Piratis wrote:edu500ac wrote:I am not TC or GC. I have entered this forum because I would like to learn what is going on. Please, my friends TC, correct me if I am wrong. I understand that (1) You are a minority (2) As any minority, in any part of the world, you agree to speak and use only the language that the majority have chosen as the official language of the country, a language that all the world respect, since it is the main vehicle of culture and civilization (3) You agree with elections where one man has one vote (4) You accept schools where classes are taught in Greek. To make a long story short, I understand that you accept the language, the decisions, and the laws voted by the majority. However that majority does not want you, like the Americans do not want us, native americans or Hispanics (in fact, Hispanics have nothing to do with people from Spain, they are native Americans that learned to speak Spanish). Did I understand the Cyprus problem well? Please, my friends GC, do not be mad at me. I just want to understand, and I do not want to take sides. I read a lot about displaced people too. As I understand it, the TC wanted to return the properties (houses, and land plots) that belong to GC in the nothern part of the island, in return for their acceptance in the Cypriot society, and in the EU as consequence; however, the GCs have not accepted these conditions, and refused to return to their ancestral homes. Did I understand well the root of the problem?
My GC friends, you are the inheritors of a civilization that goes back to almost 3000 years in the past. It is the civilization that gave us the alphabet, the mathematics, the logic, the democracy, the scientific notation, the philosophy, the most beautiful plays, etc. I do not need to talk about your past glories, because you do not ignore them. There isn't a single university in the world worth of the name, without a department of Greek language and civilization. I think that you should accept the Turk minority back, on the condition that they accept your beautiful language as the only official language of the country, your laws, as the laws voted by the majority, and the authorities that the majority choose to rule the country. There are many examples in the world of minority living according the rules of the majority. For instance, in the United States the Hispanics accept English as the official language in most states, even in states where they are the majority; they accept the laws voted by the majority of the people, etc. In Brazil, there is a huge German population; however, the Germans accept Portuguese as the official language, send their children to Portuguese schools, and accept the government elected by the Portuguese speakers. Since the TC are ready to abide to your laws, return properties that were alienated from you, and adopt your beautiful language, why don't you simply forget everything, and accept them back?
Hello edu500ac, it seems you are misinformed. Who told you that TCs are willing to accept Greek language, return the land, and all the other things you said?
In fact TCs who are the 18% of people do not even accept they are a minority - something totally illogical, but thats what they claim!! They do not want democracy with one man one vote, on the contrary they want their 18% to have the same power as the 82% of Greek Cypriots.
So the problem is not that we do not want them back. The problem is that they are using the army of Turkey to gain on our loss land and powers that do not belong to them.
don't think our friend here is not really a GC or a TC. Call me paranoid but he cuts too close to the bone.
