Many of us have come to endorse that "the story is what we have to give for taking". It seems to me Turkey and Great Britain carved out this mental box for us and maintain it through Turkey's military might and deep-state über propaganda machine, coupled with British "wash the hands of" stance until time conveniently takes care of the problem.
I say that we gave too much already back in 1960. What is truly long overdue is we complete April 1st 1955's goal of self-determination. Cypriots demand to run their country without tyranny of the minority or foreign meddling. I say it is solely a story of 'taking back' what should have never been given in the first place.
The story is not about what we have to give for taking, as we have been conditioned to think. This story is the foreigners' story, those who pay lip service to a "Cyprus problem", when in fact Great Britain solved her "Cyprus problem" in 1960 and Turkey solved her "Cyprus problem" in 1974.
Our story is profoundly different. It has to be, for we have a different problem, a Turkish problem mainly, coupled with excessive doses of British hypocrisy. How about Cypriots assertively solving their Turkish and British problems? I say it's as easy as escaping the thinking we have allowed foreigners to box us in.
In my next post, "Connecting the dots for Cyprus ... the solution!", I will attempt to explain how we can do so and it starts by taking back control of the agenda, something we lost back in 1960.
The story is not about what we have to give for taking, as we have been conditioned to think. This story is the foreigners' story, those who pay lip service to a "Cyprus problem", when in fact Great Britain solved her "Cyprus problem" in 1960 and Turkey solved her "Cyprus problem" in 1974.
Our story is profoundly different. It has to be, for we have a different problem, a Turkish problem mainly, coupled with excessive doses of British hypocrisy. How about Cypriots assertively solving their Turkish and British problems? I say it's as easy as escaping the thinking we have allowed foreigners to box us in.
In my next post, "Connecting the dots for Cyprus ... the solution!", I will attempt to explain how we can do so and it starts by taking back control of the agenda, something we lost back in 1960.
