insan wrote:Paphitis wrote:Gasman wrote:Why would TCs want to join any struggle to unite with Greece?
A question. You say:
People in those days were simple and conservative, and had enormous cultural and ethnic attachments to Greece.
I know people nowadays travel a lot, but back then - how many simple and conservative Cypriots do you think regularly visited Greece? My guess is that, even nowadays, far more of them make the journey to the UK, the home of their old hated Colonial Masters.
If the Brits were so hated as is often stated on here - why did so many Cypriots elect to go and live with them?
Grivas did at one stage extend his hand in friendship towards the TCs when the uprising began, and he even invited them to join the struggle and EOKA. Whilst the objective was ENOSIS, Grivas may have believed that the TCs would join because they too had suffered under Colonial Rule.
Gasman, whether you want to accept it or not, Cypriots have always had Hellenic Cultural, linguistic, and religious similarities and attachments. There is very little difference between a GC and a Cretan, and most people in the 1950s believed that it was only natural for Cyprus to achieve ENOSIS with Greece.
Most migration to the UK, occurred in the late 1960s and post 1974. Cypriots never hated the Brits, they just wanted self determination and wanted to end Colonial Rule. A very natural desire.
Obviously Grivas was cleverer than you...
Grivas extended his hand in friendship towards the TCs, eh?
Because they too suffered under the colonial rule, eh?
What about the minorities suffering under the fascist Greek rule in Greece?
Any credible sources, Bafidi?
The fact is that Grivas knew that if he touches just a single TC Turkey would intervene both diplomatically and militarily... As a matter of a fact, Turkey urged Britain and Greece back in 1947 that "Enosis" would never be accepted by Turkey...
If he touched any TCs who were all anti-Enosist and ready to fight against Grivas; Grivas would have doubled his obstacles/enemies in front of Enosis... Furthermore he would have lost the international support he was expecting to gain and achieve Enosis...
Obviously, Grivas was at least 1000 times cleverer than you and most of the Hellenes(all who claims Greek descendent).
Grivas is the cleverest Hellene I've ever come across... but not as clever as the leader of TMT whoever he was...
Anyway, had TCs accepted Enosis or Grivasites won the Enosis struggle; or TCs accepted the so-called majority rule aka Greek rule overwhelming majority of TCs would have to immigrate and lost the so-called Cypriot citizenship...
Zeibek lost her citizenship under the now-infamous Article 19 of Greece's Citizenship Act first voted into the law in 1954 and which states that citizens of “foreign origin” can be deprived of their Greek nationality if they leave the country with the intention of settling abroad.
Panayote Dimitras, head of Greece's branch of the Helsinki Human Rights Monitor, said at least 7,000 people had been made stateless since the law was passed, including about 50 new cases this year. Over half the Muslim minority in Thrace is considered to be ethnic Turkish. And about 500 families living in the area are believed to be living in limbo after losing their identification papers.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/418.htmlGrivas extended his hand in friendship towards the TCs, eh?
Because they too suffered under the colonial rule, eh?