Expatkiwi wrote:The TRNC's government is a government of representatives elected by the people living in the TRNC, yet its organs of power and control answer to a foreign country: Turkey. Is this what the people of the TRNC wanted?
Somaliland has more ligitimacy owing to it not having any other country protecting it, thus making it truly independent. The government in Ankara - through its embassy in Nicosia - is calling the shots in the north, and as a result, is making a mockery of the 1983 Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Rauf Denktas told me in a letter that the TRNC needed to be declared to ensure the survival of the Turkish Cypriot people as a nation. Judging from what I have read about Cypriot history since 1960, I'm in agreement, but if the price paid for the UDI is the eventual annexation of the TRNC to Turkey, then Mr. Denktas' 1983 proclaimation has actually sealed his people's fate. So much for the sovereignty of the government of the TRNC.
The 82% of the population of the territory on which the so called "trnc" is declared are Greek Cypriots (who have been illegally ethnically cleansed, but whose rights on their homeland remain intact). How can any government of any territory have any legitimacy when it is not supported by the 82% of the population of that territory?
No "Turkish republic of northern cyprus" can have any legitimacy when it is declared on territory which belongs by over 80% to Greek Cypriots.
The north part of Cyprus does not belong to neither Turkey nor the TCs or the Turkish Settlers, and therefore none of them can have any legitimate rule over territory which belongs first and above all to us, the vast majority of the population of that territory.