BirKibrisli wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:Thank you Hermes for starting a new topic on this. I am obviously very lousy in starting topics anyway...
VP you mostly base your objections on the fact that you are financially bound to Turkey.
First of all it is the administration that is bound to Turkey by some about $ 1-2 billion per year. With a side Government you are not bound anymore.
Bir hello once again and welcome back.
The slogan that the "GCs stole our rights" is very old . It might have had some meaning in the 60s but not after 1974 although it continued been cultivated by Denktash even after 1974. After the opening of the gates I don't think there are many Kibrislis left thinking of this to be anything near to what was stolen from the Kypreos.
You may say that what the RoC has done for them after 1974 is the minimum, I say it was the maximum possible. If you disagree then tell us what else could it have done.
I agree that Eroglu was saying the same things long before Erdogan, even in a milder way. The question is WHO IS EROGLU???
Is he really the true representative of the Kibrislis???
Hello,dear Pyro,and thank you for the welcome ...I havent really b een away,just not posting...One gets bored repeating the same old arguments after a while...
The phrase "GCs stole our rights" is not a slogan for many Kibrislis,it is a historical fact...Historical facts do not get old,they become more and more entrenched...And yes,most Kibrislis believe that the successive GC governments did only the minimum for the TCs...If you claim to be the sole legitimate government for all Cypriots you have to pay certain price,in this case passports,pensions,and free hospital treatment..
.What was taken however was the political rights of the TC community as per the 1960 constitution,and tht is what has to be returned...Between 1963 and 74, basking in the glory of removing the TCs from power,Makarios agreed to nothing which would restore the situation...He played the political game well,and left to him there would've been no Cyprus problem to talk about today...He was methodical in his tactics to make the TCs leave Cyprus,and he would've succeeded...
Things are somewhat different since 1974,but not for the TCs...They have now lost their political power to Turkey,and all they get is the blame for their own misfortunes...This is what has to stop...the Kypreos must stop denying what they did back in 63,which was esssentially throwing the TCs out of power at gunpoint...Admit the responsibility and offer reconstitution...
If you abuse somebody and deny it,or say 'look your own side is abusing you as well,so that absolves us" is not going to work...You are wasting your time here,cooking up impossible dreams...Wasting time we do not have...As VP keeps telling you,the average TC living in the trnc would rather put up with all the negatives of Turkey's assimilation policy than run back to the arms of their original abusers,especially when that abuser has shown no sign of understanding, remorse, or regret...
Even the worst opponents of Turkey's policies (the Unions,Jasmine movement,Afrika newspaper etc) have never suggested such a move...What the RoC government has to do now is to accept the TC community as equal partners in a BBF...The rights TCs had in the founding Constitution need now ,in the light of all that transpired since 1974,to translate into political equality with a bizonal statelet...It shouldnt be too difficult to satisfy all the GC fears regarding the future,if there is goodwill,and determination to right the past wrongs...If you keep forcing Erdogan's hand he will do what he is threatening to do (go alone and dictate his own solution) whatever the cost...Such is the stark reality we all face...Ignore it at your own peril,and the peril of all Cypriots,Kypreos and Kibrislis alike...