zan wrote:miltiades wrote:zan wrote:miltiades wrote:Halil , you dont have to tell me that you do not live in "stolen" property.
I agree that electricity and other comforts have made our life a lot more comfortable.
I also did not have electricity , apart from my two years in the orphanage , but on returning in 1955 to my village we still did not have electricity.
I agree that fear plays a horrendous part in anyone's life , but it is a fact that fear came from both sides of the extremists , the EOKA B , and the TMT , both instilled fear in peoples hearts. You corrected me sometime back by reminding me of the murders of T/Cs on November 15th 1967 , and you also stated that no casualties since that dreadful date until 1974.So surely Halil if people survived some 7 years without any casualties what makes anyone now think that uniting the Cypriot people would lead to anarchy and communal strife. I believe not provided the people really want a fresh start as I'm sure they do.
I'm totally committed to a united Cyprus , united Cypriots , foreign troops out , all Cypriots enjoying equal rights and will always challenge any divisionist ideas or recognition of a separate nation within Cyprus . I'm as you very well know a 100% Cypriot who sees only Cypriots and only majorities , and majorities we all are.
Why do you keep ignoring the siege in that period....
Living in peace..what the hell is the wrong with you
Zan , why this obsession with the past , these events are more than 40 years old , most Cypriots were not even born then, cant you just lay the past to rest and devote your energy to the future ? Cant you see that Cyprus today IS NOT Cyprus OF 1963 ? You are besotted with EOKA , GRIVAS , MEGALIFUCKING IDEA AND ALL OTHER GHOSTS . Zan , wake up mate that was the last century as relevant as the Ottoman invasion of 1571 !!
Wake up man , face the future not the past.
I will tell you once again Miltiades and hope it sticks this time:
I was born the same year the first Republic ever was formed in Cyprus....I was the first generation born into the Cyprus Republic. My rights were assured under the Zurich agreement and my future secured. I was 3 years old and that right was taken away from me by bloodshed and at gunpoint. Why should I let it go just like that. Why should I put my future now in the hands of the likes of Tpap and a church that does not let the government change history books that tell of barbaric Turks....WHY!!!
That was last century , 48 years ago , and dont kid yourself that only T/Cs suffered . The extremists from both sides made sure that all that disagreed with them faced the wrath of their disapproval.
1958 , the beginning , I believe of the first inter communal incident , started by the T/C extremists egged on by Britain .
All Cypriots suffered , hatred was widespread , propaganda was abound ,
the fanatics ruled , that was then .
The RoC is an EU member nation now , all of it including the occupied part.
The "trnc" is isolated unrecognised , non productive in any material goods , does not even have its own passports or currency , are you telling me that it , the "trnc" can thrive under these conditions ?