When the Ankara Protocol was agreed, the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan achieved something that, until then, had been considered impossible: he shattered the decades-old opposition of Turkish Cypriots to a compromise between the two parts of the divided island. Turkish Northern Cyprus accepted UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s plan (massively supported by the EU) to resolve the long-standing conflict.
安卡拉协议的签订标志着土耳其总理雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安领导的政府取得了之前被认为不可能取得的成就：他打破了数十年来土耳其族塞浦路斯不肯在这个岛屿分裂的双方之间接受妥协的固执。土耳其族的北塞浦路斯接受了联合国秘书长科菲·安南解决长期冲突的计划（该计划得到欧盟的大力支持）。但是希腊族的南部在其政府的怂恿和煽动下，拒绝了这个计划。如果欧盟委员会的报告因土耳其拒绝向希腊族塞浦路斯（现任欧盟成员国）作进一步的退让而将责任推到他们身上，而不肯批评尼科西亚政府这个真正的障碍，那将是非常不公平的，而且绝对是愚蠢的。