Oracle wrote:BirKibrisli wrote: ... Now,take the obvious propaganda line and say that they left their homes, where their ancestors lived for hundreds of years,voluntarily!!! go on
Just because Turkey twists the ethnic cleansing of 1974, it does not give YOU license to use the same reasoning as only an "argument" against the facts of what
actually happened in 1963/4.
This is were you have to wise up, Bir, if you don't want to be part of the Turkish machinery. You should look at the facts and stop thinking a few deaths justify the sole aim of partition of the island by Turkey. Otherwise we will be led to believe you are only justifying your demand for GAINS.
You cannot deny us reality and facts because you wish to replace them with
your version of "empathy" for TCs.
You are trying to tell me what my motivation is again,Oracle...That is mind reading...A serious cognitive distortion...
Turkey does what suits Turkey,as you are doing...By closing your mind to the real facts you are becoming part of the propaganda war...
I on the oher hand,having lived through and remember those events,I am trying to wake you up...sure,the TMT was encouraging the TCs to break away...But that would never have been enough,if there wasn't real fear in the TCs regarding their future ,their physical safety in the hands of the EOKA...Where did I say " few death justify partition"...What I am saying is :
You will have your partition unless you wake up to yourselves,stop minimising the TC pain and loss,so the TCs can begin to trust and respect you.... The more you deny the original sins of your fathers the more the TCs will mistrust you...
I will say it again: my family lost everything when they left the South..My grandfather built his land holdings from zero...He worked his guts out for 50 odd years to achieve what he did...His partner when he started buying and selling off the back of a donkey was my great Uncle,his brother in law...They walked all around Paphos region barefooted behind their donkeys to get the business started...
In 63/64 events that great Uncle of mine was killed on his sick bed by some opportunistic thugs who happened to be of GC background...b ecause he could not escape over the mountains like the rest of his villagers,to escape the coming GC attack... You are insulting me,rubbing salt in my wounds when you deny my life experiences, say I exaggerate everything to justify the TC gains...I am asking again,what TC gains??? Most TCs lost big time,especially those who left the island before 74...You try telling the loved ones of my great Uncle (who I didn't know well,btw) that they should take comfort because more GCs have been killed since...And then expect them to trust and respect you and come and live with you in your democratic paradise...You must be bonkers...Or you know exactly what you are doing...working for Partition....Keep going with your denials and insults and that is exactly what you will get...