turkish_cypriot wrote:Everyones allowed their say, those who don't like it should leave the forum themselves.
Sorry but I have to be honest...
I agree with VP and zan! I appreciate and have some what enjoyed reading Kikapus story but I also find it biased. It seems Kikapu has a habit of generalising everyone, like comparing his cousins views to every other Turkish Cypriot and generalising all GCs as angels from a 2 week holiday. You generalised all the TCs in the South as good people who get on with the GCs and generalised the TCs in the North as partitionists and criminals who are just after land. Why didn't he mention the Greek flags all over Cyprus instead of nit picking on everything bad he could find about Turkish people?
Kikapu blatantly went there with an agenda, I would like Kikapu to go live over there before being so sure and writing such a "report". I don't mind his story and understand the point he's trying to make, but I've absolutely cringed at his determination to prove himself right by any means possible. I appreciate his point of view but NOT the way in which he so confidently (and naively) come to a conclusion out of a 2 week holiday after being away for decades. Certain parts of this story were a bit toooo predictable and some parts appear soooo "manufactured".
Sorry mate but I don't know how you can write these things with such certainty from a poxy 2 week holiday. You're entitled your say without people jumping down your throat I agree, but at least do it in a professional level and not write as though you are so sure you are right when you've been away for SO long and not even been to the North to see or speak to the people properly. You went completely OTT in your quest to shut VP and zan up! So much that it has become rather transparent.
Still this has turned into a phenomenal thread guys!
Well done to all those involved
Hello T_C,
You are one of my favourite members here, and I take your critisisms of my report, or parts of it, willingly.
I'm glad you mentioned the presence of Greek Flags. When we first arrived in Larnaca, they seem to be everywhere. They actually were not, but the appearance was very evident. In all honesty, I did not like it, and that also added further pressure on me, feeling out of place a little. But what countered the Greek Flags, were the presence of Cypriot Flags. There were far more Cypriot Flags, than any other Flags. But as we travelled through out the country, they seem to be less and less, except for Nicosia. I don't think I saw a Greek Flag on a boat or a building, that did not also have the Cypriot Flag. On the boat trip that I took, the "Fantasy", had only the Cypriot Flag.
Now let me ask you a question. Are you happy with the 2 huge Flags on the mountain, because I was not. And if I came to the North, and did not see any Cypriot Flags, I would have been really pissed off. Are there any Cypriot flags by the way, in the North.?? So, say what you want about the Greek flags being there, and I would agree with you, that it was not "my cup of tea", but at least, large majority of the Flags flown in the RoC, were in fact, the Cypriot Flags.
On my cousins story. The husband was a complete Partitionist and bragged about his family's gains of Greek Land, while we were eating in a GC restaurant. I was totally uncomfortable with the whole situation, and when the Partitionist on the Forum give their reasons why they want a Partition, they never mention the land -grab aspect of their reasons. At least the cousin's husband was honest. I only call those who want to cash in on GC lands criminals at the expense of destroying this small islands future. I do not call TC's in General, as criminals, even if it comes across that way, when it is written.
I was not here to solve the Cyprus problem. I'm not even saying, that I have proved to everyone, that everything is just fine between the two communities. What I did prove to myself, was not to have fears in the future, no matter what the Partitionist may say, if I wanted to come and visit the South again. This is still my country after all, and not a foreign place, like VP always likes to call it. We drove 1556 Kilometers and tried to meet with who ever we had a chance to talk with. I did not spend one minute on any deck chairs on the beach or by the swimming pool. I wanted to go and see, as much as possible, and we did.
I had a small list of things to talk about in my report, but forgot to look at it, which includes other things, such as animals (cats and dogs), Turkish-Greek TV and Radio shows and Music, and English cooked style vegetables, and the absence of "drop dead gorgeous Russian Girls" that everyone is talking about on the Forum. Where the hell were they.
Perhaps Lana was out of town, on one of her business trips.
