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In 2017, after our fierce battles in Swiss conference rooms over the abolition of guarantees and intervention rights, on the day we celebrated the founding of our bicommunal state, two fighter jets arrived directly from Greece. Like a splendid pair of tsarouchi [Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: traditional Greek dancing shoes]<\/em>, they obviously arrived to complete Nikos Anastasiades\u2019 pre-election nationalist costume ahead of the 2018 elections.<\/p>\n

He had already largely adopted the rhetoric of Spyros Kyprianou and Tassos Papadopoulos and, with brazen audacity, had begun wagging his finger at supporters of\u2026 \u201cany solution whatsoever,\u201d as he once characteristically put it. Because he \u2013 a political heavyweight and figure of prominence \u2013 had suddenly discovered that\u2026 in the Parable of the Ten Virgins, he was among the five foolish ones who ran out of oil! And the poor man finally saw, at 71, what others had \u201cseen\u201d decades before him.<\/p>\n

As expected, the Greek fighter jets flying over the parade achieved the presidential palace\u2019s objective: momentary emotion from the spectating public. Even Harris Georgiades, of the famous statement \u201cthere are some cultural ties, that\u2019s all,\u201d felt a shiver of national pride down his spine and couldn\u2019t contain himself: \u201cGreek F-16s over Nicosia honouring independence and all those who fought for us to have a European state,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.\u00a0The President himself, who days earlier had proclaimed to the ends of the earth that \u201ca European state cannot have guarantees from other states,\u201d upon seeing the two fighter jets from the motherland guarantor power flying over Cypriot skies, barely restrained himself from exclaiming \u201cin this sign, conquer,\u201d like Constantine the Great the night before the most crucial battle of his life. He, too, was preparing for battle, and everything necessary had to be done to convince the right-wing voters everywhere \u2013 from Kokkinochoria and Mammari to urban Nicosia and affluent Limassol \u2013 that the president stood his ground: \u201cI shall hand over the homeland no less than I received it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of triumphant declarations (the message being received was enough for him), he simply said\u2026 \u201cCyprus has room for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a significant message he wanted, he said, to send to \u201cour compatriots the Turkish Cypriots.\u201d The same Turkish Cypriots whom, just days before, he had called upon to decide \u201cwhether they wish to live in a modern state or become part of Turkey.\u201d And evidently, through the arrival of Greek fighter jets for the first time in 16 years (though he had governed since 2013, he only deemed it appropriate to bring them in 2017, on the eve of elections \u2013 you understand why!), it was to convince them that he was working tirelessly in this direction, to allay their fears (whether real or unfounded doesn\u2019t matter) and to encourage them to throw off the Turkish yoke.<\/p>\n

I remember Anastasiades\u2019 pre-election nationalist display every time the Turkish Cypriots, themselves numbed by time and many other factors, seem to awaken from hibernation, take heart, roll up their sleeves and take to the streets en masse against the wishes of their \u201cmotherland.\u201d In 2020, 2022, 2025\u2026<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just Anastasiades\u2019 tsarouchi that I remember. I also recall another story, from much further back \u2013 March 2000, three years before the crossing points opened. When, together with Athens\u2019 \u201cEleftherotypia\u201d newspaper and its magazine \u201cE,\u201d we conducted a four-day visit to the occupied territories. From my reporting at that time, I quote here a conversation I had on the last day with the late Sebahettin, then \u201cspecialist on Greek affairs\u201d who accompanied us. I believe this conversation has significance given that back then, in the year 2000, we were\u2026 only (!) 26 years after the invasion. \u201c\u2026We continue to talk intensely with Sebahettin. I tell him what I gathered during these four days. That the majority of Turkish Cypriots have a different view from the one he expresses and his regime represents. That even those who don\u2019t want to live with us again admit that before \u201963, they were better off than they are now. I tell him that most Turkish Cypriots I met, especially young people, don\u2019t feel comfortable under Turkey\u2019s \u2018umbrella\u2019 and don\u2019t want to be its province. That their dilemma is enormous: on one hand, Turkey breathing down their necks, on the other, their potential annihilation or the risk of being bought out by Greek Cypriots. I also tell him that most don\u2019t get along with the \u2018karasakal,\u2019 the black-bearded men brought in from Turkey. That they feel an asphyxiating grip, a lack of freedom to express themselves, isolation. They simply cannot express it. I heard the phrase \u2018mate, don\u2019t write down names, they\u2019ll cut heads here\u2019 many times in the occupied territories when speaking with Turkish Cypriots<\/em>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Those \u201c26 years after the invasion\u201d have become 51! We know very well the conditions prevailing in Turkey and, by extension, in the occupied territories with 40,000 troops, the all-powerful \u201cTurkish embassy,\u201d and the \u201cestablishment\u201d Turkish Cypriots who have become more royalist than the king, either because they exploit Greek Cypriot properties or because they acquired power. Being labelled an \u201cenemy of the regime,\u201d wrapped in a sheet of paper, and living your own \u201cMidnight Express,\u201d without the film\u2019s happy ending, is all too easy.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the fact that some still react, who at times feel suffocated, the noose tightening, the fact that some still dare to voice resistance, some more boldly and others timidly and very cautiously, leaves me astonished. Logically, they should have been suppressed already. And yet, they exist. At regular intervals, they find the opportunity, venture out and speak up. As happened in 2020, 2022, as is happening now, as occurred after the attacks Erdogan provoked against \u015eener Levent\u2019s \u201cAfrika\u201d newspaper. When five thousand people took to the streets. Shouting, as they are now, for the removal of the heavy veil that Turkey spreads over them\u2026<\/p>\n

I reflect on the mistakes of the past. When our foresight, both leadership and people, led us to add plentiful water to Turkey\u2019s mill. The useful idiots of history. When the hawks in Makarios\u2019 government considered it a waste of money to build a road leading to a Turkish Cypriot village or to install a water tap in Pileri and Kambyli in Kyrenia.\u00a0I also consider our current stance, which has been our stance for many years. How from the comfort of our sofas we dismiss their every reaction, how after 60 years of separation, we resort to basic arguments to undermine their voice and goals, how we overlook what we ourselves say and do in the meantime, how these sound to their ears. How we demand they think like Greek Cypriots and\u2026 surrender into our arms, while we never made them \u2013 the ordinary Turkish Cypriots I mean, not their politicians \u2013 feel that we consider them one with us, that we never made them feel that we don\u2019t consider them equally our enemies, like Turkey, that we never strengthened their voice to come and find ours, never encouraged or convinced them to overcome their concerns, to become our allies against Turkey.\u00a0Not even back then, in 2000, when they marched in their large demonstrations holding and waving the flags of the Republic of Cyprus\u2026<\/p>\n

This article was first published on 13.04.2025<\/i><\/p>\n

Source: THOSE ON THE OTHER SIDE<\/a><\/p>\n

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