by Piratis » Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:53 pm
The so called "trnc" is nothing more than an illegal entity created by means of murder and ethnic cleansing on land that belongs to Republic of Cyprus and where most private land in owned by Greek Cypriots. The "trnc" flag symbolizes this crime against 100s of thousands of Cypriots and against the sovereignty of our country. That symbol is for us what the swastika is for the Jews.
People that support the "trnc" and its symbols are showing the worst kind of disrespect to the rest of the Cypriot people. Instead of asking from us to show respect to such racist symbols what they should do instead is to show some respect to our human rights and the sovereignty of our country and stop supporting illegalities.
Those people do not feel obligated to show even the required respect to our rights, yet they have the nerve to demand from us to show respect to the symbols of their crimes against us. We have tolerated that kind of disrespect from them for the sake of communication. If however that is not enough for them, and what they require from us in order to talk to us is for us to capitulate and bow in front of the symbols that represent our ethnic cleansing and the occupation of our country, then they should know that such thing will never happen.
The "trnc" does not represent TCs as a whole, but only those individuals that choose to associate with it. TCs are citizens of Republic of Cyprus, while the the so called "trnc" doesn't even claim to be a Cypriot, but instead a "Turkish Republic", created due to the illegal occupation of Cyprus by Turkey, and with the importation of many thousands of Turkish settlers.
If some(many/most) TCs choose to associate with the "trnc" that is their problem. Most Germans also supported the swastika during WWII, and this of course didn't mean that everybody else should respect that racist symbol. Respect to respectful TCs, definitely yes. Respect to symbols of crime and ethnic cleansing against us, never.