In terms of the Turkish mainland settlers, as people and human beings, and not as 'political pawns' of any side I see them as the weakest group in the whole mess that is Cyprus today. They are the weakest group economicaly, the weakest group politicaly
Are you sure of that, erolz?
All of the mainland settlers which were brought in first 10 or 15 years afterwards 1974, granted houses, hotels, motels, restaurants, huge amount of agricaltural land which belong to GCs, free of charge. Do you know that? I don't think so....
They have been granted the right to form political party, elect and run for the elections. Despite of this they voted the well known status-quo parties of TC; either because they didn't want to bite the hand that feed them or other profitable reasons...
Today, the ones who exploit the new comer settlers/seasonal Turkish/Kurdish workers are their own brokers; no one else...
and the groups that attracts the most scorn, disdain and even hatred from both TC and GC alike. As such my instinct it to 'side' with them.
The ones who hate them, actually; are the ones who seemingly care about them to exploit for their self-intersts... Who are they? Status-quoers, their own brokers and some extreme Cypriot nationalists...
So I urge you to make a bit more detailed research regarding the settlers before you decide who is the weak to take side with... I'm sure you wouldn't want to be one of the responsibles of their/our losses and sufferings in a unified Cyprus...