VP, the Ottoman rule lasted until 1878. Your attack which started the intercommunal conflict was just 80 years later in 1958, and your last invasion was 16 years after that, in 1974. Your illegal occupation continues until
today.
So as I said, every Cypriot generation suffered from the Turkish aggression against our island. It was not one event that happened 400 years ago. It was
since then and until
today.
And our crime? That we, like the rest of Greek territories and island, wanted to be free from foreign rule. Funny how it was fine to be under Turkish or British rule
against the will of the Cypriot people, but not fine to be part of the free Greek state, which is what Cypriots wanted!
In effect you admit that you always attacked us because according to you we committed the "crime" of wanting to be free.
Here is the "crime" of the Cypriot people that gave the "right" to the Turks to attack us and kill us (and then complain and pretend to be the victims because in some of their attacks they had some casualties as well)
During the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Ottoman authorities feared that Greek Cypriots would rebel again. Archbishop Kyprianos, a powerful leader who worked to improve the education of Greek Cypriot children, was accused of plotting against the government. Kyprianos, his bishops, and hundreds of priests and important laymen were arrested and summarily hanged or decapitated on July 9, 1821.
And you did the same in 1958, when you again attacked us for daring to commit the above "crime" again and demanded that Cyprus should belong where Cypriots want it to belong, not in the empires of some foreigners.
And we committed a similar "crime" when we joined the EU. Turkey was threatening us again, because she claimed that Cyprus didn't have the right to belong where Cypriots wanted it to belong!
