Eight are formally blocked because Turkey has not kept an agreement to open its ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus, an EU member since 2004 (Turkey does not recognise the Greek-Cypriot republic and insists that Turkish north Cyprus is being unfairly blockaded).
Though the dove of peace was the symbol of Ecevit's party, he authorized Turkey's invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974, when Turkish Cypriots feared a Greek military coup.
Turkish nationalists and generals expressed concern that this might prevent Turkey, a member of NATO, blocking Cyprus, which remains divided into ethic Greek and ethnic Turkish republics, from joining the military alliance.
Mr Papandreou has also had to react nimbly to an acceleration of diplomatic moves over Cyprus, which could make or break the Greek-Turkish rapprochement that is his biggest achievement as foreign minister.
Turkey blames the EU for letting in Cyprus before ending the island's division between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Cyprus was split into an internationally recognized Greek speaking south and a breakaway Turkish speaking north in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
Both men reject Greek-Cypriot demands that some 30, 000 Turkish troops sent to Cyprus when Mr Ecevit was prime minister in 1974 should be withdrawn as a precondition for peace.
If Mr Clerides and Mr Denktash are to remake Cyprus, such are the grim instincts on the Greek side as much as the Turkish one they have to tame.
Moreover, it is hard to see how Turkey can ever join the EU without a settlement in Cyprus, since it would first have to recognise the Greek-Cypriot government and abandon the Turkish-Cypriots.
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Cyprus, under this far-from-new plan, would be a federal state with Greek and Turkish zones, neither of them linked to their respective mother-countries.
Working groups comprising Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have devoted time and effort to thoroughly discuss all aspects of the Cyprus problem.
Ever since Turkish troops landed on it in 1974, when a coup by Greek-Cypriot extremists briefly threatened to make Cyprus part of Greece, the 200, 000 or so Turkish residents of northern Cyprus from which nearly as many Greeks fled after the invasion have enjoyed peace and security.
Demilitarisation is also awkward: Greek Cypriots do not like the presence of 30, 000-35, 000 Turkish troops in northern Cyprus.
In theory Turkey has until then to open air- and seaports to the Greek-Cypriots, but it refuses to do this until EU trade restrictions on Turkish-controlled north Cyprus are lifted.
Nor is the Yilmaz government likely to be strong enough to open the way to a settlement of the Cyprus quarrel by persuading the Turkish Cypriots to show enough flexibility to produce a deal with the divided island's Greek Cypriots.
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