zan wrote:askimwos wrote:zan, what a united cyprus can offer you?
Certainlty a new better life and a new dream for you and your formost for your children, with more freedom of speech, away from patronising motherlands and surely more prosperous. Without the isolation thing that is kept recycling in this forum.
Is it going to be tough at the beggining? Oh, sure its going to be tough but people have to have courage as things will get much better...don't forget that the economic burden will fall on the shoulders of GCs...doesn't it say anything to you that the majority of GCs in this forum believe in the solution even though they will have to pay the cost of funding the development of the north?
Don't forget that the RoC managed to house one third of its population after the invation and the loss of 70% of the island's economic resources, a United Cyprus will be in a much better position to solve any short term problems that are expected to arise. It only needs to be patient and believe in this dream.
Good speach but where is the bread and butter. The GCs are going to buy the bread and the butter and we are to be thrown the crumbs. The short term problems will be the TCs and they can be sorted easily. So we give up the little we have managed to get togetrher in 32 years of isolation and 11 years of greater isolation before then to...........get social housing? To pay rent to GC landlords? To work for GC bosses who will end up taking everything they spend on us back...........................
Zan sorry mate but I do not think that there can be any discussion when the one side doesn't even want to listen. Let me just ask you a question mate..since your agenda is taksim why are you here in this forum? Certainly you are not here to try to convince me that this is the best solution. You don't need to do this, afterall you sureley have the power of Turkey to back you up and keep living as you do now. Why do I get the impression that its TCs that you may be after?
I am not a refugee and have nothing to win from a United Cyprus in terms of material "goods", quite the opposite, as you say I will foot the bill, but hey I am willing to do that so I can live in a free and united country without patronising motherlands. I am willing to do this for Andreas who is a refugee from Varoshia and Ahmet who is a refugee from Limassol.
And please cut the shit about leaving your home again, you know that it won't be like that...surely you wontfind yourself in the street and you you won't be living in social housing if this is what scares you. If you had a house prior to 1974 you are going to get it back and do whatever you want with this, the same goes with a GC refugee that lives in a TCs house in the south. In the case that you had nothing prior to 1974 and you were handed GC property and land after 1974 I can see why you refuse to let go.
I am afraid that it was you that brought it again to property and land and nobody else, this shows that this is your main concern mate. I think the main difference between us two is that one of us is greedy and the other is not.
Let me ask you a question just to see your way of thinking...Would you vote yes to a plan that leaves Greece and Turkey completely out of the equation, creates a federal Cyprus with more or less the powersharing aspects that the Annan plan described and be compensated for the loss of the GC property you currently use in the case that the GC refugee wanted to reside in it?