I can tell you from now that majority of TCs hold the same views as GCs regarding TRNC, they aren't in denial nor are they ''brainwashed''. They are FULLY AWARE of all the problems the GCs are telling us on the forum. HOWEVER they KNOW they suffered in the hands of GCs and EOKA at the time...
No matter how much you call this an excuse this IS the main reason these people don't want to live with GCs. Why dont you pop over to TRNC and see for yourself that TCs have barely recovered from what they went through. I'm not just talking about murder, but discrimination and total disrespect for humanity by absolute MADMEN!!!!!! There is just no point in trying to prove these people wrong, or arguing with them, they know what they went through and people will have to deal with them and take them seriously sooner or later....
I went to visit my 'Yenge' (Aunt of some sort) today and she was telling me how they lost their home in Limassol.
It was in 74 and her mum was in hospital, she said Makarios and EOKA ''birbirlerine girdiler'' (they basically clashed) and they was told to go pick her up from hospital because the GCs didnt want them there and were threatening to throw the TC patients out the windows. They went, got her and returned home.
A few days later as they were picking grapes in their village (Aleftora or something like that) they got a message from Lefkoşa telling them to 'RUN' because the GCs were getting ready to raid their village. They left absolutely everything and ran towards the enclaves where a van with British soldiers picked them up and took them to the enclave. She said that they didn't even have a tent at first and had to sleep under trees. They listened to the radio and heard how their village was taken over by the GCs. A few people had refused to leave and were beaten and left for dead by the GCs that attacked. Everything was looted, all their money and jewellery stolen...
Anyways they spent 7 months in the enclave untill they were sent to Adana in Turkey and back to Cyprus after 2 weeks.
Her husband (her fiance at the time) was one of the people who was fighting in Kyrenia before Turkey came. She still keeps all the letters she sent him through the red cross. Reading those letters really touched me cos she didnt know if she was ever going to see him again and she wrote each letter as if it were her last
. They span the whole time she was in the enclave all the way to Dec 1974...
Almost every single one of his friends died and he ''survived'' by hiding in trees. He is now a broken man and has been since those events...
They lost their lovely home to the EOKA faggots and are now living in poverty. At the same time some Turkish cunts are abusing what should be HER country which should be catering for HER needs and living it large while she can barely afford to pay the rent for some crusty run down house...
Still..they went back to their house when the gates opened and a Greek Cypriot man is renting her house and she said hes been taking really good care of it. ''Helal olsun'' is what she said...
I dont know what upset me more, her story or the ''helal olsun''.
This is them talking with the GC man.
Their old house.