Osman Kana: Über Buse und Elena …

the pronouns of the translation are wrong, turkish to english always puts the “she s” to “he s” .

original turkish text:

Buse ve Elena’ya Dair…Buse hakkında çok şey yazılıp çizildi. Türkiye adına yarıştığı için cok eleştirildi. Ama karma evililik çocuğu olduğu için tercih yapma hakkı yoktu.. Annesi Psikobulu, kök Kıbrıslı.. Buse de Kıbrıs da doğdu, kıbrıs kültürü ve gelenekleriyle büyüdü ama Babası İstanbullu olduğu için Kıbrıs vatandaşlığı alamadı.Elena 2019 da ailesi ile bırlıkte Kıbrıs’a geldi. Babası parayla altın pasaport satın aldığı için Kıbrıs vatandaşı oldu ve Kıbrıs’ı bu sayede olimpiyatlarda temsil edebildi..Bir tarafta Kıbrıs da doğup büyüyen Buse, Diğer tarafta Kıbrıs ile hiç bir bağı olmayan Rus asıllı Elana..Elena Kıbrıs için yarışa biliyor ama Buse Kıbrıs için yarışamıyor.. Bu durumdan dolayı ne Buse’yi ne de Elana yı suçlayabiliriz.. Her Ikisi de hayallerinin peşinden koşan insanlar..Işte bu yüzden insanları eleştirmeden önce şapkamızı önümüze koyup öz eleştirimizi yapmamız gerekiyor. Empati kurmalı, nasıl karmaşık bir düzen de yaşadığımızı sorgulamalı ve yapıcı çözümler bulmaya çalışmalıyız..

What happened now?

Sorry im an outsider, why isnt she able to represent cyprus? I thought cyprus considered people in northern cyprus to be their citizen aswell since they dont recognize northern cyprus

The difference is that Elena’s father came to Cyprus legally. It was up to the government we elected to give him citizenship and it is up to our own government to remove his citizenship if we so choose, like we did in several other cases.

Buse’s father came to Cyprus illegally as part of the Settler colonialism policy of Turkey which aims to make the Turks the dominant population of Cyprus. We can’t stop Turkey from bringing these Settlers to Cyprus, but it doesn’t mean we should give them and their children the RoC citizenship, as this would encourage more of them to come to Cyprus and result in us eventually becoming the minority of RoC citizens.

So this isn’t about 1 person. We can’t have 1 rule for this specific person because she is a good athlete, and then a different rule for everybody else like her.

If somebody who has 1 TC parent and 1 Turkish parent is labeled a “TC” then eventually we will have a whole lot more Turks in Cyprus who are labeled “TCs” and have the RoC citizenship. For example if she had children with a Turk from Turkey, her children would be 75% Turk and 25% TC in reality, but they would be labeled as just TCs and have the RoC citizenship too.

I understand both sides of the argument. This is a tough question. Giving citizenship to the children of settlers is basically recognition of the illegal settlers and the ethnic cleansing that Turkey has committed. On the other hand her mother is a native which should entitle her for a citizenship. Honestly this can genuinely be argued either way but it just goes to show how insanely complicated the division and any possible solutions are.