Piratis wrote:The Turks (Ottomans) occupied Cyprus, just like they had previously occupied most other Greek territories. How can the desire of the Greek people in all Greek territories (including Cyprus) to liberate their own lands in one united Greek state, be an excuse for the Turks to invade our island again?
The Turkish minority that was formed in Cyprus during Ottoman rule can stay in Cyprus as equal citizens (like the Latin minority which was formed during Latin rule) but they have no right whatsoever to undemocratically and forcefully impose their will on Cyprus. If the majority of Cypriots democratically choose to unite their own island with the rest of Greece, EU or China, they have every right to do so.
Therefore the desire of the Cypriot people to democratically decide the destiny of their own island can not be an excuse for any foreign country to invade Cyprus, which is why the occupation and the pseudo state are and will remain illegal.
This is what the cheap excuses of the Turks for the invasion and occupation of Cyprus are accepted by no other country. Yet the Turks continue to repeat the same cheap excuses because apparently they have nothing better to say to excuse their expansionism.
Thank you, Piratis, for some sanity amongst the usual Turkish bullshit propaganda. Enosis was the cheap excuse not the cause of the invasion and ongoing occupation.
As Davutoglu explicitly said in his infamous book Strategic Bullshit: Turkey would feel compelled to occupy Cyprus even if there were no Turkish Cypriots on the island. A message the dwindling number of TCs you'd think would understand by now...