Turkey has refused to open its ports, airports, and roads to the Republic of Cyprus, as it is obligated to do by the Ankara Protocol, which set the terms of Turkey’s accession negotiations. Turkey explains its refusal by the EU’s failure (as a result of a veto by the Greek Cypriot government in Nicosia) to fulfill its own promise to open up trade with Northern Cyprus, which is under Turkish rule.
争执焦点在于塞浦路斯。土耳其拒绝按照安卡拉协议（该协议规定了土耳其入盟谈判的条款）的规定开放通往塞浦路斯共和国的港口、机场和公路。对此，土耳其的解释是欧盟没有履行自己的承诺（因为尼科西亚的希腊族塞浦路斯政府投了否决票），开放与土耳其人控制下的北塞浦路斯的贸易。欧盟是在2003年12月的欧洲议会上做出上述承诺的，但迄今仍未履行。因此，有理的是安卡拉——不是欧盟！