WRONG!!!!
Cypriotism and the Cyprus we have today is anything but Greek.
No Turkish Cypriot should let ANY GC make them feel unwelcome or feel like a mere visitor who has overstayed their visit because we've put a lot into this island!
Cyprus and Cypriots wouldn't be who they are today had it not been for the Turkish Cypriots despite what some people are brainwashed into thinking.
1) Most of the Cypriot dances (apart from Syrto and a few others) ie: Karşılama, Zeybek, Ciftetelli, Kozan, Orak, Kartal and Topal dances = Turkish!
2) ALOT of Cypriot music is of Turkish decent some of the best ones are written by RAIF DENKTASH, Raufs son (some of which are now classed as ''Greek'' with Greek lyrics!)
Halloumi = Cheese that the Ottomans brought, which wasnt even Turkish, let alone ''Greek'' (Arab cheese called Hallum) and which strangely enough is now considered the ''indigenous Greek Cypriot cheese''
Please!
The cheese we brought happens to be ''indigenous'' but the people who brought it are still ''visitors'' who belong elsewhere.
Republic of Cyprus' flag = Turkish Cypriot!
Alot of what is considered TODAY as the Cypriot identity, culture and traditions comes from US!
People like Piratis should stick to their 100 gods, Zeuss and Affrodyke and stop hijacking the culture WE have contributed greatly to and stop calling it their own...it doesn't belong solely to them and some of these things had nothing to do with them till WE brought it here yet most of these things are now classed as ''Greek'' and they've even gone as far as copyrighting almost EVERYTHING we've put in!
There is no getting away from the Turkish factor in Cyprus yet people are totally oblivious and would never know because everything is now classed as ''Greek'' including being a Cypriot. When I tell people I'm Cypriot they think I'm Greek!
Cypriots and Cypriotism of THE PAST was VERY Greek, Cypriots and the Cypriotism of TODAY is VERY Turkish influenced and ofcourse it is! The Turkish influence in Cyprus is much more recent and prominent than the Hellenists of the past but people are too ignorant to see it.
Piratis is now trying to tell me I'm destroying everything Greek when hes left almost NOTHING to the credit of the people who helped shape Cypriotism into what it is today. They've hijacked EVERYTHING and claimed it as theirs from food, music to the constitution AND the country!
Its people like this who force me and A LOT of TCs into wanting partition. If they want Cyprus to be Greek then they should first DROP everything that Turks brought and then come tell us about Cyprus being Greek...
Some of them even snub us and class us as nothing more than 'pheasants'...What exactly is a Cypriot anyways, do they know themselves? The true Cypriots WERE pheasants! Some people even seem to forget where they came from...
I'm not really that bitter about the things I mentioned but I dont want to share the same fate and be assimilated into Greekness like everything else.
I WANT to live with GCs so badly but when I hear people like Piratis I'm happy and thankfull to be where I am. I will compromise as much as I could to get any sort of split NOT to Turkify Cyprus but to live happily knowing I wont be assimilated into a Greek state with the kind of brainwashed Greek mentality that has brought my people misery after misery!
A LOT of Greeks will never accept or like Turks NOT EVEN if Turkey was to up and leave and its ok for GCs to tell me I'm wrong even if they have the best intentions but not everyone is like them and for me its just not worth taking the risk specially knowing our past.
In my opinion the Greeks lost a lot to the Turks, tried to get their hands on anything to expand their borders, the 13th island they tried to annex just happened to be Cyprus. First Britain used their D&C tactics then the Greeks completely poisoned GCs against TCs. Turkey saw the perfect chance, first fucked you over and then us! I have no doubts Turkey is here for her own reasons either, someone just last week in the TA told me that Cyprus is Turkeys ''never sinking'' warship...
Unfortunately TCs wont forget what happened to them during 63-74 and GCs will never remember so there is not much hope of a proper unification. Its all swept under the carpet and called an ''excuse'' anyways
I'm angry when GCs try to tell me that we're commiting treason when they're no different and act in the same way without a care in the world because theyre the majority!!! Everything we've put in has been forgotten and classed as Greek while we're classed as the Ottomans who destroyed Cyprus, we ended up being used by everyone from Greeks, Greek Cypriots, British and Turkey.
Well sorry but after everything we deserve peace, to be happy and some UNDERSTANDING...if you cant understand why we're bitter against Greeks and why we want to administer ourselves to begin with then I'd rather live in a Turkish province even if it means becoming a Turk in the future than become a Greek or the equivilent of a ''Paki'' in the eyes of a Brit (which we already are to most Greeks).
I'm taking a break from the forum anyways....I cant take it anymore
NOT!!!!!
I'm going to be staying in Famagusta so I wont have easy access to the internet nor the time to read and reply to posts but I'll be back in full swing as soon as I get back to the UK 
GR! PM me your number so I can call you about the picnic. I don't have no one elses number nor yours so PM me as soon as you see this, I wont be able to log on till next week SAT and I need to know times & dates beforehand so I can check my schedule...he he he...
