by Nikitas » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:54 am
Nikephore,
When you see a former minister, Stefanos Tzoumakas, on live Greek tv during the days before the Annan plan declaring loudly:
"you have suffered a military and diplomatic defeat" and when you have seen the debate in the Greek parliament where politicians who had been ministers in the Papandreou government of the 60s, people like Mitsotakis and Papandreou (Andreas), say clearly that the policy had been unionist then but it is not so now, then it is easy to see why people become Cypriot Cypriots. They do that because Greece clearly and openly says at the highest level that it disowns them.
Nothing wrong with disowning, if it was accompanied by pressure on Turkey to disown the TCs and thereby "Cypriotise" both major communities on the island. As you know (i am being funny now) Turkey has not shown such tendencies.