Big Al wrote:BC Numismatics, you need to face a couple of facts, the TRNC exists, i have swam in the beaches of Girne,walked through the streets of Lefkosa and had dinner in restaurants in Magusa, i have done all these things as a proud turk. You and every other GC can bark like a dog as loud as you want the truth is you can deny its existence but in the end you will never, ever remove me from what now belongs to me, as it did in ottoman times.
I look at Turkey's forces on Cyprus as a guarantor excerising their rights to protect their citizens, a force which i know will always be there, almost like a police force stopping any ideas of enosis coming up again.
If you think Turkey is the problem grow some balls and go over to Cyprus and try and get them out.
'Big Al',you're forgetting one thing - Turkey
IS an
occupying power,
NOT a guarantor power!
The existence of the so-called 'TRNC' has been condemned in the strongest terms by both the British Commonwealth & the United Nations.This means that the so-called 'TRNC' IS illegal,along with Turkey's occupation!
By the way,I'm not a Greek-speaking Cypriot,nor am I in Cyprus.I am a British New Zealander who believes very strongly in the reunification of Cyprus as a united federal republic within the British Commonwealth though.There should be only one Cyprus - a Cypriot Cyprus that does not have any distinctions based on either race or language.The Cypriot Constitution needs to be amended to include English as an official language,as English is the language that links both Cypriot communities together.
Aidan.