what do you mean by '' popular story ''..
did we just get up in the middle of the night and start killing each other.listen mate, you lot started this mess,you spilt first blood,because of your sheer greed (and stupidity) you tried to destroy the lives of thousands of innocent people and in the aftermath you turn it round on us making yourselves out as victims,bullshit.
You just repeat your propaganda poems and you have no facts to back up the bullshit you are saying.
Who started it all? The Turks did:
Throughout the period of Venetian rule, Ottoman Turks raided and attacked at will. In 1489, the first year of Venetian control, Turks attacked the Karpas Peninsula, pillaging and taking captives to be sold into slavery. In 1539 the Turkish fleet attacked and destroyed Limassol. Fearing the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire, the Venetians had fortified Famagusta, Nicosia, and Kyrenia, but most other cities were easy prey.
In the summer of 1570, the Turks struck again, but this time with a full-scale invasion rather than a raid. About 60,000 troops, including cavalry and artillery, under the command of Lala Mustafa Pasha landed unopposed near Limassol on July 2, 1570, and laid siege to Nicosia. In an orgy of victory on the day that the city fell--September 9, 1570--20,000 Nicosians were put to death, and every church, public building, and palace was looted.
So that was the start. Unless you can find something before that? If not, then deal with the facts and stop repeating your lies.
But of course the above was just the start of the massive Turkish crimes and atrocities against Cyprus.
During the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Ottoman authorities feared that Greek Cypriots would rebel again. Archbishop Kyprianos, a powerful leader who worked to improve the education of Greek Cypriot children, was accused of plotting against the government. Kyprianos, his bishops, and hundreds of priests and important laymen were arrested and summarily hanged or decapitated on July 9, 1821.
So the Turks were butchering Cypriots by the 1000s, just to ensure that Cypriots would not be liberated from them. This went on for over 3 centuries.
Then the British took over, and naturally the Cypriot people continued to demand their freedom. In 1955 we started a straggle against the foreign colonialists (not against the TC minority).
Then the Turks attacked us again in 1958 starting the inter-communal conflict, collaborated with the colonialists, and started to demand that Greek Cypriots should be exterminated from half of their island.
In that conflict which lasted until 1968, TCs had some 100s of victims, about the same as the GCs had.
Then in 1974, the Turks invaded again and started to kill Cypriots by the 1000s, ethnically cleansing 100s of thousands and raping under age girls. To excuse this crime the Turks claimed that they supposedly came to "save the TC minority" which is nothing but a big fat lie since as we have shown many times in this forum not a single TC was killed in 1974 before the Turkish invasion had started.
So not only the Turks started it all, but they continue with crimes ever since against the Cypriots people, almost non-stop, crimes that continue until today.
Cypriots my friend never went out of their own island to harm anybody. It is the Turks who kept invading us, stealing our lands, and killing Cypriots by the 1000s. The only thing the Cypriots ever fought for was for their freedom and self-determination. Nothing more.
And then you come here to pretend to be the victim???
