I mean every person since 1974 + approx 8 years old (a child ) ( 32 years since 1974 + 8 years old = 40 ) both GCs and TCs when they had to leave their homes and move either North or South. You're not telling me that under 40 GCs do not know that there is a separation, are you ?
They know what everybody does: that there is separation due to the Turkish occupation.
So each side hold the majority and more than likely they feel comfortable and safe.
I disagree with this. Most definitely our refugees that were forced to live in some shitty refugee housing do not feel comfortable.
Then those that want to move and live in the "other side" can do so by returning back to their homes, and those that wish to remain with their own people ( North or South ) can choose to sell their properties or rent them out. There should be a complete freedom of movement if they wish to do so.
This almost what I said with one difference I will explain in a while. There are also some assumptions:
1) The two states will be joined together in a USA kind of federation (as we agreed earlier)
2) That both states will be
Cypriot states (not Turkish or Greek) This means they would both treat their citizens equally regardless of their race and both Greek and Turkish would be official languages in the whole Cyprus.
3) That the whole Cyprus (which will include the 2 states) will be part of EU and will respect the human rights of their citizens.
4) that basically the only difference between the 2 states will be that one will have a GC majority and the other one a TC majority.
I believe after so many years of living either in the North or the South, most will remain amongst their own people. This will automatically create two major areas in Cyprus, TCs in the North and GCs in the South, much like the French, Italian and German areas in Switzerland .
I do not share your belief that
most will choose not to return. If the refugees are allowed to return and live in an environment that is safe (and this will be the case if the assumptions above are met) then many refugees will choose to return, but of course not all.
In Switzerland there was not ethnic cleansing and refugees, so thats a very different case in respect to this issue.
Therefore I agree with what you proposed with the only difference that the size of each state should not be where the cease fire line is today, but be drown in a way that the A (north) state is about 18% and the B (south) state is about 82%. If we don't do that, then it is very possible that if a big amount of GCs decides to return to their own homes that state A will also end up with a GC majority and the end result would be 2 states controlled by GCs.
If we base the size of the states on the size of the population it will be certain that as long as most TCs choose to live separately from GCs we will have a separate TC controlled state in Cyprus.