Byron wrote:Piratis wrote:You are responsible for contirbuting to the division of this island and signing an agreement you had not intention of honouring.
And why do you think we signed something for which we had no intention to honour? The only answer can be: Because we were forced.
We are the 80% majority of this island, and still instead of being allowed to decide ourselves in a peaceful and democratic way what we want for our own island, we were forced to sign something which some foreigners made, and which would serve the interests of those foreigners along with the interests of some small minority that helped them achieve their aim, and not the interests of the Cypriot people as a whole.
We are not bound by any "agreements" which are forced on us by foreigners against our human and democratic rights. We are only bound by what is right and just, which is nothing else than freedom, democracy and human rights.
So Mr Pirate,
What is your proposal for a solution to the Cyprus Problem? I woul be interested in reading it.
What constitutes a solution is simple and straightforward: freedom, democracy(=majority rule + minority rights) and human rights without racist discrimination. These are the principles of a true solution. The details could be various and could address in a correct way any justified concerns of the TC minority without violating the rights of anybody else.
What is not at all simple and straightforward is how will get to a solution.
This is because some foreigners have their own interests in Cyprus and they do not want to allow Cyprus to be free, and because the TC minority got used in the unfair gains that are promised to them by the invaders of Cyprus and they can not see themselves as just equal Cypriots without any unfair privileges.
Some could claim that an easy way to solve the problem is to just accept whatever the Turks demand. The result would be an even bigger problem for us, but for those people the label "solution" is what matters, and not the essence. For me, and I believe for the majority of Cypriots, the essence is what matters, and not labels such as "solution" and "unification".
I don't have any recipe for how exactly a solution can be achieved. What I know is what we should do in order not to make things even worst for ourselves. What we should do is to maintain our rights over the whole island, keep Turkey out of EU (in my opinion the sooner Turkey leaves the negotiations the better), actively support PKK, and strengthen our ties with Greece and other potential allies.
Turkey is a torn nation. Islamists VS Secularists and Turks VS Kurds. Many bad things can happen to Turkey and we should be prepared for them because in the not so distant future the balance of power can change (and by that I don't mean Cyprus vs Turkey one on one)