Nikitas wrote:Bananiot said:
"Then, you call for all the settlers to be removed and umit objects to this (rightly in my view)"
Letting the settlers stay, without any concurrent provision to encourage expatriated Cypriots to return is a sell out.
In another thread regarding GCs in England the figure of 270 000 was mentioned. Most of these people are legally citizens of Cyprus. It is a large number of people to leave out of the settlement simply to accommodate settlers who KNEW when they moved to the island that they were usurping other peoples' properties.
I will go one further and say exclude the GCs from incentives to return, limit them to TCs only. The problem is not the number of people in the north, but their origin. It is much preferable to have a half million TCs than one hundred thousand mainland Turks there.
It is surprising that people do not understand the problems settlers will create in the future.
If I may say something about this Diaspora matter please N. One of the things that has long troubled me ( since the Anon Plan ref ) is that a great, great many of the Diaspora are not legally Cy nationals and are therefore ineligible to vote in any referendum, even though their former homes and lands are occupied and are being discussed. In my case my sole legal nationality is a GB one. Both my parents emigrated in the early '50s and they too have only a GB nationality. We all have lands in the occupied north.
There are many 10,000s in the Diaspora in the same situation. Legally not CY citizens even though they have generation upon generation of CY history, whereas these newcomer, land-grabbing "settlers" ( one of whom has pinched my FiL's house and land in a village in the Karpas ) are accorded citizenship and the vote in the occupied north.
I also think that the EU would have something to say about incentives for one group to return and the same incentives not being offered to the others.
