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[Get Real!]

Well, I guess without the proper stats we can't make any sense out of this badly writen article.

[Viewpoint]

Well, I guess without the proper stats we can't make any sense out of this badly writen article.

I read it in the TC papers.

[Get Real!]

Well, I guess without the proper stats we can't make any sense out of this badly writen article.

I read it in the TC papers.

Well post the bloody stats so we can draw some realistic conclusions instead of this half-baked article!

[paliometoxo]

99% of the population over there is mainland turks of course they want two states so they dont get sent home to turkey

[YFred]

JUST OVER 50 per cent of Turkish Cypriots support the notion of two separate states, according to the results of a poll announced by ‘Prime Minster’ Dervis Eroglu.

Eroglu presented the findings during a news conference to review his first 100 days ‘in office’.

He said in addition to the 50.1 per cent who supported a two-state solution, only around 17 per cent supported a federation with a strong central government, while 16.8 per cent supported a confederation with a weak central government and 8.4 per cent wanted the continuation of the status quo. Around six per cent supported integration with Turkey.

“This result coincides with the will of April 2004 as expressed by the Turkish Cypriots during the referendum regarding the Annan Plan,” he said.

Eroglu urged the Greek Cypriot side to accept the existence of another state in Cyprus and to open the way for reconciliation. “All should know that the Cyprus Turkish people are not helpless and they have alternatives,” he said.

Eroglu said that he was working in “full harmony” with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat as far as the Cyprus negotiations were concerned and repeated that a representative of ‘the government’ would be included in the Turkish side’s team at the talks.

He also urged the Greek Cypriot side to adopt “a reasonable stance” and to open the way for reconciliation in Cyprus.

“I hope our Greek Cypriot neighbours will adopt a reasonable stance at the negotiations which are to be resumed on Thursday and accept the existence of another state in Cyprus which is equal to their own state and will open the way for reconciliation.” he said.

Asked whether it bothered him that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his explicit support for Talat, Eroglu said this was a message given to public opinion in Turkey.

Erdogan used this expression in order to stress that Cyprus will not be sacrificed, he said.



Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2009


The chasm gets wider and wider.

If these figures are true, it drives coach and horses through quite a few forumers ideas including the oddball TC. How can only 6% support integration with Turkey, when Turkey has been attemting to wipe out the TCs by changing the population demographics so that the north would support integration with Turkey. Shomeshin ish very wrong here. Settlers? what Settlers?

[insan]

99% of the population over there is mainland turks of course they want two states so they dont get sent home to turkey

Hmmm... as far as I remember, Cyprus is Turkish party was founded in 1940 when there was no suposedly mainland Turks existed in Cyprus... They were all considered Ottoman Turks which history books cite that Turks of Cyprus settled down to Cyprus from various regions of today's Turkey.

[zmx]

I think these kind of surveys/studies have to be taken with a grain of salt.

Recent settlers from Anatolia would be against unification as it would mean they would probably end up getting deported and they are usually included in these surveys.

[repulsewarrior]

50% and you're gleeful VP? You are desperate to score points; you crow 8.9% want things to stay the same, o my that's news! Amazing, in thirty five years with all those shifts in demographics and still it's a battle of wills.
Poor, poor VP not much meat on this wound you salt...

"most" is a sad exageration, which is a comfort, to me.

[paliometoxo]

so what if they want two states the minority wants two states.. the majority wants re unification

[Viewpoint]

50% and you're gleeful VP? You are desperate to score points; you crow 8.9% want things to stay the same, o my that's news! Amazing, in thirty five years with all those shifts in demographics and still it's a battle of wills.
Poor, poor VP not much meat on this wound you salt...

"most" is a sad exageration, which is a comfort, to me.

50% do not want to unite...an indiciation of the reality not only in the TRNC but also in the GC south.