YFred wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:YFred wrote:Get Real! wrote:YFred wrote:Get Real! wrote:YFred wrote:Get Real! wrote:YFred wrote:Was it not you who claims that TCs were no major land owners? Some TCs have land in multiple villages and plenty of them too. Get your facts right dear boy.
The majority of Turkish Cypriots lived is SQUALOR up to July 1974, and the Department of Land & Surveys correctly credits them with just 12.3%!
Land Ownership by Ethnic Group:
60.9% - Greek/Armenian/Maronite Cypriots
12.3% - Turkish Cypriots
0.5% - Others
26.3% - State/Church Land
Source: Department of Lands and Surveys (refer to Annex 14 in Volume II of the "Memorandum by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus" submitted to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, 27 February 1987.
http://www.greece.org/cyprus/Maps.htm
I don’t want to hear any more of your dad’s stories because we’re simply NOT interested!
Well that told me. If the land registry says it it is, then it must be.
Who did you think we’re going to believe… those who collaborated with the invading Turks to plunder or the recognized body? Think again!
GR that’s below the belt accusing us of collaborating. Are you shaving our heads like they did in France during WW2?
Mixing with Sarkozybullo is turning you to a nun (giving you bad habits).
Did Turkish Cypriots NOT participate in the ethnic cleansing of Greek Cypriots during the Turkish invasion?
Not where my clan resides old chap.
In any case you will find that where ever it occurred it was probably a reaction to the ethnic cleansing by the GCs in the 60s old chap.
Just thing what could have happened in Cyprus, if Makarios and the rest of the cronies did not create the Akritas plan in 1960, 3 months after the declaration of independence.
You certainly do not come out smelling of roses, do you old chap.
A few days ago CyBC's bicommunal Biz/Emeis programme interviewed an elderly Greek Cypriot who used to live in Louroujina and was encouraged/forced to leave the village in 1958 among with the other small number of Greek Cypriots who lived there. It was not entirely a happy story, even if this woman said that previously they had enjoyed very good relations with their Turkish Cypriot co-villagers.
I know, there were 10 families that police advised to leave for a few days and of course that lasted for 60 years. My Brother found one of them in Larnaca after the crossings opened. His last name was Lurucadi. He took that name after they moved out of the village.
The surname of the woman they interviewed was Louroujadi, and I think she lives in Larnaka.
In the interview she said that they heeded warnings and left the village for a few days but returned to find their houses ransacked, so they decided to leave for good.