andytandreou
However I started this thread in good faith and it's been turned to a battleground by viewpoint et al. Don't forget that my question originally was "Do T/C's want a united Cyprus?"
Why do you have problems with views that do not match yours? you are the one using personal insults to try and downgrade and belittle my viewpoint.
Viewpoint, from now and on we should try and focus on one small aspect if we are going to have a civilized discussion.
If you refrain from hurling abuse and stick to arguing your point then we will have a civilized discussion.
I get the feeling that you think Cyprus is a backward, third word, un european, dictatorship with no rules, no respect for human rights, a horrible place to live, filled with Greek Cypriots ready to kill anyone who is remotely foreign!!
I don't know if you've ever been to South Cyprus but you really have no idea what it's all about.
I have been to the south many times and I have even visited Athens, have you been to North Cyprus or to Ankara or Istanbul?? I am well travelled and educated so I do know what its about as you put it.
You seem to think Turkish Cypriots are being exploited but you don't see the other side of the coin. In fact viewpoint, you NEVER see the other side of the coin. Your attitude towards this forum is to make Southern Cypriots look bad and it's more than evident when you reply to me.
It appears you read my posts but dont actually understand them I have always stated that both communities we to blame for where we are today, both communities messed up big time.
If you feel my comments make GCs look bad then surely you should question if what Im saying is right, it appears to hit a nerve which is obviously alive and very sensative but all you seem to do is automatically dismiss anything I have to say, saying im a bigot and a buffoon etc etc, hurling abuse will not help us understand each others concerns and ideas.
How can you say that Turkish Cypriots aren't being employed as lawyers or doctors? Isn't this the dumbest thing you ever heard? Did anyone tell you Cyprus has a major shortage of doctors or nurses or lawyers? Why should we employ foreign workers or T/Cs when there are enormous waiting lists of people already hoping to get a job in the most well paid sectors of the economy.
Surely it should be the best man for the job. not related to ethnic backround as you suggest thats called discrimination or being racist.
When foreign workers started going to the UK did they start working in the police or as lawyers? NO THEY DIDN'T!!!!! They started working where they where needed the most. Then once they where fully accepted into the ecosystem they became lawyers and doctors and the like... Why on earth should anybody give a high paying job to a foreigner? A job which requires enormous amounts of training, especially since the foreigner isn't even living in Cyprus, or doesn't plan to stay very long
But they got the same wages as the English man doing the same job and developed into more well paid positions with greater responsiblity and standing. Where do you think the TCs are going other than being labourers and cleaners, doing those jobs which GC dont want to do for lower wages thus being classed cheap labour.
What pisses me off about you viewpoint is that you emphatically insist that we should live apart and be separated by a border, yet you believe that Cyprus should continue to provide T/Cypriots with Passports, health care, pensions, jobs, free electricity (which the TRNC charges you for), European citizenship, unemployment benefits and anything else afforded to Citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. IF you believe we should live apart then at least ponder how your life would change without the daily injections of life that are given to Turkish Cypriots by Greek Cypriots.
Now I really believe you are not even bothering to read and digest my posts as you do not know my opinions at all and I will inivite other forum members to comment on the above post if they feel it warrants a response as I do not feel it does.
