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...by accepting the premise of the headline, one assumes that Greeks will betray the very Principles of their own and Humanity's existence.
Indeed, given the world and the state it is in such a notion is possible. I see things differently though, because i remember "the Problem" as it was called in the early sixties then among Statesman, in Cyprus, the Cyprus Problem. And because i have greater confidence in Humanity itself despite the passing of years to decades. No doubt that Mr. Erdogan knows it well, the Problem, as well; with Turkey never more divided today. No doubt Mr. Putin knows it well with his (own) so called "Cyprus Solution" a few years ago in Georgia for example, and now in the Ukraine. No doubt a man like Mr. Biden cannot forget (in '74) his own Nation's failure to act, and to defend the Values and Rights of the People over the ''sides'' that were tearing them apart in Cyprus (since its inception), in an effort to usurp from Cypriots their Identity as Cypriots. No doubt the region has suffered overall without this solution. No doubt the world wants an end to this Problem which as problems, grows and festers.
...indeed, all things are possible. I imagine Erdogan, Putin, and Zelenskyy, standing together Heroes in the eyes of the world having solved (in the Ukraine, in Turkey and Cyprus) the Problem of a "perfect" political template where the People as Individuals have Freedom, and as Persons the Liberty to demonstrate their Goodwill as majorities in Goodfaith toward the minorities living among them: it is intentions that count.
Greeks and Turks have higher values above the "Greekness" and "Turkishness" some may hold Supreme; in Cyprus (e.g.) never once, since Denktash or Makarios has one of ''their'' candidates ever won overwhelmingly.
(...he comes having thrown out the window the Treaty of Lausanne (and having disrupted all his friends and neighbours) wanting better: this is something to think about, something to beware.)
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