Oracle wrote:Mikiko wrote:There was a study article published at politis paper 1 year ago claiming that a significant percentage of Greekcyrpiots have phoenician origin. Due to these evidences that appear daily I would be very interested to know what is the % of the GreekCypriots who have Greek origin ? The University of Cyprus should undertake this research as it will contradict our distorted history books.
The percentage from Phoenician influence was reported as being 7% which is very low considering we were such close neighbours (closer than Greece) and for so long. I would have expected it to be greater since we now know, from antiquities, that the Cypriots and Phoenicians traded extensively.
One set of figures looking at some specific DNA, unique to Greeks and their descendants, which was found also in Greeks of Sicily occurs at the same frequency in Cypriots (something like 40%).
Are these statistics for Cypriots DNA including Denktash DNA also?