relatino wrote:turkish_cypriot wrote:It is necessary to know what happened in Cyprus between the foundation of the Republic in 1960 and the Turkish intervention in 1974, not for historical interest but in order to determine whether the political status of the Greek Cypriot Administration today, and its acceptance by the world is justified. If the Turkish Cypriots had simply withdrawn from the institutions of the Republic in 1964 with no reasonable excuse, and if the Turkish army had invaded in 1974 without any legal right or humanitarian justification, then perhaps the world would be right to treat the Greek Cypriot Administration as if it were the Government of Cyprus. The truth of the matter is however very different.
This is an important question, because the ability of the Greek Cypriot Administration to enforce an embargo on Turkish Cypriot trade, sport, and communications derives from their acceptance by other countries and institutions as if they were the lawful government of all Cyprus.
The former British Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home said in his memoirs[108] he had been convinced that if the Greek Cypriots could not treat the Turkish Cypriots as human beings they were inviting the invasion and partition of the island.
I stopped reading here. It seems you are pretty good doing copy/paste but you could have made a little summary of this block to avoid people to burn their eyes for nothing. Or at least put in bold the important parts. But if all this document is about the IFs: If the GCs didn't do this or if they didn't do that. I can put it simpler: IF the Ottomans had never put a foot in Cypriot soil, then there wouldn't be a Cyprus problem and we wouldn't be talking about it. Simpler. Good day.
Yes very good day to you too.
And yes I am "pretty good" at copy and paste! What about you? You good, average, poor? It get's a little tricky at times eh
I didn't want to sumerise anything because I wanted people to read the whole thing, you obviously haven't since you would of realised the only "if's" were at the beginning.
If the Ottomans had never set foot on Cyprus then indeed we wouldn't be talking about it..but they did and now your government is slacking in finding a solution to the countries problems! Just chilling since the South is pretty well off, no need to reach a settlement, just keep trying to punish the Turkish Cypriots, to your government that's better than having Cyprus unified. Your leader would rather sell of your country to Turkey than share power with Turkish Cypriots and if things go the way they have been for the last 40 years he will SUCCEED!
Maybe they're afraid to share power. I'd suspect the Greek Cypriot government has a hell of a lot to hide..
