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[humanist]

I was recently talking to a relative in Cyprus, who told me that his colleague went to Morphou to visit his Turkish speaking Cypriot ex neighbour. They went also stood by their home and cried at the loss of it. The current occupier a settler came out and asked them if it was their home, they responded yes, but now it is yours. She invited them in for coffee. The TC neighbour was translating. She said to them I am happy to take my children and family and go if you would like to return. They told her to stay and look after it till they return.

Isn't that a human story.


Oh I so love humanity and respect. ( now that is a human being that ought to stay on, in a united Cyprus).

[Kifeas]

I was recently talking to a relative in Cyprus, who told me that his colleague went to Morphou to visit his Turkish speaking Cypriot ex neighbour. They went also stood by their home and cried at the loss of it. The current occupier a settler came out and asked them if it was their home, they responded yes, but now it is yours. She invited them in for coffee. The TC neighbour was translating. She said to them I am happy to take my children and family and go if you would like to return. They told her to stay and look after it till they return.

Isn't that a human story.


Oh I so love humanity and respect. ( now that is a human being that ought to stay on, in a united Cyprus).

Kalo to paramithi sou ...mono pou dhen echei drako!

[Oracle]

I was recently talking to a relative in Cyprus, who told me that his colleague went to Morphou to visit his Turkish speaking Cypriot ex neighbour. They went also stood by their home and cried at the loss of it. The current occupier a settler came out and asked them if it was their home, they responded yes, but now it is yours. She invited them in for coffee. The TC neighbour was translating. She said to them I am happy to take my children and family and go if you would like to return. They told her to stay and look after it till they return.

Isn't that a human story.


Oh I so love humanity and respect. ( now that is a human being that ought to stay on, in a united Cyprus).

This settler thought, for one minute, they could make a personal arrangement and Turkey would allow a GC family back ... just like that!

Highly unlikely.

[bill cobbett]

I think it's a very nice and hopeful story.

[humanist]

kifeas

Kalo to paramithi sou ...mono pou dhen echei drako!

:):):):):):):):):):):):):)

oh well, still a nice gesture .........

am still hoping that the TC's can learn from this example, although doubtful.

Once when I first joint this forum a GC said something on the lines, why would you want anything else but to feed of others properties and rights. And I brushed that aside as a fascist GC statement. today after a year on the forum I am beginning to see things differently. Some TC's have gained lots why would they be open to learning from this woman and her coments.


oracle

This settler thought, for one minute, they could make a personal arrangement and Turkey would allow a GC family back ... just like that!

Highly unlikely.

probably not oracle, but can you imagine if she did. both her and her family would be gone in a puff ........ would you put that fight with the barbaric Turkish army, invades kills and conquers

[Gabira]

I was recently talking to a relative in Cyprus, who told me that his colleague went to Morphou to visit his Turkish speaking Cypriot ex neighbour. They went also stood by their home and cried at the loss of it. The current occupier a settler came out and asked them if it was their home, they responded yes, but now it is yours. She invited them in for coffee. The TC neighbour was translating. She said to them I am happy to take my children and family and go if you would like to return. They told her to stay and look after it till they return.

Isn't that a human story.


Oh I so love humanity and respect. ( now that is a human being that ought to stay on, in a united Cyprus).

Thankyou for showing your humanity and loving a "settler". I never thought I'd come across such a special gc as you humanist

Your love is just so infectious

[Bananiot]

Hopefully you have learned your lesson humanist. You cannot instill compassion to misanthropists.

[BirKibrisli]

The lesson I got from humanist's story is this: we can all be human and compassionate at an individual level...And we often forget most people(including some of the settlers) are victims in this sorry saga...It is very easy,in our bitterness and pain, to tarnish and hate a whole class of people if we ignore the above lesson...Thanks for sharing that with us,Andreas...

[miltiades]

The lesson I got from humanist's story is this: we can all be human and compassionate at an individual level...And we often forget most people(including some of the settlers) are victims in this sorry saga...It is very easy,in our bitterness and pain, to tarnish and hate a whole class of people if we ignore the above lesson...Thanks for sharing that with us,Andreas...

I second that , after all humanity and compassion are not the prerogative of only a section of any community. Human feelings and understanding of ones pain is shared by most people. I believe entirely the story told by Humanist and I believe that those settlers must have felt the pain of the dispossessed .

[Jerry]

The lesson I got from humanist's story is this: we can all be human and compassionate at an individual level...And we often forget most people(including some of the settlers) are victims in this sorry saga...It is very easy,in our bitterness and pain, to tarnish and hate a whole class of people if we ignore the above lesson...Thanks for sharing that with us,Andreas...

I second that , after all humanity and compassion are not the prerogative of only a section of any community. Human feelings and understanding of ones pain is shared by most people. I believe entirely the story told by Humanist and I believe that those settlers must have felt the pain of the dispossessed .

I understand that many settlers are Kurds, perhaps they were dispossessed. I wonder if many of them are victims of the "clearance" of Kurdish villages in the east of Turkey and were offered new homes in Cyprus. So if there is an agreement and we ask that settlers return to Turkey we will be told that they have no homes to go back to. Bastard Turkish government - using the victims they have created to enforce their colonisation of Cyprus.