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[kimon07]

“… the demographic structure in north Cyprus has been violated. The demographic structure has been knowingly and deliberately changed. The method is wrong. The method is a war crime, an injustice and against the international law.”
Serhat Incirli in Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika on the Turkish colonisation of occupied Cyprus, 03 May 2006

""Cypriot Turks carried out a revolution?", says Mehmet Ali Talat. Professor from Turkey Eser Karakas says exactly the opposite. He says, Cypriot Turks were spent as pawns... But, we continued to be daydreamers. We continue to be so even when we are told in our face that we are a pawn. At present, we are proud of ourselves as revolutionaries for having successfully planned with our occupiers the process of putting ourselves in an icebox as valuable hostages."
Sener Levent in Afrika (Turkish Cypriot newspaper), 25 October 2004

"Why have Turkish Cypriots been left to the mercy of the Turkish military?"
"We are Turkish Cypriots and our interests are not with Turkey. We are looking for our interests as Cypriots."
Points put to Britain’s Envoy to Cyprus Lord Hannay and Peter Hain, Minister for Europe, by Turkish Cypriots at Cyprus meeting at the House of Lords, 15 January 2001

"When the armed struggle started, the British had at their disposal thousands of men and could even increase their existing numbers to put down the EOKA struggle. This they did not do, but they formed instead the well known Auxiliary Corps. The ordinary Turkish Cypriots, who did not realize where the British were leading them (since their leadership did not warn them, rather it encouraged them), hastened to reinforce this Auxiliary Corps thinking only of securing a living.
Thus, the Greek Cypriots, who thought that they were waging a holy struggle against the British, found themselves facing the Turkish Cypriots. In this way the British started submitting to the Turkish community their plans for partition."
Ibrahim Aziz, 'The Historical Course of the Turkish Cypriot Community', 1981

"Cypriot women do not sit in front of their homes anymore. People from Anatolia, who wear colourful dresses, have taken their place. Some of them talk in Turkish, in an incomprehensible way. Others converse in Kurdish, Arabic and Persian. All that is an indication that we are gradually integrating into Anatolia."

"In the coming 20 years it will be difficult to pinpoint a single Turkish Cypriot. Denktash is justified in taking so much pride in his work."
Kutlu Adali, January 1996 (Turkish Cypriot political journalist who was assasinated in 1996 in occupied Cyprus)

[kimon07]

Fprgot to mention the link to the above. Here it is.
http://www.lobbyforcyprus.org/quotations.aspx?type=tcyp

[Viewpoint]

And the alternative 6ft under or becoming a Greek island or even worse the whole of Cyprus becoming a GC state with us as a minority.

[kimon07]

And the alternative 6ft under or becoming a Greek island or even worse the whole of Cyprus becoming a GC state with us as a minority.

Isn't it better to be a protected minority in an EU country instead of an extinct former minority in your own land?

[Viewpoint]

And the alternative 6ft under or becoming a Greek island or even worse the whole of Cyprus becoming a GC state with us as a minority.

Isn't it better to be a protected minority in an EU country instead of an extinct former minority in your own land?

There would not have been any TC minority for what is now 37 years...we would either of been labelled Greeks or dead and 6ft under.

Do you have a problem uniting with Greeks from Greece? this is what you demanded but now its happening for us you oppose it, bloody hypocrisy at its best.

[humanist]

Its a pity Sener Levent appears to be fighting a loosing battle.

And what is concerning is the likes of VP actually thinking that integration with Turkey is better than recognition in one Country.

[kimon07]

Its a pity Sener Levent appears to be fighting a loosing battle.

Instead of Levent and other TCs like him risking their necks complaining locally, they should take the issue up, as a group of individuals, jurnalists, prominet citizens, scholars etc, to the UN and the Int. Court for Human rights. THEY are entitled to claim that ethnic cleansing and genocide is being committed against the TC community. They should also demand for a referendum to be conducted between Real Turkish Cypriots, under the tight control and supervision of the UN and the EU about whether they wish the present status to continue in the North or for the Turkish army and settlers to go. Otherwise, as you correctly say, they will be fighting a loosing battle, until they are murdered or thrown to the dungeons of the castle of Kyrenia for life.

[Get Real!]

Its a pity Sener Levent appears to be fighting a loosing battle.

All partitionists are losing the battle including you Andreas!

[Viewpoint]

Its a pity Sener Levent appears to be fighting a loosing battle.

And what is concerning is the likes of VP actually thinking that integration with Turkey is better than recognition in one Country.

Why do you think that is humanist? Could it be that what you offer is just not all it is made out to be and would place us in a worse position than we have we have ever been.

[humanist]

VP

Why do you think that is humanist? Could it be that what you offer is just not all it is made out to be and would place us in a worse position than we have we have ever been.

In todays environment if you think that reunification is going to put you in a worse situation, I think your racism is running away with you. Cyprus and its government is so under the watch is unbelievable. You will be offered the same protection as any other EU citizen. For me I think it is plenty. But thats cool VP you keep on going the way you have because its not up to me to convince you anything different. If you and your people are happy to be under the rule of the Turkish Army go for it.

We want freedom from the Turkish occupation and we will get it. In two years it will all be over am sure.