-mikkie2- wrote: You say you don't want to loose you rights for a degree of political equality! And what is it you are demanding from the Greek Cypriots? To loose some of their rights at the expense of keeping yours? Is this your jolly idea of a compromise?
The bone of contention for the TC's for many years was political equality. Now, after the land grab it has bocome political equality and keeping pretty much what you took from us as well.
We wanted our rights to some political equality. We did not have the balance of power till 74 and had lost these rights. In 74 we gained these rights and some of your land (and lost some of ours but much less than we gained). What we want now is our political rights as a community and to not be the sloe losers of what happend in 74 to get them. That is we do not want to have to once again have ours lives turned upside down in order to get what should have laways been ours without dispute. So what we offer is abandonment of the persuit of recgonised partition and independance as a seperate state AND some 'quid pro quo' on the property issue involving some loss for TC as they stand today and some loss from GC from where they stood in 74 in return for the political equality that was always our right under the original consitution. That is my idea of compromise - jolly or not. For me TC getting political equality (always their right under the original consitution) and bearing all the pain of the solution to the events of 74 is not compromise. Is that your idea of a jolly compromise. You give us back what was laways ours and we bear all the pain alone for the consequences that followed from your earlier 'theft' of what was rightfully ours?
by metecyp » Thu May 19, 2005 2:37 pm 
