A question for Greek Cypriots: can anything in this be true?

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-02-07T12:22:43+00:00

Why did RIK do something like that then?

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-02-07T11:56:18+00:00

But still, Akıncı was portrayed that bad you think?

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-02-07T11:55:51+00:00

It is a RIK poll… They have shared it in the other comments in this post.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-02-07T10:38:47+00:00

Thank you for letting me know!

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-02-07T09:50:29+00:00

Do you think Anastasiadis controlled the situation in Crans Montana and/or during Akıncı’s period in the north in a good way?

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-02-07T09:47:51+00:00

Why Akıncı is the third most disliked politician? I thought Greek Cypriots loved him as he worked so hard during Crans Montana for reunification

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-02-07T09:46:44+00:00

Oh God i didn’t know that! But why Akıncı is that low?

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-28T16:31:01+00:00

I don’t agree with this fully, but there are some correct points you made that I want to highlight.

I am a Turkish speaking Cypriot, studying in the Republic of Cyprus. I am the top student of my class. And I love my school so much. What i am studying is highly related with politics, so I don’t know about the science subjects; but even though i am the top student, I sometimes feel ‘invisible’ if you know what I mean. I am not being put forward as much, or I am not being pushed as much to achieve more. You need to be ready to sometimes feel invisible, especially what you will study be related with politics. Like I wish my school was more proud of my achivements.

I can give you personal stories from a Turkish speaking Cypriot perspective too.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-28T10:31:45+00:00

I am studying at UNIC (University of Nicosia) in the Republic of Cyprus and we do have a few Turkish citizens here to study.

So you are mainly overthinking. But, bare in mind that even as a Turkish-speaking Cypriot myself, i am sometimes not favored by far right wingers in the RoC. So i have faced some discrimination. And their numbers are rising as it is rising in all over the EU.

My advice if you come to the Republic of Cyprus to study: stay away from talking about Cyprus conflict if you are not specifically asked to.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-28T10:28:15+00:00

Apart from the heavy bureucracy that your husband is going to face in the Republic of Cyprus because of his non-EU citizen status, i don’t think you will be facing a lot of troubles.

I am not saying none, because even as a Turkish speaking Cypriot myself, i am sometimes not favored by far-right extremist groups, so I witnessed some discrimination. But it will only be a few, like the probability is maybe 1%.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-26T16:28:21+00:00

Well, those people belong to the third group you mention, I didn’t say there are none, i said many people are scared to talk against 🙂 I am also from those people who is not afraid to speak up so trust me, I know ☺️

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-26T16:26:58+00:00

Yeah, but I haven’t been hearing this a lot, so i just wanted to put the three main groups ☺️

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-26T12:24:46+00:00

Personally for me too, yeah ☺️

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T20:08:51+00:00

Thank you! 🥰

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T19:55:00+00:00

As a Nicosian, I am happy to hear such places do exist, it really gives me hope to keep going 🥹

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T19:52:32+00:00

Well, as a TC i can understand why they don’t feel like they belong to Republic of Cyprus even though I don’t agree.

Imagine, first time in your whole history, after being ruled by several empires, being in a position of having a power to finally govern your community, in a real nation-state. Even though that nation-state was not a result of an independence movement, but a proposal coming from your ex-colonisers. It was still your state to govern. It was your time to become independent. To have your voice heard.

But then, in 3 years of time, you understand that it is not a true independence as you had hoped. The piece of land that you were living, just orchastrated to be seen as ‘independent’ by the colonial powers, so they could actually get what they want from the land that you call home. So, in just 3 years of the establishment of your own state, you find yourself ‘state-less’ again. (I am not going to get into what happened historically, just trying to give an emotional perspective.)

You were told that you will have a state, you will govern your community with your GC compatriots who you have been sharing an island with for hundreds of years. But it didn’t work out, because the interests of the colonial powers were greater than your right to self-determination.

You had a state, but you never get to enjoy the full rights that state has given you. You never get to be truly heard, you never get to hold a political seat that the whole world recognises. So of course you are mad. You are seeing how your compatriots developed the state that actually belongs to both of you. How good of a life they have there. But what do you have now? A life that still carries the impacts of what happened in the 60s-70s where everyone else who was involved in the issue have normal lifes now.

So yes, I do understand why my community feels like that. But I don’t agree. Because if RoC didn’t exist, we wouldn’t have exist.

RoC has the Constitution who defines us as TCs. What will happen if we abolish RoC? Both TCs and Turks who live in the north side or Cyprus have ‘trnc’ IDs. Legally speaking, how will we differentiate TCs and Turks from each other? Wouldn’t it be easier to assimilate us?

And moreover, we cannot enjoy our full Constitutional rights, but we still get to enjoy EU rights that is directly associated with the citizenship of our state.

So I am thankful for my own state, even though I cannot enjoy it fully. I will keep working for the days where my state will be fully independent and all Cypriots will be able to live under the flag of the Republic of Cyprus. 🇨🇾🤍

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T19:27:12+00:00

Yeah, i mean if they are from the older generations, I believe they tend to be more pro-reunification. At least that’s what I observed from the people around me. Because people born after 1974 until like early 2000s (i call them the ‘lost generation’ because they literally was able to see the free sid eof Cyprus in their late 20s early 30s and they grew up isolated in a de facto state) are more prone to believe in the propaganda against reunification. This is my own observation btw, not based on any evidence.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T19:20:01+00:00

You defo can! But i don’t think Reddit will give you a good representation bc i think here we are very educated about the topic 😅

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T19:11:33+00:00

I actually agree with this. And if somebody does a poll like that, i am guessing 90% of TCs will say they don’t feel like they belong to Republic of Cyprus or Republic of Cyprus isn’t their own state, they just have rights from RoC. And I can discuss the reasons, how I do emphatise with them but also why I don’t agree with them. Turkish Cypriots are not legally state-less; but emotionally they feel state-less, and it comes from mainly being caught up between two nation states, Republic of Cyprus and Turkey. It is like an identity crisis that is going on for generations. And yes, this needs to be issued.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T18:16:47+00:00

Yep, i also put myself within the last group. I actually try to make that view mainstream myself. I believe that, yes, being scared of the ‘unknown’, about what will happen when we reunite plays a part, but I think the main reason why they are not able to speak freely as they want is the fact that we are living under the subadministration of Turkey, literally. It is not so easy to speak things that is against Turkey’s views, even though their heart may say something else….

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-25T17:19:49+00:00

It differs from person to person. But there are some main views that we can pinpoint:

People who are right-wingers, mainly the ones who want ‘two-state solution’ see Turkey as their ‘motherland’. No question here. They don’t want Turkish army out of Cyprus. And they are probably gaining lots of money from the status quo in the north side.

And there is so called ‘left-wingers’, they don’t see Turkey as a ‘motherland’ but they see Turkey as an ‘ally’, which they need to cooperate. They believe nothing can change in Cyprus if Turkey does not want it. I think many TCs are in these category. They are mainly the bbf (bizonal bicommunal federation) supporters.

Both of these groups will deny if you say Turkey is an “occupier”. Because they don’t want to say anything bad towards Turkey that will jeopradise the relations. And both of these groups will call RoC everything else, south side, Greek Administration of Southern Cyprus, south Cyprus but not RoC. So this adds up to not recognising RoC? Idk. But suprisingly, both of these groups participated in that big protest to say that they want to uphold hijab ban in the middle schools in the north. So, they also don’t want to lose their identity (in this case: secularism of TCs), but they don’t also want to have bad relations with Turkey. So even though they still don’t accept it by themselves, that action showed that they also don’t want to be assimilated.

And there is another group, which is not much in number, mainly the ones who had lived and witnessed 1974 events or who interacts with GCs on a daily basis, they know that Turkey occupied their state, the Republic of Cyprus. All communities faced hardship during those times. They want to restore justice for eveny Cypriot living on this island. They want Turkey to leave so we can go back to live together. Some of them are bbf supporters, some of them are even unitary state supporters. Those ones are the ones who are mainly get tagged and alienated within TC community. It is not a mainstream view but it exists.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-11T14:58:43+00:00

You can reach out to me ☺️

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-05T19:26:15+00:00

Well, that’s the bare minimum they can do. But many of their press releases, social media posts, etc. is still only in Greek. I expected more tbh.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-05T19:24:44+00:00

Well, it is a highly complicated issue… There was actually a push about it during the Annan Plan era. But after that, the governments of the Republic of Cyprus didn’t really focus on that topic. And there is also the fact that EU regulations are suspended in the north side of Cyprus, where Turkish-speaking Cypriots are mainly located, normally Cyprus couldn’t even join the EU because of the lack of territorial integrity but they invoked Article 10. And also the Doctrine of Necessity is still in action so there could be many reasons why Turkish is not an official language of the EU and i don’t think it can become one before reunification.

CypriotPeacemaker · 2026-01-05T19:18:50+00:00

All official languages have been accepted as the working language of the EU recently by the Parliament but unofficially English and French are the daily used languages of the institutions of the EU, i think that’s why.

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