DT. wrote:roseandchan wrote:if you go back through history you could have any number of people claiming its their ancient land.
just did a quick history lesson and cyprus had human settlement from about 5800bc. the neolithic cypriots origin is uncertian. artifacts of anatolian obsidan suggest that the settlers related to the people of asia minor, modern day turkey.
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Could you please continue in your research and find out when the first Turkic tribes began arriving in Asia Minor? While you're at it find out who lived there before.
just to get the ball rollingAfter 1400 B.C., Mycenaean and Mycenaean-Achaean traders from the northeastern Peloponnesus began regular commercial visits to the island. Settlers from the same areas arrived in large numbers toward the end of the Trojan War (traditionally dated about 1184 B.C.). Even in modern times, a strip of the northern coast was known as the Achaean Coast in commemoration of those early settlers. The newcomers spread the use of their spoken language and introduced a script that greatly facilitated commerce. They also introduced the potter's wheel and began producing pottery that eventually was carried by traders to many mainland markets. By the end of the second millennium B.C., a distinctive culture had developed on Cyprus. The island's culture was tempered and enriched by its position as a crossroads for the commerce of three continents, but in essence it was distinctively Hellenic. It is to this 3,000 years of Hellenic tradition that the present-day Greek Cypriots refer when arguing either for enosis or for their own dominance in an independent state.
This a no win game, in my opinion. The only hope for world peace is to recognise the world order under the UN. These means that whoever happened to be inhabiting a particular territory at the end of World War II has the right to self determination within that territory. It's like muiscal chairs, I know, if you look at things within a broad historical concept. The Indo-European peoples who now inhabit virtually all of Europe migrated there from the east in the distant past. If you expel them, who do you give Europe back to?
She said they had been given it 3mnths after the borders opened 
