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[EPSILON]

PART I. - GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1
The State of Cyprus is an independent and sovereign Republic with a presidential regime, the President being Greek and the Vice-President being Turk elected by the Greek and the Turkish Communities of Cyprus respectively as hereinafter in this Constitution provided.

Article 2
For the purposes of this Constitution –

(1) the Greek Community comprises all citizens of the Republic who are of Greek origin and whose mother tongue is Greek or who share the Greek cultural traditions or who are members of the Greek-Orthodox Church;

(2) the Turkish Community comprises all citizens of the Republic who are of Turkish origin and whose mother tongue is Turkish or who share the Turkish cultural traditions or who are Moslems;

(3) citizens of the Republic who do not come within the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of this Article shall, within three months of the date of the coming into operation of this Constitution, opt to belong to either the Greek or the Turkish Community as individuals, but, if they belong to a religious group, shall so opt as a religious group and upon such option they shall be deemed to be members of such Community:

Provided that any citizen of the Republic who belongs to such a religious group may choose not to abide by the option of such group and by a written and signed declaration submitted within one month of the date of such option to the appropriate officer of the Republic and to the Presidents of the Greek and the Turkish Communal Chambers opt to belong to the Community other than that to which such group shall be deemed to belong:

Provided further that if an option of such religious group is not accepted on the ground that its members are below the requisite number any member of such group may within one month of the date of the refusal of acceptance of such option opt in the aforesaid manner as an individual to which Community he would like to belong. .......

Miltiades, if you insit to say that you are Cypriot- you must respect the Cyprus state's constitution.

be Greek and shoud that you are Gtreek.

[Nikitas]

"(3) citizens of the Republic who do not come within the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of this Article shall, within three months of the date of the coming into operation of this Constitution, opt to belong to either the Greek or the Turkish Community as individuals, but, if they belong to a religious group, shall so opt as a religious group and upon such option they shall be deemed to be members of such Community: "

And there you have a fine example institutionalised fascism in the constitution of 1960. This kind of thing is contraty to the European Human Rights conventions and all norms of the EU.

[miltiades]

EPSILON , THE ONE WHO SOLD HIS SOUL TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY OUGHT TO READ THE FOLLOWING :
At the conclusion of a conference in Zurich on 11 February 1959, agreement was reached between Greece and Turkey on a plan for a settlement. On 19 February, following a conference in London, attended by the representatives of Greece, Turkey, Britain and the two Cypriot communities, an agreement was signed for the final settlement of the Cyprus dispute.

The Cypriots existed long before little villagers such as Epsilon begun to disown their true heritage .
The Cypriots exist today as they did hundreds of years ago as G/Cs and T/Cs but above all as Cypriots. Why on earth would you expect me or other Cypriots to embrace the foreign cancers that are Greece and Turkey.
We are the Cypriots , the indigenous people of this island , neither the Greeks nor the Turks have any right to continue poisoning our true statehood.