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[Pyrpolizer]

We hear in the forum the Tcs will only be sasisfied living among GCs only if they get the best jobs, the majority becoming managers etc. We also hear that currently in the occupied they don't do any manual work and they import settlers for those. And that they broke the records in Mediteranean in bying new BMWs from the money they get selling GC properties.We also know they have bad feelings against the GCs. So if you were a GC which one of the two would you prefer, the settlers or the TCs?
Or if you like with whom is it more likely to go along better?

[Get Real!]

They’re both useless and a serious liability to the future of Cyprus.

Where’s your “Neither” option?

A civilized UN managed, Ottoman/Anatolian repatriation program is the most sensible solution.

[paliometoxo]

well the majority in the north are mainland turks and i dont think that will change anytime soon, tcs aqre a dying breed. there is no nation in the world with such little population not even 100,000 of them anymore. how many of thwm are in england and abroad that dont care about their nationality? the turks i met in england dont care about turkish just english and being in england

[Oracle]

A tabula rasa is too much to ask for ...

So, if we had to have any Turks back, it doesn't matter whether they are TCs or fresher Turks, so long as they buckle down and become law-abiding, respect and recognise the government of the RoC.

Basically, it's their behaviour which matters to me.

[Viewpoint]

well the majority in the north are mainland turks and i dont think that will change anytime soon, tcs aqre a dying breed. there is no nation in the world with such little population not even 100,000 of them anymore. how many of thwm are in england and abroad that dont care about their nationality? the turks i met in england dont care about turkish just english and being in england

Ever heard of San Marino?

[Malapapa]

A tabula rasa is too much to ask for ...

So, if we had to have any Turks back, it doesn't matter whether they are TCs or fresher Turks, so long as they buckle down and become law-abiding, respect and recognise the government of the RoC.

Basically, it's their behaviour which matters to me.

Indeed. Well said. Respect the rule of law, respect Cyprus and embrace its European values and culture, and who gives a flying fruitcake? But if you were to do that, what need to add the misnomer "Turk" as a qualifier to your identity?

[Oracle]

A tabula rasa is too much to ask for ...

So, if we had to have any Turks back, it doesn't matter whether they are TCs or fresher Turks, so long as they buckle down and become law-abiding, respect and recognise the government of the RoC.

Basically, it's their behaviour which matters to me.

Indeed. Well said. Respect the rule of law, respect Cyprus and embrace its European values and culture, and who gives a flying fruitcake? But if you were to do that, what need to add the misnomer "Turk" as a qualifier to your identity?

There's nothing wrong with retaining an ethnic identifier. But the days when it carried any political (extra) weight for them, are long gone.

Embracing the RoC-EU, law and order etc are not mutually exclusive to also having an ethnicity. Just as people still use their country of origin to identify themselves from other Europeans.

[Pyrpolizer]

It's like thinking:
"should I divorce, should I not divorce? And suppose I divorce will the next one be better or will s/he be worse?"

[Malapapa]

A tabula rasa is too much to ask for ...

So, if we had to have any Turks back, it doesn't matter whether they are TCs or fresher Turks, so long as they buckle down and become law-abiding, respect and recognise the government of the RoC.

Basically, it's their behaviour which matters to me.

Indeed. Well said. Respect the rule of law, respect Cyprus and embrace its European values and culture, and who gives a flying fruitcake? But if you were to do that, what need to add the misnomer "Turk" as a qualifier to your identity?

There's nothing wrong with retaining an ethnic identifier. But the days when it carried any political (extra) weight for them, are long gone.

Embracing the RoC-EU, law and order etc are not mutually exclusive to also having an ethnicity. Just as people still use their country of origin to identify themselves from other Europeans.

Their country of origin may be Turkey but do settler consider themselves to be ethnically Turkish? I thought many if not most were Kurds, Alevis, Laz, Pomaks, Roma, Zazas etc.

[kurupetos]

They’re both useless and a serious liability to the future of Cyprus.

Where’s your “Neither” option?

A civilized UN managed, Ottoman/Anatolian repatriation program is the most sensible solution.