by Strahd » Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:26 pm
FC,
Your ideas are wrong and actually very radical to an extent of beeing an obsession. I can understand your frustration on the current situation and how you feel but denying the fact the the 99% of this population is made of 800000 greeks and 200000 turks has nothing to do with building an independent sovereign state.
We do not only speak greek or turkish, our greek ancestors came on this island 3000 years ago and buit a civilisation on the ancient greek principals always beeing part of the ancient hellenic people. We offered to our nation art, science and philosophy like most of the greek colonies at the time. However following the fall of the byzantine empire like most greek colonies we endured our language and traditions throughout the centuries even though we had to go through a lot of occupiers. Thus we share a lot more than language to the rest of the modern Greek world. If you study the history of Crete, Rhodes, Corfu and other islands you will be amazed by how much we have in common(even our dialects).
As for the turks they were brought here by the ottoman empire and by now after all these years they are part of this island. They are now our brothers and we should see them as such.
The beauty of Cyprus is that! Its diversity! In ethnic groups and civilisations.