MR-from-NG wrote:Maximus wrote:MR-from-NG wrote:Maximus wrote:MR-from-NG wrote:I must add that unitary Cyprus is not what is being negotiated. If as a result of the negotiations that's what we have I will accept and respect it. My goal is for a peaceful and a strong Cypriot community regardless of unitary bbf or whatever.
It does not change the fact that your community's leadership have always put forward divisive and discriminatory proposals to create a backward regime and an apartheid state. Their views expressed at the negotiating table are the views of the majority of your community's and Turkey's. Which is the opposite of what you want and has a high probability of conflict if it every comes to pass. It does not matter how it's dressed up, it will not pass.
So, I don't know what you are arguing with the GC members on this forum for all the time and calling them haters. When you should be looking at your own.
And why is that Maximus? I don't know your age but my father who is 86 always tells me that he and the rest of the TC's were treated as second class citizens. You can't really blame them for looking for a solution that will put an end to discrimination. Why are you always referring to a "backward" regime? Are you to aware of the year we're in? 2015 is now where we're at. We have advanced and are right up to pace with the times. Do not make the mistake of comparing us to mainland Turks, we are Cypriots and we are as enlightened as you are.
How can your community always have been treated like second class citizens when they ruled over Cyprus for 5 centuries?
Then in 1960, your community denied democracy and still deny it to this day.
I'm guessing you are a lot younger than me Maximus, in which case there would be no point in me expecting you to understand the problems my father faced during those years.
Dont be naive. Your community 'ruled' over the GC's like they were 2nd class citizens for 5 centuries.
When the Brits arrived, they found an undeveloped poor country where the majority (the natives) were oppressed and lived like peasants under Ottoman rule. And a Ottoman minority that lived like pashas! They came to dismantle this oppressive empire that was subjugating other peoples in their lands and was spreading like a disease.
I want to know how your community could have been treated like second class citizens when they had an apartheid all that time and up to the point of conflict in the 1960's.