Seminar leader	Bart Klem
Room	ALC psykolgen
Time	13:15 - 15:00
Instructions	Familiarize yourself with the character and background of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. You can use whichever sources you find useful, but for some of the most insightful work, I would direct you to Rebecca Bryant, Mete Hatay, Yael Navaro(-Yashin), and Costas Constantinou.

As discussed on Wednesday, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) represents an unrecognized, de facto state that existed since the 1980s and is now consolidated into a set of institutions that resembles a modern state (governance, courts, democratic politics, etc). Technically, the northern part of Cyprus is part of EU territory, since the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) joined the EU in 2004. However, the Acquis Communautaire (the accumulation of EU law) stands suspended, which limits the ability of TRNC inhabitants/citizens to claim their rights under EU law. At the same time, the TRNC continues to rest on a contested sovereign foundation and most countries reject its legal status, most obviously the RoC and Greece, both EU member states.

In this seminar, you represent a group of legal advisors to the European Commission to give the commission input on the legal considerations of EU engagement with the TRNC. The Commission wants to resolve this undefined borderland at its external periphery, it feels guilty about letting Northern Cyprus down when the RoC became a full fledged member on its own, and it is under pressure from several countries (and Turkey in particular) to reach out to the TRNC in some way. At the same time, the RoC and Greece are vehemently opposed to any effort to legalize any aspect of the TRNC. Your worries do lot lie with this political bargaining (though it is relevant background). Your task is to review the relevant perspective of law and the legal reasonings one could present to engage with the TRNC, perhaps in a limited manner, and if so how.

We will discuss in pre-defined groups.

Schedule:

13:15: Welcome and clarifying questions.

13:20: Discussion in groups.

14:00: Break.

14:15: Groups present their work + discussion.

15:00: Close.