Nikitas wrote:Kikapu said:
"but what will happen to them and their offspring if the RoC no longer accepts them as her citizens due to some agreed pact with the TC (Turkey) leaders for a permanent partition"
This and some other practical aspects of BBF and partition are intriguing. I have often posted them, not as rhetorica challenges but because I really want to know how others see the practical conseuquences of sepcific plans. It seems no one has any answers as to how things will work out in practice.
So what happens to the nationality issue in the event of partition? Are all TC RoC passport holders automatically deprived of RoC citizenship with no say in the matter? Aee they regarded as dual nationals? If there is dual nationality for one side, is it also extended to the other side?
The partitionist are under the impression that the north will become part of the EU as an independent soveregn state upon formal partiton, therefore they don't care about being citizens of the RoC any longer. I have news for them. The EU will not allow the north to become a EU member even if the RoC never used her veto, because by admitting the north as a sovereign state into the EU, they will in effect be letting Turkey into the EU via the north, the "Trojan Horse". The only way there can be any kind of BBF that will not allow the north state to secede, is BBF based on True Federation and True Democracy, which is what the north and Turkey does not want. They want the disguised partition plan as it was the case with the Annan plan. As my cousins husband said to me in Cyprus 3 years ago, "we did not vote for peace with the Annan Plan, we only voted for the plan".! Why do you think Turkey does not want a agreed partition as a solution post 2004 despite all the hot air Eroglu is spouting. The game plan has chanced since 2004. The only thing that is acceptable to Turkey, is another AP type of solution where she can have control of the north and south states and have influence in the EU via the north state.
I can see another OXI on the horizon if and when another referendum is put for a vote.
Personally, unless settlement is under BBF as I've described, nothing will happen and the status quo will continue until the time comes, if ever, that Turkey wants to become a EU member and the EU members are willing to let her in, but it will come at the extreme cost of the TCs in the north who will be told to them by Turkey for them to become a minority with minority rights in the RoC. ..!