denizaksulu wrote:DT. wrote:denizaksulu wrote:DT. wrote:theunifier wrote:I need more than that.... And if you really could go on all night I would love to know what really sends you round the bend with the current status of the constitution. Today is more important to me than yesterday...
Well, for starters the TC's do not have a veto today.
No. They have a bigger stick. Which would you have prefered? A veto or the whole island?
The whole island without a veto. Veto all you like on matters that involve the TC community specifically and list them before hand in the constitution. But to have the arrogance to think that 18% of the population should be able to stop ANY law or action by the govt is ludicrous.
Especially when the ties with Turkey are so strong and it will take decades for the Cypriot Turks to start acting for the benefit of Cyprus and not the benefit of Turkey.
Well, this is where democracy was a failure. Even the 30:70 would not have saved the TCs from the overpowering GCs. What chance would 18% have. These figures were presented to give the TCs a chance of survival. Not perfect but no chance was given to the people of Cyprus to work this out -TOGETHER. Now we have this mess. I pray that those who created this mess rot in hell.
this is where democracy was a failure
Deniz,
But there was no such thing as a Democracy in Cyprus, at least not the kind of Democracy the West is built on, and that's why it failed. Numbers such as 30%-70% are a problem when unfair allocations of Government jobs, Government seats and a 50% power in the form of a veto power is given to a 18% of the population in an undemocratic method just because they are 18% and not because of earning those positions. In fact, a veto power by any group is not just 50% power control, but a full 100% power control, therefore the 18% had full 100% power and not just 50%. Where is the Democracy in that.? They also had "Democracy" in South Africa where the minority whites also had full 100% power over the majority, so was that also a Democracy or something else.? The whites believed it was a Democracy, but was it.? On the other hand, the Blacks in the USA are only 10% of the overall US population and only through True Democracy (in the last 50 years or so), we have a Black President. But yet, with 18% of the overall Cyprus population, a TC could never have become a president according to the 1960 constitution, so once again, where was the Democracy in that.? Today the TC's still want to go back to those dark days of no Democracy but only to privileges instead as the case was in the 1960 constitution, and also wanting a separate state in their own name built mostly on others land in a form of a "founding state" which can become independent anytime in the future just by the majority in that state voting for it. No wonder the GC's are in no mood to grant the 18% (less than 10% now) today what was given to them in 1960 by the British. I think it is high time , that in order to find a solution to Cyprus, everyone will need to walk in everyone else’s shoes a mile or so to understand where the others are coming from and not just only insisting on, I want, I want, I want.!