miltiades wrote:VP , There is but one Cyprus , and the entire world refers to it as the Republic of Cyprus not in in inverted commas as if doubting the legitimacy of the state. You are brainwashed utterly by foreign influences in denying your nation. It is absurd that the nation of Cyprus is disputed by its own people.
The wholeness and oneness of Cyprus can be easily put to the test by anyone who is willing to walk or drive North from any location until she reaches the "Green Line", which now is the de facto external boder of the EU and divides Cyprus into the Greek Cypriot Administered area and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Your insistence on the oneness of Cyprus under what you refer to as a "Republic of Cyprus" is unfounded. I and no doubt many others question and will continue to question the legitimacy of a government, which falsely claims to represent a people with which it is effectively at war, a government which cheated its way into the European Union under the false pretenses of being pro-unification, and which now is abusing its newly acquired privileges to demand more concessions from Turkish Cypriots in pursuit of its Hellenistic aspirations.
Your concept of oneness is further repudiated by the fact that the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is recognized as a legitimate state by Turkey and the Nakchievan Autonomous Republic, with both of which it maintains diplomatic relations, and has representatives in countries such as Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Israel and many others, while maintaining an observer status in the OIC.
Viewpoint's questioning of the imaginary concept of "a Cypriot nation" is not because he was brainwashed by "foreign" influences, but because he has been disenfrenchised by a government that you support and which falsely claims to be his own as well, but at the same time maintains a hostile policy towards its people of Turkish origin. Your myth of a "Cypriot nation" was blown into pieces when you and your ethnic kin rejected the Annan plan, and you slapped Turkish Cypriots in the face while their hand was stille extended in piece. The damage was done, and with it partition seeled.
With the expected suspension of Turkish membership talks and now that the Annan plan is null and void, partition will become an irreversible process. And you may groan and moan by calling me a "prick", but this will not change the above reality.