halil wrote:Tim ,
Tümay Tuğyan works at Bayrak TV ....
I hope you can translate below one as well for forum members . most of the GC's forum members knows about this report but TC's at abroad or other forum members does not read greek or turkish ...
tell them what Prist is thinking as well ......
Halil, let me try to again re-explain to you a few things, and hopefully this time you will somehow be able to understand them, if such a thing is ever possible. History, Halil, is like a cycle. If you someone is not able to properly read and interpret history, he is bound to repeat the same mistakes that him or others did in the past.
From 1968 – 1974 (before the events) we (the two communities) were also negotiating for a solution. We (GCs) thought we had the upper hand, simply because the TCs have abandoned the RoC and had locked themselves in the enclaves in order to realize their partition dream, but somehow they became hostages to their own delusions and ended up suffering in isolation and near financial devastation. This fact the GC side thought it had given us an advantage, which (we thought) allowed us to negotiate from a strong position and dictate all or most of our terms. Clerides, at the time, managed to extract from Denktash quite a lot of concessions, Makarios however, acting under the fear of some extremist nationalists among the GC side who wanted “all or nothing,” but also under his own prejudices, was refusing to close the deal and wanted more and more concessions from the TCs. To this end, a deal was not closed, and in 1974, the tables were turned upside down.
We (GCs) were now in a disadvantage situation, and the TCs and Turkey in an obvious advantage position, occupying almost 37% of Cyprus and us (GCs) having 200,000 refugees from the north. Under these circumstances, the Turkish /TC side managed after 1974 to extract from the GC side too many concessions, with the most important been our acceptance to transform Cyprus and the RoC from unitary state into a bi-zonal federative one, with one area (zone) to remain under TC majority habitation and local internal majority administration. Such concessions were unthinkable and entirely non-negotiable by the GCs, before 1974, unthinkable by your side to have ever achieved under the pre-1974 and the pre-1960 realities, and unthinkable by any other people in a similar situation, across the globe.
However, instead of your side making an example and learning from our (GC) pre-1974 mistakes, you have come up in exactly the same and even worst way, insisting for 35 long years in the same “all or nothing” policy. So far, you have gotten northing, and it seems you will continue getting nothing, until something like 1974 happens and the tables are turned once more upside down. Like us before 1974, you thought -and still keep thinking- that you have an advantage over us, and that we are the ones negotiating with our back against the wall, exactly like we used to think before 1974. This diluted and mistaken policy has backfired against your side already once, in 2004, when we have managed to enter the EU without a solution, and with the whole of Cyprus under the de jure sovereignty of the RoC. This event alone has leveled the playing field, and whatever advantage you thought you had has now become extinct. Yet, you continue the same illegitimate “all or nothing” ideology and policy, without being able to learn anything from history.
The likelihood is that you will continue along the same diluted ideas, because your leadership, your educational system and your “motherland” do not allow you to see further than your nose. Unless by then you come to your senses, stop making illegitimate claims and asking for the impossible, the time will come that the tables will again be turned upside-down, like they did in 1974. When this will come, do not come here crying, for you have (a) been warned and (b) have also been given plenty of chances already. Life on earth and history have their cycles, and the ones that learn from them are the ones that win and prosper.
