Piratis,
We, that have been in Cyprus 3000 years before the Ottomans, have not agreed to cede Cyprus to anybody. Cyprus belongs to Cypriots (82% of which are GCs) and not to an empire that does not exist.
The Aboriginies were in Australia thousands of years before the English came to Australia and claimed it under the English Empire. Australia has been under English rule for over 200 years and yet everybody recognises that it is an English country.
The Ottoman empire ruled Cyprus from 1571 - 1878 and (technically on paper) has the rights to island to this very day. The 1960 Cyprus Agreements sees Turkish & Greek Cypriots as equal owners in Cyprus. The Greeks do not want to accept this. You cannot use the fact that you were in Cyprus before the Turkish as a legitimate reason of who owns the land. If this was the case the Aboriginies hould be in Power in Australia, and the American Indians should be running the USA, and the native New Zealand tribes hould be in control in New Zealand.
Turkish & Greek Cypriots are equal in Cyprus and this is what we agreed to at the Zurich Agreements. Even though we agreed to this, the Greek Cypriots had other ideas in mind...
ENOSIS As a matter of fact the Greeks have deceived the Turkish people twice now. First time in Zurich...second time in the Annan Plan!
30 years of occupation. For how long did your Ottoman empire occupy those other places? This didn't stop those nations from getting liberated one day, right?
It isn't an occupation. The real occupation is the 'Occupation of the rights of the Turkish Cypriots by the Greek Cypriots.' The ROC does not exist as it is not the offsrping from the government that was established in 1960. Sorry Piratis, the current government is a 'Fake Cyprus Government'...it does not represent the Turkish Cypriots. There is 2 governments in Cyprus. One is the Sth Greek Cypriot Government, the other is the Turkish Nth Cyprus Government.
Well, the 2 states that you talk about exist only in your dreams and in now void and null partition plans.
In reality what it exists is RoC, part of which is illegally occupied by Turkey.
The 2 states are a reality. Go to Lefkosa (Nicosia) and cross the territorial line. When you see the Turkish Cypriot flag wavinbg, you will then realise that 2 states exist.
The 13 points were proposals, and then we had intercomunal violent conflict (for which I will not deny that GCs were mostly responsible).
I am happy that you have understood that you cannot agree to something on the world stage then decide to change your mind. Now that the island has 2 different states..it is too late to say we never wanted the 13 points of ammendments. The Greek Cypriots should have done all they could to prevent this back then. If the 13 points of ammendment had gone through successfully, I am pretty sure we wouldn't have Greek Cypriots complaining today. Why didn't they speak up 30 odd years ago??
The epic grandeur and glory of EOKA'S liberation struggle has laid the foundation - stone of national freedom. This freedom it is our sacred duty to safeguard and complete.
National struggles never come to an end. They merely change their form, preserving deep down the same substance and the same content. The realisation of our hopes and aspirations is not complete under the Zurich and London Agreements. The glorious liberation struggle, who, whose fifth anniversary we celebrate today, has secured us advanced bastions and impregnable strongholds for our independence. From these bastions we will continue the struggle to complete victory. There is nothing impossible for man when he works for something he believes in. Let us work with faith for the future of our country and let us be certain that the task we began five years ago will soon be completed and bear fruit.
(Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios, 1st April 1960)
ok, sorry, but I will not waste my time reading more of such baseless claims. I think you got involved too much with propaganda and you lost every limit.
