Viewpoint wrote:It is estimated to be around 400,000. All males and females from 18-60 y.o. what else would you like to know?
Wow real large number, more than half your population, alarming, do you think we should get guns as well?? only to be used against you if a war should start, like Piratis is predicting, I to want to protect my family.
My friend, you do not need guns your self!
Mama Türka is here to protect you. The guns in our side are here to protect us from Mama Türka and not to kill you. Currently Mama Türka has 40,000 troops sleeping with their boots on and ready to attack us in 5 minutes alert. GC army has only 14,000 troops. If the reserves didn't have their guns at home, it means they will need at least one hour to show up to their units, take arms and ammunition and become ready to fight. By this time (one hour delay,) mama Türka’s Army -together with 500 tanks, will be in Pafos. We do not complain, like you do all the time in this forum, for the 40,000 troops, the 500 tanks, the 100 howitzers and all the various missiles that Mama Türka hides inside Kyrenia Mountains. Why do you complain to us? If you do not like all these guns, go and complain to Madam Türka to reduce her army from Cyprus. However, before you do this, make sure they will not arrest you for undermining Madam Türka’s national interests. Because now there is a law which prohibits anyone in Turkey (and presumably in the north,) to speak against the presence of her troops in Cyprus. It is considered an offence, equivalent to treason, and you may find your self in front of a military court.
Now on our side, these guns are strictly regulated. Before each gun is given to a reserve, it is fired so that the gun’s shooting prints (like fingerprints,) are recorded together with the serial number. If anyone uses one of these guns, then immediately they know from the shell imprints, which gun fired. There are very strict penalties, including imprisonment, for anyone using a gun without authorisation. Did you sense, if and whenever you crossed to the south, that there are any people around, pointing their guns to you? Did you notice anyone holding one such gun and walking around the streets?
To the contrary, whenever I cross north to visit my village, I have to pass outside approximately 15 Turkish military camps, until I reach my village. Did you ever ask me how I feel, whenever I pass outside each one of them and the soldiers, having recognised my car’s plates, look at me like an enemy, although I am in my country and they are the "visitors" in it?
In addition to all the above, my friend Viewpoint, You must know that this military expenditure is currently costing us about one million euros per day. If you consider how much this is per year, you will realise that with all these money we could be building 10 big hospitals or 5 big universities every year. I say this so that you know we are also interested in ending up this story with Mama Türka, so that we can utilise these money in a better and more civilised way. I also say this so that you and many others, stop thinking that the reason GCs didn’t accept the Annan plan was because of economic interests. No one small country with 700,000 people, in their right senses, is interested in wasting such a huge amount of money every year.
