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Postby karma » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:23 pm

Kifeas wrote:
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Birkibrisli wrote:3 pages of posts have appeared since my last visit here...so I will not drag old posts and reply to them, VP and Zan...But I will make these general points...I wish you would stop misrepresenting my views....I do not support assimilation,and i am all for people maintaining their cultural heritage,in an environment free of discrimination and intimidation...

I want a unitary state because my logic tells me it is the only way we will ever find truly lasting peace and justive for the majority of Cypriots...
How we get there is open to negitiation...Perhaps we will need a 2 state federal solution in the interim,as bigOz and DT were talking about....Perhaps we can go back to the 1960 constitution and have another go with the hindsight of the past 44 years....My preference is the second one because it is already agreed to...in fact the only significant agreeement signed by TCs and GCs in their own right....I just think it will save a lot of time,as no other solution is in sight....

I don't want to lead my community into slaughter or cultural extinction...Exactly the opposite...I want to lead them to freedom and self-dignity...and that will only happen if we return to running our own lives in our own country,without being told how "Turkish" and how "Islamic" we ought to be by our Turkish cousins...I do not think in majority and minority terms...As my dear compatriot miltiades keeps saying,once you see yourself as Cypriots first then that problem simply disappears...I see myself as a human being first,a citizen of the world second,a Cypriot third,an Australian citizen fourth....Linguistically speaking ....Turkish is my mother tongue....I speak English almost as well as Turkish...I have a good working knowledge of French...I have a little Cypriot Greek in my head,and a desire to learn more the language of Socrates,Plato,and Aristotle....I would think of no greater pleasure than be able to read Homer in the original...
Religion wise....I detest all organised religions,as I believe they are now simply tools for controlling people's lives and minds....I have a very strong spiritual instinct which i satisfy by leading the life of a Sufi....that is,not letting anyone get between me and my God...and believing that LOVE and COMPASSION and EMPATHY are the keys to devine fulfillment,uniting with God...And I want to live once again in my own country,with democracy and freedom,and respect for human rights, equal opportunity and anti-discrimination principles and respect for the rule of the law....And I want my community to share this ideal with me...Am I really being as reckless and unreasonable as you suggest?...



As for Homer, u will have to learn Ancient Greek to be able to read the originals...and u may need other 20 years to learn it..



He may go straight to learning ancient Greek and this will allow him to understand Modern Greek without problems. Unfortunately the reverse is not possible.


Omilite Ellinika Kifeas Bey?? :wink:
if so, may be U can help Bir....he is so wise, may take him even less then a year to speak ancient...
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Postby BirKibrisli » Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:12 am

karma wrote:
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karma wrote:
Birkibrisli wrote:3 pages of posts have appeared since my last visit here...so I will not drag old posts and reply to them, VP and Zan...But I will make these general points...I wish you would stop misrepresenting my views....I do not support assimilation,and i am all for people maintaining their cultural heritage,in an environment free of discrimination and intimidation...

I want a unitary state because my logic tells me it is the only way we will ever find truly lasting peace and justive for the majority of Cypriots...
How we get there is open to negitiation...Perhaps we will need a 2 state federal solution in the interim,as bigOz and DT were talking about....Perhaps we can go back to the 1960 constitution and have another go with the hindsight of the past 44 years....My preference is the second one because it is already agreed to...in fact the only significant agreeement signed by TCs and GCs in their own right....I just think it will save a lot of time,as no other solution is in sight....

I don't want to lead my community into slaughter or cultural extinction...Exactly the opposite...I want to lead them to freedom and self-dignity...and that will only happen if we return to running our own lives in our own country,without being told how "Turkish" and how "Islamic" we ought to be by our Turkish cousins...I do not think in majority and minority terms...As my dear compatriot miltiades keeps saying,once you see yourself as Cypriots first then that problem simply disappears...I see myself as a human being first,a citizen of the world second,a Cypriot third,an Australian citizen fourth....Linguistically speaking ....Turkish is my mother tongue....I speak English almost as well as Turkish...I have a good working knowledge of French...I have a little Cypriot Greek in my head,and a desire to learn more the language of Socrates,Plato,and Aristotle....I would think of no greater pleasure than be able to read Homer in the original...
Religion wise....I detest all organised religions,as I believe they are now simply tools for controlling people's lives and minds....I have a very strong spiritual instinct which i satisfy by leading the life of a Sufi....that is,not letting anyone get between me and my God...and believing that LOVE and COMPASSION and EMPATHY are the keys to devine fulfillment,uniting with God...And I want to live once again in my own country,with democracy and freedom,and respect for human rights, equal opportunity and anti-discrimination principles and respect for the rule of the law....And I want my community to share this ideal with me...Am I really being as reckless and unreasonable as you suggest?...



As for Homer, u will have to learn Ancient Greek to be able to read the originals...and u may need other 20 years to learn it..



He may go straight to learning ancient Greek and this will allow him to understand Modern Greek without problems. Unfortunately the reverse is not possible.


Omilite Ellinika Kifeas Bey?? :wink:
if so, may be U can help Bir....he is so wise, may take him even less then a year to speak ancient...


It is indeed nice to be able to dream,karma dear...But I might have to be content with reading Homer in English....Learning modern Greek is higher on my priorites...I want to be able to communicate better with my compatriots...Do you know of any good teachers of Greek in Lesbos???? :wink: :lol:
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Postby karma » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:26 am

Birkibrisli wrote:....Learning modern Greek is higher on my priorites...


Cooolllll :D Come here, I ll teach u Sufism and Kamasutra in Greek :D
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Postby DT. » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:27 am

karma wrote:
Birkibrisli wrote:....Learning modern Greek is higher on my priorites...


Cooolllll :D Come here, I ll teach u Sufism and Kamasutra in Greek :D


8) do you take black belts in kamasutra?
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Postby BirKibrisli » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:47 am

karma wrote:
Birkibrisli wrote:....Learning modern Greek is higher on my priorites...


Cooolllll :D Come here, I ll teach u Sufism and Kamasutra in Greek :D


:shock: :shock:

That is what I call "an offer I can't refuse"....
But I was just wondering,how much dialogue is there in Kamasutra?
And how long will it take me to learn it in Greek???? :wink: :lol: :lol:
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Postby Kifeas » Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:33 pm

'74LondonBoy wrote:Kifeas - you keep saying "Read the ANNAN PLAN constitution for the TCCS!" and believe it or not I, and most likely quite a few other have attempted to locate this but I have to admit defeat.

I have seen versions 3 & 5 (the final version) of the Annan Plan and no-where can I find reference to the points you made on Page 14 of this thread.

Today, you make several references to :

"They said that the GCs should have no place and no rights in the 30% of Cyprus".

"They said that they want the GCs to have no religious and cultural rights in the 30% of their country".

"They said they want the GCs to have no educational rights in their native language in the 30% of their country".


But AP 5 (article 4 Fundamental rights and liberties) says :-

1. Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms shall be enshrined in the Constitution. There shall be no discrimination against any person on the basis of his or her gender, ethnic or religious identity, or internal constituent state citizenship status. Freedom of movement and freedom of residence may be limited only where expressly provided for in this Agreement.
2. Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots living in specified villages in the other constituent state shall enjoy cultural, religious and educational rights and shall be represented in the constituent state legislature.
3. The rights of religious minorities, namely the Maronite, the Latin and the Armenian, shall be safeguarded in accordance with international standards, and shall include cultural, religious and educational rights as well as representation in federal Parliament and constituent state legislatures.

To me, this reads that the GC & TC would have equal rights regardless of where they live, does it not ?

Addtionally, you mentioned this :
"They said they want the GCs to take an oath in the name Ataturk, the father of the Turks and the founder of Turkey –a foreign country, if they are elected in a post in the 30% of their country".


I cannot find any reference in the Annan Plan to Atatürk at all ?

Can you provide the link to the "ANNAN PLAN constitution for the TCCS" ?

Kikapu asked in one of his posts whether there were equivalent 'undertones' in an ANNAN PLAN constitution for the GCCS! ?

I cannot recollect seeing a response to this. Are you also able to provide a link to the ANNAN PLAN constitution for the GCCS if there is such a thing?

Many thanks.


Can I help you 74LondonBoy? What is it that you would like to know?

Now that you have read the Annan plan’s “TCCS constitution,” are you still in doubt for the rightfulness of the plan's rejection by the GCs?
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Postby DT. » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:41 am

Kifeas wrote:
'74LondonBoy wrote:Kifeas - you keep saying "Read the ANNAN PLAN constitution for the TCCS!" and believe it or not I, and most likely quite a few other have attempted to locate this but I have to admit defeat.

I have seen versions 3 & 5 (the final version) of the Annan Plan and no-where can I find reference to the points you made on Page 14 of this thread.

Today, you make several references to :

"They said that the GCs should have no place and no rights in the 30% of Cyprus".

"They said that they want the GCs to have no religious and cultural rights in the 30% of their country".

"They said they want the GCs to have no educational rights in their native language in the 30% of their country".


But AP 5 (article 4 Fundamental rights and liberties) says :-

1. Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms shall be enshrined in the Constitution. There shall be no discrimination against any person on the basis of his or her gender, ethnic or religious identity, or internal constituent state citizenship status. Freedom of movement and freedom of residence may be limited only where expressly provided for in this Agreement.
2. Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots living in specified villages in the other constituent state shall enjoy cultural, religious and educational rights and shall be represented in the constituent state legislature.
3. The rights of religious minorities, namely the Maronite, the Latin and the Armenian, shall be safeguarded in accordance with international standards, and shall include cultural, religious and educational rights as well as representation in federal Parliament and constituent state legislatures.

To me, this reads that the GC & TC would have equal rights regardless of where they live, does it not ?

Addtionally, you mentioned this :
"They said they want the GCs to take an oath in the name Ataturk, the father of the Turks and the founder of Turkey –a foreign country, if they are elected in a post in the 30% of their country".


I cannot find any reference in the Annan Plan to Atatürk at all ?

Can you provide the link to the "ANNAN PLAN constitution for the TCCS" ?

Kikapu asked in one of his posts whether there were equivalent 'undertones' in an ANNAN PLAN constitution for the GCCS! ?

I cannot recollect seeing a response to this. Are you also able to provide a link to the ANNAN PLAN constitution for the GCCS if there is such a thing?

Many thanks.


Can I help you 74LondonBoy? What is it that you would like to know?

Now that you have read the Annan plan’s “TCCS constitution,” are you still in doubt for the rightfulness of the plan's rejection by the GCs?


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Postby Kikapu » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:43 am

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Viewpoint wrote: You appear to be a little confused, let me make it simple, GCs being on the island longer than the TCs do not give them any more rights than us.

VP, the whole thing sounds like a deaf people’s talk! You claimed that you have the right to steal and seal for exclusively your own use and benefit a large portion of our common country, in which we GCs have existed much longer that you have had; and as a reply to me telling you that you have no such right and any such demands from your part are not legitimate, you tell me that “GCs being on the island longer than the TCs do not give them any more rights than us?” Who said GCs have more rights than the TCs? Did I say this, or it is you who said that you believe you TCs have more rights than us? If you do not deliberately -nevertheless foolishly, try to twist things around, then you must be a schizophrenic!

Viewpoint wrote: The fact that we are divided has as much to do with your mistakes as it does mine the sooner you realize this the better it will be for everyone.

VP, the fact that we are divided is because Attila the Hun from the north illegally invaded and illegally grabbed 36% of Cyprus for his own expansionist sake and so that he can freely control and exploit the territorial waters and the condimental shelf of most of the Eastern Mediterranean, in the expense of the people of this country, using the presence of the TCs as a pretext! The same thing, the same Attila the Hun tries to do in Northern Iraq, where he uses the PKK as a pre-text in order to invade and grab the oil regions of Mosul! Remember what your historical leader Rauf bay said? He said that Cyprus is so important to Turkey that even if no TC ever existed in Cyprus, Turkey should have invented them!

Tell me why the Annan plan’s state territorial map was drawn in such a way so that the entire east and north-east coastlines of Cyprus, 50% of the coastlines of Cyprus, would fell under the so-called TC state?

Viewpoint wrote: Yes I do want my own state but I did go on to say under a BBF solution, …

A federation like the one we have accepted in Cyprus doesn’t mean that the states will respectively belong to the ethnic ownership of each of the two communities! It is your side’s perversion that wants to convert it into such a solution! The formula is called a bi-zonal and a bi-communal federation, simply because there will be two-zones to be governed by their permanent residents, irrespective of ethnic origin, and the central (federal) government will be based on the concept of relative and proportional bi-communality! Political equality doesn’t mean numerical equalisation between two unequal in size groups of people!

You want to retain and even make it of an absolute bi-communality in the federal (central) government, i.e. a partnership between two equated (levelled-out) communities, under the veil of a perverted political equality; and you also want to convert by-zonality into two-ethnically owned and based mini nation-states! I.e., you want to make it a solution of two strict bi-communal dimensions, a territorial one on the ground, and a political one in the central government! You want a solution that will “out of the blue” (read “virgin birth”) resemble more to a confederation between two “legitimate,” “ethnically owned,” and “historically pre-existing” nation-states!

This is not what we have accepted and this is what we will never accept! This is a solution that is not supported by the history, geography and the demographic realities of this country! It is an illegitimate claim and demand from your behalf!

Viewpoint wrote: where did I say GCs will be second class citizens, I think you are the one telling the lies to try and convince people that we will not treat GCs fairly in the north state under a BBF solution.


VP, you need not say it in the forum that your intention was /is to treat GCs as second class citizens! We know this is what you intent to do, so that you discourage anyone from returning back to their ancestral lands in the north, and thus retain a purely Turkified territory in the north! We know it because this was what was provided by the constitution of the so-called TC Constituent State (TCCS) that you have gotten Kofi Annan, the biggest vagabond SG in the UN history, to offer you as part of his proposed “solution” plan!

I need no evidence to prove that whatever I said above is 100% correct, simply because everything I need is stipulated in this TCC constitution that Kofi Annan and Alvara De Sotto got paid by your motherland and the British to have provided to you, in the expense of the GC’s rights in Cyprus!

Read the following extracts, and tell me where I have gotten it wrong!

Evidence No 1:

Annan plan’s TCCS Constitution wrote: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE TURKISH CYPRIOT STATE
PREAMBLE

We, the Turkish Cypriot people,
bearing in mind that the territorial integrity, security and constitutional order of the Turkish Cypriot State is guaranteed under the Treaty of Guarantee,
sovereignly proclaim this Constitution by approval at referendum of 20 April 2004 as the Constitution of the Turkish Cypriot State.

PART I
General Principles
The Form and Characteristics of the Turkish Cypriot State
Article 1

The Turkish Cypriot State, as one of the two Constituent States of the United Cyprus Republic, which is based on the political equality, bi-zonality and equal status of the two Constituent States, representing the distinct identity of Turkish Cypriots and their equal political status in a bizonal partnership.


What one reads above?
You assume that one of the two states will ethnically belong to you, exclusively! You want the constitution of this state to only talk on your behalf as an ethnic community, and represent you, and only you, as the ethnic owners of the 30% of Cyprus’s territory! No mention or regard is paid to the fact that the people living in this part of Cyprus will also include the GCs that would wish to permanently return back to their ancestral lands! You assume that that part of Cyprus is not their country, and they should not be expressed through or represented by the above constitution! More or less like how your motherland treats it’s citizens of Kurdish origin! Need I say more? Do you want more evince of your bad will intentions?

Evidence No 2, from the constitution you wanted to enforce on the GC indigenous inhabitants of the north 30% of Cyprus, that vagabond Kofi Annan had the audacity to include as part of his “solution” proposal:

Annan plan’s TCCS Constitution wrote: The Status of Minorities
Article 14

The State protects the rights of religious minorities, namely the Maronite, the Latin and the Armenian, residing within its boundaries and of the Greek Cypriots residing in the villages in Karpaz area, as stated in the Foundation Agreement and the Constitution of the United Cyprus Republic.



What one reads above?
That apart from the 4 villages of the Karpasia peninsula, you have no intention and you do not care or want to safeguard or protect the religious rights of the GCs that would choose to return back to their ancestral lands in the north! You have planned for them to be second class citizens, or like immigrants moving into another country, despite the fact that they were the indigenous people of these lands with a history dating back to thousands of years, even before your community appeared in Cyprus! You wanted to have the absolute right of religious liberty, and us to have no such rights, so that you discourage them from returning back to their homes and towns in the north!

Furthermore,
Evidence No 3, from the same Annan plan constitution:

Annan plan’s TCCS Constitution wrote: Right to Education and Training
Article 65

...........
(9) The religious minorities, namely Maronites, Latin and Armenians, living in the boundaries of the State and whose mother tongue is not Turkish have the right to receive education at the primary and secondary level in their native language.



What one reads here? Only the Maronites, Latin and Armenians will have the right to receive education in their native language! No mention about the Greek Cypriots! You do not want them to have such a right, even though they have been the indigenous people of these areas and always had this right before 1974, even during the ottoman and the Venetian occupation of Cyprus and even though you always had such a right in all parts of Cyprus before 1974, as per 1960 constitution; simply because you want to discourage them and indirectly prohibit them from returning back to their lands that your motherland ethnically cleansed them from, so that the north 30% of Cyprus remains always a purely Turkified (ethnically Turkish) territory! Exactly like what your kemalist motherland does to its Kurdish citizens! Dare dispute what I am saying!

Evidence No 4, from the same Annan plan constitution:

Annan plan’s TCCS Constitution wrote: Right to Education and Training
Article 65

..........
(4) It shall be one of the primary duties of the State to provide for the educational and training needs of the people. The State shall carry out this duty in accordance with the principles and reforms of Atatürk,


Besides not wanting to allow the GCs their religious rights and the right to education in their native language, you want to impose on them the “father of the Turks,” the founder of Turkey –a foreign to them country, and the personification of Turkish nationalism, as the guiding authority of their education! This is your concept or understanding of equal and dignified treatment of all citizens of this supposedly multicultural state! Import kemalism in education as well, and force him on the GCs too! The mask has fallen, VP!

Evidence No 5, from the same Annan plan constitution

Annan plan’s TCCS Constitution wrote: The Unity, Official Language, Anthem and the Capital of the State
Article 3


1) The State is an indivisible whole with its people living in its boundaries.
2) The official language is Turkish.
3) The State has its own flag and an Anthem. The Turkish flag may be flown in the territory of the State subject to the relevant provisions of the Foundation Agreement and the constitution of the United Cyprus Republic.


Why only the Turkish language should be the official one in the 30% of Cyprus, in which the GCs have existed and their language was spoken for tens of centuries before any Turk had stepped foot in these areas? Why only the Turkish language, and not both Greek and Turkish should be the official ones, if the majority of the indigenous people of that part of Cyprus has traditionally been Greek speaking, and after the solution, hypothetically up to 1/3 of the Cypriot permanent residents of that state will have Greek as their native language. Why the EU has 22 official languages? Why the EU will have Turkish as one of its official languages, if you will only be 0.01% of all the EU citizens, and not the GCs who will constitute a much larger proportion of the north state’s permanent residents? The reason is obvious! You want to treat to the GCs like your motherland treats the Kurdish citizens of Turkey, i.e. second class citizens with no equal rights as Cypriots living in the north, because you want to discourage them from returning back to their lands, and thus have the whole 30% of Cyprus as a purified Turkish province.

And why only the Turkish flag will be flown? Why the Cypriot citizens of GC origin that will become the permanent residents of the north state, hypothetically up to 1/3 of the resident population of that state, should not have the same right as the other Cypriot permanent residents of the same state who are of Turkish ethnic origin? Where is the equal treatment of all the Cypriot residents of the north state, TCs and GCs alike? Another evidence of intention for treatment of GCs as second class resident citizens!

Evidence No 6, from the same constitution:

Annan plan’s TCCS Constitution wrote: The Right to Elect, to be Elected and to Participate in a Public Referendum
Article 74

(1) It shall be the right and duty of every Cypriot citizen permanently residing in the State who has reached the age of eighteen years to vote at State elections and referenda.
(2)Every Cypriot citizen permanently residing in the State who has reached the age of 18 years and has command of its official language shall have the right to be elected to public offices of the State. To be elected, such a person shall ordinarily have resided in the State for at least three years. This right shall be regulated by law.



Now read the above very interesting part (par. 2!) The Turkish side, in its pursue to violate the GCs human and political rights, those that would have chosen to return back to their ancestral lands in t he north and thus become again permanent residents of the now to be TCC state, will be denied the right to become elected from within the place of their origin and habitation, unless the prove that they have learned the Turkish language well! Do you understand what this means? The GCs will have to remain second class citizens ancestral lands were Greek has always been the language spoke by the majority for centuries, unless they take exams to prove that they have learned good Turkish! The mainland settlers, who only appeared in Cyprus recently and will be allowed to stay, will immediately enjoy full political rights if residing in Kyrenia for example, from day one of the solution (because they speak Turkish,) but the for centuries indigenous GC people of Kyrenia, will not have such a right! The TCs will have the right to become elected in the EU parliament and their language will immediately become one of the official languages of the EU, thus they will be able to address the EU parliament in their language, even though they will only be the 0.01% of the EU population, but the GCs that will return in their own towns and villages in the north will not have such a right unless they learn another language outside their native!

Why is that? Becasue the kemalist Turkish side (Turkey and the always nationalist TC leadership) wants to exclude the GCs from having any input or influence in the north (to have been called TCC State.) They want to exclude them so that they can have a free ride, plus because they want to discourage them from returning back to their homes, and therefore the north to remain a permanent Turkified territory of Cyprus! In such a case, why should they have the 30% of Cyprus in their control and ownership?


Evidence No 7, from the same constitution:

Annan plan’s TCCS Constitution wrote: Taking the Oath
Article 88

The deputies shall take the following oath before assuming their duties:
“I do swear upon my honour and dignity that I shall preserve the existence, rights and sovereignly exercised powers of the State within the United Cyprus Republic; that I shall be bound by the principle of the supremacy of law and by the principles of a democratic secular State, social justice and the principles of Atatürk; that I shall work for the welfare and happiness of my people; that I shall not depart from the ideal that every citizen must benefit from human rights and that I shall remain loyal to the Constitution.”


What does the Turkish side want to do here! As if not been able to become elected if a GC doesn’t speak the “official” language, was not enough, they also want to oblige and force any GC that would want to be elected as an MP of the state in which he or she will be a permanent resident, to take an oath of compliance to the “principles” of the “father of the Turks,” the leader-founder of a foreign state and the personification of Turkish nationalism! They want any GC that will dare to seek election in the local parliament of his state, to abandon his dignity and take an oath on something that he doesn’t believe and has absolutely no relationship with! They want any GC MPs to have to accept to be turkified first, in order to represent those that will want to elect them! They want to do this because they want to discourage them from running for any post in the state in which they will choose to become permanent residents, so that they will have the absolute ethnic control of this state!

Do I need to say more in order to prove that the Annan plan was a diabolical disguised partition plan? Do I need to say more in order to prove that the Annan plan was not a federation of one country with a single sovereignty and a single citizenship, like all other federations worldwide; but instead it was a disguised confederation between two diabolically pre-assumed ethnically owned and based “nation-states?” Do I need to say more in order to prove that this plan was outside the scope and context of human rights, the UN resolutions and the EU aqui? Do I need to say more in order to prove that it is not us that have cheated Mr. Verheugen, but instead it was him and Kofi Annan that have tried to cheat on us! Do I need to say more in order to prove how wise and brave Papadopoulos was to have trashed it in the bin, despite all the threats and blackmailing?


I just had to bring this post back, that was written by Kifeas. If the explanations in this post by Kifeas who expressed them very eloquently does not show, that the AP was a "Doomed Plan", than nothing will. So the question is, why do we constantly get remarks make by VP and Zan and few others, that the TC's gave a "Resounding YES to AP and Peace" and at the same time, accuse the GC's for giving a "Resounding NO to AP and Peace". If that was not enough, VP also states as often as possible, that Kifeas has Demonized the AP, therefore there is no need to discuss anything with him. Too bad that he can't discuss anything with him on the above. I wish he could.

So, do we want a FAIR solution to Cyprus, or is it everyman for himself. I just cant help but admire my cousins husband more and more, in a peculiar way mind you, for his straight talk and honesty, that when he said "we voted for the AP and not for Peace".

I wish more Partitionist on this Forum will show their courage and state the same, if they in fact approve of one or all of the provisions provided to a TC state in the AP.
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Postby bigOz » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:45 pm

DT. wrote:
Kifeas wrote:
'74LondonBoy wrote:Kifeas - you keep saying "Read the ANNAN PLAN constitution for the TCCS!" and believe it or not I, and most likely quite a few other have attempted to locate this but I have to admit defeat.

I have seen versions 3 & 5 (the final version) of the Annan Plan and no-where can I find reference to the points you made on Page 14 of this thread.

Today, you make several references to :

"They said that the GCs should have no place and no rights in the 30% of Cyprus".

"They said that they want the GCs to have no religious and cultural rights in the 30% of their country".

"They said they want the GCs to have no educational rights in their native language in the 30% of their country".


But AP 5 (article 4 Fundamental rights and liberties) says :-

1. Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms shall be enshrined in the Constitution. There shall be no discrimination against any person on the basis of his or her gender, ethnic or religious identity, or internal constituent state citizenship status. Freedom of movement and freedom of residence may be limited only where expressly provided for in this Agreement.
2. Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots living in specified villages in the other constituent state shall enjoy cultural, religious and educational rights and shall be represented in the constituent state legislature.
3. The rights of religious minorities, namely the Maronite, the Latin and the Armenian, shall be safeguarded in accordance with international standards, and shall include cultural, religious and educational rights as well as representation in federal Parliament and constituent state legislatures.

To me, this reads that the GC & TC would have equal rights regardless of where they live, does it not ?

Addtionally, you mentioned this :
"They said they want the GCs to take an oath in the name Ataturk, the father of the Turks and the founder of Turkey –a foreign country, if they are elected in a post in the 30% of their country".


I cannot find any reference in the Annan Plan to Atatürk at all ?

Can you provide the link to the "ANNAN PLAN constitution for the TCCS" ?

Kikapu asked in one of his posts whether there were equivalent 'undertones' in an ANNAN PLAN constitution for the GCCS! ?

I cannot recollect seeing a response to this. Are you also able to provide a link to the ANNAN PLAN constitution for the GCCS if there is such a thing?

Many thanks.


Can I help you 74LondonBoy? What is it that you would like to know?

Now that you have read the Annan plan’s “TCCS constitution,” are you still in doubt for the rightfulness of the plan's rejection by the GCs?


where is it?

Yeah! indeed, where is it? :(
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Postby Kifeas » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:52 pm

Pyrpolizer wrote:But have you really tried Google?

Here they are both of them (TCCS and GCCS constitutions)

http://www.hri.org/docs/annan/AnnexI/CO ... _STATE.pdf

http://www.cyprus.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.ns ... penElement


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