Viewpoint wrote:Piratis wrote:Viewpoint wrote:Piratis wrote:13-point amendment that effectively stripped the Turkish Cypriots of their safeguards.
To give 30% of civil servant positions to an 18% minority is a "safeguard"?
The foreign Imperialists who wrote the constitution of Cyprus granted Ottoman style privileges (not "safeguards") to the Turkish minority on our island, as a reward for the help that this minority gave to the foreign Imperialists to maintain troops and control over our island.
If there is a minority that needs safeguards that is the Greek minority in Turkey. Why doesn't Turkey give such "safeguards" to them?
The reforms Makarios proposed would simply make Cyprus more democratic and bring the Cyprus constitution in line with the constitutions of all other democracies. Nothing that Makarios proposed would make the TC minority to have any less rights than any other minority in any other country.
All it was was so that you could gift Cyprus to Greece......time you realized that fact.
By saying "gift" Cyprus, that would mean that we would give Cyprus to somebody else and we would leave from here. No, that is not the case. We would not "gift" Cyprus to anybody.
Just like we democratically choose to unite with EU, we had every right to unite with any other we choose.
How could it be OK for you to invade us and make Cyprus part of the Ottoman Empire against the will of the Cypriot people, (or for the British to make Cyprus part of their empire) but not OK for the Cypriot people to be liberated from foreign rulers and be part of a free Republic they choose to belong?
Joining the EU and uniting with Greece are two different things your constitution does not allow the later, did you know that? You knew full well that trying to force TCs to sign their own death warrant would not work, we fought for survival.
Fortunatetly we did something which is not allowed by our consitution all these 35 years (EU MEMBERSHIP). It was the only possitive thing we did so far!!!Reminder consitution was written and applied to us -is not ours.
