-mikkie2- wrote:If Talat chooses Denktas again then it will send the wrong signals to the GC's. I can't speak for TC's in who they choose but at the end of the day, if you have two groups with fundamentally opposing views as to the nature of the solution then you cannot hope to have an effective negotiating team.
But anyway, does this really matter when it is Turkey that pulls the strings?
So electing Denktas Jr. is sending bas signals to GCs, huh!
I guess you can understand what kind of signals GCs sent us last election when they have chosen an experienced EOKA man to president. I remember that day. At least S. Denktas is not going around and claiming that there was not any GCs killed in Cyprus, like T.Pap claimed to that Kuwaiti newspaper for TCs.
Actually in terms of negotiating and in terms of what kind of solution they want I do not think S. Denktas and Talat are that far off from each other. I should say that Talat’s views are more similar with the Denktas Jr. then Akinci.
Akinci is considered by many as a very weak negotiator because of his views. People believe that the price he is ready to pay for solution is very high. Akinci did loose for one reason only. His eagerness to find a solution.
Let me get this rights because I know the above paragraph my come wrong to many GCs. Majority of TCs would like to see a solution in the island, but they do not want this to come at any price. And the price Akinci is willing to pay for a solution seems very high compared to Talats.
I admire Akinci though. He is a maverick. He always tell how things should be, but never tells how things can be at the current climate. His solutions and his ideal for the future in unified Cyprus are probably most advanced of all. But his ideals are not viable in the current society. His world of full peace, unconditional solution, shock therapy, is never very well digested in any society. He is always ahead of its time. People usually get to where he points out but usually much later and on a slower paste. That is why he can never be a government. Because he lives in this utopia, where people do not hate each other and have good intentions, whereas the real world is cold and dark out there.
Anyway, this is becoming like a novel.
Take care everybody,
), and the only thing we were talking about was his election. And everybody was going over and over about his character and his involvement with EOKA. (which even today a big majority of TCs consider as a terrorist organization instead of like GC's "liberator". I guess what they say is true "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter")
