zan wrote:Kikapu
I think the problem lies with the very recent past and what is happening now at a very accelerated rate in the TRNC/KKTC. There is transition going on and some are winning and some are losing. There is a lot of money floating around in the TRNC at the moment but it is money that is being generated fast. The problem lies with the infrastructure. For all this money that is being spent and made to have a long-term future and to be able to sustain an income for the foreseeable future there has to be infrastructure. There have to be crops that can be sold, there has to be a regular supply of tourists and we have to legitimately trade with other countries. What do you think you will see in ten years time if Turkey stopped giving all that money? We are under effective siege at the moment and are producing nothing. This is not a healthy situation so I think you have got the wrong end of the stick as to what VP is saying.
On the point of SPIN, yes he does but I have seen him discuss, for days with people about the right way for unification but it always ends up the same way and he is accused of wanting partition because he does not agree with the terms. TPapa has been playing that game for a long time now and it is getting to be a trick that the GCs play when we demand some of the power. You have to understand FULLY what they are asking of us. What they are saying is "we have made a nice little bed so why don't you come and lay with us. You can go where ever you want unless me and my brothers tell you different". DO YOU WANT TO PLAY?
Zan,
Thank you for your honest assessment of the "TRNC's" economic situation. I wrote a lengthy post today, regarding the huge money made from Gambling, Drugs and Prostitution, but lost it all, as my computer shut down, before I could post it.
I hate it, when that happens.
In essence, VP agrees to all this happening in the "TRNC" and suggest that the money is going to Turkey and not staying with us, to improve the economy, other than what Turkey sends us. This is no way to run a "country" as you have stated. We need to establish our own trades around the world, through our own ports, handling our own tourists, but non of this can be done, as long as we are not recognised, and if the USA starts sniffing Drugs and Money laundering and Prostitution, sanctioned by a state "TRNC", they will never recognise us, so the only option I see, where we can have our own state, and still be part of Cyprus, is the 2 states 1 country solution. Why not put our efforts into something like this for a solution, and have the GC's as our fellow citizens, most of them living in their states, but in the same Country of Cyprus. We will have our "mini partition" and still be part of Cyprus, where every one's human rights and properties restored. This will last much longer living with the GC's, than just break away and have Turkey "baby sit" us from now until eternity, because Sotos, Kifeas, Piratis, Miltiades, Pyropilizer and the rest of the GC gang here are not just going to go away, and forget about this. The first chance they get, there will be another "1963" all over again. I like to believe, that we have all learned our lessons for the past 44 years, and that we can all work for better future together, in a "New Cyprus".
