kurupetos wrote:DT. wrote:kurupetos wrote:DT. wrote:kurupetos wrote:Per RoC 1960 Constitution there are only two types of Cypriots: GC & TC. Thereby, cut the crap and stop asking stupid questions.
What have you done with the Armenians, maronites and latins you genocidal maniac?
They are included in the GC community. Read the constitution.
They are identified in the constitution as separate groups. The fact that they are included with the GC's as a community does not mean they do not exist on this island.
Article 29 Part III of the constituion29. The Armenians, Maronites and Latins constitute three separate religious groups in the island.
This is right just for the purposes of religion. But read this also:Under Article 1 of the constitution it is provided that Cyprus will be an independent and sovereign Republic with "a President who shall be Greek and a Vice-President, who shall be a Turk, elected by the Greek and Turkish communities of Cyprus respectively (Article 1).
Under the constitution the Greek Cypriot community comprises all citizens of Greek origin. This includes those whose mother tongue is Greek and those who share Greek cultural traditions or are members of the Greek Orthodox Church (Article 2 (1)). The Turkish community comprises all citizens of the Republic who are of Turkish origin, whose mother tongue is Turkish, who share Turkish cultural traditions or who are Moslems (ibid paragraph (2)).
Citizens of the Republic who did not come under the above provisions were given three months to exercise the option of becoming, for constitutional purposes, a member of the Greek or Turkish community. Under this arrangement the Armenian, the Latin and Maronite religious orders opted to belong to the Greek Community.
They are still recognised as a separate group though and can press for supreme court decisions as a group for the group separately from the larger community they opted to belong to.
5. It will also be possible under the Constitution for any religious group, in common with other bodies, to have recourse as a group to the Supreme Constitutional Court to complain of any breach of the Constitution or abuse of power directly affecting the group as a body.
