Turkey must allow access to Turkish army archives for missing persons, Presidential Commissioner says

 https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/09/26/turkey-must-allow-access-to-turkish-army-archives-for-missing-persons-presidential-commissioner-says/?utm_source=projectagora&utm_medium=contentdiscovery

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...my family members (six of them) were found only recently (a few years ago); i thank the CMP and Mdme. Sevgul Uludag, for their tireless efforts to that end.

...indeed, i do not forget what the families of these "missing" want, Turkish or Greek. I like them would like to see them memorialized as Cypriots, with their names recorded together on one stone. Somewhere where we may gather to remember them; wickedly betrayed by the "Greeks" and "Turks" that live(d) among us.

Turkey will not atone, unless Cypriots join as one against these dogmas; what chance is there in that with Cypriots silent. He begs us on our own beaches to come; yet who dares to make souvla peacefully under the one Flag "they" treat as a rag? Ask yourselves; what frees us from "Greekness" and "Turkishness"?

...Enosis, such a revolution is needed; i do not despair: the People will speak.

Citizens must pitch in for Cyprus settlement, Spehar says

https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/09/22/citizens-must-pitch-in-for-cyprus-settlement-spehar-says/

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....well said Mdme. Spehar.

Indeed we (the rest of us not "Greek" or "Turkish") are expecting great things from the Leadership in these negotiations on the Problem, in Cyprus.

...so too, we should be expecting great things from the People themselves.

Picnics come to mind, and enosis, two words in Cyprus which have their own special and unique meanings...

...we, (those of us for unity, as Cypriots) can take back these words, on the beaches making souvla together peacefully, under the one Flag, the Flag of Cyprus, "They" treat as a rag. That would be helpful, don't you think? Indeed, our Leadership should not be able to look out their windows, or while driving in their cars, without seeing this flag; that would be helpful too.

Eide also said the same thing, not coincidentally; never mind the rest: it is Cypriots who can/will solve this mess.

...did i mention enclaves?

 https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus26478-30.html#p910818

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...you are right. Without enclaves there would not have been a Turkish Cypriot constituency; it is as TPap said (sometime before the Problem), as a much younger man, that they were everywhere in Cypriot society, something like sand if it was scattered across the island's map.

...but they do(did) exist, though politically and historically it is hard to tell who they were founded by. And it is up to Cypriots to mitigate the result of having used them for their original intentions. Let's not forget it is a geographic term; as i've said many times before, intentions count. Like enosis it is a word which has been twisted, hijacked if you will, by "Greeks", and "Turks". The words have no meaning in Cyprus but bad, to Cypriots generally, and to Turkish Cypriots in particular. But, it does not mean that they cannot take back the words from "them", with acts that all Cypriots may understand and defend, in their meaning a Cypriot way "they" fear, without violence but in a collective will for more choice, better livings and lives.

..if it were possible to return to 1960 with what we know today, would this island's dwellers have acted differently? "Greeks" and "Turks" would still exist, but Cypriots would not have taken them to be fathers, or brothers; while family their allure would not have been captivating at all.

Enclaves allow for the Green Line to remain, if they are scattered on both sides of it. And, to preserve an Identity quite distinct from Greeks as speakers, (which represent an overwhelming majority by population). No one should expect an enclave to be exclusive, it is the service you will obtain in a language of your choosing that counts, and in either case respectfully whether a part of the majority or not. Enclaves allow for dignity and Grace, some at least, as communities, will signify a return, Justice seen, as communities. Bizonal does not mean two parts (and mutually exclusive to each other), but like Bicommunal, an indivisible whole, which when more closely described is parted in more than one way.

...in my Cyprus, the Maronites as Maronites would exist, and their Territorial Jurisdictions, so too the Armenians, (and the British), with the same kind of self-representation any other Constituency would have at this level of Government.

(again, i ask you to free your mind of the narrative you still suffer, to look beyond to the something more than this.)

...yes, it's safe to say that i did not live in one, but unlike most Cypriots i can say that i have been in one. Galatia was very big in comparison to my village, so close but a world apart. Dusty is what i remember; and, that fear you have: i do know what it is.

...houses, not homes, they had in such conditions. You may remember, i do; we were betrayed by our own nature, now afraid, and now divided, to recall mythic Glories from the past, and few in that regard could speak otherwise, or even more reasonably without in affect risking their lives.

Indeed, to denounce the injustice, it is Justice which needs to be seen. Cypriots who lost their lives wouldn't want it otherwise, an equal and opposite effect, from goodness, and from all of us the living who survive them.

This time, it will not be "Greeks" or "Turks" that may make these enclaves but Cypriots for their benefit, not "theirs".

Details of a BBF are what will get the Cyprus problem solved, British High Commissioner says

 https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/09/12/details-of-a-bbf-are-what-will-get-the-cyprus-problem-solved-british-high-commissioner-says/

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...unity in Cyprus, unity in Turkey too.

What of the State, who it represents; not Persons, Individuals as equals without further discrimination or distinction.

...the same, in Turkey, and in Cyprus, in any country which respects the Universal Principals on which our Human condition is based; this is Freedom. And what, at another level of government, of Liberty, as majorities and as Persons having the capacity to demonstrate Goodwill toward the minorities that live among us with respect and recognition by providing for their special needs as well.

It is hopeful that such a notion could thrive, a BBF in Cyprus, worthy of its emulation wherever the Problem appears.

...and let's not forget Erdogan's own deadline, if he is to make a Legacy for himself in History judged great; should he succeed in bringing to Turkey's Centennial in two years a Constitution for Turkey, which unites its People now torn by the same "Turkishness" which has left Cyprus's people torn apart decades.

Re: The Education System in the GRoC

 https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus47840-30.html#p910716

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...i also remember cowling in fear when the British were around.

Fear for those of us who did not pick sides, while we may have been few, was abundant.

...i may have been, and i may be Greek, because i speak Greek, and i live in a Greek household, but please don't call me "Greek". We are not so hateful, and it is as offensive as "Turkishness" to me.

...and yet, in the late fifties and early sixties, what shocked me most were the men from so far away who i saw in pictures hanging from trees; was it Life magazine, this too in America: all whites are "White" you say?

My luck had it that our neighbours were Turkish. My 'tribe' were these neighbours, and the family i knew as my own. I grew up in a village where as cooperators we sustained our way of life; and we lived well, because of this nature. In that regard both the Greeks and the Turks who were from a different political view became apparent; they became a "Them" to us, our fear was even more real with Cyprus free, more of a reason to be silent and unseen.

...indeed, when i was around "Turks" i was much more nervous than when i was around "Greeks"; it makes sense for you to feel less angst among "Turks" for the same reason. "They" are murderous traitors no different just the same.

It comforts me to know that once a year, despite what tore us apart, despite the decades, as a village we meet (in Larnaca) to celebrate our festive day together; indeed those "Greek" and "Turkish" find such behaviour disruptive, but no one has stopped us from doing that, yet.

...more "picnics" are needed, i think.

People, the People, with no one speaking for them, may well speak for themselves; as Cypriots, if we gather as Cypriots, would you be against it, who would be against it?

...whether Cypriots, Greek and Turkish existed, few or many, may be debated; that they still exist cannot.

And yet that is your denial. The State may well be dysfunctional the way it is, who can disagree with you? Its mine, like it is yours, though; not the Leadership's let's never forget. These, so called governments function, they may serve their electorate well, (but not the voters), not Cyprus; 'we' may have to make this clearer to them. Divided this way, unnaturally, without respect and trust, to Cypriots, is no solution. Diversity counts; was it you who said, "Fuck them"?

...how is it Black men no longer hang from trees? (...not the "whites" or the "blacks" made this happen; Americans made this happen)

Cyprus needs an honest leader with a vision and lots of courage

 https://cyprus-mail.com/2021/09/05/cyprus-needs-an-honest-leader-with-a-vision-and-lots-of-courage/

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...and in the Cypriot context, Grivas comes to mind, the good intentions in his original thoughts; talking about power, corruption,and crime. Cypriots, those of us not "Greek" or "Turkish" must decide silenced as we are by their agendas, whether the time is right for us to speak for ourselves. Despite the decades of having been unnaturally torn apart, Cypriots whether Turkish or Greek Cypriot, remain ignored as a constituency in essence without political representation, being about half the voters in any election on either side of the divide, dismissed as few or non-existent. Erdogan has given us this opportunity, to speak as one. It seems to me that he is begging for it; what with his own Problem in Turkey with its constituencies (and a need for a BBF)... ..."Picnics", seem appropriate in Cyprus. Cypriots, and under their Flag, the only one that is rightfully theirs, the one that "They" treat as a rag, making souvla peacefully on their beaches (in enosis). Hope for Turks not "Turkish", hope for the rest of us who are not ''Greek'', hope for Cyprus, (Turkey, and beyond). If this notion of "Turkishness" is to be motivated, it is now, what with Erdogan's need to create a Legacy for himself, what with Turkey's Centennial in two short years, what with his re-election campaign coming soon; Cypriots as Cypriots must speak for themselves, demonstrating their existence, since it appears that their Leadership do not demonstrate this capacity. Let's also remember that this leadership in Cyprus needs the same motivation to change themselves. They should not be able to look out their windows, or while driving in their cars, without seeing the Flag of Cyprus flying highest. ...is our Leadership corrupted, ask yourselves'. Are we the People corrupted, ask yourselves' again. There is a President out there that will speak to, and for, all Cypriots. ...who dares to say it clearly; the Problem is not an issue of "Greeks" vs. "Turks", nor is it a Cypriot dispute: it is between "Greeks"/ "Turks" against the Greek and Turkish Cypriots opposing them.

Maraş, a just Solution? (2)

https://cyprusscene.com/2021/08/12/maras-a-just-solution/

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...the courage to look around you and see that things are not black and white, that there are lots of colours is important.

...i don't like "Greeks", i don't like "Turks"; along with the rest of us who are neither. Ask yourself, who votes for "them", and who despite the decades of being unnaturally torn part vote otherwise. 

Talking about "Greeks" and "Turks" excludes the rest of us who are loving individuals. Are there only "them" on this island? I think not. I am a Cypriot if you want to define me, and i am not alone.

"They" will always be a threat; it is all the more reason for "us" to join together.