umit07 wrote:Pyro and Deniz
Just reading through the thread and started to crack up, poor GC fellows just chose the wrong day. In the north prostitution is illegal "on paper" but the gov. even collects VAT from the pimps. From time to time the police raid cabarets some of the bigger ones usually get word of when its going to happen and take precautions.
When it comes to what I expect on the day after, we live in the Morphou area and the house we live in belongs to a GC, however when we took possession of the house it was uncompleted.We finished the ground floor which didn't even have a front door, the hallway of the house was completely open to the road and my grandparents lived in it like this for over 20 years. My grandfather always lived with the hope that he would go back to his original village ( Episkopi ) and therefore never even closed off the wall of the house or even put in a front door. After my grandfather died my grandmother closed up the wall and finally put in a front door. After my family moved to Cyprus from Australia we finished off the house we built a 60 sq metre shop downstairs and built another 220 square meter house on top. In any settlement all TC's know that the Morphou area is going to be given back completely so there hasn't been a lot of construction in the area. If a settlement was reached we would be happy to move out, if we just had a roof over our heads soewhere. 1974 was a time of "Ganimet" ( spoils of war ) for many TC's many people who owned very little or jack shit were given orange fields, houses and etc. The TC's who couldn't claim anything left the island ( like my family) while many enjoyed the spoils of war. GC's complain a lot about human rights violations and so on, some TC's got it worse than you guys did imagine having to work for some snob (who had jackshit) you used to employ in your fields in the south.
As my grandma says "Boklar tabağa girdi" ( "Shit found itself in a plate")
Very interesting post you put there umit07. I know some TCs ended up worse in 1974. The difference is the word SOME compared to ALL GC refugees.... Anyway you have my full sympathy my friend...
About the property you builted your house on what does your own sense of justice tell you? Let me answer the question for you: It tells you that you own all the building but you do not own the land. Two possible arrangements here a)The GC who has the land takes compensation from you and you buy his land, and everything is settled or b) You keep the building with a separate title deed, he keeps the land with another separate title deed and you just pay him some rent. or c)he buys the building from you, and you go build somewhere else.
IMo all 3 choices should be made available in any solution and be upto the individuals concerned to agree anything they like. In case of no agreement "b" should be the obligatory settlement and the renting rates be regulated by the Government.
The Anan plan would create so many injustices (and to you personally) that imo we should thank God it never passed. Do you personally think is would be fair having to move just because your area was supposed to be returned to the GCs?
The only ones who should move to new Government housings are those who got property for nothing and those who cannot buy the ones that are now holding. After all these settlements on properties, everybody should be free to settle anywhere he likes.
The property issue has nothing to do with the administrative areas each of the ethnic groups will have under their own juristiction.
