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[BirKibrisli]

We were (the mrs. and myself) just mentioning you the other day and saying how we missed you. (So strange for someone we only met a couple of times).

The feelings are mutual,dear Kafenes...I think of you both very often...Every time I see your son's picture in my local Woolworths in fact...
We will just have to do something about it soon.
I can feel Cyprus calling ...

I'll start making the houmus.

Yes please...best humous I've ever had...The lahmadjoon was divine too...
Can I bring a guest this time??? a little bird you know???

The forgotten heroine? I thought you were on topic.

We don't want to be sexist here,do we ,yegen???
Heroines are never forgotten...

[BirKibrisli]

[...]The lahmadjoon was divine too...[...]

Pardon my ignorance, but I thought this particular culinary delight was confined to mainland Turkey and Iraq.

I'll let Kafenes answer you,Tim...I am not sure of the origins of lahmacun,(as it is written in Turkish).

[Oracle]

Kostas Mishiaoulis and Dervis Ali Kavazoglu

Two Cypriot heroes, who gave their lives in the struggle for the unity of Cyprus.

The two trade unionists campaigned tirelessly for friendship and cooperation between the people of Cyprus and opposed the policies of both Enosis (union with Greece) and Taksim (partition of Cyprus).

Dervis and Kostas were assassinated by the paramilitary group TMT on 11 April 1964. They worked together and they died together.

Having made the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of freedom their memory lives on as does the dream of a common Cypriot homeland.

(Sourced from C4C)

[Tim Drayton]

[...]The lahmadjoon was divine too...[...]

Pardon my ignorance, but I thought this particular culinary delight was confined to mainland Turkey and Iraq.

I'll let Kafenes answer you,Tim...I am not sure of the origins of lahmacun,(as it is written in Turkish).

Even in Western Turkey some people look down on it as being an eastern Turkish and Kurdish type of food. I love it, but it has to be fresh and crisp rather than soggy, as it often tends to be. I know it is widely available now in the north of Cyprus, for obvious reasons, but I did not think it was traditionally Cypriot at all.

If I am not mistaken, shouldn't I be saying "Bayramın kutlu olsun" if ozzie TCs bother with that sort of thing.

[BirKibrisli]

[...]The lahmadjoon was divine too...[...]

Pardon my ignorance, but I thought this particular culinary delight was confined to mainland Turkey and Iraq.

I'll let Kafenes answer you,Tim...I am not sure of the origins of lahmacun,(as it is written in Turkish).

Even in Western Turkey some people look down on it as being an eastern Turkish and Kurdish type of food. I love it, but it has to be fresh and crisp rather than soggy, as it often tends to be. I know it is widely available now in the north of Cyprus, for obvious reasons, but I did not think it was traditionally Cypriot at all.

If I am not mistaken, shouldn't I be saying "Bayramın kutlu olsun" if ozzie TCs bother with that sort of thing.

Lahmacun is definitely not Cypriot,Tim...I thought it was of Turkish origin too,but Kafenes does an Armenian version,you want to eat your fingers with it (parmaklarini yersin-loses a bit in the translation)....

Bayraminiz kutlu olsun is appropriate from Tuesday onwards,I think.
But make sure you use the correct version (preferred by Tayyip Erdogan)
"Ramazan bayraminiz kutlu olsun"...Not sheker bayraminiz...hehehehehhe
I hope you know what I am talking about.If not, not to worry,too banal to explain...

[Tim Drayton]

They might as well call it "eid al-fitr" then.

[kafenes]

Thanks for the complement Bit. My grandfather taught me to make lekhmajuns, he was originaly from Zilifke and then Hadjen. I believe the name if this dish is Arabic 'Lehim-bi-ajin' but they make it differently all around the world. You and the princess are more then welcome to my house for dinner, so is anybody else who would like to come.
Enough hijacking Oracles thread with food even though my grandfather was really a hero to me.

[repulsewarrior]

thank-you, OP, interesting thread, more heros please.

[denizaksulu]

Kostas Mishiaoulis and Dervis Ali Kavazoglu

Two Cypriot heroes, who gave their lives in the struggle for the unity of Cyprus.

The two trade unionists campaigned tirelessly for friendship and cooperation between the people of Cyprus and opposed the policies of both Enosis (union with Greece) and Taksim (partition of Cyprus).

Dervis and Kostas were assassinated by the paramilitary group TMT on 11 April 1964. They worked together and they died together.

Having made the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of freedom their memory lives on as does the dream of a common Cypriot homeland.

(Sourced from C4C)

Did you once say that 'a dead Turk is a good Turk'?

[Oracle]

Kostas Mishiaoulis and Dervis Ali Kavazoglu

Two Cypriot heroes, who gave their lives in the struggle for the unity of Cyprus.

The two trade unionists campaigned tirelessly for friendship and cooperation between the people of Cyprus and opposed the policies of both Enosis (union with Greece) and Taksim (partition of Cyprus).

Dervis and Kostas were assassinated by the paramilitary group TMT on 11 April 1964. They worked together and they died together.

Having made the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of freedom their memory lives on as does the dream of a common Cypriot homeland.

(Sourced from C4C)

Did you once say that 'a dead Turk is a good Turk'?

That is not a view I would hold for any living species.

In the darkest recesses of your mind, must lurk some remnants of that upstanding personality I have heard rumours hint, may have briefly existed.

Are you thinking out of context again ... or are you confusing something to do with that hateful Turkish poem "KIN" which talks of killing thousands of Gavur Greeks etc. ?