I read with great care what you wrote. I will try and address one by one your concerns, fears, feelings [over the weekend], but in all honesty I already know it to be a futile exercise when it comes to you personally. I will do it however (not tonight) for the sake of others who follow us here and may be interested to know what the answers are from a gCypriot.
Should be interesting.
A majority of tCypriots living in Cyprus is being composed as we speak who are already pushing their leaders, not necessarily the "elected" ones, in the direction of a compromise, an honorable and fair compromise influenced by the logical principles contained in the 1963 document.
Where who??? do yo make this up as you go along?
Time is running out for the tCypriots, I think we can all agree on that point. However, with Christofias at the helm, you can still expect a very fair negotiation, no matter the developments in the illegally occupied land of Cyprus.
You are deluded nothing is running out and you are no closer to a solution today than you were 30 years ago.
As I have stated many times, a BBF based on 1960's "equality" and "logic" will be twice as bad as 1960. It will never be accepted by gCypriots. That leaves occupied Cyprus as a huge thorn on Turkey's back & your community in shambles (at least the remains thereof on the island).
Turkey has stated many times that it will always choose the TRNc over EU if forced to choose, now you have realized how important it is to her strategically.
There is one thing perhaps that escapes you. The winds have changed and they are behind Cyprus' sails. The question is fast becoming not 'what are Turkey's strategic interests in Cyprus', but with Turkey making "illogical" choices on various fronts, it becomes 'what are the EU's and the USA's, in short the west's, interests in Cyprus?'. Cyprus's Turkeyish problem becomes the west's problem. With the west feeling uneasy about Turkey, then it becomes your problem as well. Am I getting the point across?
Keep stabbing in the dark nothing will change and no one gives a hoot about your problems or they would have helped you many years ago, they know you are just as guilty as the next man.
Last (for this first brief response), your unwillingness to address the Kurdish issue of Turkey and compare it to your own situation speaks volumes. The last thing you want is for the simple comparison to be made.
I have expressed my opinion they should get their own country and not be forced to live with Turks just as we should be allowed our own state, do you support both us and the Kurds?
Read about it on my blog http://antifon.blogspot.com & do not be alarmed when soon heavy-weight officials from the EU, which you don't like but that is totally irrelevant in the greater scheme of things, will raise the comparison in order to kill two birds with one stone, politely suggesting to Turkey that messing in other people's internal affairs gives them the very same right, especially when her problem, the Kurdish, resembles greatly Cyprus' Turkeyish problem.
Even more pie in the sky you have a very vivid imagination, nothing will change.
Do you feel that will upset Erdogan? IMHO it will.
The one minutes man doesnt seem to give a shit about you people and your problems.
The world is changing my friend.
Have a good night!
The world is changing but you can bank on the Cyprus issue staying the same for as long as GCs keep thinking the way they do we are safe.
