Birkibrisli
Zan,I have gone blue in the face telling you the kind of RoC I want us to join...It is the kind of country I would be proud and happy to call my own.. It will be fully democratic and have high respect for human rights and equal opportunity. It will have a judiciary of high principles,and the rule of law would always take priority...There will be no discrimination on ethnic background reasons,nor will there be any special preferences...The right to life and property and dignity as a human being would always be respected...Differences would be considered as riches and they will be encouraged and fostered. My Cyprus would be all inclusive.Everyone who is a Cypriot and/or has a right to live in Cyprus would always be treated as an equal.There will be no foreign symbols or anthems.Everything would be uniquely Cypriot. And every Cypriot would swear alligance to his/her homeland,and pledge to defend it against all foreign aggression...
This is the ultimate goal but it can only be achieved through a comprehensive solution with safeguards to allow us to build trust and understanding, the GCs are not interested in sharing they have what they want and are only after the remaining 10% where we are the minority and they are the rulers in our country.
I can see the question forming in your mind...How do we get there from here???With great difficulty. With a lot of compromise and give and take.
With alot of measures to foster trust and understanding between Cypriots of all backgrounds. Not with playing the blame game and keeping the old hatreds alive.Not with collaborating with any foreign power. Not with having or keeping the symbols of another culture and civilisation.Not while taking pleasure in the pain and suffering of our compatriots.Not by accepting a subservient position towards anyone...By having pride in our flag and our people and our culture...
You obviously do not know your own community well, how long has it been since you were in the TRNC and talked directly with TCs who live here?
I have never blamed just the TCs for the situation we find ourselves.And I have always said the present RoC government is not doing enough to instil confidence and acceptance in TC hearts and minds...
this is agree with and go even further they are the recognized half of Cyprus and shoudl do more if they really wanted a solution which I doubt very much.
But I am harder on the TCs now because they and only they can tell the power who is occupying 37% of our country to go away. One brave and visionary statement by MA Talat,asking Turkey to kindly allow us to rule in our own country,and exercise our right to self determination,and demanding a return to the only legal entity we have in our own right,the Republic of Cyprus of the 1960 constitution would be enough to start the whole status quo unraveling...I say it is upto Talat and the TCs to make the first move now,because they have the most to lose.Our very cultural and national identity are at risk of being drowned in a huge tsunami of our own making...We can't afford the luxury of paving the EU way for anyone...We have to act now,and act on the international stage,to wrestle our rights in our Republic back in our own hands...We cannot afford to leave our fate into the hands of Turkey or the present rulers of the RoC...We need to have the courage to rise up and take charge of our own fate...Before we become an exclamation mark in the history of world civilisations
And how do you propose we support our economy after telling Turkey to fuck off? do you feel your GC brothers will dip into their pockets to support the TRNC while we try to negotiate union or will they spend millions on a full scale attack to reclaim the north? People like Piratis and Kifeas have pent up anger waiting to explode at the first opportunity why do you think GCs want the Turkish army to leave today prior to any agreements? Your being naive in thinking that we want Turkey to leave before anything has been resolved thats why they came in the first place and you would be putting us in grave danger if you felt Talat should ask for Turkey to leave as this would give an advantage to the GCs to try and starve us out so that they could get the best possible solution in their favor.
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