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[Omer Seyhan]

Turkish Cypriot youth demands withdrawal of the Turkish occupation army

Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (12.08.10) reports that an anti-militarist concert will take place on 14 August under the slogan: Ayse is on Vacation, (TR. Note: Ayse, was a code name for the Turkish army, used in 1974 by the then Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Gunes in connection with the second phase of the Turkish invasion to Cyprus. Gunes said Ayse can go on vacation which was the signal to start the second phase of the invasion).
The event, which is organized by the Baraka Cultural Centre, the Youth Branch of the United Cyprus Party, the Friends of Nature Association, the Cypriot Youth Platform and various other youth organizations, will take place at the Baris Marco Park in occupied Omorfita at 21.00.

In the framework of the concert, members of various youth organizations put up posters in Nicosia and marched through the streets carrying banners with the slogans: Ayse the vacation is over. Go Home!, Pay attention! Concert in a non military area, End end- end for the occupiers.

[paliometoxo]

i bet it does nto take place and the turks make them cancell or shut them up or ignore it... but this is good the tcs telling them to go home

the world will see no one wants the TA there. then they have no excuse to keep them.. to save the TCS? and there is the tcs telling them go away...

[insan]

i bet it does nto take place and the turks make them cancell or shut them up or ignore it... but this is good the tcs telling them to go home

the world will see no one wants the TA there. then they have no excuse to keep them.. to save the TCS? and there is the tcs telling them go away...

Those TCs who are considered as far-left represent less than 1% of TCs... when they act against the existence of Turkish troops in North, overwhelming majority of TCs condemn them...

I personally can't understand why they are against the existence of Turkish troops in North under the current circumstances but respect their freedom of speech... I hope their concert is not cancelled...

[paliometoxo]

yes that was going to be my third argument.. thanks halil for reminding me

[Cap]

flabbergasted....
They've my utmost respect.
Its the '300 Cypriots' ! you show em boys, wish we were free to go march with them...

[insan]

flabbergasted....
They've my utmost respect.
Its the '300 Cypriots' ! you show em boys, wish we were free to go march with them...

Let!s say Turkish troops have been withdrawn but there is TC national guard... what would have changed? Would TCs happily accept being a minority in a GC ruled Cyprus?

Would it be the end of the so-called occupation of Turkey? Had TCs had sufficient military power, do you think there would have been more than a several thousands of Turkish troops in North? In such a situation, do you think there would have been a solution as you dreamed; a Cyprus ruled by GCs where TCs given the minority rights?

What? Tell me please...

[Cap]

flabbergasted....
They've my utmost respect.
Its the '300 Cypriots' ! you show em boys, wish we were free to go march with them...

Let!s say Turkish troops have been withdrawn but there is TC national guard... what would have changed? Would TCs happily accept being a minority in a GC ruled Cyprus?

Would it be the end of the so-called occupation of Turkey? Had TCs had sufficient military power, do you think there would have been more than a several thousands of Turkish troops in North? In such a situation, do you think there would have been a solution as you dreamed; a Cyprus ruled by GCs where TCs given the minority rights?

What? Tell me please...

Everything would change.
We would be negotiating with our own people, Cypriots with Cypriots, and not some foreign entity.
I'd be more comfortable at the table with an indigenous Cypriot than some fu**ing invader.

[insan]

flabbergasted....
They've my utmost respect.
Its the '300 Cypriots' ! you show em boys, wish we were free to go march with them...

Let!s say Turkish troops have been withdrawn but there is TC national guard... what would have changed? Would TCs happily accept being a minority in a GC ruled Cyprus?

Would it be the end of the so-called occupation of Turkey? Had TCs had sufficient military power, do you think there would have been more than a several thousands of Turkish troops in North? In such a situation, do you think there would have been a solution as you dreamed; a Cyprus ruled by GCs where TCs given the minority rights?

What? Tell me please...

Everything would change.
We would be negotiating with our own people, Cypriots with Cypriots, and not some foreign entity.
I'd be more comfortable at the table with an indigenous Cypriot than some fu**ing invader.

Before 1974, there was no Turkish troops in Cyprus except a few hundreds which was granted by the treaties you supposedly signed... even before the establishment of RoC, there was none... but still when we were "negotiating" either in the legislative assembly or through the then written media; the essential of the problem was the same... Majority rule vs political equality of 2 communities...

Under then the circumstances that the nationalism was on the rise; GCs claimed that Cyprus is a Greek island so that it should be ceded to Greece and TCs claimed Cyprus was Turkish and should be ceded back to Turkey...

In 50s TCs changed their minds and asked a "fairer" solution against union of whole Cyprus with Greece... it was taksim...

Then... after Turkey and Greece joined NATO, another dimension of Greco-Turkish relations appeared that pushed the TCs, GCs, Greeks and Turks to find a common ground that would serve the interests of all concerned parties... and that was the RoC with all it's treaties and agreements...

However; GCs, TCs, Greeks and Turks couldn't manage to reconcile, produce common policies on common interests that would benefit us all...

... and still we don't have common policies on common interests... The TCs who asked for political equality and respect to their rights in Cyprus before the foundation of Republic of Turkey... do you think now, had Turkish troops withdrawn would have stopped asking for it and accepted minority status...

Even there had been no settlers, no Turkish troops and no cooperation with Turkey but sufficient military power TCs have had; the situation would have been the same as long as you insisted on Enosis and/or a GC ruled Cyprus where TCs would be a minority...

[Viewpoint]

flabbergasted....
They've my utmost respect.
Its the '300 Cypriots' ! you show em boys, wish we were free to go march with them...

Let!s say Turkish troops have been withdrawn but there is TC national guard... what would have changed? Would TCs happily accept being a minority in a GC ruled Cyprus?

Would it be the end of the so-called occupation of Turkey? Had TCs had sufficient military power, do you think there would have been more than a several thousands of Turkish troops in North? In such a situation, do you think there would have been a solution as you dreamed; a Cyprus ruled by GCs where TCs given the minority rights?

What? Tell me please...

Everything would change.
We would be negotiating with our own people, Cypriots with Cypriots, and not some foreign entity.
I'd be more comfortable at the table with an indigenous Cypriot than some fu**ing invader.

You are joking arent you 2 years of Cypriot with Cypriot and whats the result still nothing...you may fool yourselves but not us.

[Cap]

I don't think those '300 Cypriots' share the same view.
However, 16 million East Germans DID in 1949, puppet republic of the former Soviet Union.
Northern Cyprus the same.
Its not about 'protection' anymore is it? Lets be honest.

We're not the problem anymore. T***ey is.