insan wrote:Omer Seyhan wrote:I'm ashamed to say that Turkish Cypriots serving Turkey are doing more to destroy Turkish Cypriot cultural identity than Nicos Sampson and his followers ever did.
So u immeadiately believed that TC dialect was banned being spoken by radio and TV stations in TRNC? Don't believe the hype. Turkey did no harm to TC cultural idendity. The isolations do harm on every aspect of TC life... and we know who r happy abt mass emigration of TCs... they whisper each other that when no TCs remain in TRNC they would argue that Turkey has no right to station troops in TRNC.
In 45 years time, TCs had to balance it's economy and population growth by leting migration from Anatolia, Bulgaria etc in perfect correlation with TC emigration. Though I agree that if our politicians had been less corrupt, TRNC would have been far more developed and wealthy... most probably at least half of the emigrated TCs would have never emigrated or returned to TRNC. There r 2 big threats on TC community: One of them is Greek-GC ruling class and the other one is our own ruling class; but Turkey constitutes no threat against TCs.
1. Who does the TRNC Broadcasting Authority take its orders from? And who do they take their orders from?
2. I agree with you about isolation needing to end and that some more nationalist G/Cs may well be happy when all T/Cs are gone. But dont forget, the G/Cc did not impose isolation. It was the UN (1983) and ECJ (1996). The only way out is a solution, nothing else.
3. Yes, G/Cs can well argue at any point that the Cyprus issue has become a RoC - Turkey issue with or without settlers. They may ask that both states resolve it amongst at themselves as both are recognised states. And if Turkeys ever needed a quick solution it could easily without much hesitation drop the T/Cs like a rock.
In some respects I wish they would. Why? Because then some people in my community might wake up and realise that in International Relations there is no 'motherland' or 'babyhomeland' - it is everyone for themselves.
T/Cs who have been fed lies that they were saved and believe those lies are being taking for a ride. Turkey wants a base in Cyprus like the UK has and has its own national interests. They don't care about T/Cs. So T/Cs should try to be more independent in their approach and not suck up to Turkey out of a false feeling of gratitude.
4. Settlers were not moved in for political reasons in particular in helping Turkey maintain control over its military base which is called TRNC. There are poor areas throughout Anatolia where settlers are not shipped in to improve the economy so why Cyprus?
But Turkey's base is an expensive military base (to protect her southern flanks) and Turkey does not trust the T/Cs to look after it, which is why settlers (mostly nationalist ones were shipped in) and which is why Turkey does not pursue TRNC recognition, which Turkey could have achieved in 36 years. It kept its options open for decades but now wants a solution so that it can reduce its base size to a specific area with access to the sea and join the EU.
There is one big threat to the T/C community. It is the servants of Turkey within the community who put Turkey's interests first before their community's interests. Look at the Koran classes which T/Cs oppose and which AKP wants to transport to Cyprus... Look at the queue of citizens which the Turkish Embassy are telling us to naturalise... Look at the Dialect that we can no longer use on Tv! Look at the way Talat and Eroglu behave like Jekyll and Hyde...
You can be 'grateful' if you feel you need to be Insan. I dont mind what opinion you may have but please be alert about what Turkish Cypriots themselves want and not what Ankara wants. Dont sell out your community - I've seen it happen too often.
So far nobody can distinguish Turkish / Turkish Cypriot interests... I ask, and I want a reply,
why is that? Are the same? Are they 100% identical? or is one party having to give way to a more dominant side? What ever happened to our community's political will? Does it not mean anything anymore?
Perhaps we should move to Britain and elsewhere...
And by the way, everything I said above is taught not just in Greek schools, but also in all major universities of the world.
