Tony-4497 wrote:shahmaran wrote:Tony-4497 wrote:Are you saying that the entire GC population should in 2010 continue to pay for the actions that a few criminals carried out in the 60s?? Especially after all that happened and the full knowledge of everyone that Turkey is 5 mins away and will invade again if anyone touches a TC?? Especially after all of Cyprus in EU-land? Do you really imagine such things happening within the EU?
And if you are arguing it's only about your protection and not piracy, then see note above..
Don't give us this rubbish about "Turkey starting" and that "just a few GC's did bad things".
You live in a fantasy world.. Turkey had planned what happened from the 50s.. go read statements made from then.. they said clearly that even if there wasn't a single TC in Cyprus, they would still have found an excuse to do what they did..
What's wrong with what Turkey had planned while you were collaborating with Greece to annex your beloved Cypriot island to her? Aren't you Cypriots? What was the interests of Greeks in Cyprus while there was not a single Greek in Cyprus?
Tell me just a single rational reason, why should TCs embrace your Enosis movement and Turks shouldn't feel uneasy about it? You say we started the intercommunal fights by killing some GCs and provoking you.. Let's say this is true... what if you started first... you still have claimed that it was justified because TCs were trying to prevent your "democratic" right to annex Cyprus to Greece or not let you to be the sole rulers of Cyprus...
Why did/do Hittites, Phoenecians, Persians, Egyptians, Byzantians, Greeks, Brits, Americans, Russians, EU, Arabs and even China have interests in Cyprus? Why did they one way or other took control of Cyprus or remotely influenced the leaderships/administrations of Cyprus throughout the Millenias?
So why shouldn't Turks have interests in Cyprus weather there were TCs in Cyprus or not... in fact, in 1560s there was no Ottoman Turks in Cyprus but Turkish interests in Cyprus emerged as a natural historical development under then the circumstances as a consequence of the conflict between Venetians and Ottomans...
Today, there is still a kind of conflict among the world powers both in our region and all around the world... and they still have various interests in Cyprus even though most of them have no people of their ethnic origin in Cyprus...
As long as all concerned parties do not have common interests on common issues; this conflict will always prevail and lead the death and sufferings of more people...
This is the essential of the problem...