Murtaza wrote:Kifeas wrote:In 1878 when the Ottoman Turks gave Cyprus to the British, the Turkish Cypriots were 25% of the population. Of course you have to take into consideration that many Greek Cypriots vanished or emigrated from Cyprus during the 300 years of Ottoman Turkish oppression due to the hard ships, torturing and mass murders by the Ottoman Turks.
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Any Proof? I mean if Ottoman mades that much mass murder, Arent Greeks too much in land now? Just have a proof about this murders? Or link ? want to learn about this mass murders and torturings. I mean a link show proofs not words. I dont know if they did or not. But Ottomans were not like of genocide. I will be happy if you show me proof.
First of all, I didn't speak about genocide, unlike the TCs who consider the 700 TCs who were killed from 1963 until 1974, as a committed genocide on behalf of the GCs, while forgetting at the same time that another 400 GCs were also killed during the same period.
I am not aware of any Internet link right now. Of course there are plenty of Cypriot and foreign sources (European consulars and ambassadors in Cyprus during those times) that give a lot of eye witnessing information and account.
For example, only in one occassion, on the 9th of July 1821, Archbishop Kyprianos and some 480 prominent GCs were murdered by the Ottoman Turks in the most cruel-some way a human mind can ever imagine, simply because there were rumors that Archbishop Kyprianos was a member of the Filiki Eteria, which was founded in Rumania and was the political organization of the Greek independence revolution.
Please do not ask me to describe here the method by which these 480 GCs were murdered, because it will be the most sickening thing you or anyone else have ever read in your life.