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  1. The idea that Erhuman, Akinci or Talat are somehow more „on our side“ than people like Tatar or Denktash is ridiculous. **All** of them want the legalization of our ethnic cleansing from north Cyprus so they can have an officially recognized Turkish state on the territory which was taken from us by the Turkish army.

    Their only difference is how they can achieve this. Tatar believes that his „trnc“ being recognized as a separate country is something possible and in case it doesn’t he doesn’t mind if the north is annexed by Turkey, while Erhuman and Akinci believe that a „2 state solution“ is not achievable, so they are trying to legalize partition via some loose federation in which they will have the 50% power share and instead of being under Turkey it will be within EU.

    Unfortunately Erhuman, Akinci etc can not realize that the kind of federation they want is not achievable and our side is also responsible to this, by letting them believe that we are just about to accept their unreasonable demands.

    Our leadership and EU should make them a favor and tell them straight on were our limits regarding a federation are, and then they can make up their own minds if they want to be Turkey’s muppets, or if they will drop their demands in order to have a federation where we (Cypriots, not Turks) share our island in a proportional way.

  2. haloumiwarrior on

    You cut out 20 seconds out of a translated speech; that’s what you base all your judgement on? Seriously?

    He is a diplomat smart enough and knows that he needs to strike a fine balance. If elected, he needs to work with the Turkish administration in a number of issues. He can’t just openly offend Turkey. It would be counterproductive.

  3. Uh, he’s running for the presidency of said occupation, he kinda needs to ****not**** acknowledge it publicly to not get himself disqualified. You’d be surprised how hard it’d be to run for an office you loudly proclaim to be illegitimate

    And yes, for the record, it’s *good* to have more approachable people in charge even if it means they have to play Turkey’s little the pretend-game. I’ll never understand why there are so many GCs alergic to having political & social influence in the north, literally any other state would *kill* to have as much potential soft-power on their adversaries as the RoC keeps getting dropped on their doorstep for free & not picking up in fear of backlash from its *own* population!

    Imagine the president of Luhansk advocating for ceasefire with Ukraine. Imagine the Taiwanese president suggesting a Hong-Kong like solution to China. That is effectively what the RoC has had in the north before, can get again, and must actively advocate to get again instead of crying about how he’s imperfect for having to play the game.

  4. This is stupid, but expected. Erhürman knows that if he appears too „Greek-friendly“ he will be under the same pressure and open political attacks that Akıncı was in 2020 and which eventually got him out of office. He also knows that if he is too critical of Erdoğan after the recent hijab debacle and lenient on GCs after the Aykut case and other usurpation matters, he is going to shoot himself in the foot ahead of the upcoming elections.

    Turkish and TC politics are completely fucked like that overall. It reminds me of Kılıçdaroğlu during the last Turkish elections amping up the anti-Syrian rhetoric because his secular nationalist voterbase is largely racist against Arabs and thinks they were brought by Erdoğan as future voters.

  5. Federation is a Turkish position. For me it’s fair to talk about devolved governance at municipal level and a stable unitary state. Devolution of powers municipal level can provide better services by the state apparatus regardless of ethnicity. I do not have practically anything common with a random Turkish Cypriot guy in Lefka while a random guy living in Nicosia of either side probably share much more common and surely their shit goes through the same savage system. On the representation of unitary state than can be agreed upon either joint ticket representing both. However, there is no international basis for it. So the fundamentals of a solution for Cyprus is repeatedly written all UNSC resolutions which gives no space for alternative. For the beginners once you create a federation than you have 2 chambers 1) representation of people and 2) representation of elements of federation. For the first one it is proportional representation at the central level where works as legislative. Second one represented at equal numbers since there are 2 units in federation that they are politically equal ; so each unit represented by equally acts as senate. Than you have it both and you do not need any veto powers at central level. So I think your current position seems more loose than a a loose federation :)))
    If we talk an argument I it’s going to be land against status. That’s possibly the dirtiest and ugliest deal to be reach.

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