Amid Mediterranean tensions, retired Turkish admiral grabs the spotlight touting supremacy at sea

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkey-greece-blue-homeland/2020/09/26/15cf7afe-fc3b-11ea-830c-a160b331ca62_story.html

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...indeed, it is the Aegean, as it is divided, which make Greece and Turkey, as adversaries, equal.

Turkey does not have the longest coastline; Greece does: while Turkey as a landmass is much bigger.

...this the Treaty of Lausanne (and Sevres), which in Erdogan's Turkey is relegated to the dustbin.

"Turkishness" questions the values of Universal Principals, and "our" conviction as Human Beings.

...having become the Cyprus Problem, then the problem in Cyprus, to a problem among many: this the Problem.

Lebanese Christian party offers idea to resolve dispute over new cabinet

 

https://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/19/09/2020/Lebanese-Christian-party-offers-idea-to-resolve-dispute-over-new-cabinet

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...a great idea, with both sides having to make convincing arguments over what is good for the country.

Indeed, the Lebanese, like so many in their region are, in effect, Bicommunal: they regard themselves' as Individuals, and they identify as Persons; of having distinct identities.This much is clear, at least.

...what is a State; since Nations seem easy enough to identify?

Here, the Lebanese People must decide, certainly no mono-clonal mass. As Lebanese, will their Leadership (for their own good), for the good of the Country, overcome their own fears, (and corruption); "them"/"us"?

Putting aside their differences as Persons, one Hopes that as Individuals they may demonstrate beyond Nationalism (and "blood"), Patriotism (and Principal), above all as one. (And, even as Persons, demonstrating such Goodwill, Goodfaith, by providing as Majorities for the special needs of their Minorities accordingly.)

...where is the Green Line, seemingly, having disappeared, from Beirut and Berlin?

...yet, "this" must stop: (is this, the Problem?)

These aren’t ‘peace deals’, they’re military pacts signed with malicious intent

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200916-these-arent-peace-deals-theyre-military-pacts-signed-with-malicious-intent/ 

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...indeed, Iran, (and Turkey), have made themselves the center of the Arab world's attention.

But, their intentions as claimed are religious, (so too Pakistan).

The Brotherhood supports them, or is it the other way around? For Erdogan at least there is his one desire: "Protector" of a Caliphate he says will return to Istanbul. Such is their alliance for Islam, as "Muslims" (read: "Islamists"), now starkly in contrast to the Jews and Arabs who stand together against their threat, along with the rest of the world. Such is the state of Humanity at the brink of more War.

..what about God? I ask, the malice of bad intentions, who is to blame? One God, who stands (Lovingly) for this?

Re: Greek forces on red alert (Turkish surveying)

 https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus47471-320.html#p900671

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...if he has the courage to stand as a Cypriot, making it very clear he is no "Turk", he will not be pushed to the side as you say, he will take center stage; and he may win.

...having won, from the support he has from Cypriots, everything will change. Even in the Presidential election (in two years), the issue, what is a Cypriot may become as an issue that much clearer; not "Greek", not "Turkish", such a constituency as a whole. And "being" Turkey's National Issue, such an act by Cypriots, changing themselves, bettering themselves, for Cyprus, it may be cause for Hope, in Turkey, over that which divides Turkey, now: "Turkishness".

"Turkey", one hopes, will be removed by the People, in Cyprus. But which People? (And how?)

...this is something, Max, i strongly suggest you think about a little more closely.

...in Cyprus it should be Cypriots (and without force). If you are a Cypriot; this should be plain to you.

Not "Greek" and not "Turk", Turkish or Greek should make no difference, as a Cypriot, wouldn't you say it is "our" battle?

Occupied, or not occupied, as "Cyprus" has been defined (by 'them") for the same reason, to a Cypriot, should make no difference either, don't you think?

...are you telling me that you believe that "Cypriot Turks" voted in Akinci, that Turkish Cypriots do not exist, that to "be" a Cypriot one must be "Greek", that all people Turkish are "Turks"?

Please explain how that is any different to the "Turks" who call Greeks, "Greeks", and Turks traitors?

...i suggest "they" (as Dogmas,) are the same, and no different; this, Cypriots silenced as they have become may demonstrate once again awakened: that they are neither.

...and in the context of this topic, critically important, for "this" to change regionally speaking, as well.

Our View: Cyprus can no longer have one foot in the West and one in the East

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/09/06/our-view-cyprus-can-no-longer-have-one-foot-in-the-west-and-one-in-the-east/

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Let's remember, 1960, not so long ago, a Cyprus without a single road in asphalt from one end to the other, no water from pipes, as in Public Works either. This, the Cypriot People, managed, and succeeded in short order to change.

...i ask Mdme. Garber to ask herself, where else do Russians and Americans agree; that: Cyprus should be Free.

...and that Cypriots may live in Liberty.

...and what of "Turkishness"; the Problem, as a problem having grown beyond Cyprus, and as a dogma, (now, tearing Turkey in two,) one which questions, the solidarity of those not "them" who claim their commitment to Universal Principals.

Cyprus, tiny as it is, is the cross-road to three continents, let's remember.

Cypriots, as they are, have been this island's dwellers, millennia; no small feat now torn apart.

Cyprus and Cypriots should not have to choose, the West or the East, it is, (they are) a fulcrum perhaps, or a bridge; having demonstrated, having survived, for so long this (read: their) capacity as facilitators of exchange.

Greek forces on red alert (Turkish surveying)

https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus47471-280.html#p900353

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...indeed, some of us wanted the end to our subjugation in Cyprus, the war stopped there with our Freedom.

...i recall the story of Grivas from his brother, how ''it'' began; retired, having returned home, shot at while in a radio shack by unruly British troops, dismissed by their commanding officer and ignored as a trivial complaint.

...imagine his disappointment, so much he admired the British, and their discipline. But this was not it in Cyprus, he felt humiliated, and so the big idea started, the guerrilla war, open season anywhere on British uniforms.

...i remember that family well, how EOKAB tore that family apart, how they stick together, and beyond '74 how that worked out; "being" Cypriot in a "Greek" world is not easy, ("being" a Cypriot in a "Turkish" world is that much harder).

What's done is done.

Cypriots must identify that "this" must stop. Cypriots must identify themselves as Cypriot (first), Turkish or Greek; no "Greek", no "Turk". Cypriots are the vanguard, as they have always been, facilitators of exchange, socialised, and great cooperators; we are an ethnos, we are Greek speaking, and Turkish, Arabic and Latin, (and yes, English) as roots, too: the crossroad to three continents, (and all the world's religions); it is no wonder that it is the interest of so many interlocutors, tiny as it is. To win, we may even have to fight those not Cypriot, for what is Cypriot.

"(h)Asiktir Turkiye" does anyone remember? Today would you join these Cypriots, the very vanguard, there in the occupied territories, as Cypriots, standing together under the Cypriot Flag, the Flag of Cyprus?

(i have asked this question before.)

What message does that send to Erdogan, if we stand united; if there ever was a single person for all Cypriots to focus upon as the Problem?

The People, people as People, as Cypriots, by making this clear, we are a People; Erdogan has what he wants, Cyprus an ally, Cypriots respected, recognised worthily, something he can emulate in Turkey, having, itself, Constituencies.