DTA wrote:Piratis wrote:erolz3 wrote:Piratis wrote: This is the model that racists like Erol aspire to. Failing that, their model is the Ottoman conquests and subsequent ethnic cleansing/genocide, so they can Turkify by force a territory stolen from others.
Blah blah blah. Because I argue that TC had a seperate right to self determination in the face of GC that chose to define themselves not as Cypriots but as part of the Greek people and because I challenge the notion that just because Piratis and other GC percieved the valid legal rights granted to TC community under the 60's agreements 'unfair' then the recourse by them to secret plans and use of ethnic violence to illegaly remove those rights was '100% legal' then I must of course be a facist supporter of apartheid.
The pattern Piratis is as familar as it is boring. Attack my arguments. Then attack arguments I have never made but that you claim I make. Then attack me as an indivdual.
Yawn.
You are fascist because you support the crimes you committed against innocent GCs in the 50s as means to receive unfair privileges and powers on the expense of the majority of Cypriots.
You are a fascist because in the 60s instead of accepting to abolish those racist laws you imposed on us by force you instead choose to start killing people again.
You are a fascist because you support the killing of thousands and the ethnic cleansing of 100s of thousands and the "trnc", the result of these crimes. (just a while ago you were telling us about "TRNC laws"
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I have read through all this debate, and wow!! WOW!!! I just cant wait to rejoin you guys in one Island.
You have succeeded in turning another moderate TC who WAS not entirely opposed to the uniting of Cyprus as one people to someone who wants nothing of the sort.
So riddle me this guys: is the ROC the same in its legal entity as the one founded in 1960 if so should you not still abide by the constitution of 1960?
Just stick To legal arguments please.
If not shouldn’t a new constitution and a new state be formed, a state that would need to gain international recognition? Again just legal arguments please.
For those of you claim that enosis was your legal right as the majority of the Island, what happened to the Turks of Crete when enosis was achieved?
But that would never have happened in Cyprus right?….Except Nico Samson said that if he achieved enosis he would have wiped the Turks from the Island…. And what stopped Nico Samson?….. Yep that’s right Turkey’s intervention. An intervention that even an Athens court deemed as legal… now argue against it.
As I also understand it isn’t there a clause in the 1960 Constitution that says that Cyprus can never be joined to another country (enosis), divided (takism) or join a union that both Cyprus and Turkey are not part of?
What does that mean guys? Well it means that your claims of enosis as your legal right… is in fact illegal… and guess what your entry to the EU is also illegal… unless I have misunderstood something?
OH but wait… wait the 1960 constitution was unfair…. Well you should not have signed it should you. If I agree a contract with a business partner, then later on down the line decide this contract is unfair I either have to challenge it through courts of law… (but you threw out the judge) or try to renegotiate the contract, what I cant do is go around intimidating and trying to kill my partner because…. That would be ….. ILLIGAL
This is something that I posted on another thread but my questions remains unanswered.
Ok let me start by saying that I was born after 1974 so i have no direct experience. I have spoken to a lot of TCs and they have told me a lot of things but I will leave them out of this post as well.
I will only concentrate on what my father and my grandfather have told me because I know that what they say is a 100% accurate and have come through their personnel experiences rather then hearsay.
Ok my fathers family came from a town near pathos they all speak and write Greek as well as Turkish they grew up with Greek friends shared meals celebrations even intermarried.
From 1963 to 1968 (when they left Cyprus) two things happened to my family that shook them to the core and turned their world upside down.
The first thing was the kidnap and murder of six of my Dads cousins on the way to their work (we still have not found their bodies). The second thing was on a bus journey my Granddad who must of been in his, or close to his sixties at the time was marched off the bus at gun point and was going to be shoot. Some of people that were doing this knew him, I cant say they were friends of the family but they defiantly knew our family - he was only saved by the plea of a solitary greek woman on the bus who pleaded for them to stop (bless her - I dont who she is or if she is still alive but if I ever get the chance I would like to love to meet and thank her).
Because of this in 1968 when they had the chance to leave for london they did for their safety. Leaving behind approximately 50 donums of land.
So this is a family (my family) that fully intergrated in the way of a singular Cypriot community, they had was no secrete plan for Taksim no involvement in the TMT they lived in and loved Cyprus but they had to endure great losses at the hands of the people they knew and thought were friends and country men.
You quite rightly bring up the subject of insecurity and yes there was lot of insecurity but on top of this there is another huge factor that you miss out.
And that is of BETRAYAL.
TC were betrayed by the people that they saw as brothers, those that had come to eat in their houses, to play with their children to join them in celebrations etc etc.
These were the people that (and this was proved with happened to my granddad on the buss), were ready and willing to kill them.
But the betrayal does not stop their because not only were GC that they knew all of a sudden turning on them but the government itself and its President - the one that was supposed to represent us as well - was calling us the enemy, threatening to wipe us off the map (i can get you the quotes if you want).
Then there is the police force that to my knowledge (and if I am wrong please correct me and show me the relevant details) from 1963 - 1974 did not arrest and prosecute one eoka member- they were supposed to be our police force as well why were they not protecting us?
So yes scared and betrayed we went to enclaves and protected ourselves with the help of the TMT and Turkey. And what happens the government of Cyprus (supposedly our government as well) bans baby milk (amongst a whole heap of other things) from reaching Turkish Cypriot enclaves- BABY MILK, can the message be made any clearer?
So on to Today the world has changed no? ROC cyprus wants us back, wants us to become citizens again....
That is the picture that is being painted... but if you look closer you will see that we are still being descriminated against...
-Where are the criminal cases against those that killed our people?
-Why do we have to spend 6 months in a country that is NOW foreign to us to claim our land (this is against human rights)?
-Why do you encourage the embargo on our people in the North of Cyprus? ( i know the answer to this - but it does not make it right)
- Where are our missing people?
- why dont you teach your people more of what was done to the TCs - then they will be more open to reconciliation?
- why do you not come down hard on racism on Turks (graffitti- army t-shirt saying the only good turk is a dead turk- in football games and the recent student march - how many arrests were there?
- there is much more.... but I will stop
Yes I know that these questions can be put to the TRNC as well but the ROC is supposed to represent us as well as the GC (even now according to them) - if this is the case why are they still not working for us as well?