by MrH » Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:43 pm
Kikapu,
Thank you for your post, trust me when I say that I only write in response to The profanity I receive from the Greek Cypriots. I have tried so many times to compromise with them, but the unfortunate truth is that if it's not their way it's unfortunately the highway. Like how the Czechs and the Slovak eventually came to loggerheads, it's about time we separate from our paths too in Cyprus. The answer to your question regarding my profession as a former journalist is simple. Due to the nature of this forum; it being an open forum too, I am unfortunely unable to devulge any additional information other than accept the rude remarks from our Greek Cypriot friends on this forum. Trust me when I say that I am fully aware of your standpoint as I spent two years covering Mr Alpay Durduran and his son from YKP a few years ago, but you also should know that I have personally withnessed the good and the bad of our history. I am a retired journalist Kikapu. I was there when the UN were digging up our women and children from unmarked graves in yhe 1960s and 74. But I also appreciate, like between Germany and the U.K., although bad things may have happened in the past, we must look to the future. I get it 100%. But, Cyprus unfortunately has too many hands in the pie with their own agenda and the only way forward is via confidence building measures leading to an overall settlement, which is impossible when the GC lead ROC chooses to ignore our Turkish Cypriot people and use Turkey to keep us isolated. They constantly play in Turkeys hand, thus the pendulum swings again decade after decade. Unless there's a two federal state formula as a stage one of an overal vision for a United Cyprus, the Cyprus issue will eventually lead to complete partition. Please read the 1977 High Level agreements and accept that everything has failed since 1977 because the Greek Cypriots are ignoring International agreements. Turkey will only accept what those agreements entail, which is why the Greek Cypriot strategy decade after decade is to deny our BASIC freedom for direct trade, keep us dependent on Turkey as if it will eventually cause us to repel, but has actually been the contrary. It has pushed us further away from unifying with the Greek Cypriots and closer to Turkey. Today, we have only one chance left and that's either for the Greek Cypriots to call Turkey's bluff and extend its hand to us in the form of some kind of lifting of the trade embargoes in order to show us that we can form some union together, or accept that our fate that Turkey is the only other peoples whom we can see the world through their telescope until our population eventually integrates with Turkey. The Greek Cypriots need to drop that chip off their shoulder before they truly lose Northern Cyprus indefinitely.