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[Get Real!]

The “Might have” Vs the “Did do”…

What I find interesting is that Greek Cypriots are often accused of things they might have done and yet Turks and Turkish Cypriots are quite happy to do them!

For example, Greek Cypriots are forever criticized for wanting Enosis with Greece, and that of course never happened so it can only be classified as a “might have”, but Turkish Cypriots actually DID apply Enosis with Turkey in the form of the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” thus forming a “did do”.

Here’s another example, Greek Cypriots are also criticized that they might have conducted the “Akritas” plan; allegedly a ethnic cleansing plan against Turkish Cypriots which never happened, but Turks did carry out the “Attila” plan; a genocide plan against the Greek Cypriots perfectly executed in July 1974 and the tragic consequences of which I need not remind.

And finally, Greek Cypriots are accused that they violated the 1960 agreements yet it was the Turkish Cypriot representatives that walked out in protest for not agreeing over several issues and never to return as instructed by Ankara. Turkey’s advice was very simple… if you can’t get what you want forget about negotiating, just take these guns and ammunition with our compliments and “negotiate” by force! Turkey was already preparing the ground for division…

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If one were to take a close look at the grievances of the two communities one would find that the Turkish Cypriot argument hangs by the very fine thread of MIGHT HAVE, whereas the Greek Cypriot argument rests firmly on the DID DO!

[Sotos]

Thats right! You can't say that we never did anything but compared to what they did to us what we did to them was nothing! It is funny when they kill so many people and they are trying to excuse it by saying that this document wrote that and this person said this.

[askimwos]

Can I ask people to refrain from posting the same things over and over again? Can we be a bit more constructive? What's the point of recycling the same points over and over again?

[Sotos]

I don't think this specific point was discussed before.

[paaul12]

wasn’t it good that Turkey stopped you, just think what might have been?

[Sotos]

wasn’t it good that Turkey stopped you, just think what might have been?

Somebody should kill you now because you will become a serial killer The Oracle said it!

[zan]

wasn’t it good that Turkey stopped you, just think what might have been?

Somebody should kill you now because you will become a serial killer The Oracle said it!

I think that writing your plans on the wall (ENOSIS graffiti) and then announcing it public (Makarios and the church) and then drawing up plans ( the Akritas plan) would have been enough to convict you in any court around the world except for Greece that is.

[Piratis]

Writing messages on the walls maybe could get you fined for polluting the environment with a penalty of $500. Writing and saying things is certainly not a crime that carries the death or extradition penalty.

Maybe the exception is Turkey. If somebody says something against "Turkishness" then not only him but his whole family deserve to be exterminated.

I hope you realize that in the civilized world the excuse that "Somebody said/wrote such and such so his whole race had to be ethnically cleansed" is a very lame one.

[zan]

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

[Piratis]

The crime is when you kill or ethnically cleanse somebody because somebody from his ethnic group once wrote some slogan on a wall or said something that you didn't like. Writing and talking is not a crime.