...a reply to MMMMamouth

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/05/26/negotiator-says-covid-19-holding-unsg-back-from-cyprus-involvement/

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...indeed, Mustafa Akinci may win, again; how will the "Cypriot Turk'' feel?

All Cypriots know that this time of impasse is coming to an end. Silenced in this debate of "Greeks" and "Turks", they have nothing to loose if at that moment of their choosing, they stand together, and united, under the Flag of Cyprus, expose those who treat it as a rag: "them".

Indeed, it is not Akinci that can betray a "Cypriot Turk", if he does not become one, if he wins; he is Turkish Cypriot. Erdogan may betray them though. What are they to him in any case, parasites, servant-slaves, as he said, in the past, and often presently, that they have failed to demonstrate the capacity to be self-sustaining.

The Cyprus Problem is much bigger than Cyprus, it is Turkey's Problem. As such the Problem extends as far as Libya linked to oil and gas exploration, "safe zones" linked to Syria, Island Rights linked to the Aegean Sea, (never mind his ambitions in the Black Sea for the moment). The problem is that the Problem in Cyprus has been reduced to a problem in a bigger problem, no one dares to call, The Problem because it is confusing.

And it is the Treaty of Lausanne, his gripe, not Cyprus per se, but around which all his ambitions, beyond it, revolve. What would he give to be heard, to be listened to, by the rest of the world, but the "Cypriot Turk", who in fact are more illusion anyway.

It is not hard to imagine him giving the water from the "Peace Pipe" to Cyprus, so too, the electricity, if it were to be linked to the infrastructure that Cyprus is building with her neighbours, European, and toward Africa, and the Middle East. (That could pay a lot of reparations). I can see him returning Famagusta, to great International esteem.

It is not hard for me to imagine Erdogan saying, one Cyprus, like Turkey, one Country, because in Turkey itself the country torn as it is over the same dogma, "Turkishness", (what tears Turks and "Turks" apart), also needs the same Hope.

I can imagine a Cyprus, a Republic, and i can imagine Cypriot Constituencies where distinct Cypriot identities are promoted at a second level of Government, of Persons, where they demonstrate as a Majority their conscious recognition and respect as a self representing body, toward their Minorities' special needs, as well; this is a BBF.

Not Akinci, but Cypriots may provide, as Cypriots the way, in Turkey.

...not the other way around.

He has only to demonstrate his conviction to his Flag, if he is a Cypriot, for crowds.

...and if he dares to win.