These thoughts of mine sprung from watching the video:
The most significant leverage over Turkey is not her desire to join the EU, since decades will have to pass before Turkey is adequately western, but rather [1] Cyprus's [RoC] energy role as an EU member & [2] the analogy between the rights of tCypriots & the rights of Kurds of Turkey. These two parameters will allow Cyprus to both avoid a BBF [bi-zonal federation] solution, which makes no sense whatsoever because zones are the result of an illegal war, as well as to fix 1960 very much along the lines of the spirit (and the letter) of Makarios' 1963 proposals.
When you hear for the first time an important European or American politician draw the analogy between the plight of the ethnic Kurdish community for rights in Turkey and the rights of the Turkish Cypriot minority, know that the countdown for a free & just Cyprus has begun!
In my view, President Makarios was a statesman who will be studied in international politics' educational institutions as an example of political brilliance in the face of adversity, and how great leaders are often faced with impossible situations.
As Turkey plays the religion card, she should be reminded by our allies that in Cyprus she finds herself in unfriendly infidels' land.
Last, do not forget that Cyprus is more Greek [or gCypriot if you prefer] than Turkey is Turkish!
ΔΕΝ ΞΕΧΝΑΜΕ & ΟΥΤΕ ΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΜΑΣ ΘΑ ΞΕΧΑΣΟΥΝ ΠΟΤΕ! Καλύτερα μιας ώρας ελεύθερη ζωή παρά σαράντα χρόνια σκλαβιά και φυλακή. Τα σαράντα χρόνια σχεδόν συμπληρώνονται & και η ελεύθερη ώρα μόνο για τον Τάσο Ισαάκ και τον Σολωμό Σολωμού! Κι' όλοι εμείς; | WE DO NOT FORGET & NEITHER WILL OUR CHILDREN EVER FORGET. Better to live one hour in freedom than forty years in occupation and prison. Forty years are soon completed and the free hour just for Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou! What about the rest of us?
