Kinderland vote approaching

Turkey has entered the election frenzy for the June 7 parliamentary elections, the outcome of which perhaps will shape not only the life of Turks but also the place of Turkey in the global political game.

There is another important election too, the outcome of which might not have global impact but perhaps will be helpful in finally putting a in order the troubled Cyprus, which is the joint home of Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

Already there are talks that some international "big brothers" have been in the game to help out Espen Barth Eide, the U.N. secretary-general's special envoy to Cyprus, to resume the stalled Cyprus talks in May, immediately after the Turkish Cypriot presidential elections that have now entered a final phase.

On the third Sunday of April, electors will go to the booths to vote and either give the incumbent Dr. Dervi? Ero?lu another five years in office or choose one of the other five candidates. Either way, electors will open a new era- if not for the entire island then at least for the northern third - the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus or the "Kinderland" of the "motherland" Turkey.

The talk is that if the Greek Cypriot leadership can be convinced to return to the negotiation table through a discreet "face saving formula" - which is already known by everyone - then the undeclared target will be to sort out the more-than-50-year-old Cyprus problem by May 2016, submitting the deal to the approval of the two peoples in separate referenda. Otherwise? No one has yet said it openly, but the Turks say "everyone should go their separate ways, enough!"

Will that ambitious target succeed? Will the Greek Cypriots be able to bury their obsessive "all mine" attitude and share the governance, sovereignty...