BirKibrisli wrote:I am sure you mean well,Jerry, as Rolandis does,but our friends here are not interested in well-meaning strategies...They want blood. TC blood...and TC humilation...It is the same mentality which brought us to this point in our sorry history...Make the world a 'living hell' for the TCs to extract the revenge of the failed GC dream of Enosis with Greece...
Erdogan is simply trying to put the TCs in their place...In the place Erdogan thinks they should be,right beside the people of Turkey,economically,socially and culturally...And he will succeed because of the bloodyminded intransigence of the GCs...The cost to you will be 37% of Cyprus...The cost to the TCs will be total assimilation and domination by Turkey...And as VP keeps telling you,that would b e the overwhelming choice of the majority of the TCs both in the trnc and diaspora...Enjoy your phyrric victory...The reality would soon dawn on everyone,even on our TC hating forum fascists!
They don't all want blood Bir. They want what is right. If the GCs settle for anything less than what they believe to be a fair solution (i.e. not the AP) then the fascists will always have an excuse for revenge. Turkish demographic changes have made the chance of an equitable solution almost impossible - not the Greek Cypriots. And I'm afraid to say that the flogging off of our property by TCs has not helped matters.
I suppose you mean the AP when you mention GC intranigence but Turkey is "guilty" of the same thing in that it is prepared to give up on EU membership in favour of a few thousand TCs.
We can't keep going over this "who started it" business and digging up the past - it gets us nowhere. We have to accept that both sides are to blame but the TCs got the worst of it because they are a minority.
VP and his sort keep on about needing Turkey for security reasons, Rolandis actually says in his article that policing a united Cyprus could be handed to the UN for a generation. Actually within the EU the Europeans could become more involved.
In a nutshell, as things stand the ROC has lost 37% of the island, the TCs face extinction - the GCs do not - Turkey will never join the EU.
So, who are the real losers?