Piratis wrote:Viewpoint wrote:Piratis wrote:Viewpoint wrote:Piratis take a step back just for a few seconds and show your human side tell us all do you support a BBF with political equality?
Of course I support political equality, but you don't.By political equality we refer to the extent to which citizens have an equal voice over governmental decisions. One of the bedrock principles in a democracy is the equal consideration of the preferences and interests of all citizens. This is expressed in such principles as one-person/one-vote, equality before the law, and equal rights of free speech.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/inequality/S ... /Verba.pdf
As far as BBF goes, it depends on what kind of BBF it is. There are many kinds of BBF that would suit us just fine.
2 founding states under one soverignty one identity and political eqaulity of the 2 states..this is what we have in mind. Whats your version?
Republic of Cyprus transformed into a federation with political equality between the citizens as it exists in every other democratic country.
One Cypriot state will be made by the territories where the (pre 1974 ethnic cleansing) majority are GCs, and the other state will be made by territories that TCs are the legal majority. Then there will be a strong central government elected democratically by the Cypriot people.
Cyprus to be fully independent with no foreign troops or foreign "guarantees", apart from those of UN and EU.
A perfectly fine BBF solution which will be accepted by the vast majority of the Cypriot people.
So the offer is 18% and GC rule....noo thanks status quo with a strong TA presense and growing population is preferred. The offer had to be better than what we have today although unrecognized it is much preferred to allowing GCs the free hand they long for to discriminate and dominate TCs. What will you do when the political balance is firmly in the hands fo the Gcs and TCs start to suffer, I bet you will turn your back and remain silent just like the GCs did in 1963 to 1974 but then we will not have Turkey to beg for help as her hands will be tied. Do you really think we are that stupid to accept the UN and EU as guarantors? they are useless in times of crisis and it would be like asking us to sign our own death warrants.