Even if we share the same DNA…

Even if we share the same DNA…

Cyprus is indeed an interesting country…
It’s a country where thousands have been massacred, left homeless or deprived of their property…all in the name of nationalism.
It’s a piece of land where freedom of movement has been restricted for over thirty years.
Cyprus’s surface area is 9,250 sq. km in total.
Singapore on the other hand has a total surface area of 622 sq. km…
Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, whose joint populations amount to less than a million have failed to live together in peace and harmony…
They have failed to learn from the 4 million 200 thousand Chinese and Malaysians who live in Singapore…
Let us take a short trip back in time. Our grandparents and parents spent their whole lives in fear, under oppression and force.
We are wasting our lives over solution plans and arguments emerging from those proposals.
We continue to focus our energy on prejudice and partition, despite being aware of the fact that the current lack of solution on the island will drag our children and future generations into dangerous waters.
The Greek Cypriot Mayor of Nicosia Zambelas said that Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots had matching DNA. He even went so far as to claim that Greek Cypriot DNA was far from matching that of mainland Greeks…and Turkish Cypriot DNA is far from matching that of mainland Turks.
But in reality does this change anything?
Yes, perhaps it’s difficult to differentiate Yannaki’s physical appearance from that of Ali.
It’s especially hard to tell the difference between Ayse and Androulla who come from the same mixed village. But even through faces, actions or habits may appear to be similar, it’s hard to say the same about the minds that are remotely controlled. If those who control minds from a distance claim that “the main aim is Enosis but Turkish Cypriots are the only obstacle to this”, then that’s the direction in which the minds of Greek Cypriots will work…
It was the same when Turkish Cypriots were told that “Taksim is the only way; it’s impossible to live with Greek Cypriots”. That was the direction they took.
But surprisingly enough, after 30 years, Turkish Cypriots broke away from the grip of remote control to express their desire to reunify. But according to a survey recently conducted by RIK, 48% of Greek Cypriots have expressed their support of partition.
So what to do next?
The most logical step is to decide whether to live together in peace and equality or continue to remain divided in the uneasy truce. But what is important is that the people who share the same DNA should make this decision themselves, without being influenced by anyone else.