insan wrote:From Reed Coughlan
Perry Anderson writes that the British government manipulated Turkish fears in the 1950s to produce ‘the intractable reality of a community that felt itself entitled as of right to a disproportionate share of power on the island, yet continually lived on its nerves as if under imminent siege’. He goes on to say that the constitution handed to Cyprus in 1960 ‘had inflated the Turkish position in the state far beyond what a minority of its size could in normal circumstances have claimed’. While the intractable reality may be fairly described in this way, it did not originate from British manipulation of Turkish fears nor did it derive from the provisions of the 1960 constitution. The sense of entitlement in the Turkish Cypriot community developed much earlier. The Turks ruled Cyprus for three centuries and they have never become accustomed to being treated as a minority. In 1882, for example, shortly after the British took over the administration of the island they proposed the creation of a legislative council based on proportional representation, comprising nine Greeks and three Turks. (Cyprus was not ‘acquired by Britain from the Ottoman Empire’ in 1878, as Anderson claims: Turkey maintained sovereignty over the island until Britain annexed Cyprus in 1914.) The Turks protested because they saw it as undermining their rightful position and status as former rulers. ‘The project of proportional representation in the Legislative Council is in every respect detrimental to our rights and destructive of the safety we enjoy,’ they said.
To this day Turkish Cypriots bridle at the use of the term ‘minority group’. Their refusal to be treated as such is anchored in geography and politics. Turkey is forty miles away and is the stronger and more strategically valued member of Nato. The true intractable reality is that the Turkish Cypriots are a minority on the island but belong to a majority group in the region, while the Greek Cypriots are a majority on the island but a minority in the region. This situation gives rise to fears in both communities.
Reed Coughlan, fails to take into consideration that this is the 21st century, and even though many Turkish Cypriots may still have wet Ottoman dreams lingering from the past, as a community they have since been surpassed by all & sundry by miles and in every way possible…
They are a minority, they are bankrupt, as has been proven they are incompetent at trade & commerce, they are generally under-skilled and under-educated by today’s standards, and they are socially and culturally mostly living in the past.
As a distinct community, the probability that they can ascertain themselves in the 21st century as a worthwhile “power” on Cyprus is next to zero, unless some external power such as Turkey was to constantly keep them above water and forcefully put them in an “influential” position, but even then such a charade would not last… in fact it’s even embarrassing!
If you can’t stand on your own two feet then there’s only so much life support machines can give to prolong your existence, and the same applies for Turkish Cypriots if they wish to exist as a “distinct community” on Cyprus as opposed to becoming Cypriot citizens.
It is too obvios that Oracle and alikes jump on everything as poor ordinary individuals when it fits her and treats it as a treasure; when it does not fit she defines it as "junk" 
