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by **paliometoxo** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:49 pm

i read on the news today as you will all probably find that it says if there is a two state solution the turks will have to drop their army to less the 30% of the island they will be cramed up in the north.. and they still want this??:S

by **BC Numismatics** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:41 pm

Paliometoxo,
It is not only Turkey that should butt out of Cyprus' affairs,but Greece as well.They're foreign countries anyway.

Cyprus is better off under British protection,as Cyprus is part of the British Commonwealth anyway.

Aidan.

by **Tim Drayton** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:38 pm

BC Numismatics wrote:Paliometoxo,
It is not only Turkey that should butt out of Cyprus' affairs,but Greece as well.They're foreign countries anyway.

Cyprus is better off under British protection,as Cyprus is part of the British Commonwealth anyway.

Aidan.

Britain failed to protect Cyprus in 1974, so don't you think that claim rings a little hollow?

by **paliometoxo** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:40 pm

BC Numismatics wrote:Paliometoxo,
It is not only Turkey that should butt out of Cyprus' affairs,but Greece as well.They're foreign countries anyway.

Cyprus is better off under British protection,as Cyprus is part of the British Commonwealth anyway.

Aidan.

i dont think england care to help, just like they where far away and dident stop turkey invading like they could easily have stopped them btu did nothing.. what good are they, they just want their bases in cyprus thats all

by **observer** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:48 am

I think that I have written this before, but in 1974 Britain was in the grip of an economic crisis (winter of discontent), IRA bombers were setting off bombs in London, the British Army had it's hands full in Northern Ireland, and the thought of sending in troops to bale out Makarios, who in the Brits eyes had been responsible for the murder of many of their soldiers not long before, was not a vote winner. Besides, anyone who remembers the 1970s will know that coups in former colonies were almost a weekly event.

I'm sure that the GC coupists who started all this would have had this in their mind when they started the whole 74 business.

by **paliometoxo** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:54 am

its over 34 years later there is no ira threat in england, they could of made turkey leave cy ages ago but do nothing as a garantore power they are usless and do nothing to help