by repulsewarrior » Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:55 pm
...partiton means no Freedom, and don't kid yourself there will be no security.
If Cyprus will be divided, so too, Turkey. If Cyprus is united, there is a chance to move Humanity a little more forward with thinking that is based on Universal Principals. Instead of defining ourselves in this debate as "Greeks" it is Individuals that we are. A Greek, labelled a "Greek" is not Freedom.
Bicommunal means, not, a single Identity, it means something else, and in the case of the Cyprus Problem it will be resolved when we consider that as a People, we are Individuals, at least as much as we are Persons. We are Cypriots, not "Greeks" and "Turks", and then we are an array of Persons, as Cypriots. This regretfully is not the debate as presently framed. "Ours" has taken a different perspective, because those who are having the debate, allow their Cypriot Identity to take second place to their "Turkishness", or their "Greekness". Thanks to the "Turks" this view has been the only debate continuing a grudge from the Treaty of Lausanne which excludes any thought, for Cypriots, as though they don't exist, as far as "they" are concerned.
Turkey must recognise the existence of Cyprus, if Turkey itself is to survive from the same division within, between "Turks" and "others" (read: not "Turks").
...that or the rest of the world can build a wall around his Caliphate, called "New Turkey", a place for "Turks", although it will be much smaller, and what is Turkey won't exist.