by Diogenes » Wed May 30, 2007 2:49 am
Dear Get Real,
please GET REAL. Your ignorance (or is it deliberate ignorance?) is unbelievable !!
Does the site you sent me prove your point ?? Absolutely NOT.
I know very well about Chirokitia, but do we know anything about those people? As your site mentioned, pretty much nothing, and they were only about about 300 inhabitants. Were those 300 people the ancestors of all GC's and TC's in Cyprus? You gotta be kidding me...
Now i understand that perhaps those Chirokitians were GC's, or maybe not, as Greeks existed even before that, but one thing is for damn sure: They were NOT TC's. It as simple as that: The history (at least according to the evidence) of the Turks does not go that back in order for you or other TC's to claim common ancestry with GC's.
You (and other ignorants) heard one word, "Chirokitia", and you keep repeating it like parrots without any rational examination of history, evidence, etc. A basic characteristic of a peasant.
But again, it perhaps serves your politics to do that. Rushing to assign to your self a nationality, or a common ancient ancestry, etc, to falsely justify that you were here before 1578 when the Ottomans came.
Now, i understand the desperate need of your to do that, but can you at least not tell me what i AM and what i am NOT? Are you going to forcefully erase my heritage, roots, identity, history and cultural, because it is convenient to you to ascribe to everybody in this island an unrealistic common ancestor?
The whole thing reminds me the story of Adam and Eve, the so called ancestors of all humans. How convenient....and how fictional.....
Unfortunately, there are many ignorant GC's to support the same claims as you.
And by the way, nationalism is not a bad word. It is how you act in the name of nationalism that can be good or bad. That's why, Turkish nationalism is different than Greek nationalism, British nationalism, Arabic, etc. So, free your self from your little taboos and face reality.