Piratis wrote:If Cyprus could be part of the Ottoman or British empires against the will of the Cypriot people, then why couldn't Cyprus be part of the Greek Republic which is what the vast majority of the population wanted?
We would continue to live together and in peace with the TC minority as we did during the 80 years of British rule. But now instead of being British subjects we would all become equal Greek citizens. We had nothing against the TC minority, just like we had nothing against any of the other minorities in Cyprus. Our struggle was against the Colonialists and not against the TCs. The conflict with the TCs started only when the TCs attacked us, burning the homes and shops of innocent people and massacring others. And as I showed in my previous post this was done after instructions from Turkey, promising to the TC minority gains on our expense if they helped them to defeat our revolution.
When a majority of the GCs can say,without any qualification,that ENOSIS with Greece dream was wrong and the cause of all our troubles,we will have some hope of a solution
The above quote is a good example of the trap that the Turks want us to fall in.
They are the ones who have most of the responsibility of what happened to Cyprus since they are the ones who initiated all wars and conflicts against us, starting from 1571 and continuing to 1958 and 1974 in their attempt to enslave and control our island.
We did take part in those wars and conflicts they started against us and they did suffer and had casualties as well, but putting most of the blame on us is like blaming the allies for WWII because the Germans and the Japanese had casualties and suffered during the wars they started.
Our cause for union with the rest of Greece was 100% legitimate. The UN resolution 1541 defines "free association with an independent State,
integration into an independent State, or independence as the three
legitimate options of full self-government."
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonizat ... ration.htmWho was wrong was not the Cypriot people for asking for their legitimate rights, but the Turks and the British who refused those rights to us because they wanted to maintain troops and control over our island.
Now Bir wants us to take all the responsibility for everything. And maybe some Cypriots are enticed by his proposal. They might think "hey, lets just accept whatever the Turks say about the past, what we care about is the future, not the accuracy of what happened in history". But as I said this is a trap. Because once they convince us to accept their lies, the next thing we will hear from them will not be "OK, lets have a united Cyprus with no borders and no discriminations" but instead it will be "OK, now you accepted that you are the evil ones who caused everything, our demands to stay separate from you in our own Turkish state, with gains of land and power on your expense and with Turkish 'guarantees' should make perfect sense". Don't fall in their trap.
Maintaining the accuracy of historical events is critical for a weak side like ours fighting against a much more powerful invader. While we want to punish nobody for what happened in the past, we should not allow others to fake our history and use that as an excuse to justify yet more crimes against us.
