BirKibrisli wrote:bill cobbett wrote:Viewpoint wrote:quattro wrote:Viewpoint wrote:We will see when we check what you have been up to but if we find you have granted citizenship that we do not see fit you have to agree to send them back to where they came from just as some of the settlers will be sent back.
VP you dont understand that we dident give any excessive numbers of citizenships in ROC to get ROC citizenship you have to stay in cyprus for seven years ( and if you apply for it) ............. on the contrary "TRNC brought SETTLERS and gave citizenship's as a gift to increase the population to change the balance and that it was not for your(tcs) benefit.
We have agreed that some settlers will go back but the same criteria has to be applied to all citizens after 1974 as we did not agree to the those granted by you nor you agree to those granted by us, now do you understand?
No mate you got it wrong... The law is quite clear... the Government of The Republic ...
and you signed up to the Treaty of Establishment, is the sole legal authority on the whole island.
The Republic, and the Republic alone, has the authority to grant citizenships.
Bill,you can be a reasonable man...Put on your reasonable hat...The Republic the TCs signed up do not exist...The present RoC is the GC version of the original republic,having bullied and intimidated the TC community to withdraw...Just because a robbery has been overlooked by the rest of the world does not make that robbery legal...The victims of your robbery have every moral right to establish their own order,till you come to your senses and agree to a just solution...If you don't, well,soon the world will not give a damn about the tiny pimple on her arse which is the RoC...
Gosh Bir, don't you just hate it when someone agrees with you or heaps paise upon you on CF...
Will say a couple of things..... very reasonably...
Firstly on this settler citizenship business... there are two, on the face of it, extreme positions, the Eroglu stand as supported by VP above, and that is that all can stay cos they've been given "citizenship", and the opposing position is that the RoC remains not just the legitimate authority in my eyes, but also and this is an important test ...
... the authority that is closest to accepted norms around the World of how applications for citizenship are considered and how citizenship is acquired... so is the position that citizenship is acquired by such things as birth and marriage, and not by the Erroglu/VP method of illegal settlement, contrary to the 4th Article of the Geneva Convention, so extreme...is it so unreasonable to apply this standard test of citizenship?
So don't agree with you that your well-known experiences, views and criticisms of the behaviour of the Republic 63-74 do anything to undermine the authority and the position in law of the modern-day Republic on this settler/citizenship affair.
(Noted Nikitas's experience re his wife's application for citizenship)
Secondly, as it has been raised, on this "motherland" business, this should worry everyone that this very real love for motherland is still exceptionally strong in the Occupied Areas, so very, very strong that the influence of the motherland in any future zone will be catastrophic for CY unity... and you'll know that later this month the Regime or its supporters have organised a demo/protest/stunt to demonstrate "Devotion for "nctr" and Turkey"... ..in the middle of settlement talks for re-unification!!!!!!!
Very worrying that Errorglu and others feel they can start a northern zone on the foundation of disregard for the Geneva Convention and on such things as Devotion for Turkey ... very, very worrying.