EPSILON wrote:phoenix wrote:EPSILON wrote:phoenix wrote:EPSILON wrote:miltiades wrote:NO FOREIGN FLAG SHOULD BE FLYING ON GOVERMENT BUILDINGS , ON CHURCHES , ON MOSQUES OR OTHER ENTITIES.
WE ARE THE NATION OF CYPRUS AND SHOULD BE FLYING OUR FLAG !!
You are the nation of Cyprus (an exotic fruit) and we are the Nation of Greeks.For the time being we are allowing you to visit or stay in our Island
Epsilon . . . whom are you allowing to stay on Cyprus? The Cypriots or the Turks . . . or both?
These who decided to be anything else than what majority of Cyprus population is for the last 2500years-Greeks.
So if Cyprus is just another Greek island, why does Greece trade with Turkey when it should be treating her like an enemy and threatening Turkey to get out of Greek territory?
What you can not understand is that to be Greek is not necessary to be part of Repuplic of Greece territory.
We are just Greeks . This does not necessary mean that we must be citizens of Greece.
Several citizens of Istanbul are Greeks. They never stayed in a Greek territory.
I feel that several things in this forum are attended under a confusion of understanding.
Saing Greeks of Cypus dos not mean that we support union with Greece. We just say what we are as Ethicity and which we want to keep under any circumstances.
So then for the sake of simplicity and to avoid overuse of unnecessary words, why not just call the citizens of Cyprus plain CYPRIOTS and the country can be simply Republic of Cyprus. Just like the Citizens of Greece are simply GREEK.
Then if you want to quibble about origins and ancestry, wait till we have more available controls, and then embark on proving genetically that Cypriots and Greeks are homogeneous.
But for now, avoid superfluous words like "Greek Cypriot" or "Greek RoC".