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2008 a Good year 4 the TRNC

How can we solve it? (keep it civilized)

Postby BirKibrisli » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:05 am

Paphitis wrote:
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miltiades wrote:Are all Aussies ignorant then ?? Or just the two of you !!


When I first came to Australia,dear miltiades,I was told in no uncertain terms that one didn't talk about 3 things :Politics,Religion or Philosophy...

When I asked what they did talk about in Australia the answer was...Girls and footy (read rugby)....Nothing much has changed since!!! :) :)


Even if that were true, then what the hell are you doing here. Shouldn't you be on the next plane out of Oz for somewhere more intellectual, such as Anatolia. :lol:

As for the girls bit, well I always felt that Aussies had their priorities right! :lol:


Priorities right???What about the bloody rugby????? :)

Anotolia is out of the question but as soon as Cyprus is reunited I would be on the next plane out,Paphidis... :wink: :D
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Postby paaul12 » Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:44 pm

Greek Cypriot side should play close attention to Turkey
(archive article - Thursday, September 25, 2008)
Sir,

I would like to refer to Hugh Pope’s piece in the September 21 edition of the Sunday Mail entitled ‘Armenia and Turkey score in the match for peace’.

Every Cypriot public figure should take the trouble to read and digest its wise words.

If ever there was a wake-up call to the divisive and negative pronouncements of the leading lights of DIKO, EDEK, assorted two-bit political and media minnows and the ecclesiastical purveyor of gobbledygook, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, this article said it all.

The half century of bankrupt policies, as promoted by certain former Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders and the aforementioned worthies, are fast coming to an end.

Dare I say it, certain sections of the Greek Cypriot ‘side’ need to wise up politically and endeavour to take a leaf out of Turkish politicians’ way of conducting foreign policy. You never see them indulging in the internecine warfare that we witness here on a daily basis, especially in foreign affairs.

Turkey always projects a united front as demonstrated by their cleverly conducted and nurtured relationships with Armenia, Russia and their immediate neighbours. More recently, the rapprochement between Greece and Turkey has seen a State visit by the Greek Prime Minister to Turkey and huge year on year increases in the volume of trade between their two countries.

In contrast to the above, the latest manifestation of Cypriot political hara-kiri is ex-Finance and Interior Minister Christodoulos Christodoulou’s vicious attack on DISY Chairman Nicos Anastasiades. The former trumpets his “patriotic” credentials and accuses Mr Anastasiades of not being “patriotic” in the EOKA struggle. It should be pointed out that the latter was in elementary school at the time.

“Mother” Greece will a best only to continue to offer the customary platitudes of support towards the Greek Cypriots as laid out in UN resolutions: Nothing more. If anyone in Cyprus seriously thinks that Greece is likely to do a spot of sabre-ratting, they’ll be sadly disappointed. It simply won’t happen. They’re had their fingers burnt in Cyprus too many times.

I therefore urge Cypriot public figures to stop living in cloud-cuckoo-land and save their oratorical skills for the bathroom mirror. Their futile attempts to torpedo the peace process must not be allowed to succeed.

The latest pragmatic accommodation between Turkey and Armenia should also be telling them to spare us from their incessant, patriotic exhortations of Hellenism as these are well past their sell-by date. They should therefore ride sedately into the sunset and retire gracefully.

I would therefore like to refer Mr Christodoulou and his ilk to the quotation of the 18th century man of letters and lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”.

Gavin Jones,
Lemba, Paphos



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Postby utu » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:37 am

Paaul12,

Gavin Jone's article is concluding that Greece does not really matter. Underestimating Greece is a bad mistake.
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Postby zan » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:41 am

utu wrote:Paaul12,

Gavin Jone's article is concluding that Greece does not really matter. Underestimating Greece is a bad mistake.



But we are constantly being told that Greece has no interest in Cyprus both by Greece and the "RoC" utu :wink: :wink:
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Postby utu » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:49 am

zan wrote:
utu wrote:Paaul12,

Gavin Jone's article is concluding that Greece does not really matter. Underestimating Greece is a bad mistake.



But we are constantly being told that Greece has no interest in Cyprus both by Greece and the "RoC" utu :wink: :wink:


Greeks - like Turks - are a cohesive, clannish community. They would not disregard their Cypriot brethern.
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Postby zan » Sat Sep 27, 2008 1:54 am

utu wrote:
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utu wrote:Paaul12,

Gavin Jone's article is concluding that Greece does not really matter. Underestimating Greece is a bad mistake.



But we are constantly being told that Greece has no interest in Cyprus both by Greece and the "RoC" utu :wink: :wink:


Greeks - like Turks - are a cohesive, clannish community. They would not disregard their Cypriot brethern.


So when we are told this over and over again can we put it down to trickery??? I don't think it looks good for them utu......We say what we mean....Why do they lie???
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Postby bill cobbett » Sat Dec 27, 2008 11:28 pm

Oh dear, only four days to go and not looking too good. :roll:

2008, just another year in the Occupied North. Nothing changes for the better in dodgy, illegal states, they just come and go. Funny that.
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Postby Get Real! » Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:50 am

All together now, let's do one for paaul12...


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Postby bill cobbett » Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:38 am

Get Real! wrote:All together now, let's do one for paaul12...


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: etc, etc....


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Ooh, I do like a communal sing-song
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oh and some for eric doh
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