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[Viewpoint]

the truth is if turkey came and invaded the rest of cyprus we would all be dead. but they wont.

Turkey would never attack unless provoked or squeezed into a corner at which point she would explode god help you all.

[paliometoxo]

but then they would have 27 other eu countries to deal with.. and would lose much more by invading again .. if turkey could get away with it again they would in a heart beat with no reasons needed

[Viewpoint]

but then they would have 27 other eu countries to deal with.. and would lose much more by invading again .. if turkey could get away with it again they would in a heart beat with no reasons needed

Turkey doesnt need to "invade" they are already here and the EU does shit all, must tell you something so dont place your bets on the "Europeans" helping you out...youd be on your own while they were trying to decide where to meet and what to do.

[Oracle]

Iraq, Libya nor Pakistan is of any threat to the UK. But, will we assume for arguments sake that a particular nation deliberately violates our airspace in an act of aggression. We would retaliate.

We should do that too. But we face one of the biggest/nastiest armies in the world. We need a concerted effort.

Can we rally the EU?

Even sitting on the sidelines as it were, I feel anger at the Turks for their illegal invasion and when they shot one of the protesters in back when he attempted to remove the Turkish flag.

That's not the half of it Steve. He was protesting a few days after his cousin (Isaak) had been set upon and brutally beaten by a load of Turk-TC policemen/grey wolves in a sight of disgusting horror. Here's a YouTube with still pictures as the rest are too horrific ...

Also, what about all those poor souls who have mysteriously disappeared since the invasion and the families who are still trying to find out what has happened to them?

Most are still missing (last seen in that BBC documentary) but some of the GCs are being found in mass graves at the bottom of wells

[steveuk]

The population of Cyrus was wholly Greek-speaking and Christian prior to the Ottoman Conquest in 1570-73. This brought about radical changes in the demographics of the island. A new ethnic element appeared, the Turks The population of Cyprus, overwhelmingly Greek at the time, was now ruled by the Ottoman Empire. The island of Cyprus was then annexed by Britain in 1914 from the Ottoman Empire, following the latter's decision to join the WW1 on the side of the Central Powers. Soon afterwards, it offered the island to Constantine I of Greece on condition that Greece join the war on the side of the British. Although the offer was supported by Eleftherios Venizelos the Greek prime minister, it was rejected by the King, who wished to keep Greece out of the war. The offer therefore lapsed. After the foundation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the new Turkish government formally recognized Britain's ownership of Cyprus. As the majority population on the island, Greek Cypriots believed it their natural right to unite the island with Greece (called enosis), as many of the Aegean islands had done following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. In 1931, riots broke out in Cyprus due to resentment against the British administration. The British suppressed the riots, abolished the legislative council in Cyprus, and banned all political parties. At the end of the Second World War Britain rejected fresh demands for enosis, offering concessions on home rule, or self-government, instead. In August 1954 Greece which had previously avoided involvement in Cyprus because of its alliance with Britain, unsuccessfully sought to have the question of Cyprus’s status brought before the United Nations General Assembly In the subsequent UN discussions, Turkey announced that it opposed a union of Cyprus with Greece and declared that if Britain withdrew from the island, control of Cyprus should revert to Turkey, as Turks made up a significant portion of the population of the island and had ruled the island for several hundred years prior to leasing the island to the British and the subsequent British annexing of the island in 1914. Greek Cypriots felt that this position paid little respect to the right of Self determination of the Cypriot people who were in their vast majority Greek Cypriots

[Viewpoint]

steve where are you copy pasting from? some GC site no doubt?

[steveuk]

You asked me if i knew the history of Cyprus. With a little research here's your answer.

[Viewpoint]

You asked me if i knew the history of Cyprus. With a little research here's your answer.

Well done , now tell us about the life of the TCs during 1960 to 1974 and the division that followed???

[Oracle]

You asked me if i knew the history of Cyprus. With a little research here's your answer.

Well done , now tell us about the life of the TCs during 1960 to 1974 and the division that followed???

The TCs manoeuvred unfair advantages to continue their rule over GCs, then went into a huff at the thought of Democracy, killed a number of GCs to continue their subversion, invited Turkey over in 1964 to barbecue GCs with Napalm, then again in 1974, and here a we are to the present day with the living evidence of your continued suppression of the native GCs ....

[steveuk]

You tell me.