voter numbers in forth coming election

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 10:12

i have just read in the famagusta gazette that there are 160,000 voters in the trnc.

half of those voters being of mainland turkish origin.

are the tc's in control of their own destiny?

or

is the motherland aiming for total control?

what do you think?

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 10:25

RE msg 1: I'm almost sure this is not proper English, but maybe you'll understand the meaning: you are kicking open an open door.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 10:32

i have asked many times here regarding the numbers and nobody has given me the answer , now i have it!

my feelings are it is not a bad thing.

i have turkish family and friends and just feel they are much more modern in their attitudes to things than my tc friends.

i shouldn't think they could be brought for a free kebab or a promise and many of them have been treated pretty badly here.

we shouldn't see them as settlers, as they are also visitors here like us.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 13:40

my friends feel it has been going on far to long.

as some live in london they mix with gc's without a problem.

they hold no grudge and are ready to move on.

here in the trnc they feel they are treated pretty badly and would be voting for democracy and for equality for all people.

they would be for a solution, they are much more modern in outlook compared to my tc friends who often fail to understand all people should be treated equally.

a tc friend recently came back to our village after living in the uk for 40 odd years.he hated it here and has recently moved to turkey, where he seems to be pretty happy and formalities were so much easier.

Aussie


Joined: 17/06/2007
Posts: 657

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 15:25

I don't see á problem with Turkish people who have permanently settled in Cyprus for many years (some since 1974) having a vote as even under the Annan plan around 50,000 would have stayed. In addition you now have significant numbers who were born here and in a few more years will start to have second generation TRNC born settlers reaching voting age as well



If you excluded all migrants from elections in the UK Australia and America you would rightly have an outcry.



Aussie

charb


Joined: 17/03/2009
Posts: 188

Message Posted:
10/04/2009 15:59

firestarter, I am from Turkey and I have been rarely faced with a bad treatment. Maybe this is because my wife is TC. But all my TC friends say they have no problem with Turkish people like me. They just don't want to see the Turkish people that I think every one have seen in the old harbour. Among these, there are criminals, too. I remember an example of a Turkish guy working as a gardener killed his employer British. It was last year or a couple of years ago. Not all of them are the same, but after Turkish settlers come to the island, the crime rates skyrocketed, this is also a fact. Afterall, settlers are rarely welcome by the locals in anywhere of the world, aren't they?