CopperLine wrote:DT. wrote:typical TC schizophrenic logic. We demand you make it easy for us to vote in the ROC but send the ballot boxes over the "border" so that we can do it from "our country"
No it is not schizophrenic logic. The RoC is a state which claims jurisdiction over the whole island (correct). The RoC is a state which is a member of the EU which claims to represent all citizens of the island including TCs (correct). those two facts entail that EU citizens in the north have European civil and political rights as well as human rights which the RoC and the EU have an obligation to support and realise. As far as I am aware, no effort has been made by the RoC to ensure that TCs living in the north are able to vote. The RoC cannot simply say the equivalent of "well TCs didn't come to ballot boxes on the other side of an effectively divided island" any more than the UK govt could have said to protestants in Belfast 'yes there's a ballot box for you but its in the Falls Road' or to Catholics 'yes there's a ballot box for you but its in the Shankhill Road' - that ain't allowing people the right to vote !
Maybe the RoC should’ve used your negotiating skills and transport company to arrange the ballot boxes to be placed in public places all around the occupied territory… and not forgetting one in each of the Turkish military bases in case a half-Turk half-Cypriot is serving there…
PS: I just loved your comparison between Cyprus and N.Ireland! It was a bit like a comparison between your brain’s hemispheres; one side is artistic/creative and the other turned off for the summer…
