bigOz wrote:denizaksulu wrote:Piratis wrote:And the efforts of the Turks to de-Hellenize our island continue. Cyprus is a Greek island and that is how it was already when your ancestors came here. If you think your ancestors made the wrong choice and you do not want to live on a Greek island then you can always return to your ancestral lands.
If on the other hand you want to kill and ethnically cleanse us because we do not allow you to change the identity of our island then expect that we will continue to fight back against your aggression and expansionism.
When the Ottomans came, there was no Greek island, only a Venetian one.
And it stayed an Ottoman island for the next 300 years or so! Had it not been for the Ottomans the Venetians (being good catholics) were hell bent on cleaing off anything that was Greek Orthodox on the island!
They did begin with the Jews. Next was the GO church.
Then the Seventh Cavalry came in the form of Lala Mustafa Pasha to save their skins.