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[connor]

Have been living in Cyprus for some years now and have heard statements like the 3 below on several occasions.

1) " The GC's treated the TC's as second class citizens and looked down on them."

2) "The partition of Cyprus is a very sad state of affairs..but lets face it..the GC's asked for what they got in 1974."

3) "We treated the TC's like scum because they are scum."

Comments such as these I have heard from...GC's....TC's...English...English Cypriots.

Personally I have no idea how TC's were treated prior to 74 since I did not live here at that time.

My question therefore is this...Were the TC's treated fairly by the GC's prior to 74...?

[iceman]

My question therefore is this...Were the TC's treated fairly by the GC's prior to 74...?

The aswer to your question is......no they were NOT.









and get ready to be attacked for your post..

[BC Numismatics]

Iceman,
That posting of yours is an absolute load of crap! The Turkish Cypriots had the chance to be involved in building a united Cyprus,but their morally-bankrupt leaders blew their opportunity after they pulled the plug on participating in the democratic process,including leaving the Cypriot Vice-Presidency vacant.

Aidan.

[Piratis]

The Cypriots were not treated fairly by the Turks for the last 400 years.

Of course the Turks where hated in Cyprus. Don't forget how they came to our island and the 10s of thousands of Cypriots they butchered and the oppression we suffered under them.

Still, just just 75 years after their oppressive rule had ended we had already forgave them and we had no conflicts with each other.

Unfortunately when the Cypriot people tried to revolt against the British colonialists, the TCs (with Turkish and British encouragement of course) attacked us, started to demand our annihilation from the north part of our country, and helped the British to defeat our revolution and impose on us the 1960 agreements.

The Cypriot people are forgiving people and this is shown with the good relationships we have with those former invadors that now stopped occupying our lands and violating our rights. For example we have no issues at all with the Latin minority in Cyprus. They respect us and we respect them.

The only thing the Cypriots ever fought for was for the freedom of their island and their self-determination. We never ventured out of our island to harm others (like the Turks and the British did), and we never started a conflict with a purpose other than freeing our island.

So if you say that "GCs deserved to be harmed" and have 1000s of casualties and 100s of thousands people ethnically cleansed, because they fought for the freedom of their own island, then what would you say about the Turks or the British? What do they deserve based on the harm they caused to the world and other nations which they invaded, oppressed, exploited and robed? (and they continue doing it today)

[BC Numismatics]

Piratis,
The British may not have been the perfect administrators in Cyprus,but they were the best.They didn't go around slaughtering innocent men,women,& children like the Turks have done,& are still doing.

Aidan.

[humanist]

My question therefore is this...Were the TC's treated fairly by the GC's prior to 74...?

Yes they were, however with every situation there is a context & history.

[Oracle]

Piratis,
The British may not have been the perfect administrators in Cyprus,but they were the best.They didn't go around slaughtering innocent men,women,& children like the Turks have done,& are still doing.

Aidan.

Aidan ... "administrators" as you call them, was a euphemism for ruling us against our will.

Weighing up the number of slaughters, and saying, on that basis, the British were better than the Turks, doesn't make our Human desire for freedom and liberty from all forms of oppression, less justified.

[iceman]

you are all talking out of your arses...
How do you know if TC's were treated fair or not?
YOU NEEDED TO BE A TC TO KNOW THIS.

[T_C]

Piratis,
The British may not have been the perfect administrators in Cyprus,but they were the best.They didn't go around slaughtering innocent men,women,& children like the Turks have done,& are still doing.

Aidan.

In fact it was Eoka going around doing most of the slaughtering of men, women and children during British rule.

3 October 1958: Mrs. Catherine Cutliffe, her daughter Margaret, and their German born friend Mrs. Elfriede Robinson, are in Hermes Street, Famagusta. As they leave a shop in the Greek quarter of Varosha/Maras, two youths open fire. One gunman shoots Mrs. Cutliffe twice in the back, then twice more, as she lies bleeding on the street. She dies almost immediately and is buried in Wayne's Keep Military Cemetery, because her husband is a Sergeant in 29 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Mrs Robinson is shot by the other youth, who continues to fire as she falls to the pavement. Margaret is unhurt. Mrs Robinson eventually recovers from her injuries and in 2006 was living with her husband in Germany. The author has circumstantial evidence to identify the two Eoka killers.

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/cypru ... anted.html

Talk about sleeping with the enemy. (SLUT!)

[BC Numismatics]

Piratis,
The British may not have been the perfect administrators in Cyprus,but they were the best.They didn't go around slaughtering innocent men,women,& children like the Turks have done,& are still doing.

Aidan.

Aidan ... "administrators" as you call them, was a euphemism for ruling us against our will.

Weighing up the number of slaughters, and saying, on that basis, the British were better than the Turks, doesn't make our Human desire for freedom and liberty from all forms of oppression, less justified.

Oracle,
You are forgetting one thing.Cyprus was a British colony between 1878 & 1960.If it hadn't been for the British,then there wouldn't even be a country called Cyprus.They were not only the legal administrators,they were also the legal rulers as well.

Aidan.