Piratis wrote:Most people are innocent people. This includes most settlers and their children, regardless if one of the parents is Cypriot or not, their children (like most of the parents) are innocent people that deserve to have their human rights.
The same holds true for soldiers, especially in countries like Cyprus, Turkey and Greece where every male is obligated to serve in the army and do what he is ordered.
Unfortunately certain fascist leaderships, like the one in Turkey, take away these human rights, not only of the people they invade, but also from many of their own people.
When in 1974 a Turkish soldier was ordered to come to Cyprus and execute the orders of murder and ethnic cleansing issued by the fascist regime of Ankara, that soldier could be a nice person like the rest of us, who deserved to have a good life with his human rights respected. Still, he was a pawn of the fascist regime of Ankara and his mission included the violation of the sovereignty of Republic of Cyprus, the violation of the human rights of Cypriots, and many more illegalities and crimes against Cyprus. Republic of Cyprus had to fight against such soldiers, and try to take away from them their ultimate human right, the right for life, in order to protect Cyprus from the criminal plans of the Ankara regime. Is there anybody here who will blame the Cypriots for defending their own country and the lives of their families, and have no other option than to kill several such Turkish soldiers? Clearly the one responsible for the deaths of both Cypriots and the Turkish soldiers, is the fascist Ankara regime which started the war.
The same holds true for the Settlers. The Turkish Settlers in occupied Cyprus today are actually more than the Turkish Cypriots. Just like the Turkish soldiers, the settlers are the pawns of the fascist regime of Ankara which has as an aim to alter the demographics of the north part of Cyprus. The aim of Turkey is that eventually Turkish Settlers and Turkish Cypriots will eventually mix creating a new breed of "Turkish Cypriots" which would be much larger in size and who would dominate the north part of Cyprus, essentially making it an extension of Turkey. These Settlers and their offspring, even though most of them as individuals are innocent people, they were brought to Cyprus and are used by Ankara as the means to finish off the crime that was started against Cyprus in 1974.
From the very begging of this illegal colonization of Cyprus by Turkey, Cyprus has done its best to stop it from happening and protect in this way Cyprus and the Cypriots (including TCs) but also protect the Settlers themselves because by being used as the pawns to commit a crime they would eventually suffer as well. Unfortunately Turkey, once again, showed no regard to international law, international conventions, and the human rights of people. All these were sacrificed in the name of their ultimate aim, the Turkification of the north part of Cyprus.
Republic of Cyprus has no other choice other than to resist the illegal criminal policies of Ankara. These Settlers and their offspring are not entitled to Cypriot citizenship and that is to ensure that legally at least Turkey will not manage to create a permanent change in the demographics of Cyprus. If those Settlers feel that their human rights are violated in some way because of this, then they should blame Turkey for using them as the pawns for such illegal actions, and be reminded that Republic of Cyprus did all it could to stop this illegality from happening.
That said, and although Turkey has the 100% responsibility for the presence of illegal Turkish Settlers in Cyprus and the problems that this creates, Republic of Cyprus has indicated that is willing to help a certain number of these people if a fair solution to Cyprus problem is found. I believe that it is certain that if a solution is found soon that the children who have at least one Cypriot parent will be given the Cyprus citizenship, and this could happen for some other categories of Settlers as well, as long as their number is not big enough to have a significant impact on the demographics of Cyprus.
What more could one expect from Republic of Cyprus? Those (e.g. Shahmaran) who see the humanitarian and many other problems created by the presence of the Settlers in Cyprus and instead of blaming the illegal policies of Ankara they choose to blame Cyprus, are obviously so brainwashed that can not see further than their own nose.
Excellent overview! Thanks Piratis.
) in order to decide whether if you are Cypriot or not.
