till the book is out let me share with you part of a report/suggestion from another gc business man christofi oikonomidis that was send to makarios in 1971 (once again excuse me for my bad tranlation)
the basic obstacle that prevents us reaching an agreement is the mutual fears and the lack of understanding of each other between the two communities. in the cases where there have been clashes between the two sides , the isolation that follows , only lets the fears and miscommunication grow, and concequently every side creates a twisted idea for the targets and aims of the others , and accuses the other for the beggining and the continuation of the conflict.
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the tc side believes that :
a) the gcs in Dec 1963 tried to eliminate the tcs in order to achieve enosis, and that this attempt was avoided due to the turkish military unit that finds itself in cyprus and due to the thread of a turkish invation
b) that a similar attempt to eliminate them is possible to happen in the future
c) that gcs if they dont achieve their physical extinction they will attempt to destroy them and "enslave them" both politically and economically
d) that the gcs want to use the independance as a step for enosis
e) that greece continues to have dreams about "the great greece" , recreating byzantium, and that the union of cyprus with greece will "surround" turkey from the south , and it will be a step in order to achive that target....
what have we done till today to deal with those fears ? Unfortunately all of our public speeches and our media most probably let these fears grow even further, and at the same time the illusion is created that the greeks will anytime soon achieve enosis... In order to strike a rational /reasonable and functionable deal with the tcs we have to convince them , both with our stance and behavior towards them, and with our official statements that their fears are non-excusable , and that in the contrary of what they believe.... we wish to cooperate with them for the economic and spiritual development of the whole cypriot people....moreover we should start adapting our people to the idea of a realist compromise with the tcs instead of continuing fanatisizing them with impossible Enosis rhetoric.
a real prophet....
