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.
Mutraza wrote: 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.
I agree they were not for genocite. That was an exageration. What they were actually having was for a network of governing system, based on very heavy taxation and de-juicing.The system usually provided for harsh punishments to those who were not abiding (usually death). The oppression included many forms as for example getting the beatiful daughters or even wives of the people by force into the harems. It was not uncommon for a pasa to take off some heads, when he would smell "danger" of "revolt" or even hear some "complains". That helped "secure" the system. You can make your own research in the internet about the Ottoman era to see that what kept the "order" of the Ottoman system was the "cutting of heads".
The final result was that the sultans and pasas were living like kings by dejuicing the people. So yes they were not doing genocide, because who would they dejuice then, but this does not mean they were reluctant in taking heads off at all.
By the way don't be mistaken that the Ottomans were onlly oppressing the Greeks.The Turks themselves were considered filthy peasants and they were equally oppressed.One pasa (of Croatian origin) massacred thousands of Turks who revolted in just one day. When you read the poem of Rigas Phereos (thourios tou Riga) you will clearly see that he WAS NOT calling only the GREEKS to revolt.He was calling everybody even the TURKS to revolt.
About the number of "TCs" you can refer to the Cyprus conflict web site
http://www.cyprus-conflict.net/narrative-main.htm
In there you can see that immediately after the British took over the number of "mouslims" in Cyprus started diminishing very fast. The writter attributes this to the fact that many Christians were simply "mouslims" on paper to avoid heavy taxation.So after the new ruler came they reverted to their original religion and this dropped down the number of "TCs" to 18% where it remained steady until 1974.
by the way
Mutraza here is where you can find proof.
http://www.google.com/
Write the words "Ottoman attrocities" in the search box and then press "SEARCH". You will be reading for days or even weeks....
PS.Do you know that the Ottomans actually contributed to modern science through their barbaric methods? You want to know how?
