by repulsewarrior » Sat Aug 13, 2016 6:23 am
What is left of the Cypriot population in the occupied territories (Turkish, or not,) are not represented, but subject to, a foreign state. They are isolated because they represent a very small percentage of influence when compared to what is receognised as fact, the Republic of Cyprus, and, a "motherland" who clearly has no interest in advancing a Cypriot State.
There is no "Greek Cyprus", there is no "North Cyprus". It would be nice, that within the Republic, with its Constitutional Reform, if there existed Cypriot Constituencies at another level of Government, thus providing to its Citizens and electors a Cypriot identity as Individuals, as well as self-representation as Persons, the Constituencies themselves having National Assemblies should they choose to. This is a BBF, as in Canada, and the USA, for example.
...there is only one way to Freedom: respect and recognition, a willingness to defend each other, for Cyprus, as Cypriots.
Apologists abound indeed, they fret and worry on their Agendas, and their own security in a world where "they" imagine much hatefulness toward "them". Why accept their illusions? Either "Greek" or "Turkish", specifically this (these) group(s), the other half as i like to say, not Cypriot (but something else) who deny a Cypriot existence, deny that their intentions are toward promoting a "Greekness", or a "Turkishness", not a Cypriot way...
...do you really expect "your" part of Cyprus to remain "pure", a monoclonal society as it is today (in any case)? ; think.
mistermax, why would you deny Turkish Cypriots freewill, to live freely anywhere in Cyprus, a minority as you may say, if they choose to? Why then is it impossible for Greek Cypriots, to feel and to act in the same way?
...i say, "we" take back the flag; choosing to express ourselves, as Cypriots, because we are Cypriots, by flying the Flag of Cyprus, for Cyprus, wherever we can.
It is, on this island, the only one (forget the UN, forget the EU, for the moment,) which represents the Universal Principals that make "us", Human, beings. The "others" it's clear, among other things, serve themselves.
...the big issue is, now that Turkish Cypriots have been reduced to accepting anything that is given to them (by Turkey) (, framed as "Turks"), out of this dysfunction, how will they replace this despair with good intentions?
@ Lordo, dude, I remember Koray Basogrultmacı and Cinel Senem Husseyin, myself.
@ kurupetos, it will come down to that: Turkey or Cyprus; will you fight with those, for Cyprus?