Oh come one Simon, its not like you actually like us or anything, you just want your properties back and to dominate the entire island again, no one really gives a shit about us...
This is not about "liking". The how much you like somebody is your personal choice. However what you are obligated to give is respect to the rights of others, and what you can demand is also you rights.
As I said before respect is what comes first. Without respect there can be no trust or friendship. You can not have as a friend and like somebody that doesn't even respect your basic human rights.
So the first step is to do what we are obligated to do and give respect to the rights of each other. Trust and friendships will follow.
For me the most interesting question, that confirms something I felt as well, was this one:
"As a result of crossing the checkpoints, would you say that your opinion of people from the other side has changed?"
Almost half of the GCs answered that their opinion for the TCs has worsened since the opening of the gates. I beleive that this is because at schools and in our society in general what GCs are taught is that "Turks are the enemy, TCs are our compatriots" While the gates were closed we were thinking that TCs were not allowed to voice their opposition to the occupation and that Denctash was some sort of bad dictator that was getting elected with the votes of the settlers. After the opening of the gates many GCs realized that TCs actually support the occupation and all the other actions of Turkey in Cyprus, which was something very disappointing to most of them.
