tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-197590402024-03-19T04:46:44.012-04:00CYPRUS, the Cyprus Problem, mitigationobservation,comments,dialog,history: CYPRUS; UN mitigation against foreign beligerance wanes, risking
cultural extinction. my militancy for this Heritance.repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.comBlogger640125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-14487967194866567372024-03-12T20:30:00.002-04:002024-03-12T20:30:59.237-04:0060-year-old embargoes on Turkish Cypriots spiteful and unfair<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/10/60-year-old-embargoes-on-turkish-cypriots-spiteful-and-unfair/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/10/60-year-old-embargoes-on-turkish-cypriots-spiteful-and-unfair/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, we did live well together before the "Greeks" and "Turks" took on their cause for "Hellenism" and "Turkishness". I remember, with pride 'we' our village were Great Cooperators, there was trust and respect among us, we worked well together, we were in effect self-sustaining despite the 'taxman', the 'agent', and the 'others' who did not care for our collective tradition, a "mixed" village we were called because "they" found it strange.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed i remember, with Cyprus 'ours' in three short years there was asphalt on roads, a light in the kitchen, and water for drinking just outside my door. (Something the British had not provided.)</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, i remember those who stayed behind when the invasion started, because they were Cypriots, because they believed in greater Principles as Citizens of the World, in a Family of Man. They, are our Heroes. I do not forget that either. And i ask why there is no memorial for these murdered and missing where we the living may mourn together these men women and children for who they are (and who 'we' are) because they did not die as "Greeks" and "Turks" but at their bloody hands.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Who speaks for 'us' the greater half actually, the Cypriots who vote as Cypriots Turkish and Greek even unnaturally divided over decades never once choosing one of ''Their'' candidates overwhelmingly? This is the Problem. It is not a problem of Greeks vs Turks, or "Turks" vs "Greeks", but how Greeks and Turks are ignored by "Greeks" and "Turks" who hold the Agenda.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...indeed i ask, who would be against it if Cypriots took to their beaches to eat souvla together and under the one Flag that is rightfully theirs, the Flag of Cyprus; ask yourselves, ask yourself.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-85464650623147797842024-03-10T16:09:00.001-04:002024-03-10T16:09:32.782-04:00Tatar: No one can stop the Turkish Cypriots from achieving their own state<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/08/tatar-no-one-can-stop-the-turkish-cypriots-from-achieving-their-own-state/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/08/tatar-no-one-can-stop-the-turkish-cypriots-from-achieving-their-own-state/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">If anything, Mr. Tatar is misrepresenting Turkish Cypriots who in effect do not support the efforts he makes for "Turkishness".</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, "Cypriot Turks" like to think that only "Greeks" are Cypriots, "Greeks" in fact would like the rest of us believe that too. But it is not the case, as we have seen over the decades because not once have Cypriots swayed on either side of the "Line" by voting overwhelmingly for one of "Their" candidates.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">And where is the Greek Constituency, like a Turkish Constituency, to nurture their distinctions and to demonstrate as Persons their respect for the minorities that live among them?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, as Individuals, with a State without distinction or discrimination, we can defend each other under a Rule of Law. Being a BBF, even more, we can demonstrate the same trust and respect toward each other at a second level of Government, as Persons, as well. (The EU, for example is a BBF, so is the USA.)</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mr. Tatar is mistaken, he deludes himself if he believes that his Ignorance will be accepted because the World is as Ignorant as he is. He asks the wrong questions because he is not a Cypriot; if he did he would have all that he is asking for.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-10105248177698301572024-03-08T14:44:00.002-05:002024-03-08T14:44:55.045-05:00Talat: Turkey’s Cyprus stance ‘a complete fiasco’<p> </p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/06/talat-turkeys-cyprus-stance-a-complete-fiasco/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/06/talat-turkeys-cyprus-stance-a-complete-fiasco/</a><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Distinctions must be made between "Cypriot Turks" and Turkish Cypriots, just as there are "Greeks" and Greeks who live on this island too; this much is true.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...of course the "Greeks" and "Turks" will never join in unity.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">But, 'we' can. Enosis, in this context is not a dirty word...<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />...and a Cypriot meaning exposes "Them" to their corruption.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">"This" is at the root of the Problem which in Cyprus, as it is in Turkey, and as it is evolving in the Ukraine a matter of intentions, a question of Universal Principles that are being challenged by "Persons" over 'our' identity as Individuals, in affect, denying us as Human Beings the notion of equality, of having the same needs as a minority or a majority by "Their" elite and "Their" dogma(s).</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">(Dare i say in Gaza we see "Its" most extreme results.)</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Let's not forget that Cyprus is still Cyprus because even after all these decades of being unnaturally torn apart Cypriots vote as Cypriots never once voting overwhelmingly for one of "Their" candidates. And Cypriots whether counted as two peoples or one, it is clear that, they are neither "Greeks" or "Turks"; this is also something to think about.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...i dream of elders, men like Mr. Talat who will join together with 'us' the People on our beaches having picnics under the one Flag that rightfully belongs to all Cypriots, their flag, the Flag of Cyprus.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Who would be against such a notion ask yourselves.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...'we' are not few as "They" will have the world believe;</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cypriot lives matter too.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-8802248035798219912024-03-01T20:30:00.001-05:002024-03-01T20:30:12.353-05:00Debate over Cyprus-Israel film agreement heats up<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/29/debate-over-cyprus-israel-film-agreement-heats-up/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/29/debate-over-cyprus-israel-film-agreement-heats-up/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...so that it can be demonstrated some stories in life touch us all; stories worth telling.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Just like the Problem in Cyprus it is a war of "Jews" and "Arabs" against the notions of Jews and Arabs.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...i do not believe all Jews are "Jews" and all Arabs are "Arabs"; i suspect you do.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-6101296967598976952024-02-25T20:42:00.001-05:002024-02-25T20:42:31.850-05:00Greek minister: half of Cyprus is Turkish<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/21/greek-minister-half-of-cyprus-is-turkish/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/21/greek-minister-half-of-cyprus-is-turkish/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...yes, had the coupists been successful Cyprus would have been "Greek" and the other half "Turkish". What is ignored by "Hellenists" and "Turks" is that beyond these dogmas exists a world beyond them, which Cypriots (have already) embraced.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">But the coupists failed. Greek Cypriots who supported it were very few. Thus it is fair to say Cypriots are not few as "They" would have the rest of us believe, and they speak as much as they are silenced/silent, never once betraying the notion of "being" Cypriot, never once voting overwhelmingly for one of "Their" candidates at the polls even after so many decades of being so unnaturally torn apart Turkish or Greek, they hold in this way together above "This".</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, Cypriots are divided, who i ask keeps it this way?</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-58779810180920139192024-02-19T15:18:00.000-05:002024-02-19T15:18:51.989-05:00 Re: Ukrainian Issue<p> <a href="https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus47975-11970.html#p940190" target="_blank">https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus47975-11970.html#p940190</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p>...yes Lordo, fifty years later Cypriots are still ignored, by the invader and the coupists without support who failed.</p><p>...and let's remember that had Putin been truthful Ukrainians would not be defending their very existence. Russia has no reason to have attacked the Ukraine but for the sake of "Ukrainians", who as a "Russian" he has defined.</p><p>What is the Problem is the same; intentions count.</p><p>...unlike "You" the Danes are not looking for some tribute, something to gain; they stand on Principle as Patriots toward a cause that is Universal, and at a time not of their own choosing but because it is necessary.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-15172982899089170882024-02-18T02:27:00.000-05:002024-02-18T02:27:05.768-05:00Re: WHY ON EARTH HAVE THEY OPENED UP VAROSHA?????<p> <a href="https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus47539-10.html#p940152" target="_blank">https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus47539-10.html#p940152</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p>..."winning" i suppose, is what counts. If you are "Turkish" in Cyprus or if you are "Greek" your lives have the added burden of being hateful toward each other and ignorant to your victims, those of us on this island defending Universal Principles.</p><p>But, as an enterprise it seems quite profitable for both of "You"; what with the Cypriots (the other half) still struggling with what was usurped from them, their Individual Rights: to "be" Cypriots and to be loving persons as such.</p><p>...such as it is 'we' are still here. (whatever "You" say about each other)</p><p>While things are (un)changing "things" do not go on for ever, those silenced or silent will speak.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-51400499786693150962024-02-16T18:01:00.001-05:002024-02-16T18:01:07.947-05:00Turkish Cypriots encouraged to vote in European election<p><a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/16/turkish-cypriots-encouraged-to-vote-in-european-election/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/16/turkish-cypriots-encouraged-to-vote-in-european-election/</a> </p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Such an election should expose our political parties to the same criticism, who represents Cypriots best Turkish and/or Greek? Who unlike "Them" ("Cypriot Turk" and "Greek") espouse a Cypriot identity.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...what has AKEL done toward this end since the last election where their candidate, (for the first time) a Turkish Cypriot, was chosen by Cypriots to represent 'us'.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...i ask, where is DISY? Have they, since then, cultured any dialog with Parties in the occupied territories who support a Cypriot way? What makes them a Party all Cypriots may choose?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In any case, i do not despair; i remember, who has kept the notion of Cypriots existing: the voters who even after decades of this corruption for/of power do not betray themselves, leaderless in affect the other half as i like to call them as Cypriots, who do not succumb to "Thisness" defending Universal Principles instead.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-24386377851627806162024-02-13T21:34:00.002-05:002024-02-13T21:34:56.140-05:00The Cyprus problem gets lost in translation<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/11/the-cyprus-problem-gets-lost-in-translation/#comment-6389181870" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/11/the-cyprus-problem-gets-lost-in-translation/#comment-6389181870</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, the Cyprus Problem got lost in translation.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">It is as though "Greekness" and/or "Turkishness" are important, that "They" are more important than the Individual Rights and/or Identity of Cypriots that was usurped from them.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">It is as though 'we' will be sacrificed, those of us who defend Universal Principles, those of us lost in this "translation'' neither "Greek'' or "Turkish", the other half if you will which for decades as voters have never betrayed the notion of their 'Cypriotness'; voting never once overwhelmingly for one of "Their" candidates, those who have remained civil and reasoned despite the fact that having voted for Cypriot representation for so long, they have so little of it.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...what is the problem in Cyprus: it is not about Greeks vs. Turks, or about "Turks" vs. "Greeks", it is about "Greeks"/"Turks" vs Turks/Greeks; this is the Problem. And, if you think about it, it is the same problem affecting Turkey in its Constitutional reform, the Ukraine as it is evolving, (and dare i say it the conflict of the "Jews"/"Arabs").</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-62410547900552391562024-02-13T21:28:00.002-05:002024-02-13T21:28:42.541-05:00Booking.com warns tourists entering Cyprus from the north<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/12/booking-com-warns-tourists-entering-cyprus-from-the-north/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/12/booking-com-warns-tourists-entering-cyprus-from-the-north/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...respect to <a href="http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooking.com%3Anop6-GIzo0NDwm06q31eZXL5sbw&cuid=2435804" rel="nofollow noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;" title="booking.com">booking.com</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...what is a quick buck is not in their mission and such integrity counts.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cypriot lives matter; (still) the larger half if you will, Greek and Turkish who are neither "Greek" or "Turkish".</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-39057298221986031052024-02-05T01:24:00.000-05:002024-02-05T01:24:08.937-05:00A signal of doom from last British governor to Cyprus<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/04/a-signal-of-doom-from-last-british-governor-to-cyprus/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/04/a-signal-of-doom-from-last-british-governor-to-cyprus/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed i do recall, the coup and how it ended; imagine how things would be like had "They" succeeded.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, i do not despair because despite the "Greeks" and "Turks" who do everything to bend 'us' like chattel, they fail. If it were not for Cypriots Greek and Turkish who see life differently, Cypriots would be no more.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">One day, i imagine that Cypriots will overcome their fears and instead taking to their beaches for picnics, and under their Flag, the one that is rightfully theirs, the Flag of Cyprus, share souvla: who would be against it ask yourselves.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...if our leadership continues to represent themselves as the "Greek" representative or the "Turkish" representative, what is left i ask for the People wanting change, somehow to be represented as Cypriots (first), but to represent themselves accordingly, thus exposing "Their" weaknesses, with their own demonstrations of unity and strength.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Cyprus is Cypriot let's not forget because of its voters; despite decades torn unnaturally they have never once betrayed this notion of "being" Cypriot, never once having voted overwhelmingly for one of "Their" candidates.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Enosis is the only solution but Cypriots must take back the word and in practical terms give it a Cypriot meaning.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-91197218335782445502024-02-03T15:56:00.000-05:002024-02-03T15:56:14.545-05:00Nicosia must ‘avoid generalisations’ on Cyprus problem<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/01/31/nicosia-must-avoid-generalisations-on-cyprus-problem/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/01/31/nicosia-must-avoid-generalisations-on-cyprus-problem/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...such an insulting man, he dares to suggest that somehow "Hellenism" in Cyprus has been the cornerstone of our prosperity and health, which without it we could not survive. I fear the "Greeks" frankly, just as much as i do, the "Turks". And for Greeks, Turks, and Cypriots, "They" are a bane to our existence with their dogmas and their zeal.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, i ask, will 'we' be betrayed again; (i.e.: the coup, the financial crash), for "Greece's" greater glory, will it come down to that in the negotiations that will follow soon with Turkey?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Enosis, i see enosis as the only solution. Cypriots taking back the word from "Them" by giving it a Cypriot meaning.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...yes, let's avoid "generalisations", Cypriots are not "Greeks", nor are they "Turkish", as Greeks and Turks like other Individuals everywhere on this planet they seek something more: to live without fear, to be judged on their merit and not on "who" they are, to have equal opportunity at finding happiness; to ''be'' Human above all.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A State is needed; not a "Greek" state and a "Turkish" state, although such Constituencies at another level of Government would be welcome. A BBF in Turkey, i will add, like in Cyprus is needed. Greece may think about that wanting to be helpful toward 'us', and to secure for themselves among neighbours the same peaceful relations.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-22782042440558816132024-02-02T03:04:00.001-05:002024-02-02T03:04:33.381-05:00...I'd like to visit Gaza one day.<p><a href="https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus43994-990.html#p939852" target="_blank">https://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus43994-990.html#p939852</a><br /></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lordo wrote:</p><p>repulsewarrior wrote:</p><p>Lordo wrote:</p><p>Similarity between Ukraine war and Gaza is incredible.</p><p>1. Both aggressors are sponsored by America</p><p>2. Both are trying to ethnically cleans people and grab land belonging to others</p><p>3. Both are Nazis</p><p>4. Both signed an agreement they had no intention of keeping</p><p>5. Both can call a ceasefire any time they wish and they choose not to.</p><p>Interesting ain it?</p><p><br /></p><p>...for the record, i think you are mistaken.</p><p><br /></p><p>With respect RW tell me which bits you disagree with?</p><p>By all means take them apart point by point.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Aggressors, are you comparing "Russians", (never mind "Ukrainians"; they are 'gone' now just like the "Greeks"), with "Jews"? And who are the "Americans", think carefully; and who are they rooting for?</p><p>2. Who are you talking about, really? The "Russians" the "Jews", the "Americans", or to bring it closer to home, the "Turks"?</p><p>3. Don't kid yourself Lordo, Nazis are everywhere, and they are a scourge wherever they are; but yes in that regard i will agree with you that there are Nazis who are "Jews".</p><p>4. ...and who has signed an agreement with the intention of keeping it? Those of us who would sign an agreement and keep it in any case are unnaturally torn apart by the mythic reality that "They" would have us believe, that 'we' are few.</p><p>5. Who tried to call a "ceasefire"; all these decades? Let's be serious, "They" hold the agenda, wherever there is this problem (it seems i am the only one left to remember when "it" was called The Problem), in any case it's 'us' the other half who will pay their (and these) costs; whether as Individuals, having defended Universal Principles for Freedom and Rights that go with a Human Condition, or, questioning these values without Liberty as Persons in affect "Forbidden" to associate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both Cyprus and Israel are very good examples of a Democracy under threat where it has been demonstrated again and again (over decades) that no extremists have ever won an overwhelming majority. (Particularly in Israel, (with its present situation) let us remember who Bibi really is, he has a lot of history and in any case his power is not on solid foundations to say the least.) It is for this reason Lordo, that i do not despair; perhaps i have more faith than you in Humanity. I believe in 'us' and the power of us as Hateful beings, yes, but (unlike you perhaps) not against each other, Lest we Forget, there are bigger enemies to focus upon like disease and hunger worth such ruthlessness. No, it is by kindness, reason, that what is prevailing as misery is overcome, by embracing such a future unknown, to "be" Loving, by changing intentions making changes, by overcoming the fear we have among 'us' and within ourselves, uniting, ending Ignorance ("This" plunder) as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>...a BBF is good for Israel, a BBF is good for Palestine too, just like a BBF is good for Ukraine and, in Turkey, (some good examples); in Cyprus it should (have been) be easy because it is an island after-all and its population is (very) small.</p><p><br /></p><p>...you are mistaken, like having picked a "side" from the stock that has been around for a while, selling it like "new", like in a bizarre where one can say anything to draw a buyers' attention, like "it" is better than "another" when in reality "they" are the same (actually for "both" hidden from the clients the one 'thing' feared the most in such a marketplace, which is Modern and more reasoned, what has the better pattern).</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-37622176626499597172024-02-01T13:32:00.000-05:002024-02-01T13:32:03.739-05:00‘Measures for Turkish Cypriots are an admission of guilt’<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/01/measures-for-turkish-cypriots-are-an-admission-of-guilt/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/02/01/measures-for-turkish-cypriots-are-an-admission-of-guilt/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...Eide said it, Cypriots if left to solve their problem alone, would have solved it long ago.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Let's remember who keeps Cypriots together despite the decades of having been unnaturally divided; their Individual Rights usurped from them by those who call each other "Greeks" and "Turks".</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...it is 'us' that has prevented this island from being torn in two, the voters Turkish and Greek who have never voted in any election overwhelmingly for one of "Their" candidates. This is something worth thinking about.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-25817501878126856312024-01-23T18:42:00.000-05:002024-01-23T18:42:10.423-05:00Cyprus hits back at ‘skyscrapers on stolen lands’<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/01/21/cyprus-hits-back-at-skyscrapers-on-stolen-lands/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/01/21/cyprus-hits-back-at-skyscrapers-on-stolen-lands/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...if Greeks were "Greeks" and Turks were "Turks", this island's dwellers would have split long time ago.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">But, they are not.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...let's remember who has kept us united. Not our Leadership having taken "sides" but the voters who despite the decades of being unnaturally torn apart (and without proper representation) still vote as Cypriots, never having overwhelmingly voted for one of "Their" candidates even once.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...and, let's not forget that while the "Greeks'' succeeded in their coup it took three days to fail because Cypriots, more precisely Greek Cypriots, overwhelmingly, did not support it.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Do not delude yourself Cemal with "Their" dogmas so hateful and unjust; Cypriots exist and they matter too.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-37077988849820213412024-01-07T16:21:00.000-05:002024-01-07T16:21:22.678-05:00Kombos says dialogue with Turkey on natural gas welcome<p> </p><p><a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/01/07/kombos-says-dialogue-with-turkey-on-natural-gas-welcome/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/01/07/kombos-says-dialogue-with-turkey-on-natural-gas-welcome/</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...even Palestine and Israel sit at the table as equal partners at the East Med. Gas Forum. Only Turkey's chair (and Syria's) remains empty because of her desire for supremacy on and under this sea.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Indeed, not only Cyprus but in effect the whole world hopes that Turkey will at least recognise and respect International Law, UNCLOS in particular when it comes to natural-gas, with Cyprus as with all her neighbours.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-19915732458358420542023-12-28T19:36:00.000-05:002023-12-28T19:36:23.375-05:00Political capitalism is thriving in Cyprus<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/24/political-capitalism-is-thriving-in-cyprus/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/24/political-capitalism-is-thriving-in-cyprus/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...and what makes Cyprus so different to a countless number of other political authorities that seek 'control'?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">The Problem, this 'usniss' which finds itself defined as Nationalism is too often used to divide populations, in affect to usurp an identity from the People of being Individuals, so that as Persons, (divided,) they may be defined to suit values which question Universal Principles. So it is in Cyprus where Grecophones and Turcophones are now divided so that as "Greeks" and "Turks" 'we' must rely on the very institutions and people that benefit from "this" dysfunction.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...just like the poor, it seems, we will always have the corrupt among us; they should be few accordingly because as a society being self-sustaining, as individuals we care for its welfare and as sentient beings as much as ourselves.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Enosis i say it unashamedly as a Cypriot who dares to see "Greekness" and "Turkishness" as the same, and both failed notions having brought so much harm to those of us who, as Cypriots, (the other half, the bigger half literally and figuratively who) instead believe in notions like Humanity.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...who would be against it if Cypriots stood together, as Cypriots, because they are against "This" corruption?</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-73219648447655750382023-12-26T16:49:00.001-05:002023-12-26T16:49:21.111-05:00Greece is all too often Cyprus’ reluctant champion<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/24/greece-is-all-too-often-cyprus-reluctant-champion/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/24/greece-is-all-too-often-cyprus-reluctant-champion/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...it is Turkey's National problem.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...it is Greece's National problem.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">(...it is the Treaty of Lausanne, having been "tossed out the window")</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Indeed it is the problems the Problem has caused (in Cyprus, Turkey, and Ukraine, e.g.) which must be solved.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">And knowing this, i am confident that a change in intentions may lead to a world where 'we' do not fight each other, such Hatred focused on real enemies (Lest we Forget) like Hunger, Disease, and the Plunder which hasn't ceased. ''Thisness'' will be on the table, as much as their relations as States.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, the "Greeks" and "Turks" (the people like "Them") have everything to worry about, their mythic reality on the brink of exposure; that instead, as Statesman, Universal Principles and their value are defended by these men.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">What if these Leaders did not avoid the issues which plague 'us' the People, those of us who see ourselves as Individuals first, those of us who as Persons are respectful to the minorities living among "us", who in our Liberty as Peoples demonstrate the same Goodwill as in our Freedom as a People; Humans, beyond Imperial "Nations''?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...it is Erdogan's game, his choice whether Cyprus is on the table or not; and beyond uniting his Nation Islam being a believer in God we Hope, he has under such a notion a way for greater service by bringing unity to us all.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-73761477162279663832023-12-12T15:18:00.000-05:002023-12-12T15:18:41.579-05:00Our View: How much longer can Cyprus hinder Greece-Turkey relations?<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/10/our-view-how-much-longer-can-cyprus-hinder-greece-turkey-relations/#comment-6342845843" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/10/our-view-how-much-longer-can-cyprus-hinder-greece-turkey-relations/#comment-6342845843</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, "your" gripe is with Britain (legally speaking); they Leased the island from Turkey, taking it from "Them" the Ottoman remnants with the foundation of a Modern Turkey that is itself more torn apart than ever about "Turkishness" (also seeking Constitutional reform), and what it means with Erdogan's efforts to move away from Ataturk's (original) vision.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Cypriots, like Turks, and now Ukrainians are being torn apart from their Humanity for "This"; this is the Problem.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...and yet who denies their very existence but the "Greeks" and the "Turks", despite the decades where they have been torn apart, this island's dwellers. Who but Cypriots have held the country, and their identity, together having never once voted overwhelmingly for one of "Their" candidates despite the efforts put into a mythic reality where all Greeks are "Greeks" and all Turks are "Turks".</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">To answer your question Olcay, people are not chattel; those days one hopes are no more.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cypriots are a People who put greater confidence in Universal Principles and who continue to defend these values, 'our' Basic Human Rights. In effect, i suggest Olcay if you are against "Greekness" you cannot be for "Turkishness", in Cyprus, because they are the same; Cypriots know this (so does the rest of the world).</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-44425188166928324712023-12-11T21:25:00.001-05:002023-12-11T21:25:48.066-05:00Our View: How much longer can Cyprus hinder Greece-Turkey relations?<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/10/our-view-how-much-longer-can-cyprus-hinder-greece-turkey-relations/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/10/our-view-how-much-longer-can-cyprus-hinder-greece-turkey-relations/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...by accepting the premise of the headline, one assumes that Greeks will betray the very Principles of their own and Humanity's existence.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">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.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...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.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">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.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(...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.)</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-47710124374680966682023-12-07T20:42:00.000-05:002023-12-07T20:42:21.128-05:00Erdogan to call for energy cooperation with Cyprus in Greek talks (Updated)<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/07/erdogan-to-call-for-energy-cooperation-in-greek-talks/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/12/07/erdogan-to-call-for-energy-cooperation-in-greek-talks/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...i will not be surprised if the Problem in Cyprus, the same problem plaguing Turkey, and now, the Ukraine will find in Erdogan's leadership a solution; how else can he make this century Turkey's Century?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...it is a matter of intentions, a BBF that works. And he is in the position to make such History.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">If he is a man of God, then we may imagine he serves this unity above all else. So it is and so it should be with our own relations with each other: that as Individuals we are equally willing to defend each other and the Universal Principles our Human Rights are based upon, and, as Persons demonstrating this same Goodwill in Goodfaith toward the minorities living among us; that there are bigger enemies to fight than each other.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Such as it is, this man has "tossed the Treaty of Lausanne out the window" as he said, and so far nothing has prevented him from building his position from this premise.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...that train he calls Democracy, (by now he knows it very well), this time he may not get off, to reach a Legacy beyond "Turkishness" and where around the world (beyond "being" the Protector of a Caliphate in Istanbul) his name is held in the highest esteem as a man of Peace; bringing to all of 'us' Freedom, and, Liberty as a result (a little better defined).</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-9428163219617800582023-11-25T17:04:00.001-05:002023-11-25T17:04:55.263-05:001,000 boats said set to leave Turkey for Gaza waters in new ‘Freedom Flotilla’<p><a href="https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/11/22/1000-boats-said-set-to-leave-turkey-for-gaza-waters-in-new-freedom-flotilla/" target="_blank">https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/11/22/1000-boats-said-set-to-leave-turkey-for-gaza-waters-in-new-freedom-flotilla/</a><br /></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p> Indeed, like the Cypriot plan to bring aid to Gazans, it is a dust-off of plans from 10 years ago.</p><p>(Needless to say that Israel's leadership finds itself in a much more difficult position this time and much more dangerous, having to confront an issue, blockade, that they have ignored for decades.)</p><p>...indeed, where Cyprus goes so does Turkey. There are many examples of this, the East Med. Gas Forum comes to mind.</p><p>...Netanyahu i think will choose to have a trade corridor created between Cyprus and Gaza, rather than the Mavi Marmara a thousand times bigger Erdogan may provoke.</p><p>...ultimately it is a great sign that he weakens, what choice(s) does he have? Israelis are not prepared for such a forever war with days-off for Holidays and special occasions; this being "Peace".</p><p>...speaking of "swarming", thousand(s) of little crafts; it is a Modern Warfare tactic which as yet has not been demonstrated to any scale, except by China (with their fishing fleets).</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-6876439525719395132023-11-24T00:02:00.002-05:002023-11-24T00:02:48.735-05:00Cyprus MEPs hauled over the coals over sanctions evasion reports<p><a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/11/23/cyprus-meps-hauled-over-the-coals-over-sanctions-evasion-reports/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/11/23/cyprus-meps-hauled-over-the-coals-over-sanctions-evasion-reports/</a><br /></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...'we' are lucky. What more can be done by "Them" to demonstrate how far they are from 'us'. Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots face the same challenge, where if they unite against "This" (and "Them") they may overcome the fear and hatefulness that has been their mythology since they were torn apart.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...indeed, it is a good day for Cyprus, these elites, our political leadership, feel shame exposed for who they are serving, because it was not (and is not) the People of Cyprus who need representation as Cypriots they can trust.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">One can hope that our current President, because he is young relatively speaking, sees things a little differently. Ultimately, he may find in the occupied territories the vanguard who seek this same change in accountability that will drive a movement (of enosis) against such corruption which leaves Cypriots ignored and by association sullied.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...a Cypriot way offers us as Individuals a life that is Qualified on merit; as it is for those of us who must live with "Them", "Greeks" and "Turks" are our bane.</p><p><br /></p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-37694384635747449692023-11-19T20:31:00.000-05:002023-11-19T20:31:45.961-05:00 Yanis Varoufakis on the ongoing genocide in Gaza perpetrated by the State of Israel<p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wL8d-h-u94" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wL8d-h-u94</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank-You Mr. Yianis,</span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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</span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">...i ask, what is the Problem most of my life now, waiting (read: an activist) like many for Justice, who have had their Individual Rights usurped from them by those whose dogmatic reasonings ignore such notions of equality and as Persons exclude all "others". Such as it is with "Greeks" and "Turks" in Cyprus who deny the existence of the voting public, the greater half if you will, Turkish and Greek, who have for decades been choosing unity over "Their" candidates. So it is it seems in Israel there are Jews and Arabs kept apart by "Jews" and "Arabs"; and in Palestine it also appears no different. (So too in the Ukraine.) And needless to say there are many other examples.</span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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</span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">...indeed even in America, but for Americans, "Americans" would have made America a very different State. This too is a symptom of the same Problem, one of Principle and Intention. Lest we Forget that we should not be fighting each other because there are far bigger enemies where such ruthless Hatred may be better placed, Lovingly, against Hunger for example, Disease, and against the plundering "This" brings 'us' to.</span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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</span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">...what with all the problems in the world i am hopeful (such things do not stay the same forever) trusting in 'us': it is the Human spirit which endures; (and "They" are (always) much fewer than they would have us believe).</span></p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19759040.post-79564118786802219772023-11-15T23:12:00.000-05:002023-11-15T23:12:38.596-05:00Our View: Cyprus must take some blame for 40 years of rogue state<p> <a href="https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/11/15/our-view-cyprus-must-take-some-blame-for-40-years-of-rogue-state/" target="_blank">https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/11/15/our-view-cyprus-must-take-some-blame-for-40-years-of-rogue-state/</a></p><p>.</p><p><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...picnics, i have suggested picnics many times before, because Cypriots make the best souvla.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Who would be against such a notion if we gathered on our beaches to eat, and under the one flag that "belongs" to 'us' the People, the Flag of Cyprus, enjoy ourselves; ask yourselves: who treats it as a rag?</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...while today the "Cypriot Turks" may celebrate, let us remember that thanks to the Turkish Cypriots who they live with, Cyprus is still Free. Let's remember, all of us who are Cypriot, one fact: even having been torn from one another and torn from our Identity as a whole island now decades not once have 'we' betrayed this notion of a Cypriot way by voting overwhelmingly for "Greekness" or "Turkishness" in any election put toward "us" (read: 'us' divided). It is something to think about; 'we' are not few.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">...and Turkish Cypriots should not be fighting alone: "This"; our common enemy.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Cypriots wanting such a change must end their silence by demonstrating their existence in numbers. (And, by taking back the word ENOSIS, giving it its Cypriot meaning.)</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Cypriots may come to realise their strength united, joining to have as Individuals a State and a Rule of Law where they may defend each other without any further distinction or discrimination based on Universal Principles, and, as a BBF, at another level of government having Cypriot Constituencies representing such a majority where their Goodwill as Persons is demonstrated in Goodfaith toward their own minorities respectively.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cheers.</p>repulsewarriorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07365500974120706336noreply@blogger.com0