And I have a cousin too, who did not get a penny from the Americans and yet he voted yes to a solution. He must be crazy!
So out of all your relatives, including yourself, you only have one cousin that votes "yes", or he is the only one who didn't get paid while the rest did?
The Annan plan was a partition plan. Here is what Turkey's most popular journalist said about it:
Mehmet Ali Birand
Before the vote on the Annan plan, I personally believed the Turkish Cypriots were faced with a historic opportunity and did everything I could to ensure that the plan was a success. I believed that, with the plan, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) would be able to stand on its own two feet. The KKTC would enter the European Union with Greek Cyprus and consequently, the Cyprus issue would no longer be an obstacle to Turkey's EU aspirations. I am still of the same opinion.
The Annan plan was a partition plan, put into referendum days before our EU accession, and had as an aim to close (not solve) the Cyprus problem so that Turkey would not have major problems in her EU accession effort.