BirKibrisli wrote:Piratis wrote:The TCs had the backing of UK and Turkey and they knew this very well. If they didn't have the encouragement and support of Turkey and UK they would not be able to do what they did. The how the TCs started the conflict in 1958 is well recorded, as is the how Turkey started the war in 1974.
Greece is not a foreign country to the vast majority of Cypriot people. Cyprus is a separate country not because this is what the Cypriot people choose, but because this is what served the interests of the foreign Imperialists whose interests you are serving.
And your hypocrisy continues. Now you even threaten us for taking away our whole island because you want to make every single innocent Greek Cypriot to "pay the price" for a past conflict which was initiated by you.
And then you tell us that the Turks should not even apologize (let alone pay the price) for a genocide of millions!!!
So we should apologize and pay the price...
The Turks, despite starting the conflicts, the wars and commiting the worst kinds of genocides and ethnic cleansings, should not recognize their crimes, should not apologize, should not pay the price but they should instead by rewarded on the expense of the human and democratic rights of their victims!!
No matter what you say,Piratis,the fact remains ,without your bloodyminded and foolhardy demand for Enosis with Greece,recent history of Cyprus would be wastly different...You know that as well,but your fanatical mind will not allow you to say it...
Bir, revolutions do not always succeed. The fact that the two foreign Imperialists have managed to defeat our revolution for freedom is not something that shows that the revolution of the Cypriot people was wrong. These are the usual tactics of the Imperialists. They threaten the oppressed people that if they dare to revolt seeking their rights that they will oppress them even more.
Here is an example from 1821:
"During the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Ottoman authorities feared that Greek Cypriots would rebel again. Archbishop Kyprianos, a powerful leader who worked to improve the education of Greek Cypriot children, was accused of plotting against the government. Kyprianos, his bishops, and hundreds of priests and important laymen were arrested and summarily hanged or decapitated on July 9, 1821."
Of course if we were the "good slaves" type then the history of Cyprus would be very different. We would all speak Turkish by now and Cyprus would be part of Turkey. But we are not that type. We will fight for freedom and our right to determine the destiny of our own island in a democratic way until we achieve what is right and just.
It is easier to blame the weak and defenceless minority for all that befallen on your arrogant head...
The Turks are neither weak nor defenseless. The oppression of the Turks against the Cypriot people which started in 1571 and continues until today (they stopped oppressing us only for 80 years) is a testimony to this fact. The TCs in Cyprus have never been a separate entity from those in Turkey. Just like all other Turks they have been part of the Turkish population controlled directly by Ankara and serving the Turkish Interests. This continues today.
I know the role of the imperialists in our conflict very well...It was they who dragged Turkey kicking and screaming into the equation mid 50s...But the fact remains without ENOSIS they and Turkey could do very little to advance their ambitions....When you accept this fact we can move forward , trying to find a just solution....
Let me ask you Bir ... when we were about to join the EU Turkey was furious saying that we had no right to do this and she was threatening us. If at that point Turkey had invaded and occupied the whole Cyprus in order to prevent Cyprus from uniting with EU, what would that show? That the Cypriot people were wrong for seeking what was their right? Or that the Turks are barbarian criminals who do not respect the rights of the Cypriot people?
You telling me that the Turks did what they did to prevent us from achieving our freedom and self-determination is no excuse for what the Turks did. We are not going to do everything that Turkey demands just so to avoid the possibility of being punished by the barbarian Turks.
And please do not put words in my mouth...Nowhere did I say Turkey should not apologise for the Armenian calamity...I know little about that sensitive issue,and what little I know leeds me to believe something terrible has happened in the dying years of the Otoman empire...I believe Turkey and Armenia should be allowed to sort it out amongst themselves...Without opportunistic Turk-haters like yourself trying to use those poor people's fate for your own selfish ends....
You mean in the way Turkey is using the dispute between us in order to advance her own selfish ends? Why can Turkey support you and we can not support our Armenian brothers?
And about the "Turk-hater" part I repeat: I hate only those who support the violations of my human and democratic rights and I am perfectly justified to do so.