ANKARA - The Turkish/Cypriot leader, Mr Rauf Denktash, mentioned the possibility of a war in Cyprus, saying the current tendency in the island was toward a conflict, not unification.
"If an accord is forcefully imposed on Cyprus, without sufficient guarantees, the smallest incident between the Turkish/Cypriots and the Greek-Cypriots may explode the whole of Cyprus like a volcano," Mr Denktash said in a radio interview, according to the Turkish/Cypriot TAK news agency. "The current tendency in Cyprus is toward a war, not unification," he said in the Turkish sector of Nicosia. He also renewed his call for the integration of the Turkish-Cypriot state with Turkey if the EU opens talks with Greek-Cypriots for Cyprus's membership of the EU.