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[erolz]

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... 7&cat_id=1

[pantelis]

And in a rudimentary analysis of relations between the two communities on the island, 19 per cent said they had Turkish Cypriot friends in the north, 81 per cent did not. However, 71 per cent of respondents would not mind having Turkish Cypriot co-workers, 64 per cent were willing to frequent the same restaurants or clubs, and 58 per cent would accept living in a mixed town or village. But just 24 per cent would agree to marriages between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

If the survey is valid, then things are improving, in the south!
How about in the north, Erol?

[erolz]

If the survey is valid, then things are improving, in the south!
How about in the north, Erol?

I coudn't really say other than my own views. Alexandros' survey has some similar type questions asked of TC so that may give an idea of current views.

I found the idea of growing dissastisfaction with TP encouraging myself.

[pantelis]

I found the idea of growing dissastisfaction with TP encouraging myself.

Erol,
He barely got 50%, when he was elected. Every political leader loses support, starting the day after his election. (Except in America); nothing new there.

I am asking your own opinion, based on what you see and hear from the people you deal with, every day. Are they happy? Do they have hope?

[magikthrill]

But just 24 per cent would agree to marriages between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

24% ? wow if you ask me thats quite high. im sure 30 years ago it would have been 0%. maybe one day the barriers will fall and we'll breed ourselves into one race and then there will no longer be a cyprus problem

[erolz]

I am asking your own opinion, based on what you see and hear from the people you deal with, every day. Are they happy? Do they have hope?

I am still struggling to answer that question. If I put it in terms of the UK - which I know better then I would still have trouble answering the question are the british people happy. It's kind of a large question really and probably too general to have much meaning. Anyway I will do my best in regards to TC.

I think in day to day terms most people are 'happy'. People do not walk around with their heads bowed, shuffeling their feet and mumbling to each other. They go out they eat they drink they dance and they live their lives. Having said that I do not think that the majority is happy with the status quo in Cyprus. Most want a solution of some kind imo - at the highest level just for a form of closeure more than anything else. Everything here is dominated by the 'cyprus problem' and phycologicaly as a people I think there is an overall feeling of 'cyprus problem fatigue'.

Do they have hope? Again this is extremely difficult to answer in a sensible way. I suspect that in general terms they are very like myself in personal terms. That is they experience a 'roller coster' of alternating 'hope' and 'despair' about the prospects of a solution (and this adds to the feeling of fatigue).

I would just reiterate that this is my personal subjective 'guess' and that I have no real basis or qualifications for this 'guess' - its just the best I can come up with under 'insitance' for an answer. Sorry.

[Piratis]

The survey, conducted by pollsters NOVERNA and commissioned by Politis

Ok, Politis surveys are always skewed. For example before the referendum Politis surveys almost always showed much higher "yes" vote than any other survey conducted at the same period. Once they showed the "yes" vote as 43%!

[Alexandros Lordos]

If the survey is valid, then things are improving, in the south!
How about in the north, Erol?

I coudn't really say other than my own views. Alexandros' survey has some similar type questions asked of TC so that may give an idea of current views.

Yes, I did ask similar questions, the results were as follows:

Willingness to have GC neighbors and co-workers, about 50%.

Willingness to inter-marry with GCs, about 20%

Do you have GC friends? About 45%


I can't remember all the other details now, but I will collect it and post it up at my survey thread.

[brother]

there ıs already many tc and gc marrıages especıally ın the u.k and my famıly ıncluded.