Mr Davutoglu agrees that decades-old peace talks between Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot leaders should not be open-ended.
The Greek-Cypriot president, Tassos Papadopoulos, has assured his voters that he has scores of vetoes up his sleeve.
Already, some 40, 000 Turkish-Cypriots have taken Greek-Cypriot passports, and another 40, 000 are waiting.
Tasos Papadopoulos, the Greek-Cypriot president, has already said that he is against a referendum before the conclusion of negotiations.
Unfortunately this still remains unfulfilled because of continuous objections from the Greek-Cypriot side.
Yet the (Greek-Cypriot) republic, with a population of only 850, 000, will be running the EU's ministerial business for six months.
The official position of the (Greek-Cypriot) government is that unless Turkey recognises it, it might veto the opening of talks.
Embarrassingly for Mr Denktash, at least 2, 000 Turkish-Cypriots are said to have applied for Greek-Cypriot passports in the past two months.
Greek-Cypriot civil servants, with their background of British law and a healthy economy behind them, are fast mastering the candidate-countries' dossiers.
Greece will try hard to ensure that the ten include a soon-to-be reunified Cyprus, not just, de facto, the Greek-Cypriot half.
Greek-Cypriot hoteliers and builders are looking to Turkish-Cypriots to fill a worsening labour shortage in the faster-growing and by now very much richer south.
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In that case, the Greek-Cypriot administration will join the Union alone.
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The original (Greek-Cypriot) owner sued for compensation and won in Cyprus.
Meanwhile, Turkey's mercurial prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is hinting at war over Greek-Cypriot drilling for gas off Cyprus's southern coast, prompting a sharp rebuke from the Americans.
Under a UN special envoy, Alexander Downer, the Greek-Cypriot president (Demetris Christofias) and his Turkish-Cypriot counterpart (Dervish Eroglu since March 2010), have held 100 meetings since September 2008.
As the Greek-Cypriot president, Tassos Papadopoulos, gleefully noted in December, he will have many opportunities to veto Turkish entry: the negotiations could last for ten years or more.
It backed a coup by Greek-Cypriot soldiers sympathetic to enosis.
Further gloom is cast by an impending Greek-Cypriot presidential election.
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Others heaped praise on the Greek-Cypriot leader, Glafcos Clerides.
Moreover, it is hard to see how Turkey can ever join the EU without a settlement in Cyprus, since it would first have to recognise the Greek-Cypriot government and abandon the Turkish-Cypriots.
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Turkey is obliged to open its ports and airports to Cypriot-registered ships and aircraft under an agreement extending its customs union to the ten governments, including the Greek-Cypriot one, which joined the union in 2004.
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He took his case to Britain, and earlier this year the European Court of Justice ruled that, even if a Greek-Cypriot judgment against British owners were unenforceable in northern Cyprus, it could be enforced in Britain.
While Mr Karamanlis is keen to help Turkey along the road to EU membership, he must contend with elderly Greek-Cypriot leaders who doubt whether they can rub along with their Turkish-Cypriot counterparts in a federal state.
Eight are formally blocked because Turkey has not kept an agreement to open its ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus, an EU member since 2004 (Turkey does not recognise the Greek-Cypriot republic and insists that Turkish north Cyprus is being unfairly blockaded).
Might its (Greek-)Cypriot government try to block Turkey's entry, as the Turks fear?
And neither Greek-nor Turkish-Cypriot politicians look likely to come up with a settlement that could satisfy most people in both communities.
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The rapprochement should consolidate over the next few months as the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot governments adopt measures to help the two economies converge.
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The restructuring of Laiki and the sale of the toxic-asset laden Greek branches of Cypriot banks is expected to cut the amount the country needs to raise to about 3 billion euros instead of 5.8 billion euros, officials have said.
Poets must be well-versed in the Greek Cypriot dialect, possess adequate knowledge of the popular poetry of Cyprus and the ability to retrieve existing, well-known Tsiattista and, above all, must be able to improvise a new couplet on a specific theme within very strict time constraints and be able to respond to his or her opponent.
The Secretary-General then met with Greek Cypriot leader Dimitris Christofias.
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