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[denizaksulu]

Why they would allowed this? Why Greek flag in Cyprus?

You also have Turkish flags in Cyprus. It is allowed according to the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.

ve de Gunaydin Kardesim

[pitsilos]

oranos64, whats with the greek flag as your avatar?

i put it there so dum ass people could ask me why ?

why do so many houses and buildings and sites in cyprus have the Greek flag

because we are greek and proud

hey oranos64, i think even a 2 button mouse gives you too many options...me thinks its time for you to walk outside and start tossing bread crumbs to helicopters....you never know you might even befriend one

and zan you are lucky that i am even fighting your battles....

long live cyprus

Why not? We are Cypriots and proud one to boot.

hit the nail on the head denizaksulu

[free_cyprus]

Why they would allowed this? Why Greek flag in Cyprus?

You also have Turkish flags in Cyprus. It is allowed according to the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.

ve de Gunaydin Kardesim

one of the reasons why we have soo much trouble in cyprus is a direct result of those two flags flying on our land turkish and greek flags

[denizaksulu]

Why they would allowed this? Why Greek flag in Cyprus?

You also have Turkish flags in Cyprus. It is allowed according to the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.

ve de Gunaydin Kardesim

one of the reasons why we have soo much trouble in cyprus is a direct result of those two flags flying on our land turkish and greek flags

Yes, I agree. Its been part of both our cultures. Personally, I never thought that the Greek flag was in the wrong country. I would even fly a 'Jolly Roger' had I have one.

[free_cyprus]

Why they would allowed this? Why Greek flag in Cyprus?

You also have Turkish flags in Cyprus. It is allowed according to the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.

ve de Gunaydin Kardesim

one of the reasons why we have soo much trouble in cyprus is a direct result of those two flags flying on our land turkish and greek flags

Yes, I agree. Its been part of both our cultures. Personally, I never thought that the Greek flag was in the wrong country. I would even fly a 'Jolly Roger' had I have one.

what culture you talking aout the one that is stolen from us and replaced by being turkish and greek, or the culture that we have not been given freedom to enjoy and create.

[denizaksulu]

Why they would allowed this? Why Greek flag in Cyprus?

You also have Turkish flags in Cyprus. It is allowed according to the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.

ve de Gunaydin Kardesim

one of the reasons why we have soo much trouble in cyprus is a direct result of those two flags flying on our land turkish and greek flags

Yes, I agree. Its been part of both our cultures. Personally, I never thought that the Greek flag was in the wrong country. I would even fly a 'Jolly Roger' had I have one.

what culture you talking aout the one that is stolen from us and replaced by being turkish and greek, or the culture that we have not been given freedom to enjoy and create.

Stop playing games. You know what I am talking about. If you dont, ask someone to enlighten you. I am not qualified to teach you your 'Greek' culture. From 1955/56 I have seen the Greek flags being waved at the British Colonialist during riots in Kerinia. As they say the sky was blue with them. At that age I did not understand why they were rioting , but my ears are still ringing at the sound of the GCs baying for Enosis and shouting their Zito Eoka slogans. That was part of the GC culture at the time. Now I am still wondering when GCs fell out of love for their 'motherland' Greece.

[Nikitas]

When we realized that it was not union but conquest. Which leaves you now to realize that conquest is exactly what happened to your side. We managed to narrowly escape, at some great cost, what are you going to do Deniz?

[Nikitas]

This is an argument I have had in here with several GCs and "live" with people here in Greece.

Union implies an act between equals and the result is greater than its constituent parts. But that was the assumption behind Union. In practice what was planned was to make Cyprus just another district of Greece, and not at all a Union which would have allowed Cyprus to contribute to make Greece a little better. So we when we understood the trap the orientation changed from Union to independence, for which many of us were called traitors etc. The usual sentence for anyone who does not blindly follow the chauvinist line.

The Greek side had an open debate in the Greek parliament where government reports and policy of the past were openly discussed. Union is no longer an option. At least the Greek side has come clean. We are now waiting for an equally candid revelation of past Turkish policy and declaration of goals and we can move on.

[zan]

This is an argument I have had in here with several GCs and "live" with people here in Greece.

Union implies an act between equals and the result is greater than its constituent parts. But that was the assumption behind Union. In practice what was planned was to make Cyprus just another district of Greece, and not at all a Union which would have allowed Cyprus to contribute to make Greece a little better. So we when we understood the trap the orientation changed from Union to independence, for which many of us were called traitors etc. The usual sentence for anyone who does not blindly follow the chauvinist line.

The Greek side had an open debate in the Greek parliament where government reports and policy of the past were openly discussed. Union is no longer an option. At least the Greek side has come clean. We are now waiting for an equally candid revelation of past Turkish policy and declaration of goals and we can move on.

That can only come with Turkey in the EU and the Tcs reinstated in their rightful place in government as per the Zurich agreement.

[theodore]

[quote="free_cyprus"]im from cyprus and im a cypriot and when you ask me if im trukish or greek i simply say to people im neither but i do speak one of the languages and i have nothing to do with .turkey or greece we as an island have been ruled from persia to friging britain for over 3000 years and your going to tell me im greek or turk ..................if anyone is soo sure then let them go and have a dna test and lest see what comes up. as the saying goes ...............a men is generaly what he feels himself to, and im a cypriot...........................our own people the cypriots are our own worse enemy and they dont even know it they are soo frigging brained washed that some of them well most fo them actualy believe they are greeks and turks and yet they deprive us from our own identity. why do we have such a thing called independence if we are greeks and turks. the mainland turkey and greece have shuved so much propaganda down our throats that most people believe thats what they are. we are supposed to be an independent state and we have turkish and greek flags flying all over the place, where the feck is national pride who speaks for us athens and ankara, who runs the secret service in cyprus athens and ankara, whos history books do we read, athens and ankara, who dictates negotiations regarding cyprus athens and ankara,cyprus has no voice what we do have is some arseholes waving greek and turkish flags and say im a greek and im a turk they fecking cypriots the fecking idiots. nobody questions anything whatever they hear they say yes........................look at great britain you have three countries joined togtehr by land england wales scotland would a scotsman ever say he is english your joking would a welshman say he is english no. ......................why ?????............they all speak english and yet they still say they are scotish welsh and english they have pride ...................us lot in cyprus we are greeks and turks becouse we speak the language and we share the same riligion ..........what a joke cyprus sitiuation is the laughing stock of the international community nowhere in the world is like cyprus a small island devided into four. .....................small island that has been tortured through out history and still today our people are slaves to turkey and greece and nobody speaks for us.[/quote]


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Very well said but I have one more point to add to the above if i may for a thought for the GC you say Turkey invaded Cyprus which i do agree by the way the question i have is
why no one say Greece invaded our language since 1974 the Cypriots language has change no hi-fan [that is change the way it was read en before 1974] what happen?
both have did disservice to the Cypriot people this is the worlds opinion.