It is not about who "ruled" Cyprus. Greeks are the vast majority of the native population of this island, and this is what counts. We are not living in the age of empires. Or are you another person with a mentality from the middle ages?
Ok I understand what you are saying, but just for historical accuracy what is teh answer?
The Greek Cypriots are the majority of the whole island, even if the Turkish troops illegally prevent them to inhabit part of their homeland at this time.
That those really not stand up to the point does it. Turkish people would be the Majority in Greece if the Greek army let it just move a quarter of its population there - The fact remains that The TC are the majority in the North.
TCs are the minority, and they have always been so. Even when TCs lived in the southern part of the island they were again the minority.
Not in the North they are not today, they are the overwhelming majority.
Ethnic cleansing is when the population is forcefully removed, which is what happened with the GC refugees.
How many GCs were (and this by your own definition of forcefully removed) ethnically cleansed?
because the 45,000 in Maras have to be discounted straight away because they left before the Turkish Army got there. So how many were forcefully removed removed and how many left because they were advised to do so by GC or just fear?
Tell me about the population exchange? what was the 'deal'?
Partition has been the aim of TCs since the 1950s.
By the same token you can say the extermination of the TC population has been the aim of GC since the '60s and enosis before that, even before taksim was talked about.
The TCs were not forcefully removed, they went to the occupied areas to take twice as much than what they left behind and in this way fulfill their own aim.
Some got far less than they had in the south, some far more.
But you are not being completely truthful here are you? in the 1975 population exchange (which you can tell me more about) the TCs of the south had no idea that they were going to be given deeds to GC property in fact I think that only happened in the 80s (but I might be mistaken).