Nikephoros wrote:I am using stupidity...
So tell me where you an officer of the 361st Infantry Battalion on the Battle of Cyprus?
Have you ever did research in the State Department archives regarding the Turkish invasion?
Have you ever studied Islamic jurisprudence?
You can only learn useless info from discussions in cafes that you should forget. For every subject out there from weightlifting to history to musical theory there are serious experts who leave written records known as books. But NeoCypriots prefer always first ideology and ignorance.
What are you ranting about man? The Turkish army is not run by "Islamic jurisprudence", anymore than the TCs!
There is no record of "battle of Cyprus" in any history books I've read - you are turning this into a battle of "Waterloo"! What battle? more than 20,000 Mainland Greek army who backed EOKA overthrow the democratically elected president Makarios, running away in the face of the invading Turkish army and leaving behind GCs to defend their beaches? When it was not them who started the trouble in the first place?
On your next visit to Kyrenia try visiting the military museum where you'll see many vehicles left behind in their haste to run away! As a TC I can vouch for one thing, and that is the main difference between mainland Greeks and GCs is that that Cypriots have a lot more balls when it comes to fighting - excluding the dogs of EOKA who also made a run for it and who are only good in fighting unarmed civilians!
And before anyone starts the rubbish about Turkish army coming in with tanks and artillery - the mainland Greek troops on the island were not using air-pistols either. They were fully equipped with tanks, heavy artillery and even anti-aircraft missiles, as well as outnumbering the initial landing forces by almost two to one. There is no denying that the daring fascist Greek junta brought this problem home to GCs and had left them to pay the price...