Bananiot wrote:The issue has nothing to do with what GR claims to be. If the Eteocypriots are the indigenous people of Cyprus (according to Wicki encyclopaedia) then we are all outsiders, simply some came earlier than others. If GR wants us to believe that he is an Eteocypriot he will have to prove it, show us a creditable link, lets say. A list of common characteristics would suffice for the time being.
Someone once claimed that the only indigenous creatures in Cyprus are the Cyprus donkeys. He had more sense than most contributors on this topic. And, by the way, this person was not Denktash, as some claim.
Pre-historic people existed
everywhere and in some other places they existed for far longer than they did in Cyprus.
If we take Bananiot's way of thinking then Humans can be native only to a certain part of Africa, since that is where the Humans evolved.
If we take GRs way of thinking that indigenous people are the "first people to make contact with the land" then the question is what defines "contact with land"? Does it mean the particular land that is covered by my feet, or does it mean that I have contact with the whole Cyprus ... or the whole world?
Europe, Asia and even Africa (before the opening of the Suez Canal) are connected with land. Does it mean that the first human to set his foot at a particular spot in Africa, is a native of not only that particular spot, but of the whole Africa, the whole Europe and the whole Asia?
Obviously both definitions are flowed.
Also GR should know that the Chirokitians were
not the first to set their foot on Cyprus. Others came to Cyprus before them, and while most of them didn't settle, a few did. For example there is a short lived settlement at Aetokremnos which dates back to 10.500 BC. Therefore if we follow GRs theory then the Chirokitians are not native to Cyprus!
What is important in the case of Cyprus is that Cyprus was
already a Greek inhabited island long before the Turks came here. After 400 years in Cyprus and after developing their own unique characteristics the TCs can call themselves native as well - absolutely no problem with me, but they should also respect the fact that on the island there is a majority of Greeks who are native on this island for 1000s and not just 100s of years, and that it was their own choice to become a Turkish minority on a Greek island.
Therefore the TCs can not say to us "You want to make as a minority". No. You made yourselves a minority on this island, we didn't make you. If you don't like the fact that you are a minority on a Greek island inhabited by a majority of Greeks then you can only blame your own ancestors, not us.
