@Birkibrisli: My pending reply
Birkibrisli wrote: Thanks for that response,Pyro. And I understand your concerns.Denktas had said something similar once. When reminded that more and more TCs were leaving he said something like "
Let them go,we have better Turks to replace them with".
I know.. Proves how much he cared for his
own people.
wrote: Here is my logic: There are no more than 50-60 thousand real TCs left in the North. If by positive measures like you described RoC manages to attrack as many TCs to the Republic as there are in the TRNC(and this could easily happen over say 10 years,keeping in mind that the TC numbers will continue to fall in the North),than how could Turkey justify staying in Cyprus with her 40,000 troops? Imagine regular demonstrations in the Republic by tens of thousands of TCs and GCs together demanding that Turkey obeys international law and takes her troops and settlers home!
If RoC does nothing now,the real TC community will disappear by assimilation and attrition,and within 25 years you nwill have nobody in the North wanting reunification with the South. Taksim established permanently,end of story. And I will be turning in my grave in the arse end of the world,killing all those daisies trying to grow on top of me...
I totally agree. I described before why they are not doing it for the moment. It is obvious that all those TCs will be replaced by settlers.
But I don’t think the RoC has any other option given the fact the sooner or later the real TCs will be forced out of Cyprus by the settlers.
If I may add some comments on this. You know in 1974 very few TCs moved to the north. One year AFTER the Invasion there were 70,000 TCs in the north and 50,000 in the south.
We had this man Klerides as president and the TCs had Denktash. Klerides in my personal opinion was always a partitionist (btw he is the one who manufactured the Anan Plan behind our backs without even asking us). Well what did this idiot do in 1975? He met with Denktash and they agreed for "humanitarian" reasons to let those 50,000 TCs go to the north.!!! (this was the so called 3rd Vienna Agreement)
What the hell those humanitarian reasons were, nobody ever cared to verify if they were true or not, and to what extend they were such. It was said the TCs were afraid from the GC refugees taking revenge on them. But for one whole year after the invasion nobody touched any TCs living in the south. It was also said the males were all on the north because they joined the Invading Turkish forces, so we had separation of families. Question: ALL the males??? Another question: Why not the males come back and their security guaranteed by some treaty or something???
So my friend we lost as early as from 1975 the core of TCs who I have no doubt would be the prime example for other TCs to come back later….
Some after 1975 very few TCs stayed in the south mostly TMT wanted men. They had no other choice.. Those TCs are still living in the RoC areas and I dare say they all have high work positions.
In my opinion there is nothing much the RoC can do while the TCs are living in the occupied. All good will measures bounce on the matter of recognition. Even the measure to help the TCs by allowing them to cross for work, kicked back on us, because most TCs got jobs at construction sites where they have to suffer the treatment of the most illiterate and savage GC people.
So in a nutshell I would say:
Assuming the final scope of those who govern us in RoC is not to slowly "eat away" the TC properties left in the south, and assuming they do not want partition, then there is no other way to fight the occupation than take measures to bring the REAL TCs back to the RoC controlled areas, and help them as much as we can to prosper like the GCs. And then GCs and TCs fight together for the rights of ALL of us in our little island.