Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:42 pm
Nikitas
How do you know its not under the surface where you cannot detect it as soon as GC obtain control of the island due to their numerical advantage this ideology will return, how will you stop it? This is exactly why we need safeguards to ensure no community forces its will on the other.
Sure...Iraq...Rwanda...Serbia...Montenegro...Bosnia....Israel...Palestine... plenty of examples.
The GCs today claim they represent the whole island,,,yes or no? then if they claim this then they cannot go against this claim by changing street names, or stop medical care or passports. Just for one moment think about the international backlash and the prestige the "RoC" would lose. If given the opportunity they would convert all Turkish names to Greek ones over night. We on the other hand do not claim to represent you, we have our own constitution.
Indirectly you have achieved enosis through the EU together with 23 other states. Do you deny this fact?
Like it or not, recognized or not this is the TRNC where we do not claim to be the "RoC" or respresent GCs...so we do what we TCs want, not very sifficult to understand, yet you appear to having great difficulty, maybe you are in denial and do not want to see or accept the reality before you.
The reason no one talks about Enosis anymore is because it has become irrelevant.
How do you know its not under the surface where you cannot detect it as soon as GC obtain control of the island due to their numerical advantage this ideology will return, how will you stop it? This is exactly why we need safeguards to ensure no community forces its will on the other.
Things have changed both in Greece and Cyprus and the rest of the world too.
Sure...Iraq...Rwanda...Serbia...Montenegro...Bosnia....Israel...Palestine... plenty of examples.
No one on the Greek side talks about taking over the whole of the island. Whenever you drive through areas formerly occupied byt Turkish Cypriots people will stress that the properties are "Turkika". No mosque has been turned into a church. There has been no practice of obliterating evidence of the Turkish presence of the past.
The GCs today claim they represent the whole island,,,yes or no? then if they claim this then they cannot go against this claim by changing street names, or stop medical care or passports. Just for one moment think about the international backlash and the prestige the "RoC" would lose. If given the opportunity they would convert all Turkish names to Greek ones over night. We on the other hand do not claim to represent you, we have our own constitution.
As for unity with Greece, you have it totally wrong. I have been living in Greece for over 30 years and I need a residence permit just like all other foreigners. So do the children who were born here. Cypriots here do not vote and are legally no different than other aliens. The notion that the EU unifies countries in the way Enosis was meant to unite Greece with Cyprus is just not true.
Indirectly you have achieved enosis through the EU together with 23 other states. Do you deny this fact?
The obliteration of any sign that Greeks once lived in the north is interpreted as exrpessing an identity that was denied to you. How is the erasing of the word Greek from the tourist brochure on Salamis, or Lapithos, an expression of your identity? That assertion realy beats me! What we do perceive from these practices in the north is exclusion through obliteration and no one wants to risk that happening in any other part of the island.
Like it or not, recognized or not this is the TRNC where we do not claim to be the "RoC" or respresent GCs...so we do what we TCs want, not very sifficult to understand, yet you appear to having great difficulty, maybe you are in denial and do not want to see or accept the reality before you.