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[demetriou_74]

So, we are supposed to sufer because 4,000 years ago, a couple of hundred people in a single part of the island spoke a different language?

As for checkpoints...Garbitsch, does the 'TRNC" still have those stupid 'HOW HAPPY I AM TO BE A TURK' signs up at the checkpoint at Ayios Dhometios?

agree with you source

[brother]

Mr brother

Thank you very much indeed

Your first answer begs another question.

Why?

Back in those times for a tc to know greek/english to get a job was not enough because tc were openly refered to as 'dogs' and many other unmentionable names, all the jobs went to gc and only jobs no gc wanted went to tc.

Many gc openly accept and acknowledge that tc were treated as 5 class citizens and were constantly verbally abused and mistreated, even though this happened and was common practice for many gc there were also just as many decent gc who never accepted this type of behaviour but they were usually ridiculed for treating tc as human beings.

[Main_Source]

So what about GC working on TC owned farms and fields? Or is my dad lieing?

[brother]

So what about GC working on TC owned farms and fields? Or is my dad lieing?

What do you mean source?

[Main_Source]

I mean, your acting as if all TC were being opressed and we're not able to have good jobs.

Well im showing you here that some were employers and even emlployed the so called tyranic GC.

[brother]

Source i understand that you get annoyed at hearing about what the gc done, but they are fact and the tc were opressed, i do not mention them lightly as it can antagonise.

Yes there were a few tc who could employ etc. but the amount was so miniscule there is not even a percentage for it.

[Dhavlos]

Calm down!!!! its only a quite simple matter

before '74 TCs could speak greek, and very few GCs could if at all speak TC. In many cases now, it is still the same (however the new younger genrations of TCs may not speak greek).

If you live anywhere, you have to speak the language of the majority to live... that is what happened,
if you dont need to learn a language...why bother?...thats what most GCs probably felt...there was no need.
Its like the English now, why learn another language when everyone speaks english?

Yes, the Tcs were probably treated like sh*t, but that might be expected due to the influences of greek/turkish mainlanders etc... and the obvious longrunning history between the two 'nations'. However, for most people, there probably was not many problems....my grandfather used to go to the TC villages to sell produce, and in turn they would go to his village too. They became somewhat freinds.

C'est les 'grands' qui font la guerre, mais c'est les 'petits' qui souffrent .... roughly explained.....its the 'big' people, the politicians who create war, but it is the 'little' men who suffer.

[Main_Source]

C'est les 'grands' qui font la guerre, mais c'est les 'petits' qui souffrent

sounds like a dodgy Del Boy saying to me.

[demetriou_74]

C'est les 'grands' qui font la guerre, mais c'est les 'petits' qui souffrent

sounds like a dodgy Del Boy saying to me.

[Main_Source]

"He who dares wins Rodney"