Piratis wrote:The point that I am trying to make is that given our history, to pass now to a unitary state, where the majority rules, would fill me with alarm. It would mean that there would be an automatic GC majority since voting would be on ethnic grounds, not for political reasons. Promotion and appointments would be on ethnic grounds, and TCs would come off second-best every time.
The treatment given by many GCs to foreign workers, with who they have no bad history, is often poor. I think that it will be many times worse with TCs with who there is bad feelings already.
So I ask you again: Saying that because there might be some illegal discrimination the "solution" is to make ethnic discriminations legal and part of the law is like saying that every country where some illegal discrimination exists (practically almost every country) should adopt the Apartheid. Maybe we should legalize slavery again as well?
There are many legal ways to protect minorities, as they are applied all over the world. So look past your hate against anything Greek, and see that Greek Cypriots are just people like everybody else, and not how your hate propaganda tries to present us, in an effort to convince you that "Gcs are evil so it is ok to kill them, ethnically cleanse them and violate their rights"
All over Europe (and the world) ethnically different peoples who history put together are parting in friendly (sometimes not so friendly) fashion. Regional autonomy in Spain for Catalonians and Basques, Czecoslovakia now two countries, Regional Parliaments in UK, Yugoslavia in so many pieces I forget all their names, the former Soviet Union. There has not been a proper government in Belgium for almost a year because the two language groups have fallen out with each other. Yet you want us to move in the opposite direction with our history!
In
all the examples that you gave, and I will add the Kurds in Turkey to the above, those people are
legally and naturally the majorities in their specific regions. The Basques existed and have been the majority in their region for 1000s of years, same with the Kurds and the Scottish. The Slovakians didn't steal the land from the Czechs, nor did the Slovenians from the Serbs.
The case of TCs has absolutely nothing to do with the above. There has never been a "Turkish Cyprus". Cyprus for thousands of years had a great majority of Greek Cypriots at its every corner. There was no "TC region" or anything of that sort. So based on what should the north part of our country, where until you illegally ethnically cleansed us we have for 1000s of years been the majority, outnumbering you 5 to 1, be your region???
The case of the TC minority has nothing to do with the examples you gave and everything to do with other minorities that were created due to colonialism. The TCs in Cyprus are
exactly like the Turkish minority in Bulgaria or Greece, or any other part where the Ottoman empire once covered and Turks spread there.
So if you want to separate in the way that they separated in the examples that you gave, then in that case the TCs would get some autonomy over the villages they have been naturally the majority, not over
OUR towns and villages. You have absolutely no right for that.
So I don't have a problem if you rule yourselves. What I have a problem is you stealing
OUR land. So if you want the TC villages to have autonomy , then really I have absolutely no problem with that.
GCs were fighting against the British colonialists. Not a single TC was harmed by GCs until you joined the British and you started the fight against us and our rights. 
