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...wow, enjoyed reading this article, factual and concise.
Indeed, those of us who stayed, who did not flee, because we believed that the Universal Principals that make countries like Turkey, and Cyprus, great, would be respected, paid the heaviest price. Never mind those of us with missing relatives, either from '63, or '74, not "Greek", not "Turkish", but because we are Cypriot, denied a voice, as such, the debate having been framed that way.
What does the Flag of Turkey represent? Why should the Flag of Cyprus represent anything different? The "Turks" of Turkey should be careful what they wish for, lest the template they create for Cyprus divides them from the Kurds (let's not mention the Armenians, Alevi, Greeks, of Turkey) who are the other founding constituency of the Modern Turkish State, and who, without Ataturk could not realise his goal.
...i ask, where is a Cypriot Flag that flies in the north, why is this forbidden?
...i ask, why not a Greek Constituency, and as equals other Cypriot Constituencies, for the self representation of people as Persons, equal because as Citizens, there is a flag that flies higher than these, they also vote for the Government of their Republic, as Individuals. And geographically, Bizonal does not describe an island torn in two, it describes a single Sovereignty, where within there can be many (or more than one) zones Jurisdictionally.
Like the "Greeks", the "Turks" will go too far, it is only a matter of time in my opinion, because it is the nature of such Criminal Psychopaths, from their Ignorance to eventually fail against the rest of us who see ourselves, first, as Human Beings.
Isolated as it is, an island after-all, and to Turkey's elite, no more than a backwater or a barrack, still, with the plunder that has gone on for over forty years, it is natural to be able to identify within its culture, so ignored, (one hopes) an essential essence in stark contrast to men like Erdogan.
