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[humanist]

Hey iceman and halill if the homes were rebuild would your parents or grandparents move back there?

[halil]

none of my family members are lived at south.what i heard from majority of people are saying that they will more safely to stay in north than going back.
this isue will be solved out by the international agreements between 2 communities what i belive.as far as know some t.c are applied to greek cypriot government to get back their land as we all know its been refused.

[humanist]

Yes but is it refused on the basis that they continue to live in the north? Hence seen as double dipping? How about you? Do you share their views also that you will not be safe in your old villages?

Thanks

[iceman]

Hey iceman and halill if the homes were rebuild would your parents or grandparents move back there?

Humanist
I believe time is/was the biggest obstacle in turning back the clock in Cyprus....The powers which divided the island have cleverly planned this many moons ago..
Some of these villages were deserted by their Turkish inhabitants in 1963 for security reasons because they were in fear of their lives...Others were deserted in 1974 and the whole population moved to the north only with the belongings they could carry..
To have these people want to return back to their lands the reasons which pushed them to leave in the first place had to be eliminated a.s.a.p..
But then again as i pointed out above the time was the biggest obstacle for this because as the generation changed the decendants of these deserted properties have no emotional connection hence no desire to return back..
This also applies to many Greek Cypriots i have spoken in the past..

[kafenes]

There is a very big goat farm, the shepherd seems to live there. It really is beyond repair. The only thing which has been looked after is the mosque. I stood at the top of the hill and looked down on the village and imagined it 50 years ago, how lively beautiful it would have been.

Kafenes pls have a look at this web page and tell us what is the differences..... http://www.cyprustemples.com/templedetails.asp?id=75

Halil,I haven't been inside the mosque but from the outside it looks preety much the same as the pics on the web.

[kafenes]

the village name is SUSUZ in Turkish.

That is correct Halil,Souskiou (Susuz) was one of the largest Turkish villages in Paphos district with a population of 445 in 1974...

according to http://www.xist.org/cntry/cyprus.aspx?levels=Pafos
in 2001 only 2 poeples living in SUSUZ.

Same in Androlikou (2),which had a population of 498 in 1974..(Androlikou is the village of my fathers ancestors)

kafenes
Do you have any recent pics of Androlikou you can share with us please?

No I don't iceman, but will put it in the diary for the next trip.

[g&t]

Thank you so much for posting pictures.My grandmother and grandfather were originally from here. They left their house and belongings in the middle of the night in 55 and fled to limssol fearing for their lives. Up until then they had lived peacefully with their turkish cypriot neighbours. I have had stories handed down about this village, including the story of a tc child bride., who was taken from playing with her friends in the field, and put in a good dress and stood o a table to wed her middle aged husband. One minute she was playing in the dirt, nextminute she was a bride!
Anyway i digress, thanks for putting up the pics, and i hope to ad some soon, as we will be going to find the old house very soon