Should we look for someone to blame, or come up with solutions?
This must be what they call chaos…
And now we are right in the middle of it.
And once again, we’ve managed to get everyone talking at once.
The Orams case, which had been going on for years, has concluded, and the outcome is not at all to our liking… So what should we do now?
Should we ease our displeasure by saying, as our Presidential Spokesperson, Mr. Erçakıca, put it, “we will not implement this decision”? Or should we take the matter to court and fight on the same ground, just as the Greek Cypriots have done? Or should we waste time blaming one another? We’re doing all of these things…
And the picture that emerges from what we’ve been saying is this: Although it may look like an individual case, the Orams case was a case between the TRNC government on one side and the Greek Cypriot administration on the other. In other words, while the leaders were discussing property—the most complicated issue in the Cyprus problem—at the negotiating table, the two sides were playing their cards in court… The Greek Cypriot side may appear to have won on legal grounds, but one thing is clear: trying to resolve the property issue through the courts is tantamount to not resolving the Cyprus problem. So, do we want to resolve the Cyprus problem or not? It seems the Greek Cypriot side is not in favor of resolving it!
If so, we can force them toward a solution, or we can play our cards more openly.
In other words, we can draw a line in the sand…
Or we can keep fighting, as we have for years… In the end, that’s what we’ll do anyway…
Our chaos will be our most important tool in dealing with this problem. Those of us who support a solution will look for an opening for one despite all these setbacks, and in the process will put the past on trial. Those opposed will pursue formulas to render this decision ineffective, while proclaiming, “There can be no solution with these Greek Cypriots”…
Nothing will change for us.
The Cyprus problem may not be resolved, but it is quite clear that we will resolve this problem...
Until we meet again…
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