BirKibrisli wrote:You are right,Piratis...We have been through all this before,and it hasnt helped improve mutual understanding or empathy...There is no point having the same arguments over and over again...
we will have to agree to disagree over the nature of the Annan Plan...You guys are very ready to quote all the UN resolutions in your favour,but cannot bring yourselves to vote for a plan sanctioned by the UN...Anyway that is your prerogative...But just explain 2 things for me,if you wouldn't mind...
Don't confuse UN Resolutions with the Annan plan. Everybody is supposed to obey the UN resolutions (and Turkey doesn't). The Annan plan was just a proposal which we had every right to reject.
One: How would the Annan Plan or even agreed Partition would give Turkey control over the whole island??? I'd appreciate if you are specific...For example how would Turkey control RoC's foreign policy?
Environment policy,defence policy,health policy,education policy,transport and technology policy,immigration policy,industrial relations policy?????
I know the bit about the oil and continental shelf so you can skip that...
Two: How does the status quo prevents your worst fear, Turkey controlling the RoC ????
I am really curious...
I explained this before but I will explain it again:
The TCs are a minority of 18%. What TCs deserve is what every other minority in every other country deserves. Nothing less and nothing more. The TCs have no right to demand more than say the Greek minority in Turkey, the Muslim minority in Bulgaria or the Aboriginals in Australia. The way that TCs get more than what they deserve is by collaborating with foreign imperialists. Turkey uses force and blackmail to take from us and give to the TCs, and in return the TCs serve the interests of Turkey in Cyprus.
All you need to do is to see how Turkey controls the "trnc". The TC leaders know that they own their position to Turkey (since without Turkey there wouldn't be any "trnc") and therefore they are obligated to serve their master, without whom they wouldn't have that job. The same will be true with the TC leadership in a "united" Cyprus if the "solution" is an unfair one and allows the puppets of Turkey to come to power due to an undemocratic system that was imposed on Cyprus by Turkey, and not because they were elected democratically by the majority of the Cypriot people.
Turkey might not get involved in every little detail of our internal affairs (although they seem to do so in the "trnc") but I don't want my freedom to depend on some islamofascist government in Turkey.
The status quo gives less power to Turkey to control the whole of Cyprus even compared to the period before 1974. Now they can just issue public threats to which we are able to resit and fight, ofter successfully.
Remember how they were trying to prevent Cyprus from joining the EU? They failed to stop us. Now imagine if Eroglu (or whatever) was the "co-president" of Cyprus. All Turkey would have to do is to tell to her puppet to block the EU accession of Cyprus. So Turkey might not tell us what time we have to go to sleep every night, but she will definitely control every important decision that Cyprus would take.
