by umit07 » Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:23 pm
Miltiades it's understandable up to the the Zurich Agreement's , but from then on it's sinister you can't just create and close down a country like a dodgy business. It's the stuff that happened after 63 that TC's really worry about. Do you know about what denkatas talks about a decision taken by the National Council that calls fro Enosis that has up to now never been revoked or taken back at any point?
GC's like to talk about the TRNC being a dodgy setup, but when we look south we see a country with people that use the flag Greece everywhere and sing the Greek national anthem. So it's weird to talk about a common national identity, for someone like myself who has not lived through the old days it's very vague. I remember last year I was in Germany with some fellow GC's and a german girl found it very odd that we were Cypriots but spoke between each other in english, she was asking the same questions over and over again.
All this made me remember a program on PIK called biz ( us ) they were interviewing a TC that had left his villlage in 74 and he was talking about the events before leaving his village to head to the north. A GC man who was best mates with his father asked him to stay behind, the TC guy responds as to what he would do alone in the village without any of his relatives then asks he GC a question that goes " If I was to stay I would need to marry a GC girl, would you as a father hand your daughter to me for marriage? " and the GC guy responds to hims as "No" . What I mean to say is that whatever happens there will always be barriers between TC's and GC's , in my opinion instead of ignoring it both sides should learn to respect and embrace the difference as a fruit of the common identity of being Cypriot.