Piratis wrote:zan wrote:Piratis wrote:So it was fine for Cyprus to be under Ottoman (or British) rule without the blessing of the 82% of the population (actually the 100% initially) and with native Cypriots as slaves, but not OK to be part of a free Greek state without the blessing of the 18%???
Does Turkey take the blessing of the 20% of Kurds for anything they will do??
There was absolutely no risk for the lives of TCs with union with Greece. The only thing you would lose would be the unfair privileges granted to you on our expense by the invaders of Cyprus.
In 1958 you attacked us and you re-started the war against us. 1960 was not a "clean slate". How the hell could it be a "clean slate" when British got bases on our land, Turks got to keep troops on Cyprus, and the small TC minority was given so many unfair privileges on our expense?
The fact is that you re-started the war in 1958 and this war did not end in 1960 with your victory as you would hope. There will be no end in the war with your victory. The war will go on until Cyprus is free and democratic and your minority will accept to be like every other minority in every other country, and stop collaborating with foreigners trying to have unfair and disproportional gains of power and land on our expense by helping those foreigners get what they want from our island.
Contradicting yourself in One post Piratis......Nice
A "GreeK State" EY!!!!!:lol: Collaborating with a foreign country ey!!
Uniting with the rest of Greece is what the Cypriot people wanted. So who are you to impose to the Cypriot people what they can do with their own island?
If you still don't understand the difference here it is even easier:
Cyprus, would be part of the Greek state because the vast majority of Cypriots are Greek and they themselves wanted to be part of a Greek state.
On the other hand Cyprus was under the British and Ottoman empires because this is what the FOREIGNERS not the Cypriots wanted.
Get it? And those foreigners used your small minority in order to get what they want in Cyprus against the will of the native Cypriot people.
Rhodes united with Greece in 1948 and it has a Turkish minority on it. Do you have a problem with Rhodes being part of the Greek state Zan? Is Rhodes "foreign" to Greece?
The same happened with all other Greek territories. Initially only a small part of Greece was liberated. Then in the next 100+ years gradually more and more Greek islands and territories united(=enosis) with the rest of Greece.
Several of those territories islands have Turkish minorities on them. So what? Does it mean that Greeks could not have their own free Greek state encompassing all the Greek territories and islands because there was some Turkish minority on them??
The vast majority of Germans wanted Jews dead......
The alternative to your majority wants is what we have now....We are part of Cyprus and you do not have the right to put a partner in peril because of your wants....Simple human rights.