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[Omer Seyhan]

Cypriotism or a organised love of Cyprus and all things Cypriot is the heart and soul of Cypriot Unity today. With Cypriotism Cypriot unity cannot work.....

But in truth Cypriotism is also an unfinished business. It is an unfinished business which the vast majority of the Cypriot people deep down want to see brought to completion.

Are there any real doubts about where the great brave rebel leaders Halil Aga and Mehmet Boyacioglu would stand on the great issues of our time?

This Proclamation is about self-determination and democracy. Does anyone think that our ancestors would settle for a partitioned Cyprus?

Our ancestors laboured in the fields day and night, ploughed the red Cypriot earth from which they exalted a mere peasant child to the rank of Ottoman grand vizier - Mehmet Kamil and Mehmet Emin Pasha. Two Cypriots grand viziers of the entire Ottoman empire not once but 8 times combined! How we Cypriots rise....

Does anyone believe that they would like to see their homeland split in two? Their people separated by barbed wire? Their descendants displaced?

Does anyone believe that they would settle for anything less than one Cyprus?

Why should a Greek, Turkish or British Minister take decisions on the future of our children?

Why should a Greek, Turkish or British Minister have the power to decide when Cypriots can meet and work together?

If they aren't able to destroy the desire for Cypriot unity and freedom, they won't break you. They won't break you because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Cypriot people, is in our hearts.

The day will dawn when all the people of Cyprus will have the desire for freedom to show.

[miltiades]

Only by embracing our true identity can we ever deliver to our future Cypriot generations one united island , one independent island free from the constrains of a false identity.
When a Greek Cypriot embraces the Cypriot identity and when a Turkish Cypriot , an Armenian Cypriot join him in doing so then we can say we are one people the Cypriot people. It can be done , one does not have to alter one iota of his personality , I have changed , still adhere to traditional G/C values and "culture" , Christenings, Weddings , funerals , music of all sorts but mostly Greek but I'M STILL A 100% CYPRIOT FIRST.
And so are you Omer ...

[YFred]

And so am I Milti, but unfortunately I wish it could be done. If all the GCs were like you and Bananiot, we would have no problem but as you are aware we both have our extremes who do not have the same interests. Untill we learn how to contain them, unfortunately it will have to remain a dream.

[Omer Seyhan]

And so am I Milti, but unfortunately I wish it could be done. If all the GCs were like you and Bananiot, we would have no problem but as you are aware we both have our extremes who do not have the same interests. Untill we learn how to contain them, unfortunately it will have to remain a dream.

You can invent possibilities....

[Viewpoint]

Omer state how you would fordge unity how do you see BBF if you see it at all?

[Byron]

If Cypriotism is based on trust then steps need to be taken in the right direction. First Turkey needs to remove its troops from the island. Maintaining the troops just creates a permanent divide.

[Omer Seyhan]

If Cypriotism is based on trust then steps need to be taken in the right direction. First Turkey needs to remove its troops from the island. Maintaining the troops just creates a permanent divide.

What has Turkey, a foreign neighbouring country got to do with Cypriotism? This is ours, yours and mine, it is nothing to do with any other country.

[Byron]

If Cypriotism is based on trust then steps need to be taken in the right direction. First Turkey needs to remove its troops from the island. Maintaining the troops just creates a permanent divide.

What has Turkey, a foreign neighbouring country got to do with Cypriotism? This is ours, yours and mine, it is nothing to do with any other country.

Really, so why is TURKEY keeping 40,000 troops on our land, we did not invite them .

[Acikgoz]

If Cypriotism is based on trust then steps need to be taken in the right direction. First Turkey needs to remove its troops from the island. Maintaining the troops just creates a permanent divide.

Love this angle of reasoning. Get the other side to build trust first then, by implication the other side works on trust?
Oh how simple and self fullfiling we wish life to be.

Omer your post is like hunderds if not thousands that have gone before it. Loads of waffle, nothing of real world substance. Yes, yes, utopia, utopia for Cypriots, the cause of problems are from the outside. Grow up - this is not some Hollywood feel good movie with the obvious good guys and bad guys where at the end of the day we all live happily ever after ... Please make sure you put all your empty popcorn cartons and soft drinks in the waste as you leave the fantasy cinema.

[Omer Seyhan]

Omer state how you would fordge unity how do you see BBF if you see it at all?

Everybody can see your bad will and nobody is fooled by your apparent call for a 'healthy' debate. You've already decided your stand - hence the flag and slogan beneath your screen name, so why should anybody debate with you on a Cyprus forum for all Cypriots?