erolz66 wrote:Sotos wrote:You were not merely asking for your wishes to be "considered"... you wanted the wishes of your 18% to take precedent over the wishes of the 82%
Sotos was any attempt made by GC leaderships in the 50s leading up to the end of British rule to say to TC that ok we want union with Greece you do not, so lets talk about how we can resolve this, let's negotiate. Or did they simply believe they had both the right and (mistakenly) that they had the power to enforce such on TC regardless.
What we said is lets have a referendum so we can democratically decide. Like the ones they had in Falklands, Gibraltar, Scotland etc. It was rejected!
I have repeatedly stated that I personally would forgo any bi-zonality, any bi-communality, any quotas, any separate representation with a unitary Cypriot state. The only thing I want is an acceptance that if you decide you want the NON EXISTANCE of a Cypriot state that includes me , you accept you can not validly claim that is a genuine expression of a unitary Cypriot people that includes me, because it seeks to end the very thing that unifies us. Yet even this is too much it would seem.
Erolz, what you would personally forgo is irrelevant... who has the power on your side is Turkey, not you personally... and in fact enosis is not something which is wanted anymore so if that was the issue then we would have come to an agreement long ago. But I don't understand what you mean by "unitary Cypriot people". We are two ethnic groups, different languages, different religions living on the same island. Was there a "unitary Cypriot people" during British rule? During Ottoman rule? Or is this thing something newly invented... or not yet invented and you want to create it?