{"id":138630,"date":"2015-06-30T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T08:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/paying-the-price-of-arrogance-and-disdain\/"},"modified":"2015-06-30T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T08:05:21","slug":"paying-the-price-of-arrogance-and-disdain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/paying-the-price-of-arrogance-and-disdain\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying the price of arrogance and disdain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his article titled \u201c Paying the price of arrogance and disdain\u201d published on Sunday Mail, Greek Cypriot economist and social scientist George Koumoullis mentioned the issue of guarantees. Koumoullis stated that what troubles the Turkish Cypriots is not the territorial integrity of Cyprus but physical safety that\u2019s why Turkish Cypriots insist on the issue of guarantees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Koumoullis underlined that education system in the South Cyprus develops hostility for the Turkish Cypriots. Mentioning the issue of Enosis, Koumoullis stressed that Greek Cypriots do not spend efforts to understand fears of the Turkish Cypriots on the issue of Enosis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that \u201cThe decision for the armed struggle of 1955 was taken secretly from the Turkish Cypriots who made up almost 20 percent of the population\u201d, Koumoullis expressed that Greek Cypriots made mistakes on the issue of guarantees as mistakes made in 1955. Mentioning tragic events which were experienced between 1963-1974, Koumoullis underlined that Turkish Cypriots have been affected by these tragic events in a bad way that\u2019s why Greek Cypriots should try to understand Turkish Cypriots\u2019 psychology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c Bearing in mind the Turkish Cypriots do not trust the EU or the UN to guarantee their security, one solution would be to accept guarantees for a period of time after which they would be phased out\u201d Koumoullis added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his article titled \u201c Paying the price of arrogance and disdain\u201d published on Sunday Mail,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}