
As the Cypriot authorities have claimed – entirely legitimately – EU business with occupied Cyprus must effectively involve the Cypriot Government.
Hence our vote. 
Gollnisch (NI ),
    We have not forgotten that Cyprus suffered military invasion 30 years ago, at a time when the international situation was admittedly tense. We have also not forgotten that it was, and still is, split in two, nor that the Greek population was driven out of the north of the island and robbed of its property and land. Nor have we forgotten that the north of Cyprus is still occupied by a foreign power which brought tens of thousands of its citizens to the island and, in doing so, followed up military occupation with colonisation on a huge scale.
We do not object in principle to either Turkey as a country or the Turkish community, which has held Cypriot nationality for several generations.
We believe, however, that as long as the problem of military occupation has not been resolved, it would be inappropriate for the European Union to grant significant amounts of money to Turkey, the occupying country and yet a country which it is preparing to welcome into its ranks.
We cannot support such a state of affairs, and we will vote against the Rothe report. 
Lang (NI ),
    For the past 30 years, one third of the island of Cyprus has been occupied by the Turkish army. This army has committed ethnic cleansing by driving Orthodox Cypriots from their land in order to give it to Turkish settlers from Anatolia.
Not only have the European institutions failed to condemn this violation of international law which affects a Member State; from now on they will be funding it. Why is this the case?
The reason is that our leaders wish to remove all obstacles to the accession of Turkey, an Asian and Muslim country, to the EU. After having flouted the basic rules of geography which tell us that Turkey is not a European country, they are now flouting the principles of international law, although they constantly claim to adhere to these latter in orde