One of the EU concepts is the opening of all borders to all EU citizens.
I'm not against opening all borders to all EU citizens. I said permenant restricitions must be put on right to settlement and buy property...
By you isolating the TCs in another enclave you are not protecting them, you are condemning them to remain under-developed, as they have been for the last 40+ years.
If putting restrictions on right to settlement and buy property means isolating TCs to another enclave, you might be right but you know very well that it doesn't have a meaning how you twisted it. And I really fed up replying such twisted arguements...
It would make more sense for the ethnic-fanatic GCs to insist on isolating the TCs from them.
There's a Turkish phrase Pantelis,
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"Hırsıza kilit dayanmaz."
(A thief is able to unlock all kinds of locks.." In this small Island, there's no way to isolate ethnic-fanatics from each other; therefore it does not make sense to insist on isolating them...
The birth rates are much higher in the north than the south, I think. The Irsraelis know that if they have a unitary that includes the Palestinians, one day they will be a minority.
Any restrictions you impose on you right now, will haunt you in the future.
Don't worry about it... if there has been restrictions on right to settlement and buy property, TCs will always feel comfortable themselves in the region they have been living... If no restrictions has been put on right to settlement and buy property; the first two places that would be "invaded" by GCs, Greeks and foreigners in a short time would be Kyrenia and Karpasia, and you should well know why...
The Turks want no derogations from the EU. When the European capital begins to buy companies and interests in Turkey, how are they going to react.
Things are different for a country which has 150-200 times more land and 10.000 times more companies; cannot be compared with a land much much more smaller. 50.000 GCs, 30.000 Greeks and 50.000 Eoropeans will be sufficient to buy %90 of private property belongs to TCs... Some self-interest groups, even can easily organize systematic frustration and oppression "attacks" over TCs, in order to push them to sell their properties. I find this highly possible. The ex-Kyrenians and Karpasians will try every way and every trick to get those special regions back from TCs.
An open ended relation, means just that. One-way openings do exist in healthy relationships. It is inconceivable to me, to see Turkey a full member of the EU, not because of EU drawbacks, but of the Turkish elite reluctance to give up the reigns. This is the main reason why it will take Turkey ten or fifteen or fifty years, to fully join the EU. The TCs will not be given the opportunity to sidetrack from the Turkish path, unless they fight for it.
Who dies, who lives in 15 or 20 years time... An open end may become a close end or never ever. It is Turkey's job. I don't care weather they become a full member of EU or given a special partnership. Turkey is a recognized country and has rich resources to feed her people... Only a good education system can save Turkey...
The question is: Are the TCs going to take the EU way, or the Turkish nationalistic way. Once this question is cleared, then we can figure out the next steps, for lasting solution.
Neither of them. I'm sure TCs would like to go into their own way. A community with 200-250 thousands of population does not need to be an EU member to survive. Under the circumstances, all we need is a recognized state... Tourism, its side sectors, fishing, agricalture and farming would be enough for us to feed our body and soul properly. Weren't these things which made you one of the most wealthy communities of our region?