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[growuptcs]

insan:
Except a group of ultra nationalist Turks, no Turks claimed that Cyprus belongs to Turks. What's the difference of a Turk and a TC? With ur logic, after some 300 years later u would embrace the current settlers as TCs.

The Turks actually think they can get partition in Cyprus and live in a legalized world shouting like chimpanzees about discrimination. When will you see your reflection in the mirror already?

[Viewpoint]

insan:
Except a group of ultra nationalist Turks, no Turks claimed that Cyprus belongs to Turks. What's the difference of a Turk and a TC? With ur logic, after some 300 years later u would embrace the current settlers as TCs.

The Turks actually think they can get partition in Cyprus and live in a legalized world shouting like chimpanzees about discrimination. When will you see your reflection in the mirror already?

The same time you do.

[growuptcs]

VP:
The same time you do.

We saw our reflection and it shines back VP. What are the zookeepers telling you what you see?

[T_C]

Well if it shines you're obviously putting too much Greece into it...

[repulsewarrior]

Turcophone or Grecophone, we are Cypriots. This is our origin, whether we are "Greek" or "Turk".

[insan]

Turcophone or Grecophone, we are Cypriots. This is our origin, whether we are "Greek" or "Turk".

Maybe u can sinserely say this but majority of GCs singing and hearing Greek national anthem, majority of TCs singing and hearing Turkish national anthem almost everyday and grown up with it cannot feel the Cypriotness in sense of a nation. When a TC says i'm a Cypriot he/she just cites where he or she was born and grown up. If someone asks whether she/he is a TC or GC; then he/she says TC to make clear of his/her ethnicity. This is a fact. By saying we r all Cypriots, u can't make everyone Cypriots in sense of a unique nation.

[DT.]

Well if it shines you're obviously putting too much Greece into it...

[zan]

Turcophone or Grecophone, we are Cypriots. This is our origin, whether we are "Greek" or "Turk".

RW

I would really like YOU, because I think you of all people will come back with an honest answer, to tell me that you do not have an inherent fear of the term/name Turk......I want you to examine your conscience very carefully and come back and tell me that you are more interested in us dropping our TUrkish title than you are of dropping your Greek one.....


Instead of celebrating our ancestral background we are constantly being told that that part of us is dirty......I still can't bring myself to think of your Greek background as a dirty thing but I am fast changing my mind....I remember years ago I was ashamed to be Turkish but of personal and childish reasons...I grew up and now love who I am....I am defensive of who I am...It seems that some here are not.....Instead of representing their being they want to become second rate Greek.....Not that they can't do what ever their conscience tells them too but some are old enough to know better....I think they know who they are.

Give it up guys.....You are asking for too much....It might have worked with all those so called Greek islands you have taken over but we are Turkish Cypriot....Made of sterner stuff!!!!!

[paul1978]

Turkish cypriots do not exist

greek cypriots do not exist

cypriots exist

Although different races we are all human - just some of us do not deserve to be given human status

[doesntmatter]

If you or your family, regarded yourselves as TCs (pre 1974), but you live in / visit the Turkish occupied area of Cyprus; then you are either:

1.) still a TC
or
2.) have reverted to type ... Turk.

How can you identify which you are?

Simple ....
If you call the northern part: Turkish-occupied Cyprus, then you are still a TC. Congratulations!

If however you call it "TRNC" (or that other more Turkish form) ... then you have reverted to Turk.

No ifs nor buts. You cannot have it both ways. Only Turkey and Turks approve the label "TRNC" for the said occupied area!

No replies necessary ... just wanted to let some confused Turks know what I think.

A test from a woman who is a "Cypriot" in Cyprus and a "Greek" in Greece.....lol: sounds like a women going through the confusing period of "changes" in her life.

Ok, seriously now, what are you, British, Greek or "Cypriot"?