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[YFred]

For the GCs to really appreciate the TC suffering: It was living in danger and fear for a long period of time
For the TCs to really appreciate the GC suffering:It was a 2 month strike with multiple times more destructive effects.

I lived in the enclave. I can understand why TCs did not really care what happened in 74 while it was happening. They just wanted to reach safety. Do you ever ask if things were so calm from 67 to 74, why did people who were only a few miles from their land refused to go back?

Well bar 1 who doesn't care.
Next please

Pyro,I think you misread what YFred said..He said he didn't care while it was happening...I don't think you can blame the TCs for welcoming the Turkish soldiers at the time...Their long period of fear and danger was finally coming to an end...Now looking back I doubt there will be too many TCs who will not appreciate the devastating effect of 74 on the innocent GC population...As you and I keep saying Pyro,the keys are empathy and compassion...Without those we are totally lost...And you can't feel empathy and compassion if you think your side was 100% right,and what happened to you was a terrible miscarriage of Justice..Hence,my efforts now to make the GCs here realise their side was not whiter than white...You don't need convincing but most of the others seem they do...

Bir it was not me who did not care, the enclaved TCs at the time did not care. I was too busy shagging gc girls in Turnpike Lane round the corner from the Curzon Cinema. THere are some on this forum who will remmeber the Curzon Cinema.

[Bananiot]

Do I remember the Curzon Cinema! I watched my first movie there in 1966, the year we went to England. It was a western and if I think hard I might even remember the title. There was a bus station next door. I seem to remember another, small cinema, just up the road. Do you remember the name?

[YFred]

Do I remember the Curzon Cinema! I watched my first movie there in 1966, the year we went to England. It was a western and if I think hard I might even remember the title. There was a bus station next door. I seem to remember another, small cinema, just up the road. Do you remember the name?

In 72, there was ABC by the Turnpike lane station and Odeon in Wood Green. There was no other Cinema in the area.

[Bananiot]

Piratis says that we are at war with Turkey! This is amazing, being said on the day when the Turkish Prime Minister, with 10 government Ministers and 100 business persons visit Greece to sign, among else, 20 trade deals between Greece and Turkey.

Piratis, do you really understand hat you are saying? Do you really believe that we have a future if we go to war with Turkey? n a nutshell, are you crazy?

[Bananiot]

There was one really small one that later played Indian films if I remember correctly, off Seven Sisters road, just before the park. I get it, that must have been the Curzon. I confused it with ABC.

[YFred]

Piratis says that we are at war with Turkey! This is amazing, being said on the day when the Turkish Prime Minister, with 10 government Ministers and 100 business persons visit Greece to sign, among else, 20 trade deals between Greece and Turkey.

Piratis, do you really understand hat you are saying? Do you really believe that we have a future if we go to war with Turkey? n a nutshell, are you crazy?

I think he lost it some time ago.

[B25]

Piratis says that we are at war with Turkey! This is amazing, being said on the day when the Turkish Prime Minister, with 10 government Ministers and 100 business persons visit Greece to sign, among else, 20 trade deals between Greece and Turkey.

Piratis, do you really understand hat you are saying? Do you really believe that we have a future if we go to war with Turkey? n a nutshell, are you crazy?

Seems you are the crazy one. Cyprus is officially at war with Turkey. There is only a cease fire, nothing concluded.

What Greece signs with Turkey has naff all to do with us.

You are confusing your arse with your elbow again.

[Piratis]

Piratis says that we are at war with Turkey! This is amazing, being said on the day when the Turkish Prime Minister, with 10 government Ministers and 100 business persons visit Greece to sign, among else, 20 trade deals between Greece and Turkey.

Piratis, do you really understand hat you are saying? Do you really believe that we have a future if we go to war with Turkey? n a nutshell, are you crazy?

Thanks to people like you it is just Cyprus who is in war with Turkey, not Greece. War with Turkey is not something we choose, but it is what we have since Turkey invaded our island in 1974. What we have today is just a cease fire. Maybe you want to end this war by giving to the Turks what they took from us in the war they started in 74?

[YFred]

Piratis says that we are at war with Turkey! This is amazing, being said on the day when the Turkish Prime Minister, with 10 government Ministers and 100 business persons visit Greece to sign, among else, 20 trade deals between Greece and Turkey.

Piratis, do you really understand hat you are saying? Do you really believe that we have a future if we go to war with Turkey? n a nutshell, are you crazy?

Thanks to people like you it is just Cyprus who is in war with Turkey, not Greece. War with Turkey is not something we choose, but it is what we have since Turkey invaded our island in 1974. What we have today is just a cease fire. Maybe you want to end this war by giving to the Turks what they took from us in the war they started in 74?

Are the Tanks in place Piratis? How ready is Cyprus just in case hostilities start again?
BTW are you and GR going to be on the front line?

[BirKibrisli]

Birkibrisli, you keep talking about empathy and compassion. You have done this since day one you started writing here. Yet, few people understand what you are saying. The rest have their ears hermetically shut to your calls. I believe this is because they can not get themselves to appreciate that there are Turkish Cypriots who are human after all. They want Turks to be monsters so that they can fuel their misanthropist hatred to anything Turkish. Anything else will disturb their stereotype view which has been ingrained into their genes and of course will turn their world upside down. So please, show some compassion for these baggers too for they cannot help it.

I think the best representative of these people is Piratis himself, who declined to meet Erol, some time ago, because as he said, after meeting him, he might get to like him and this would make it difficult for him to shoot him, if it came to war!

Yet, you might just as well forget my first paragraph in which I tried to psychoanalyse the diehards. May be, the phenomenon is not as complicated as we make it to be. It could be down to plain stupidity.

No,I don't think it is plain stupidity,Bananiot...I am coming to the conclusion that they are mentally ill...They have been terribly brainwashed to believe their side is 100% right...They are in denial,and they will not allow themselves to feel any empathy or compassion,as that would entail accepting that the other side is human as well...Their fragile mental state dictates that they maintain the rage and the hatred,without which their lives would have no meaning or purpose...They should get professional help,but they never will because they do not believe there is anything the matter with them...Truly crazed people think they are perfectly normal,everybody else is mad...These are truly crazy people...And they are dangerous...Mostly to themselves...