turkcyp wrote:Having a huge GC population in north does not bother me at all. As I have expressed earlier i do not care even if there is no limitation on how many GCs settle in north.
And also I do not care if they vote in the northern state as well in the state elections. For that I care, they can even run for the governor (or premier, president whatever you want to call it) of the northern state as well.
But there has to be found a legal way of stopping these GCs in participating federal level elections in the central government and participating state wide elections relating the federal decisions. Otherwise equality of communities will be just on the word not on the substance.
And so far, neither Annan Plan nor what Alex is proposing gives that solution. Both of the solutions involve restrictions on political participation on the basis of ethnicity which most probably would be deemed against human rights of GCs by the ECHR. So in order to avoid this there has to be found a legal restrictions on residency (or state citizenship if you will) not on the ethnicity.
That is why my proposal was treating GCs settling in northern state as not a resident for political purposes. And the way I propose doing this was that, any GC that settles into northern state would have dual residency both TC state and GC state, GC state residency being the primary residency (even though she/he stays in north exclusively. From the legal perspective you actually do not even have to own a property to be resident, so these GCs would be primary resident of southern state in name only for political voting purposes, just like how they vote in USA federal elections in the name of absentee or overseas voting) and secondary residency in northern state.
And furthermore the internal constitutions of each state would be forced by the federal constitution to give all the voting rights secondary residences holders, with the exception of the two rights above cases.
IMO this is the only legal way of restricting political participation to preserve equality. Otherwise any measure based on ethnicity will turn from ECHR.
Take care,
Tukcyp,
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here. Do you mean that the GCs who live in northern Cyprus should not be allowed to vote for federal decisions as residents of the north?
If this is what you mean then the only way that his can be bypassed is through a non-permanent agreement, because otherwise this is discriminating against ethnicity. I do understand your viewpoint though (if this is what you mean)
