BirKibrisli wrote:Piratis wrote:The "Treaty of Guarantee" as well as the 1960 constitution are nothing more than what was imposed on the Cypriot people by force, when Turks and British collaborated and attacked us in order to oppress our revolution for freedom and self-determination. In fact the intercommunal conflict started in 1958 by the TCs as part of their collaboration with the British.
Those treaties served exclusively the interests of those foreigners who made them, as well as their Turkish minority in Cyprus, who they used as the means and as the excuse to deny to Cyprus its freedom, and later rewarded them with unfair privileges on the expense of the vast majority of Cypriots.
In 1963 Makarios simply proposed changes to the constitution which were supported by the vast majority of Cypriots, and which would have made the constitution much more democratic and fair.
Unfortunately the TC minority who were used to have unfair privileges on the expense of the native Cypriot people since the time of the Ottoman rule, rejected the proposals and restarted the conflict with the aim to maintain their unfair privileges that were granted to them by the Turks and the British on the expense of every other Cypriot.
If Turkey thinks that that such disproportional and unfair "partnerships" should be made between the majority and ethnic minorities, then they can practice what they preach in their own country by doing such partnerships with the Kurdish and Greek minorities that live in Turkey. (not only they don't do that, but instead they don't even give to them their minority and human rights!)
What we believe is right for Cyprus, is what is right for every other modern civilized state. Democracy (=majority rule + minority rights), human rights and equality of all citizens without apartheid and racist discriminations. It is time for the Turks to recognize that we are not living in the Middle Ages, and that Cyprus is not part of their empire, and that they can not anymore divide the people of Cyprus into higher class Muslims and lower class Christians and expect such thing to be tolerated by us.
Republic of Cyprus today is ruled democratically by its own people (TCs are free to participate as well) and this is what makes it 100% legitimate, more so than any foreign imposed undemocratic and unfair "partnership" would.
We are only bound by what is right, which is freedom, democracy and human rights and not by anything that some Turks or British want to force on our island to serve their own interests on our expense.
What a pity,Piratis,that all through the 50s you were not concerned with Independence,but wished to gift our homeland to Greece on a plate...The demand for Enosis is the key to all that followed...When you admit that and apologise to all Cypriots for turning their island into a civil war site,then you will have the moral authority to throw your stones at the TCs...Not before..
So our "crime" was our desire for
freedom? Being independent means to have the power to decide the destiny of your own territory, and that is
exactly what we wanted, our self-determination.
Here is the UN resolution about decolonization which clearly defines "integration into an independent State" as a legitimate option for the people being decolonized. Why was this denied to us? To serve the interests of some foreigners and some small minority, on our expense?
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonizat ... ration.htmOur desire for freedom in a free Greek State is not something that started in the 50s, but something that started from day one of the Greek revolution. All Greeks were under Ottoman rule and all of us wanted to be free in a our own state. We didn't want to be split into several small protectorates to make it easier for some others to manipulate us.
During the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Ottoman authorities feared that Greek Cypriots would rebel again. Archbishop Kyprianos, a powerful leader who worked to improve the education of Greek Cypriot children, was accused of plotting against the government. Kyprianos, his bishops, and hundreds of priests and important laymen were arrested and summarily hanged or decapitated on July 9, 1821.
Just like in 1821 the Turks attacked us in order to stop us from having our freedom, the exact same thing they did in 1958 along with the British.
So are you going now to blame us because we wanted our freedom, instead of blaming yourselves for attacking us in order to deny to us our freedom and our rights, and gain on our expense disproportional and unfair privileges?
The fact is that the Cypriot people never ventured out of their own island to harm anybody, it is others who kept invading us. All we ever wanted is our
freedom and
self-determination so we, not some foreigners, could determine the destiny of our own island.
We are not going to apologize for revolting for our freedom. It is you who should apologize for helping foreigners to deny to the Cypriot people their freedom, and collaborating with foreigners so you can gain unfair and disproportionate privileges that were given to you as a reward for assisting them to oppress our revolution and maintain control over Cyprus against the will of the vast majority of Cypriots.
I’m afraid I can’t find any other link that verifies this “interview” or a journalist called “Richard Gilbert” at all… we’ve had this shit posted before by Zan haven’t we?
