Pyrpolizer wrote:Kikapu wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:boulio wrote:the truth is has anyone really did a analysis that if the tc state was reduces to say 25-27% so you figure 90-100 k gc return to the gc state and the rest get their property rights in the north how many would actually return?someone who is 45 years old was four years old during the invasion basically has no ties to the north,i think that most of those 60-70k who would be entitled to get their properties in the north would most likely(80-90%)sell
Aha! The question is how would they return when practically all properties are currently in use? For 100K to return there must be relocation of another 100K. The difficulties to return in either the area that would be returned to become GC Fed State or within the TC Fed state are basically the same.
I don't foresee much returning. What I foresee is moving of populations over the years to places where most jobs will be available.That's why I believe BBF is not sustainable. What we should make sure will in no way be violated is the right to property ownership and settlement/residing anywhere in Cyprus.
Even if most GCs cannot return back to their properties, either by choice or because other are living in them, it shouldn't make any difference in readjusting the north’s territory to be much less. So what if 30,000-50,000 TCs remain in the GCs properties but those properties will be in the south state (GC state). If the north expects some GCs to go and live in the north just so not to reduce the north state from where it is today, then why can't the north accept some TCs living in the GC state cause by the reduction of the north state. The sword should be able to cut both ways, no?
i agree with you Kikapu,it seems to me this BBF thing carries with it a million problems.
Putting a TC hat on my head I'd say it's a matter of viability. How can an 18% Fed State survive under conditions of equality at Federal level when it has to compete with another of 82%?? It won't even be able to raise taxes to pay it's own public servants let aside those she will put at Central Fed..
Putting a TC partitionist hat on my head I would say the more we get the better off we will be after we eventually get rid of the Gcs
Now putting the Pyro hat back on my head I would say BBF is very unlikely to last for ever, I personally see it as a starting point to an eventual unitary state in which the TCs will secure their equal say in some other ways through some slow democratic process.As long as there are no border lines and anyone can settle anywhere he likes, been under EU law, any number between 18% and 19% is fine with me. Come on Lordo bull the red flag now
the viability as bigger is better is a load of crap,Malta is 300 sq km in the Mediterranean no water,no natural resources a population of 500,00 and is doing just fine.