shahmaran wrote:paliometoxo wrote:paaul12 wrote:but dont u find it so very very funny, i know i do
why does he not use the flag of South Cyprus, its a simple question
simple but in the north the police would take away ur flag if u carry a cyprus one why? i mean a turkish cypriot made it why dont BOTH sides just use that one flag? we use greece one to sometimes bt at least we have the cyprus one with it u idiots just use two turkey flags
Maybe because it represents ANOTHER country which used to murder us en masse?
Dunno just an idea
Yesterday evening on CyBC's Biz/εμεισ programme they were interviewing residents of the Limassol district mountain village of Moniatis. This used to be a mixed village, and apparently one Turkish Cypriot woman refused to leave when the Turkish Cypriots were evacuated. This particular woman was interviewed on the programme and I thought it was very interesting to hear her comments. She now has four grandchildren in the village. The interviewer Hüseyin asked if she regretted not leaving and the reply was a definite 'no'; she had no regrets at all.
My point is that about 300 Turkish Cypriots for various reasons refused to be resettled in the north after 1974. This is surely a litmus test for the simplistic discourse promoted by certain Turkish Cypriot circles that "the Greek Cypriots en masse were murdering the Turkish Cypriots en masse". Surely, if this were true, the small number of Turkish Cypriots who remained in the south would have been rapidly eliminated. I know of no such event. How could a single, helpless woman have survived on her own all these years and now have four grandchildren?
There was an ethnic conflict on this island led by fanatics on both sides; criminals committed atrocities. You cannot tar a whole community with the same brush. Last Sunday the Greek Cypriot electorate expressed a will to turn over a new leaf when it rejected a member of the old guard who is widely believed, by Turkish Cypriots at least, to be implicated in the events of 1963. Perhaps Turkish Cypriots should now abandon their stereotyping and demonisation and make a real attempt to understand Greek Cypriot society.