Voting ‘no’ is what Denktash wants you to do

A ‘yes’ vote is the only way forward. Thank god for sensible people like Marina Christophides (‘Stop! You’re turning into a rhinoceros!’, Sunday Mail, March 21). Keep up the good work Marina in getting the message across.

Never before have we been so close to a solution and I fear that this is our last chance. Yes, the plan isn’t perfect for either side but we have to learn to come to a compromise if we are ever going to live together.
Can’t the Greek Cypriots see that saying ‘no’ means that more and more Turkish Cypriots will emigrate and that more settlers will take our place. I am an English teacher in a private school in the north and my husband has a jewellery business, and yes we have a comfortable life. The majority of Turkish

Cypriots do not live on the breadline as most Greek Cypriots seem to think. So economics is not the only reason for us saying ‘yes’. Having money and a comfortable life do not make up for freedom. We have suffered embargoes and isolation for too long. We are sick of saying our postal address is Mersin 10 Turkey as our mail cannot come direct, sick of indirect flights, sick of our talented and educated youth not being able to represent their country in international events and sick of being told we are not recognised, pseudo, non existing and other similar labels, sick of relatives and friends emigrating, and the list goes on.

Many Greek Cypriots will not come to the north thanks to the government’s scare mongering about showing your passports, and yet we have to do the same. How will we get to know and understand one another if we don’t mix together and form friendships? If you won’t come over and you vote ‘no’ what message is this giving the Turkish Cypriots? For the first time we have a government in Turkey that believes no solution is not a solution.

If you vote ‘no’ you are doing exactly what Denktash wants you to do. Think again before it is too late.
Leyla Yaygin
Ayios Georgios, Kyrenia

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