Hallo/Merhaba/Γειά σας alle zusammen! Ich bin Niyazi Kızılyürek. 🙂 Ich werde heute sehr gerne Ihre Fragen beantworten. Ich entschuldige mich dafür, dass ich aufgrund meines engen Zeitplans kein Bild geschickt habe. Ich werde es tun, sobald ich dieses Meeting verlasse! 🇪🇺🕊️🇨🇾
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Hello Mr Niyazi, truly honerd to have yout to this AMA.
I’ll be honest with you, many in my family will be voting for you and like you a lot but this year personally I will be not voting you as I have different priorities. However I trust and wish AKEL supporters will vote you once again as your presents in the EU parliament IMHO is crusial.
Here are my questions.
1)when it comes to the Cyprus problem and the properties of all Cypriots, our side (the Greek speaking Cypriot) seems to dominate the conversation, overlooking at the Turkish Cypriot properties.
You have been many years in to politics, wrote books about the Cyprus problem. I would like to know from your point of view, what do the Turkish speaking Cypriots wish for their own properties? Go back to the after the solution? Sell or trade em with others?
2) Something that was pretty controversial was your efforts for recognition of the Turkish language as a EU language (even tho is considered to be co-official with the Greek language in RoC) .
Can you give as an update on the matter? Are there still any obsiticals for that?
3) Last year if I rember correctly you been visiting Rizokarpaso and shared with us how unequal are the Greek speakers been treated, can you give us an inside on how does the occupation effect all the Cypriots in the north and what the everyday people can do or what will you do as a political figure in the EU parliament to make things better?
4) On a lighter note, where is the best local souvlaki/kebab can someone have in the occupied areas?
I’m a Turkish Cypriot. Why should I be concerned with people of Anatolian Turkish-Turkish Cypriot mixed parentage not being entitled to citizenship?
1) I heard that you are no longer professor at the university of Cyprus. In case you are not elected: Would you accept a professorship at a university in the North instead?
2) Are you speaking with the TRNC politicians? Has there ever been a situation when Tatar or the TRNC government politicians actually listened to you?
3) What is your opinion on Ekrem İmamoğlu? Did you ever talk with him? Might be useful for an MEP to have a connection if he ever becomes the new powerful guy in Turkey.
Dr. Kızılyürek, what do you think would be the ideal solution to the Cyprus Problem?
For most Greek Cypriots an ideal solution would be a democratic, unitary state of equal citizens, with no kind of division of either the territory or the people of Cyprus, and with mutual respect and equality of the 2 different languages and religions.
A BBF is a painful compromise for most GCs. A compromise which is deemed as necessary to “meet in the middle” the Turkish Cypriots, for whom apparently the ideal solution since the 1950s is a complete partition of the island achieved by an ethnic cleansing performed by the Turkish army.
So, as a Turkish Cypriot, can you please tell me why partition is the ideal solution for you, in order to understand how painful of a compromise a BBF is for you?
Alternatively, if BBF is not a painful compromise for Turkish Cypriots, can you tell me why you expect the compromise to come only from the Greek Cypriots? Do you maybe believe that looking at our history that the GCs are the “bad” ones who need to be punished and the TCs the “good” ones that need to be yet again rewarded on our expense, as it was the case during the 300+ years of Ottoman rule over our island?
Γειά σας, merhabalar and hello Dr. Kızılyürek.
I am a TC living in the free areas of Cyprus and have wanted to speak about a couple of topics with you for a while now. The most important of which being a point that nobody else seems to care about or even notice.
On our RoC identity cards, we have information in English and Turkish, whereas my GC peers have English and Greek. This small difference causes small but highly humiliating situations at checkpoints. As you are aware, at any checkpoint there are a minimum of two different windows, one for Turkish Cypriots, and another for absolutely everyone else. My question is why, if I am a Cypriot, and my Greek speaking friends are also Cypriot, why must I go through a different system? Is this not a matter of segregation? I’ve had an incident where a police officer told me, in his own words, “it says Turk here”, because my ID has the word Kıbrıslı, instead of Κύπριος.
Every single time I am to cross through a checkpoint I am made to feel less than Cypriot, less than human. It is degrading, humiliating and very upsetting. The use of language as a way to separate us from one another and categorise seems, to me, to be a blatant form of segregation, institutional racism and altogether unacceptable.
I appreciate you coming over to Reddit to speak with us, and enthusiasticly wait for your response.
Edit: accidentally wrote Mr. instead of Dr.
Do you believe in a united Cyprus, or a two state solution? Thanks for your time Dr Kizilyurek, we’re all very appreciative of you offering your time to us on the Cyprus subreddit.
Merhaba. I voted for you in last elections. You have been MEP for the last 5 years and while checking the website howtheyvote.eu i see you abstain from voting a lot.
Why did you abstain from voting? And is there a list of when you abstain and the reasons why. I believe it to be your job to vote in EP.
From the few times you voted i remember was in favour of Russia in a symbolic vote of solidarity to Ukraine.
Do you still hold the view that we should not punish the whole state for invading another country? Does this apply to Turkey too?
I’ve been thinking about your argument with Geadis and about the votes in the EP. Maybe next time you have a chance to speak in the same channel as him you could ask why half the ECR MEPs abstained from the vote on Varosha?
Also, what do you think of MEP’s Santos work for the missing persons issue in Cyprus?
Έκαμες στρατό; Αν ναι, που; Πόσο τζαιρό; Ποια εν η θέση σου όσον αφορά την Εθνικη Φρούρα;
Should Cyprus get closer to Israel?
1) Why you constantly pushing the stateless people argument? (against the Cyprus Republic you represent) When a person cannot be stateless by choice,as all the children of Turkish citizens are entitled to Turkish citizenship.
2) Do you represent the Republic of Cyprus or TCs in the European Parliament?
Aşağıdaki ifadeler hakkında düşünceleriniz nelerdir?
1. “Avrupa ortak polis teşkilatı Europol’e daha fazla yetki verilmelidir.”
2. “Sosyal ağ operatörleri, platformlarındaki dezenformasyonla nasıl başa çıkacaklarına karar vermekte özgür olmalıdır.”
3. ”Telif hakkıyla korunan eserlerin (örneğin fotoğraflar, müzik, edebiyat) AB’de ticari olmayan amaçlarla ücretsiz kullanılmasına izin verilmelidir.”
4. “AB, nükleer enerjiyi sürdürülebilir bir enerji kaynağı olarak sınıflandırmaya devam etmelidir.”
Teşekkürler.
1) Opinion on Guterres Framework?
2) Opinion on eu foreign policy (China, U.S., peripheral policy middle east etc.)
3) Opinion on antifederal cypriotist T/Cs (like yiasemi, cypriotist movement etc).
Thank you very much for everything you have done for our island 🙂
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Why isn’t there more TC participation in CY elections and how will you encourage more TCs to put their names in the ballot ? I am not referring to EU elections only but also in local CY elections. When will we see TCs take the stand in our elections either in parliament or even the VP seat ?