It may be "knowable" if the Turks support the town only by sea - I
can't imagine the UN is allowing military transports across it's
surrounding sector. If we find that the de facto sovereignty being
exercized in the surrounding waters really has the town isolated, then
we would know what we are dealing with. The UN must be able to tell
us what's up.
LN
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> kokkina is really a de facto political exclave
>
> but because there is no agreement between cyprus proper &
> turkish cyprus delimiting their respective seas
> as there is between cyprus proper & the uk restricting the sba
> areas to dry land only
> it is unknown & unknowable whether kokkina is an enclave
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A. Nadybal"
> <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> > Is Kokkina really an enclave [exclave]? That would, it seems to
> me,
> > depend on who exercizes sovereignty over the water off the
> coast to
> > the open sea.
> > LN
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Meynell
> <knm@m...> wrote:
> > >
> > > >I haven't heard of Kokkina/Erenköy since I visited this
> website a few
> > > >minutes ago, but I take the liberty to assume the enclave
> still exist.
> > >
> > > It was certainly still there when I was in Cyprus last year. The
> > area was
> > > heavily guarded by UN troops, and it wasn't possible to enter.
> > >
> > > I managed to take a photo of the enclave from road that
> bypasses it.
> > >
> > > http://www.meynell.com/cyprus/kokkina-enclave.jpg
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Kevin Meynell