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[Viewpoint]

There was no confusion among the Cypriot people. The Cypriot people knew that they are Greek, like the Greek people living on most islands in the Mediterranean, and that therefore Cyprus should be part of a free united Greek state.

Everything apart from that, including the pseudo-independence, was imposed on us by foreign imperialists who wanted to keep Cyprus isolated from the rest of Hellenism so it would be easier for them to continue to exploit our island.

The Greeks are among the most ancient ethnic groups still in existence today (even the word "ethnos" is Greek). It is ridiculous to say that in order to have "ancestral ownership" of Cyprus we need to claim that our ancestors grew out of the land of Cyprus. The fact is that all our ancestors came from somewhere else and that for 3000+ years Cyprus is a Hellenic island. That is two times more than any part of Britain has been English, and four times more than any part of Anatolia has been Turkish.

Why are you wasting your breath? It would be easier to persuade VP and Halil that TCs are a minority than teach history to any neo Cypriot promoter of British colonial propaganda. Ignore them. History can not change. So what they support is irrelevant. No need to help them spread and repeat over and over again their propaganda by contradicting their stupidities. Let them ridicule themselves.

[Hermes]

I find it difficult to understand why this injustice has been allowed to drag on for 38 years when I see how passionately these MEPs, MPs and former UK government ministers feel about the Cyprus tragedy.

They feed you bullshit to get your votes. The UK must be the most pro-Turk and anti-Cypriot state in EU. Some of them might honestly give a tiny fuck about Cyprus but when they are in power in important positions they always help the Turks.

The UK Government, is, rather like Turkey, in some ways America's stooge but some of these individuals do care about Cyprus and I would rather see them in Trafalgar Square bashing Turkey than supporting it you senile old arsehole. Unfortunately there are not, and never have been, enough of them in Government to make a difference. If a few thousand British Cypriots got off their fat arses and personally lobbied their MPs and MEPs instead of whingeing they might just see a serious change of attitude from the UK.

This is true. Cyprus has had strong individual support and sympathy amongst some politicians but the British Foreign Office seem to drive policy. Our alliances lie elsewhere with Russia, Greece, China and France. The best we can hope from the UK is even-handedness. Maybe we could find a way to use the British bases to further our interests...