As a new round of negotiations on the resolution of the Cyprus dispute is about to start in Geneva, there are growing voices inside the EU that point out the dangerous possibility Turkey will be able to influence EU policies through the Turkish-Cypriot constituent state after a possible solution.

“Turkey isn’t just Turkey,” adding that apart from its 79 million citizens there were hundreds of thousands of other “brothers” in the geographical regions to which it had been historically and culturally bound, pointing to “western Thrace.”

Breaking a 91 year old tradition that sees the incumbent Turkish president living in the Çankaya Köşkü (Çankaya Villa), Tayip Erdogan today moves his household to a veritable palace called “Aksaray.”