There is a positive move in the air between Mustafa Akinci and Nicos Anastasiades but one has to wait and see what happens next. What is for certain however, under the present climate, Cyprus is to become a two state nation albeit some fancy terminology of a Bi-zonal, Bi-communal Federation. No European country would ever accept such a solution through a military invasion in their countries but its OK for Cyprus – a Pontius Pilates solution!
The question arises where does it stop? What will happen tomorrow if other ethnic minorities start to demand a separate enclave within the new Federation? In theory, if the Turkish Cypriots can break up the Republic and given an autonomous region others may also demand the same treatment and that’s the dilemma: what does citizenship equality actually mean? Certainly not to enjoy special privileges others do not have! Such a demand would not be tolerated in any other country.
All Band-Aid solutions would incubate more conflicts in the future. The only democratic answer is to reunite the island as one nation and one citizenship; one-man-one-vote; equality and freedom of religion protected by Rule of Law. But most importantly, to revise and change or even scrap the badly flawed Cyprus Constitution and start from the beginning.
This is a perfect opportunity to turn a new chapter in the history of Cyprus; a chapter that would allow all citizens of the Republic — irrespective of ethnicity — to vote at general elections and choose the best man to lead the nation forward and not to allow political party secretive deals taken behind closed doors. Only then there may well be Transparency, Meritocracy and true Revolution of the Mind in Cyprus.
Cyprus would then be a multicultural nation to grow in prosperity without preferential treatment to ethnic minorities but allow the Law of the Land to become the sentinel of peoples’ human rights as equal citizens of the Republic.
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