The main concerns of GCs are not the use of their properties by
TC refugees (this happens in the South as well), but the blatant
exploitation of their property for commercial gain.
Do you know how much land was sold to foreigners on both sides of the Island in last 30 years. I'm sure it is much more in South than North; per capita. You'll say GCs don't sell TC land to foreigners but TCs sell GC land. Why because land belongs to TCs in North is only 3.6 of overall Island. TCs d not only sell GC land to foreigners but their own land as well. There is a construction and real estate sector in every country; in North too. Theoretically TCs own %18 of Cyprus. However despite both sides agreed on a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation in 1975; the concerned politicians of both sides almost did nothing to achive this goal. If the territorial adjustments and exchange of properties had been settled in early 80s, then if the Cyprus problem haven't been solved today; there wouldn't have been such an issue, selling GC land to foreigners.
Moreover, the embargos being imposed on TCs is also an important factor urges TCs to sell land and make a living. In North noone can sell any land to foreigners without the permission of Council of Ministers. The permissions of selling GC land to foreigners are determined in accordance the demand from foreigners to buy GC land and the financial need of "TRNC" government. Under the embargos "TRNC" government hasn't got much income but it needs lots of financial resources to turn the wheels of "TRNC". The tax income it gets from the sales of land to foreigners puts good cash in government's account. The land sales also put good cash in pockets of TCs, directly or indirectly.
It is obvious that one of the important factor on sale of GC land is the inhumane embargos. However GC leadership instead of helping to elliminate this factor; does everything it can to isolate TC community economically more and more. Most of the economical measures GC side offered to TC side are all towards achieving their unilateral goals that TCs will never accept. According to GC side TCs are only a minority, living in occupied areas of RoC. According to GC leadership, Cyprus problem solely consist of occupation; TCs are citizens of RoC who live under the rule of illegal occupation regime. The defacto regime of South assumes that it represents whole Island and TCs but it does not.
Also be sure that whilst the right to life is obviously of greater
importance than the right to property two wrongs do not make a right.
It can also be argued that what has actually kept the peace is not
the exclusion of GCs from the North but also the exclusion of TCs from the
south.
Actually noone was forced to abandon the places they were living pre-74. Overwhelmin majority of both communities fled to opposite ways during the war of 1974. Then the 3rd Vienna Agreement signed in 1975. According to this agreement several hundreds of TCs chose to stay in South and several hundreds of GCs(mostly Maronites) chose to stay in North. In post-war Cyprus, as a consequence of 11 years lasted inter-communal violence and strife; thousands of people from both sides lost their lives, beloveds and friends. Therfore there was an extremely dangerous hostile mood from either community to other. It was too hard for both communities to rebuild their relationships and state of affairs in unitary state, under the then circumstances.
The period of 1963-1974 was not one of a genocide mission
of one side against the other but one of inter-communcal conflict orchestrated by both sides. This should always be born in mind when trying to understand the Cyprus issue.
Yes, it is true that this inter-communal conflict orchastrated by both sides but have you ever asked yourself if after the establishment of RoC, GC side had abandoned Enosis idea and degrading TCs to a minority what would have happened?
