Viewpoint wrote:Turkey will only leave if something along the lines of AP is agreed and she has to adhere to reduction of forces on the island: The other option is for the TCs to revolt and complain to the UN and EU that they no longer want Turkey here but in order to do that TCs have to be economically independent and with the current embargoes in place there is no chance of that.
I have always argued that Turkey is comfortable knowing the GCs so well that they do not have the capabilities to entice and draw the TCs population towards themselves, they know that as long as there is no dialogue then TCs will net want to move and work with GCs rather then Turks. Really Gcs are shooting themselves in the foot, if they had the vision to encourage Tcs to work closely with them showing them that a united Cyprus with them (GCs) is a far better option then the TRNC with Turkey, that would make a unification much easier, but GCs are incapable of this and it will never happen.
I'm no Greek Cypriot, much to your surprise, but I do not think that the GC's will ever agree on having any Turkish Troops left on the island with a new "AP" or not. You always talk about the 1963 events, but they talk about the 1974 events, which is much more recent and many folds greater, so any reminder of Turkish Troop presence, will be deal breaker. I hope some GC's will correct me on this point, if I'm wrong.
In the meantime, I do not believe, the RoC is going to lift a finger to help us (TC's), as long as the Turkish Troops are there, so that we can reach our economic equality with them, then refuse to unify, because we will have the Turkish Army to back us up.
I really believe, the plan I posted few weeks ago, has to be something similar, where everything things start happening simultaneously from both sides, over period of 10 years or so, so that all foreign power is off the island. If we all wait for one side to give in first, then the other side takes 1-2 years to reciprocate, it will be a never ending progress.