repulsewarrior wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:Viewpoint wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:Every Kibrisli that I meet says he is CYPRIOT and feels contempt for those others who are TURKS.
And we have VP here trying to sell propaganda. I won't buy.
Did you ask them if they want to be a minority among GCs? Lets say for arguments sake you are right what will it chnage? will it make you happy? or will it unite us?
The problem with you VP is that you are "a partitionist at heart". Kikapu said those are your own words...
You wish that someday you will have your own recognized state, that you will be equal to all other nations in the world, have ambassadors, join the UN, have a thriving economy etc etc just like the free areas of the RoC. And that you will get rid of Turkey messing in your affairs other than providing you a free of charge army and protection.
You forget of course that 90% of the land and properties in the north are stolen GC land and properties hence from this factor alone your dream could never come true. Let aside other factors like Turkey who controls everything in the occupied North, and considers the place as their loot of war, that will never donate to you to become an independent state. And who are you according to them? Some "british bastards" that’s what the Turks say for you….
Your starting point in what you REALLY WANT is very important in explaining your stance.
For you any other solution other than your dream of partition must be way too good to be accepted.Something like the Anan Plan… That’s why you always ask for a million guarantees and assurances every time a compromise proposal is on the air.
Now compare yourself with any other Cypriot whose starting point is unification or one Cyprus for all CYPRIOTS. Take a Kibrisli for this example. Does this guy expect to have a million guarantees and assurances for every aspect of a solution like you do? Does he expect the solution to be way too good for him (hence way too bad for the Kypreoi)? Does he expect his own numbers who are not even 10% of todays total, to dictate the remaining 90% of what to do or not do, hiding behind the term political equality, like you do? Does he expect to be an equal partner in an economy in which he will not even be contributing 5% and dictate terms and conditions to those who run 95% of the economy like you do?
Does he expect that with some magic formula the Kypreoi will be forced to give him their properties in the north for free or for some peanuts, or does he believe in lies that the Kibrisli land left in the free areas is enough to make an equal exchange like every partitionit thinks? Or does he KNOW that at best the Kibrisli will end up owning only about 1/3-1/2 of the land ownership in their administered area?
Does he expect that even with a BBF solution with political equality the Kibrisli Federal part will be in total control and practice discrimination vs the Kypreoi (like you and every other partitionist thinks), or does he deep inside know that this BBF thing is a starting point where the Kypreoi will sooner or later develop/create businesses and be in control of at least 50% of the economy there, because of their land and property ownership?
In summary those of you partitionists really misunderstood what you will ever get in a solution. And of course Eroglu is one of you and we ‘ve seen how far he managed to go.
without prejudice, i'll stand in defence of vp on this point. if i understand him correctly, he believes in a Republic that is strictly non discriminatory, that gives no distiction to its Citizens except as Individuals (and his plaint is that the GC (so-called) will never let this happen). our confrere seeks to represent a Turkish constituency, i (too) ask where is a Greek, Maronite, Armenian, and Latin, equals as Cypriot Constituencies?
...Cyprus, is it a Greek State, and why not a Cypriot State; where is a Greek Constituency, speaking Bicommunally?
Kikapu, i am Greek, as a Person, but as a Cypriot i prefer to represent myself as a Human Being; is it the same for you?
...would you agree vp, you are Turkish, but as a Cypriot you would prefer to represent yourself as a Human Being?
repulse I am a Turkish Cypriots who wants a BBF with political equality of the 2 constituent states as supported by the UN and EU.