The conundrum that is the Cyprus problem

 https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/04/09/the-conundrum-that-is-the-cyprus-problem/

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...in Turkey there are "Turks" just like in Cyprus, hated by the other half of the population who are Turkish.

"Turkishness" as it is being defined by Erdogan, threatens all of us actually. (Not just Cypriots, but the rest of the world.)  What Turkish Cypriots do matters. In effect, facing their own existential question, they cannot remain silent in the face of "Cypriot Turks" with their aims. And they should not be fighting "Them" alone.

Unity, an enosis of Cypriots Greek and Turkish (without further distinction or discrimination,) will do a great deal to galvanise the People of Turkey seeking change similarly. People everywhere need the same Hope that comes from such unity first, as Humans a single race. (Thus, what is wrong with a BBF where within such a State there exists Constituencies; the Liberty which beyond this Freedom, that allows people as majorities to demonstrate to the minorities living among them the same Goodwill and in Goodfaith.) 

...isn't that the problem, that in Turkey too (and (e.g.) as it is evolving in the Ukraine) exists the same Problem?

...indeed, the Problem is a problem that in Turkey rattles it to its core. Turkey (like Cyprus) is a State in need of Constitutional reform having Constituencies, too. Not all Turks are "Turks". Not all Greeks are "Greeks".

...and with its roots in Cyprus it is a (read: the) good place to begin; in finding the solution.

It will take 'us', the People to make it clear that we are not few or insignificant. And it is good to remember that even after the decades of our unnatural separation, it is Cypriots Turkish and Greek who have kept us whole by their votes; giving never once an overwhelming victory to one of "those" candidates: these are the facts.

In Cyprus it is not an issue of: Greeks versus Turks, or "Turks" versus "Greeks'', it is an issue of "Greeks" / "Turks" versus Turks / Greeks. Not so easy to explain and in short, it is a conundrum.

If they, these people who call themselves Cypriots, remain unheard by leadership(s) which ignore their intention,  they will take to the streets; as they have done in the past (quite naturally), beyond their Liberty, but as Individuals, different as Persons perhaps, but united for their Freedom, for the Basic Human Rights that are being usurped from them, divided as they have been by the dogmatists who seeking power question such Universal Principles hatefully without any respect or trust for identities not "their own".