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[boulio]

Whenever you see "Greek" in front of something always remind your self that it is nothing but a contemporary LABEL.

For example:

“Greek Language” = Invented by Cypriots in Cyprus.

“Greek Orthodox” = Christianity went to Greeks from Cypriots!

“Greek Culture” = Manufactured baloney from the early 1820s

And so forth…

are you off your pills again?

[mem101]

great post mem, are you london based?

Thanks, yes I am London based, you too?

mem101...I can honestly say that my Dad never, ever spoke of what happened and the only thing he ever mentioned to me about Turks was the ones who worked on my Granddad's farm. I didn't state, though, that my reading was unbiased - I searched the Internet and the results that came back were atrocities caused by the Turks on the Greek Cypriots. Also, most of the books I can get are in English and from an English perspective, i.e. the Greek terrorists of EOKA. You can't have a powerful army, like the Turk army, invading a small island and hope to say they were on a peacekeeping mission! Try telling the Poles that the Nazis were only trying to help them and it was their insubordination that made the Nazis wipe them out.

You know, I think perhaps you're right. I think it may be because I grew up outside that environment that I'm so against Turks.

I don't doubt your honesty that your dad never spoke of what happened, just that you were given a negative impression of "Turks" and an exemplary impression of "Greeks." Can you honestly say that you grew up not knowing or feeling anything about Turks and Greeks and Turks vs Greeks?

The story of Cyprus is far from one sided (and very sad). Both TCs and GCs were manipulated by foreign powers for many decades before the explosive events of the 50s through 70s. I know many TCs who lived in genuine fear of their lives for many years... but I don't want to argue history. If you do your reading from an unemotional, even-handed perspective, you will see that TCs, GCs, Turkey, Greece, UK, USA, nationalism and propoganda all played a hand in determining Cyprus' fate. Having said that, it is of course true that, ultimately, far more GCs lost their lives at the hands of the Turkish army than TCs lost at the hands of GCs.

We need to stop the pointless bickering about the past and who did what. We should be trying to build a rapport with one another and bring down the barriers that divide the Cypriot people. We should unite and look to the future to try to build a better country, a better world, for future generations.