shahmaran wrote:Malapapa wrote:shahmaran wrote:OK if you are prepared to go that far then you gotta ditch the Helenic background because you do not go that far, so then we can talk about how you got to be here as well?
When have you ever heard me go on about Hellenic? Cyprus has been inhabited for at least 11,000 years. That's how far back real Cypriots can go.
shahmaran wrote:I mean you did also get here some how, have you not? Or did "god" just put you here, like the Jews?
The first people on Cyprus didn't invade, colonise, displace, conquer or ethnically cleanse anyone. I'd say that gives them certain rights to this land, which may or may not be "God given".
shahmaran wrote:Even then, history shows that no one is simply "granted" land and autonomy simply because you live there, that is utter rubbish. Superpowers decide who lives where and how, and if you still want to push this silly argument then you have to first convince the white Americans to give the land back to the American Indians, then someone might actually listen to this preposterous argument.
What argument? All I'm saying is Cyprus's problems didn't start in 1963.
shahmaran wrote:But the reality is that we have been here for over 500 years
You'd have thought, after half a millennium, uninvited guests would have done their best to fit in with the locals.
shahmaran wrote:and it was the Ottomans who gave you and your church the autonomy and the right to rule, which you never had. You lack of the ability to self-rule had turned this island into a military post that was threatening the Empire.
But even then we don't actually take the argument that far back.
There is no need to because the times when both people lived peacefully amongst each other was not that long ago, up until foreign provocation.
So why not just start the argument from where it can actually be solved, realistically?
Sure. But please do forgive Cypriots, whose roots on this island stretch back far longer than a mere few centuries, for having a sense of their own troubled history, of which the Turks are merely the most recent of a long, long line of irritants.
You are basing your argument on grey grounds my friend.
There is no such thing as a REAL Cypriot.
Bollocks.
shahmaran wrote:There never was such a thing. "Nation states" are imaginary borders, it is a Nazi notion.
Cyprus has people from many ethnic groups and only language has caused them to divide recently.
You cannot separate people ethnically, it is impossible, specially on long-disputed grounds such as Cyprus or Anatolia in general.
So, where do you want to start dividing?
I don't want to start dividing full stop, I don't recognise NORTH CYPRUS or NORTH CYPRIOTS.
shahmaran wrote:From the day the Ottomans started ruling?
Maybe we should take it on from the Persians, after all they were not Greek speaking either, neither were they Christian nor they fit in.
This argument based on the Turks coming from Mongolia, out of the blue, one day just turning up, and started to take everything, even Cyprus, is a serious laughing stock for historians, a children bed story.
What argument? I write one thing, you read another.
shahmaran wrote:It was a process that went on for thousands of years, many kingdoms and rulers, Turks are not even a nation as they claim to be so. The Ottomans ruling class were not even Turkish! Plus everywhere the Ottomans ruled they shifted people around in order to stop this sort of ethnic gang-up, so you are in serious trouble if you really are planning to root back and find out who you are
If this junk really is in your curriculum then I truly am sorry for you,
What junk? Are we having the same conversation, or are you just shadow boxing, in preparation for a zero-sum-game with the likes of YiaLoser?
shahmaran wrote:but now we live in an age where you can get real knowledge without having to swallow everything nationalistic governments feed you, most of it is absolute fantasy.
Take a breath and stop drivelling.
shahmaran wrote:I mean just look at what they have done to poor Oracle!
Oh i get it, you think you're locking horns with Oracle.