This is the real history . and instead of we gonna be enemies we should be your best friends . but Greece , UK ,and your own leaders brainwashing you !!! i m a tc and if you wanna argue find proper history books and scan it and send it . not just like wikipedia and all that stuff on the net .
My source is Encyclopaedia Britannica
In1191 AD Cyprus is defeated by the crusader Richard the Lionheart. The island is then sold to the Knights Templar, who resell it to Guy de Lusignan. From 1192 to 1489 Cyprus is ruled under a feudal system and Catholicism becomes the official religion.
In1489 control of the island passes to the Venetians who takes steps to fortify the island and build walls around the towns of Nicosia and Famagusta.
In1571 Ottoman troops invades the island and Cyprus becomes part of the Ottoman Empire. Islam is introduced to the island and Catholicism is expelled. The Greek Orthodox religion is restored."
you should now your history correct !!!! then you will realize that the chatholics brainwashed you for crusade. ottomans were great empire which they give freedom to all citizens and it was the real democracy . why you never have any evidence that from 1571 300 years you dont have any complain to ottoman empire . ottomans gave you freedom from the venetians.
It must be remembered that the Venetians were foreign feudal landlords in Cyprus, and the first step of the Ottoman governors was to abolish the feudal system, giving the freehold of the land to the peasant families who had worked it.
The Orthodox Church was freed from centuries of control by the Latin hierarchy and its previous tradition of independence reasserted under a revived archbishopric. On the other hand, the Catholic Church of the Crusader and Venetian rulers were expelled. Its building were confiscated and converted into mosques, or were sold to the Orthodox Church. They also made being Catholic a punishable offence, so Catholics had to choose between conversion to Orthodox Christianity, to Islam, or exile. The majority chose Christianity, but the result was that the population began to take on the ethnic structure it still possesses today, namely Greek and Turks
as i stated on thop many venetians become muslims and orthodox or expile. now we talking about 500 years . if after ottomans came only 100.000 people here in 300 years till british time easylt this could increase. another most important thing that when british start to rule the island some greece greek moved here as well. even imagine 20.000 real greek orthodox was here and many venetians changed their releigoun to orthodox. even we say 40.000 total and if the population increased 1000 a year easly it could come up to todays 500.000 . and also you can see the cypriots which is about 30% which is very nice people and they dont hate TCs , the most of them knows the truth deep inside of them . Also like papadopulus and the smilar very fachist groops which they wanted enosis and hellenic stuff is the people from mainland greece. the real cyprots the ones which lived here 100s of years and they know how ottoman empire time was great time . but even today you can see some strange points that the ones whoes ancestors are venetians (catholic church) vatikan they took cyprus back . with EU. and when you look the world orthodox and muslims dont have bad past . even today u can see the russians and iranians are close allies. its kind of relegion fight . the greek cypriots in cyprus are the ones real GREEK (the greek gods grandsons)( from the great nation . not macedonian or who knows what they are in the mainland greece)and the turkish cypriots in cyprus the Real ottomans the real turks not like the turkey but the Turkish Cypriots are the ones grandsons of the GREAT NATION of OTTOMAN EMPIRE . i m proud to be
i have to make sure you get this right . Wikipedia is not a good source !!!
turkish wikipedia tell the story from a turkish mouth
english wikipedia tell the story from a Greece mouth (remember all your history books made in greece)
