Piratis wrote:Turkey is not a puppet of anybody, but it is not a superpower either. If the Americans really wanted Turkey out of Cyprus they could have forced her out, but it wouldn't be as simple as just asking from them to leave.
Problem is that the Americans prefer the division.
You know that the US prefer the division and yet you still claim that Turkey is not a puppet, is it then possible that the USA is allowing Turkey do what's it's doing as long as it does what pleases the USA and in return Turkey will be in the end allowed to annex North Cyprus?
If the two communities were integrated then Cypriots would stop fighting each other
Reading this forum, and others, I don't get that impression and have no doubt that neither does anyone else, unfortunately.
and they would soon notice that two parts of our island are still under colonial rule. The British and the Americans want us to have bigger problems to deal with so we will not bother them with the bases (because we would fear that trying to force the bases out would result in USA/UK taking an even more pro Turkish stance)
Having said what you said above, do you think that the USA & the EU can afford to be hostile against Turkey and tell her it's over re the EU accession talks?
For the Cyprus problem to be truly solved (i.e. Cyprus to be truly liberated), the balance of power should change in such a way that USA/UK and Turkey find themselves at opposite camps. Under such senario Cyprus could be liberated, and gain a decent level of freedom and independence (unlike the one forced on us in 1960).
With what's going on around the world and the USA & the EU being so dependent on the bases in Turkey, do you thing that it's possible for the USA/UK and Turkey to be in opposite camps in the near future?
Regarding what would happen if Turkey pulled out, this would depend on if she would pull out just militarily, or if she would totally give up any involvement in our island. But even in the best case scenario, there will still need to be some adjustment period. The TCs have been brainwashed for decades (since the 50s) that they are some super special kind of community that deserve disproportionally large amounts of power and even their own separate state on land stolen from us. It will take a while for them to get used to live peacefully as equal Cypriot citizens and realize that there is nothing special about their own ethnic minority, apart from the fact that they have been used by foreigners as the means and the excuse to divide Cyprus.
Is it not true that the Greek Cypriots were also brainwashed to demand enosis back in the 50's & 60's and also were forced by foreigners to take up arms against their own, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots?
And to answer the question in the title of this thread: No. Cyprus will not be unified any time soon unless something dramatic and unpredictable happens.
Thank you, one direct answer to my questions.
