https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/05/14/little-traction-for-eu-as-cyprob-mediator/
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...''be'' Cypriot. As hard as that is, it is what 'our' President must do.
While the "Turks" and the "Greeks" find such a notion absurd, the other half would welcome the courage this man might offer as a Leader who has committed himself to represent them: as Individuals, equals as Persons perhaps but, without further discrimination or distinction.
Cypriots exist. It is Cypriots who have kept such a notion of their identity alive despite being unnaturally torn apart, by never as voters giving these extremists Turkish or Greek an overwhelming majority after all these decades. In effect 'we' are not few and insignificant as "they" would have you believe. And 'we' may yet speak for ourselves, the People, if our representation, as Cypriots, continues to be ignored by a political elite that would rather define us by the mythic notions that keep us apart, (keeping "them" in power).
...the EU like the UN can do nothing, but support us. Supporting 'us' they cannot support "them", but 'we' must be acting for ourselves expecting such solidarity. The solution thus comes from within; if our leadership are blind to it from 'us', whether it is the Cyprus problem or the Problem itself. Actions not words will define us as Individuals, if we are prepared to defend the Universal Principles Cypriots have given their lives for as innocent victims in a hateful cycle of violence by those who question its value.
...are 'we' to ignore Turkish Cypriots because they are Turkish? They are at the vanguard against "Turkishness". Our only strength against "them" is that as Cypriots united such an example may end "Turkishness" in Turkey too.
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