https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus46483-30.html#p873227
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...while the discussion is focused on "Greeks" and "Turks", i will focus on the Cypriots who were (and are) their victims.
...indeed, for the "Turks" plan 'a', is (and always has been,) the island impotent, that no Cypriots exist, only "Greeks".
...indeed, if Akinci is a Cypriot, he will remind us who listen, on this fact. "Greeks" and "Turks", for the most part, never busied themselves killing each other.
...if he said that, standing under the Flag of Cyprus, a Turkish Constituency could exist.
As a Cypriot Constituency, as Persons, they may represent a tolerant society, (closer to their taxes with such representation effecting their daily lives), and, (being bicommunal,) representing themselves as Individuals under the Republic of Cyprus as Cypriots united toward defending not just this Liberty, but their Freedom, the Rule of Law and the Universal Principals on which it is based; as such, such an existence, Cypriot and Turkish speaking, is secured.
Nothing would prevent Cypriots as Cypriots to agree...
...that "being" Cypriot is possible, that while as Cypriots they are overwhelmingly Greek speaking, as Cypriots they are an ethnos.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Sunday, November 04, 2018
People prefer loose to decentralised federation
https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/11/04/people-prefer-loose-to-decentralised-federation/
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...indeed, let's not forget that those firmly attached to their "motherland", or "fatherland", have their own candidates, on either side of the Green Line. And they lost their Legislatures, in the last elections, respectively; it was not "their" candidate elected as President.
...what does it mean?
...it means that Cypriots exist. Despite decades of assimilation artificially divided, they still represent the other half of the voting public.
While the "Greeks" and "Turks" are kept apart, they are very much the same in their needs, and, as it is, in their Intolerance toward what is, not "them".
A fairer debate, on the Cyprus Problem, may be better framed with Cypriots on one side of the table, and the Constituent States on the other. As such, if there is unanimity on either side of the table, such issues will be hard to dismiss. What is "fair" to both, any way that is taken, is more easily defined.
In any case, a "loose" federation, should not mean a weak Federal Government. Who as a Cypriot cannot accept the Universal Principals that make us Human, or a Rule of Law which as Individuals makes no distinction or discrimination among us? And, as a BBF, who as a Cypriot, does not expect as a Person, (at another level of Government as Constituent States) to be welcoming; reciprocally (or not), respecting, recognising, and providing for those among them, minorities, with their own special needs?
Thousands of Flags is the immediate remedy. The ruling elite, wherever they may be, as they glance out their window, the Flag of Cyprus; to some, not a rag, for them something to think about.
...fantasy, it seems, i know; what is just out of grasp, so easy, something simple to understand.
...good read, Mr. Alper; thanks.
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...indeed, let's not forget that those firmly attached to their "motherland", or "fatherland", have their own candidates, on either side of the Green Line. And they lost their Legislatures, in the last elections, respectively; it was not "their" candidate elected as President.
...what does it mean?
...it means that Cypriots exist. Despite decades of assimilation artificially divided, they still represent the other half of the voting public.
While the "Greeks" and "Turks" are kept apart, they are very much the same in their needs, and, as it is, in their Intolerance toward what is, not "them".
A fairer debate, on the Cyprus Problem, may be better framed with Cypriots on one side of the table, and the Constituent States on the other. As such, if there is unanimity on either side of the table, such issues will be hard to dismiss. What is "fair" to both, any way that is taken, is more easily defined.
In any case, a "loose" federation, should not mean a weak Federal Government. Who as a Cypriot cannot accept the Universal Principals that make us Human, or a Rule of Law which as Individuals makes no distinction or discrimination among us? And, as a BBF, who as a Cypriot, does not expect as a Person, (at another level of Government as Constituent States) to be welcoming; reciprocally (or not), respecting, recognising, and providing for those among them, minorities, with their own special needs?
Thousands of Flags is the immediate remedy. The ruling elite, wherever they may be, as they glance out their window, the Flag of Cyprus; to some, not a rag, for them something to think about.
...fantasy, it seems, i know; what is just out of grasp, so easy, something simple to understand.
...good read, Mr. Alper; thanks.
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