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[BirKibrisli]

The Macquarie Dictinary definition of Proganda is "...doctrines,arguments,facts spread by deliberate effort through any medium in order to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause..."

Whichever way you look at it this link is pure Propaganda...
The most effective aspect is the placing of the horrible pictures on the right column...
Then there is the emotive language used....It talks about this period or that period in neutral terms till it comes to the Ottoman period....Suddenly it is

Ottoman Oppression....doodooodooodaaaaa...

1571 The Ottomans massacre the population of Famagousta and flay the Venitian captain Marcantonio Bragadin alive after breaking their word of honour. The Cypriot Christian population is subjected to slavery. Since Christians are forbidden from even stepping onto the socio-political ladder Cypriot society becomes a virtua l theocracy.

they massacre the population....after breaking their word of honour....the Christian population is subjected to slavery....etc

Words used to make maximum impact on the reader assumed to be largely Christian of course...

Then there is the selectively using facts and figures to add to the effect...

1963-64 Turkish state-sponsored TMT terrorists attack police stations across Nicosia taking 200 people hostage. Turkey attempts to invade Cyprus bombing and napalming civilians and the terrorists together with Turkish commandos seize the Nicosia to Kyrenia main highway. A UN peacekeeping force is set up.

1974 Turkey invades and ethnically cleanses the northern third of Cyprus in the confusion caused by a failed CIA sponsored coup to assassinate the president of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios.

No mention of the EOKA or the TC victims and casulties,no mention of the Greek Junta (it is the CIA sponsored coup!),Enosis demands,the treaty of Guarantee,the fear the name Sampson inspired in the TCs....and of course no photos at all of the massacred TCs,or those collected in schools and stadiums around the island...

Anyone who takes this link as anything other than sheer propaganda is either totally stupid and ignorant,or is intentionally using it to spread hatred towards the Turkish Cypriots...

Make no mistake about this...I am not saying none of this happened...I am saying it is presented in such a way to evoke only one thing in the reader :hatred against Turks and Turkish Cypriots...I for one will not let this go unchallenged,as it is poisoning the minds of people who ought to be better informed about our bloody history in order to put things in perspective....There are many links from the Turkish site which is sheer propaganda as well,and I find them equally reprehensible...Sites like this do not help us find a just and peaceful solution. The are geared towards creating bitterness,hatred and the desire for revenge....

[Oracle]

Go on, prove me wrong by pointing out the "propaganda"...

Please tell me you are kidding

h**p://ww*.greece.org/cyprus/Chronology.htm
© 2001/2005 HEC and Argyros Argyrou.

Just because it's a Greek/Cypriot site, it does not mean it's instantly wrong ... it is still perfectly valid, unless its use is just for settling arguments in CyProb ....

This is General Chat and it is a perfectly accurate link which may interest those wishing some detail on Cyprus History, as this is a Cyprus Forum after all ....

It's not our fault you Barbarians chose to invade us and hence checker our history with blood ....

[halil]

Poor babies ............... what a joke ..................

[Oracle]

Yes halil ... Turks having fun with NAPALM is a bloody joke to you ....

[DT.]

It does oversimplify the history. I don't like it when the other side does it and I don't like it when we GC's do it either.

[halil]

It does oversimplify the history. I don't like it when the other side does it and I don't like it when we GC's do it either.

exactly DT,
history is history . you can not play with incidents . you can not take out some parts out and do it how its suits you . they laughs to you ....
especial at this new times with this media no one belives .
with media we are learning new things everyday . İt is very easy now to obtain neutralized informations from none parties.

[DT.]

It does oversimplify the history. I don't like it when the other side does it and I don't like it when we GC's do it either.

exactly DT,
history is history . you can not play with incidents . you can not take out some parts out and do it how its suits you . they laughs to you ....
especial at this new times with this media no one belives .
with media we are learning new things everyday . İt is very easy now to obtain neutralized informations from none parties.

unlike your articles Halil, which are always fair and balanced.

[halil]

DT ,
i am philanthropist too

are u or

[Rebel.Without.A.Pause]

exactly DT,
history is history . you can not play with incidents . you can not take out some parts out and do it how its suits you . they laughs to you ....
especial at this new times with this media no one belives .
with media we are learning new things everyday . İt is very easy now to obtain neutralized informations from none parties.

This coming from Halil is hilarious LOL

Turks are the champions of history distortion. They barely know about the history of Cyprus before the Ottoman oppression. They dont even know much about it now. How many Turkish Cypriot youth still think there are only 'two peoples' in Cyprus?? When Armenian Cypriots and Maronite Cypriots where here way before their poverty inflicting forefathers.

[Chara]

I once heard a saying (or read I can't remember) that it doesn't matter what takes place, History is written by the powerful or the winners of war.

History like anything in life, has 2 sides to every story, the opressor and the oppressed. You can argue till your blue in the face, poeple will never agree, and everyone will enterprate things as they wish.