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act that solidified Ankara’s alliance with the U.S. and the Western world. All of these factors made the U.S. and Turkey natural and traditional allies.
aslında çok fazla bilinmeyen ancak sadece Kıbrıs Türkleri için değil,
Türkiye ve Türk Dünyası için de hayati bir meseledir. Kıbrıs Türk halkının
yüzyıllardır verdiği onurlu mücadele sadece bir var olma mücadelesi
değildir. İçinde pek çok küresel ve yerel mücadeleyi de barındırır. Bir
başka ifade ile bu mücadeleyi sadece bir Türk-Rum mücadelesi olarak
görmek doğru değildir. Kıbrıs meselesi aynı zamanda Ada’daki Türklüğün
var olma mücadelesi, Kıbrıs Türklerinin başta Anavatan Türkiye
olmak üzere tüm Türk Dünyası ile bağlarını koruma mücadelesive aynı
zamanda yüzyıllardır değişik boyutlarda devam eden Doğu Akdeniz’deki
jeopolitik güç ve hakimiyet mücadelesi ile doğrudan ilgilidir.
position on the Two-State solution in Cyprus. The analysis
consists of three interrelated parts. Initially, the question of
whether Turkish Cypriots are entitled to ‘peoplehood’ that can
exercise the right of self-determination according to international
law is discussed. This is followed by evaluating the reasons driving
the Turkish Cypriot side to exercise the right of self-determination
and whether Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)
fulfills the criteria for statehood. In accordance with arguments
carried out in the previous sections, the final part delves into
the reasons for the Turkish Cypriot position on the Two-State
solution in Cyprus in detail. It is argued that Turkish Cypriot
people possess all of the attributes of statehood and are entitled
to the same rights and status as the Greek Cypriot side currently
exercises. Therefore, reinstating Turkish Cypriot people’s rights
by reaffirming their sovereign equality and equal international
status is necessary for a just and sustainable settlement in Cyprus.
act that solidified Ankara’s alliance with the U.S. and the Western world. All of these factors made the U.S. and Turkey natural and traditional allies.
aslında çok fazla bilinmeyen ancak sadece Kıbrıs Türkleri için değil,
Türkiye ve Türk Dünyası için de hayati bir meseledir. Kıbrıs Türk halkının
yüzyıllardır verdiği onurlu mücadele sadece bir var olma mücadelesi
değildir. İçinde pek çok küresel ve yerel mücadeleyi de barındırır. Bir
başka ifade ile bu mücadeleyi sadece bir Türk-Rum mücadelesi olarak
görmek doğru değildir. Kıbrıs meselesi aynı zamanda Ada’daki Türklüğün
var olma mücadelesi, Kıbrıs Türklerinin başta Anavatan Türkiye
olmak üzere tüm Türk Dünyası ile bağlarını koruma mücadelesive aynı
zamanda yüzyıllardır değişik boyutlarda devam eden Doğu Akdeniz’deki
jeopolitik güç ve hakimiyet mücadelesi ile doğrudan ilgilidir.
position on the Two-State solution in Cyprus. The analysis
consists of three interrelated parts. Initially, the question of
whether Turkish Cypriots are entitled to ‘peoplehood’ that can
exercise the right of self-determination according to international
law is discussed. This is followed by evaluating the reasons driving
the Turkish Cypriot side to exercise the right of self-determination
and whether Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)
fulfills the criteria for statehood. In accordance with arguments
carried out in the previous sections, the final part delves into
the reasons for the Turkish Cypriot position on the Two-State
solution in Cyprus in detail. It is argued that Turkish Cypriot
people possess all of the attributes of statehood and are entitled
to the same rights and status as the Greek Cypriot side currently
exercises. Therefore, reinstating Turkish Cypriot people’s rights
by reaffirming their sovereign equality and equal international
status is necessary for a just and sustainable settlement in Cyprus.
Deriving from these points, this article discusses the alternative models for the Turkish Cypriots under three evolutionary parts. Initially, the United Nations (UN) Annan Plan is analyzed as the historic and last opportunity to unite the island. It is put forward that the strong rejection of the Plan by the Greek Cypriots demonstrated that they do not want to share the legislative, executive, and judiciary organs with the Turkish Cypriots and have opted for a unitary state. In the second part, the paradoxical European Union (EU) membership of the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) is discussed to demonstrate that it constitutes a clear and evident clash with the principles of international law and the Greek Cypriot administration has no pressure or incentive to compromise with the Turkish side under the current situation.
Turkish Cypriot communities, and although the Government of Cyprus has not asserted its
sovereignty over the Turkish Cypriot’s area since 1964, the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) became
an European Union (EU) Member State on May 1, 2004 without a comprehensive settlement of
the Cyprus problem.
Workers’ Party’s (Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan—hereafter PKK) terrorist activities.These developments also highlighted the long-standing dilemmas inherent in the Turkish foreign policy toward the Middle East: Turkey’s Kurdish issue and the country’s Sunni-oriented foreign policy.