Özgür Özel, der Vorsitzende der Republikanischen Volkspartei (CHP), beantwortete die Fragen der Journalisten in einem wöchentlichen Pressekonferenz:
+ Während der Mindestlohn in der Türkei 22.000 ₺ beträgt, beträgt er in der türkischen Republik Nordzypern 44.506 ₺44.506. Wie bewerten Sie das, obwohl sie das Mutterland sind?
– Zypern ist nicht das ‚Baby -Mutterland‘; Es ist ein Bruder Mutterland. Die türkische Republik Nordzypern ist eine unabhängige Einheit mit einer eigenen Verfassung, dem Parlament und einer eigenen Abgeordneten. Es ist eine Struktur, die von irgendjemandem nicht gezüchtet wurde und nicht so gedacht werden soll. Ich wollte dich nicht beleidigen, aber ich leugne diese Terminologie, die das Regime absichtlich vorangetrieben hat. Für Ihre Frage ist diese Lücke für die Arbeiter im TRNC, obwohl sie einen weiteren Beweis dafür darstellt, wie schlecht die Türkei regiert wird.
Turkey's CHP opposes the term 'baby motherland', insists that Turkish Cypriots must be independent on their own
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I’m still sceptical of how much the CHP would follow on everything they’ve been saying recently, they might just end up repeating them without any real change or even stop saying them after gaining power. However, honestly, even if Turkey’s behaviour to us doesn’t immediately change, just changing the rhetoric about us alone would be a pretty major step towards it.
The CHP itself is changing, it’s really not the same party from years prior, so ig in case of Erdo’s overthrow (*big if*) I’ll be following with cautious optimism. Whether we like it or not, Turkey is the only party who can change anything on here anymore.
When Akıncı said this „brother homeland“ thing back in 2015 he got the average backlash. Perhaps now it’s time for CHP to get yet another accusation?
In all seriousness, the streak Özel goes on is giving promise to people to people that things will get better in Turkey. Of course we shouldn’t expect this future CHP government to end occupation of Cyprus in an instant, but nevertheless a preliminary assumption that a CHP government in this line being more inclined to find a solution wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate.
Even then, we have two caveats:
-How much the dynamics within Turkish state will allow such direction, especially given Turkey’s „big player“ pretences have Cyprus as an integral part.
-How much of the damages of 1974 will be recovered and compensated.
I’ll be honest, I’m very sceptical about all this. I don’t believe for a second that the core mentality in Turkey, both among politicians and the general population, is going to shift anytime soon. The nationalism there runs too deep, and it’s not something that just disappears because the party changes. Let’s not forget that CHP has played the nationalist card plenty of times themselves, especially when it came to Cyprus (they were the ones to invade) I still remember the kind of rhetoric they used to use, and it wasn’t exactly friendly.
And even if the leadership does change but the actual positions stay the same, then we’ve got a real problem. Because the moment Turkey gets a new government, the whole international community will rush to justify everything they’ve done, as they’re supposedly no longer an authoritarian dictatorship, as if a change in face means a change in actions. They’ll immediately forget about Cyprus, pretend the invasion never happened, and start calling Turkey a “stabilising force” or some nonsense like that. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they go as far as rewarding Turkey for all this, just because they swapped Erdogan for someone with better PR.