Akinci says lifting US arms embargo would affect peace efforts

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/06/07/akinci-says-lifting-us-arms-embargo-would-affect-peace-efforts/

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...indeed, Cyprus represents the biggest threat to the notion of ''Turkishness''; Bigger than the threats from Kurds, Bigger than Turkey's preoccupation with Syria, Iraq, and Iran. It is their "National" concern. It is not the oil and gas, it is not the "Greeks" which need to be brought to bear in Turkey's ambitions, it is the Western world: if "they" submit to threats. Yet, in Cyprus, there remain Turkish Cypriots, who will not be subjugated by this ideal, as "Turks" devoted to Turkey, because they are Cypriots. Thus, they are the first, among many, and the last resistance to this intention, that Turkey rules this sea.

Cyprus is small, it is the cross-road to three Continents.

Who voted for Mr. Akinci; the "Turks"? He should not be so casual about his position as a Cypriot;  being Turkish. While the arms embargo, if it is lifted, only returns Cyprus to a normal position, Turkey has the intention to aim the S-400 missiles she will receive, southward, toward Cyprus and the sea. While lives are lost, if they are used, i ask, to what end? Indeed it is those few, his voters, he ignores, that he sees no worry in that. But for the decades that such Cypriots suffer (as well,) with a "Turkish" Agenda, i would not call them heroes. That they still exist, only reinforces such an identity, Turks, not "Turks"; having a wider identity, Citizens of the World, calling themselves Cypriots.

...isolated, Akinci is. He must decide, silence, or as a Cypriot speak. I ask, what Legacy, speaking as a "Turk"?