From: v999saum@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Varnavas A. Lambrou)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: To all the Turkish Cypriots
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:43:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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Through my questions, I am trying to understand you, the Turkish Cypriots.
I am not trying to blame anyone for what had happened in Cyprus. There is no 
point in doing this; we, the Greek Cypriots have our opinions, you have yours.

The point is to try to communicate in a civilised manner, in order to come to 
some agreement between us.
Let us not try to find things that separate us, but things that unite us.
And one thing, which I want to believe is common, is the freedom of people
to live and prospere in their country.

I am not living in a fantasy world. I know that the gap between the Greeks
and the Turks of Cyprus is big, and is getting bigger every day. But as 
reasonable human beings, we should compromise in order to live together
again. 

A small number of people have answered my questions, and from all of you I
got the main idea: You want to be recognised as citizens of one state. You do
not want to live for ever in a pseudo-state, a protectorate of Ankara. You want
a future. Now what are you?

In the other hand, we, the Greek Cypriots have the internationally 
recognised and respected government for the whole of Cyprus. What do we want?
We want a solution to the Cyprus problem, which will allow again the free
movement and settlement of people all over the island. We do not want any
foreign troops in our island. It is time to leave us, the Greek and Turkish
Cypriots, to built our future by ourselves.

Am I dreaming? No. It is simple:
Cyprus, Greece and consequently all the EC countries, and many other countries
will never recognize the "TRNC" as a state ever. So, you remain as citizens of a
pseudo-state living in a bad economy, forced to emigrate, forced to look
elsewhere for your future. And we, the Greek Cypriots will continue to watch
our homes through the wire rope, across the Attila line. This is what WE want??

I think it is time to make some steps forward.
Forget the past. Built the future.

Thinking Ahead,
		Varnavas A. Lambrou


P.S. Because you are all mentioning "enosis" and you are still afraid of the 
"enosis movement", I can tell you these:
In Cyprus there are 4 main political parties. In the last elections they got
the following percentages of voters:
DISY: 35% (Right wing)
AKEL: 30% (Left wing)
DIKO: 19% (Center)
EDEK: 11% (Socialists)

The members and voters of AKEL, as the party itself, were always against the
idea of "enosis", even before 1974.
EDEK, and its supporters, are also against the idea of "Enosis". Its members
were the ones that resisted the coup of July 15th, 1974.
DISY and DIKO were both founded after 1974, and the high majority of their
supporters are not supporting the "enosis" idea anymore. There is a small
percentage in the supporters of the last two parties that they may still
support "enosis", but I do not believe this exceeds a 5% of them. This is
natural in any democratic system.
Our political leaders never have expressed any policy in favour of "enosis"
for the last 20 years. So you can see that "ENOSIS" was killed and buried
by us, the Greek Cypriots, a long time ago.
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