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[Nickp]

I'm all for the TC's to come in line with the GC's economically, and i'm sure they can easily do it given direct flights and international trade.

However, i ask the TC's, would the influx of money and people go to your head so much that the North will become a concrete jungle. Also, will GC land continued to be built on and sold at an explosive scale. How much incentive will there be for the TC's to unify.

I mean, will you be able to restrain yourselves with your new found prosperity and money? If the roles were reveresed, i would have to say that the GC's would not.

TC's thoughts please....

[turkcyp]

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[gabaston]

nickp

i echo your concerns - simple answer is no. they'll do the same as you. buy a newer bigger merc than the one next door evry year. Some cypriot things are common to both sides. anyway good luck n bllx to em all.

my main concern would be the designer names ------ just like every other place in the world. What is nice about the north is no macdonalds, kentucky, hilton, barclays,etc etc.

what i hate most are those massive casino signs........yuk.....
any tc with a cuz in a position to get them taken down or modified? - so sleazy n tasteless.....pleeeeez

[erolz]

However, i ask the TC's, would the influx of money and people go to your head so much that the North will become a concrete jungle.

No more or less so than the south I suspect. I would like to beleieve that the TC leadership would be wise enough to realise that the lack of development here in the north for the last 30 years has some good sides as well as negative ones and that these should be maintained within a framework of development, but to be honest I doubt that would happen. Given the means we will rush towards development as everyone else has and does no doubt

Also, will GC land continued to be built on and sold at an explosive scale.

It seems to me that an agreement could be done on the trading of openeing ports/airports vs restrictions on development and slae of GC land. However my perception is that for most GC this is unacceptable and that they should not have to make any concessions over their own land.

How much incentive will there be for the TC's to unify.

I personaly believe that even if we had economic parity with the south there would still be a strong desire for reuniting Cyprus, provided the terms are acceptable for TC. I could be wrong.

[Nickp]

Why wont Talat take the limited trade and charter flights offered by the GC' amdin to get the TC's moving up to the GC's levels. It's better than nothing?

[Khan]

They wont accept limited offers because they give GC a degree of control over TRNC.

[Alexandros Lordos]

They wont accept limited offers because they give GC a degree of control over TRNC.

And GCs won't accept "complete offers" because that would give the TCs indirect recognition of a separate state ...

It is paradoxical that agreeing on Confidence Building Measures is even harder than agreeing on a Comprehensive Settlement ...

[Nickp]

I think both sides should swallow their pride and get on with it for the greater good.

[gabaston]

nickp

you are one hundred per right.

we both got to swollow something if we are to advance. i could not agree with you more.

by the way excuse my ignorance i dont keep up with the politics to much. .........................what limited offer?

[Agios Amvrosios]

How can there be direct flightsto the occupied areas when there are embargoes. The embargoes are there for a reason.

Turkish Cypriots own only 8 per cent of the territory they occupy, the rest was ethnically cleansed. The legal owners of the bulk of the territory are prevented from living in this area. There can never be direct flights,as long as the refugees prevented from living in their towns and villages.

The embargoes should be increased to effect a settlement. How can the turks be rewarded for ethnic cleansing, mass rape and murder?