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[Hermes]

Let's see what wiki offers us on the subject:

Yes. Let's do that:

Cyprus belongs to Southwest Asia (Middle East), but because of its cultural and historical ties with Europe, it may be included into Southeastern Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe

[helsingfors]

Let's see what wiki offers us on the subject:

Yes. Let's do that:

Cyprus belongs to Southwest Asia (Middle East), but because of its cultural and historical ties with Europe, it may be included into Southeastern Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe

Are you sure you want to quote this? BELONGS to Southwest ASIA, MAY be included...

It is not a natural part like Turkey, it is forced to please Greece, the masters of economic figure manipulators. Maronites of Lebanon and Coptic Egyptians deserve the same treatment. After all, they have the same skin color.

[Hermes]

Are you sure you want to quote this? BELONGS to Southwest ASIA, MAY be included...

It is not a natural part like Turkey

On Turkey (courtesy of Wikipedia):

Turkey lies partially in Southeastern Europe: the region known as East Thrace, which constitutes 3% of the country's total land mass, lies west of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosphorus.

So a TINY 3 per cent of Turkey lies PARTIALLY in Southeastern EUROPE. The part that was historically GREEK! While 97 per cent of TURKEY lies in BABOONLAND.

Whereas CYPRUS is considered part of SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE through HISTORICAL and CULTURAL ties. As confirmed by its membership of... the EUROPEAN Union ... which it will shortly be PRESIDENT of!

Whereas TURKEY is trying to gain admittance to the EUROPEAN Union on the back of its tiny historically-GREEK 3 per cent!

Now I think you ought to have a BANANA and give your BABOON BRAIN a bit of a rest as you've clearly overworked it.

[bill cobbett]

Let's see what wiki offers us on the subject:

Yes. Let's do that:

Cyprus belongs to Southwest Asia (Middle East), but because of its cultural and historical ties with Europe, it may be included into Southeastern Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe

Ooooh ... must make a small change to that entry. Back in a mo.

[Get Real!]

Ok, so according to some Cyprus has done the unattainable!

1. The first country to fool its way into EU membership without an accession process!

2. The first Asian country to fool its way into EU membership by pretending to be European!

And then you tell me Turkey is the regional power!

[kimon07]

[i]Cyprus belongs to Southwest Asia (Middle East), but because of its cultural and historical ties with Europe.......

"The island was part of the Hittite empire during the late Bronze Age [b]until the arrival of two waves of Greek settlement.[32] The first wave consisted of Mycenaean Greek traders who started visiting Cyprus around 1400 BCE.[33][34] A major wave of Greek settlement is believed to have taken place following the Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece in the period 1100–1050 BCE, with the island's predominantly Greek character dating from this period.[34][35] Cyprus occupies an important role in Greek mythology being the birthplace of Aphrodite and Adonis, and home to King Cinyras, Teucer and Pygmalion.[36] Beginning in the 8th century BCE Phoenician colonies were founded on the south coast of Cyprus, near present day Larnaca and Salamis.[34]
Cyprus was ruled by Assyria for a century starting in 708 BCE, before a brief spell under Egyptian rule and eventually Persian rule in 545 BCE.[34] The Cypriots, led by Onesilus, king of Salamis, joined their fellow Greeks in the Ionian cities during the unsuccessful Ionian Revolt in 499 BCE against the Achaemenid Empire. The revolt was suppressed, but Cyprus managed to maintain a high degree of autonomy and remained oriented towards the Greek world.[34]The island was brought under permanent Greek rule by Alexander the Great and the Ptolemies of Egypt following his death. Full Hellenization took place during the Ptolemaic period, which ended when Cyprus was annexed by the Roman Republic in 58 BCE.[34]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus#Ancient_times

[kimon07]

Maronites of Lebanon and Coptic Egyptians deserve the same treatment. After all, they have the same skin color.

Syrians, native Lebanese, real Palestinians (before Palestine was heavily populated by Arabs) and a big part of the Population of Egypt could, in deed, qualify as Europeans (from a cultural and historical perspective) , for they also were deeply influenced by the Hellenic culture during the Hellenistic Era. Turks were not as fortunate though and therefore they do not qualify.
TCs, on the contrary (native ones) do qualify because most of them are of GC origin i.e., their ancestors turned, initially Muslim and then Turkish, cause they did not have the guts to maintain their ethnicity and religion during the Ottoman occupation of the Island like the ancestors of the rest of us did.

[supporttheunderdog]

Look Helsignfors - the Tur*s may have territory in Europe but the Turkish peoples are not by and large European: indeed the terms you use to describe the Kypreos living in the unoccupied area of the legal ROC apply just as much to the Kibrilisi residents of the non country forming the 37% of the land of the ROC illegally occupied by the Turkey through military force. From my experiences of visiting Turkey these terms apply equally to the Turks themselves, who mostly, in particular in land have very little European ancestry and are either probably descended from neolithic setllers from the middle east, or Turkik steppes peoples who invaded about a thousand years ago.

Another Middle Easterner who takes the defensive by attacking Turkey rather than showing us half country south of TRNC has any land in Europe. You simply can't claim it can you? Paphos is in Asia but Tekirdağ is 100% European land. You are as Asian as Israel and Kazakhstan.

Me, Middle Eastern? No way.

There may be small part of Turkey in Europe but that does not make the Tur*s European: they too are are probably of middle eastern./North eastmed coast origins but with a splash of Central Asian thrown in.

Any way we do not have demonstrate Cyprus has land in Europe - the entire geographical argument you are trying to run is fatuaous and absurd: it proves nothing. Cyprus is in the EU having evidently satisfied the necassary Criteria and Turkey in not , and is unlikely to achieve membership until there are some very fundemantal changes to how Turkey is run.

The so called TRNC is a non-entity, unrecognised by anyone but the puppet masters in Ankara.

[aikhme]

Are you sure you want to quote this? BELONGS to Southwest ASIA, MAY be included...

It is not a natural part like Turkey, it is forced to please Greece, the masters of economic figure manipulators. Maronites of Lebanon and Coptic Egyptians deserve the same treatment. After all, they have the same skin color.

You can put a Turk in France, Germany or Britain, but that does not automatically mean that the Turk becomes European, as has been proven throughout the EU.

You are anything but European.

[Kikapu]

Now run along your mummies calling you for tea

You mean .... "runaway" ...

I don't even think runaway was as thick as this one honey

He was trying hard to disguise himself by acting more stupid than before, but in the end, Runaway, aka Erik Dayi, has once again came through exposing himself. You can tell it's Runaway with the number of times he mentions the "trnc". I had already figured him out, but didn't want to spoil his facade until someone else outed him.