zan wrote:Beth_Josephine wrote:No offse but i can't be asked to read through all the pages of the same arguments of TC's and GC's.
Now, correct me if I am wrong, but those Cypriots living on this island, that are 50 yrs plus, speak greek and turkish. I only say this as I have come across it a few times. Those Cypriots that are of greek desent (my old neighbours where i used to live in nicosia), would tell me stories of how they would speak turkish and greek and how they used o have turkish lira too. Now, they lived happily on this island pre 1974 with the mixed culture, even with the pre-history between turkey and greece and they have been able to put the past behind them and get on with life.
So why, is it the younger generation that can not get over the raid or the divide? It strikes me as odd due to it being the generation who were not alive or living in the country at the time of 74, who are the ones stilla rguing over it.
Not picking a fight, just trying to understand a culture that I can only see an outside view on and one that isn't taking either sides but sitting on a fence.
Beth it is clear that you have been reading only Greek history because you have started with the year 1974 and have not read about what happened before.
The period between 1963 and 1974 was the best time for the Turkish Cypriots...We got on like a house on fire...Literally.....Our houses were burned to the ground by the village load. We were forced into 3% of our own country and then the nice GCs thought that we should have some music while we starved so they made a recording of a song especially for us. They then played that song through loud speakers because they knew that it was hard for us to travel without a UN escort for fear of our lives. They taunted us that Turkey did not come to save us as we thought they would. They helped us with our health through not allowing us saturated fats in our diets because that would have shortened our lives by decades..In fact they stopped giving us food all together to help the process along. Why wait until you are old...Kill the babies when they are young and you will not have the problems later....
Please read a bit more about the subject......
What history you think I have read? I've read the Turks version and the greek's version and they both contridict each other, therefore, I am going with the version told to me by the old locals that i've lived around the past 2 and a half years. I know the history but you all seem to bring up 1974 as the major date. I know about the 1960's agreement from all 3 counter parts and how the turks broke this, I know about turkey kidnapping greeks and vice versa, I know about the history of what this island holds.
However, I am not confident to qoute dates and such and I am not running through tht t'net just to get them. Free speech, free forum and I have said before, I am not on either side, right on the fence here.
