halil wrote:Cyprus,The Problem In The Light of Truth
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Cyprus,the problem in Perspective
Cyprus Before 1955
Cyprus was part of Turkey from 1571 until 1914 when Great Britain by a unilateral action annexed the island to the British Crown.The unilateral British action was subsequently ratified by by the Turkish and Greek Goverments in 1923 at the Traty of Lausanne.As a result , a great number of Turks were forced to emigrate Turkey.It is interesting to note that up to the begining of the 19th century the Turks constituted the biger community numerically than the Greek-speaking people on theisland.Accordind to Census of 1777 as reported by Kyprianou , a native of Cyprus and Archimandrite of the Church ,The total population of the island was 84000 of which 47000 were Turks and 37000 Greeks-See Handbook of Cyprus 1913.p.33 Though the rate of birth is greater amongs Turks.
The poulation progressivfely decreaset ,especially after British occupation.For istance at the begining of the British occupation the population ratio between Greeks and Turks was 3:1 at the end of British occupation the ratio was 4 :1
I will write rest of the book later on.
Once again i needed remind ..... This book was written down to answer the Greek Public Information book which is published under the name of
CYPRUS:The Problem in Perspective.
here it is some bits more from the Turkish Cypriots Pulic Information book .
However, the Greek community which lived and flourished as a seperate community under Turkish rule -the independence of Greek Orthodox Church having been recongnised by an Imperial decree issud in Istanbul following the Turkish conquest of Cyprus-continued to enjoy the same autonomous communities which were in truth and in factcompletly seperate from each other because of religion,language,culture,custom,belief andpolitical aspirations,continued to remain and live as two distinct entities.Seperation became more and more accentuated as the Greek Community started identifiying itself with ''mother Greece''and claimed the annexiation of Cyprus to Greece(ENOSİS) .The Turks in return never ceased to identify themself with Turkey and expressed their will and their consciousness to remain part and parcel of Turkey.They resisted vigorously the Greek claim for ENOSİS.The seperate and conflicting political consciousness and identity of the two communities reached its climax when the the Greek Community organized themself and started to force their way towards ENOSIS in complete disregard of existance of the Turkish Community.
The Greeks,in their attempt to overpower and silance the Turkish Community ,started a campaign of insults,injustice,discrimination and hostility against the Turks. All these acts and the bitter expriencies of co-existance over a long perod of time embedded the deep rooted idea in mind and psychology of the Turks that if the Greeks found the chance they would not trat Turks fairly and squarly.And indeed as this campaign for ENOSIS grew in tempo under the leadership of the CHURCH and of professional agitators from Greece,the attack on Turks and Turkish rights ,the insults to and humiliation of Turks at every sphere of life,discrimination at government services and at municipal functiones increased in proportion thereby forcing Turks to rely more and more on their community's resources for self -supports and protection.
more bits will be latter on .
p.s in here writer means ;Turks=TC's ,Greeks=GR's
