THE problem of the low participation of Turkish Cypriots within the European elections remains to be a priority. It’s clear that it is a matter that can be linked to the Cyprus problem and the type of the meant settlement. The European elections are the one elections wherein Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots vote collectively, on joint electoral rolls, and that’s the reason we’re involved.
IN final Sunday's version of Philelefthero, on the problem of the participation of Turkish Cypriots within the European elections, two Press and Data Workplace Officers had been talked about, who deal day by day and diligently with what’s going down within the space of Cyprus occupied by Attila. They gave their very own variations and referred to the setting wherein the Turkish Cypriots moved. And those that got here to the polls but in addition those that selected to not come, which was the bulk.
IAKOVOS Tsangaris in his article “the low participation of Turkish Cypriots within the latest European elections exhibits that they’re detached to what’s occurring within the European Parliament and want to elect two of the six Cypriot MEPs individually. This truth calls into query their need for a united Cyprus and cooperation of the 2 communities in a federal EU member state and locations them nearer to the Turkey-Tatar place for a two-state answer.” Konstantina Sotiriou in her personal article acknowledged that the non-mass participation of the Turkish Cypriots within the European elections which led to the non-re-election of Kizilyurek, along with expressing the response and disappointment of the Turkish Cypriot group, can be a message that the hole between the 2 communities of the island is probably at its deepest and most crucial level lately.
Regardless of the case could also be, the given is one. The truth that most Turkish Cypriots didn’t come to vote. Clearly, this additionally impacts the Cyprus problem. Clearly, this additionally exhibits an inclination in favor of the acute and unrealistic place for a two-state answer. And this angle doesn’t solely concern those that are thought-about excessive, but in addition the so-called progressives. The chief of the Republican Turkish Occasion, Tufan Erhuman, who needs to turn out to be a resident of Ankara within the place of Ersin Tatar, didn’t need to take part within the European elections.
IT IS CLEAR that this problem ought to concern us completely and we must always search for the causes and if potential some actions ought to be taken. Actions that convey everybody nearer to their state, the Republic of Cyprus, and never drive them away with concepts and formulation, divisive rules.
