by Nikitas » Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:29 am
Davut is exhibiting strategic confusion and not depth, yet again. This is the guy who touted the "zero problems" policy with neighboring contries. He is a clown.
Turkey has been insisting since 1974 that the invasion solved the problem. In 1983 it engineered the secession of the north and has pushed for recognition of what it repeatedly calls a "state". Erdoghan ruled out any territorial adjustment, thus entrenching partition. Naturally there is no hint of GCs being allowed to share in the mineral wealth of the north even if they are the legal owners of quarries and marble pits, which are minerals. The most they can hope to get is a scandalously low "compensation".
Up to that point the scenario is understandable to foreigners and especially Anglosaxons. But try and tell them that this breakaway "state" has proprietary interests in the south, in an area where Turkey cannot possibly have any interest, and they will give the obvious answer, Fuck Off.
If you want proprietary rights over the whole island, for the TCs, then dissolve the TRNC, reject any notion of confederation, and partition obviously, get rid of settlers. In short, prove you are Cypriot and then you get a share. Till then partition stands.
Now for the question of individual share in the new wealth, if there is any, I have said it before. Give every Cypriot citizen shares in the gas revenues. Shares in the form of RoC issued share certificates. Make everyone, GC, TC and other, a stake holder in RoC petroleum and see how fast the bombast of Turkey will dissolve into thin air. But these are radical ideas and unlikely to be adopted in a society as conservative as ours.
