Nikitas wrote:WHy are you shocked Halil?
To a Cypriot born abroad, from families originating in the north, the invasion erased their history and family roots. Obviously they hate those that perpetrated that crime agains them.
My son has not been to Cyprus. He is 25, and really there is no point in going. There is nothing of my past, or our family's history, left to show him. Famagusta is off limits. The surrounding villages that I knew well, now have changed names and obliterated features. Nothing is recognisably Cypriot in the place where I grew up, so there is nothing to show him. All our friends and family dispersed to the four corners of the world so there are is no community for him to contact.
How do you think he should feel towards TCs and Turks? His loss cannot be made good by any reconciliation fairy tales.
He should initially go ask the GCs who wanted to give Cyprus to Greece, the cause root of your loss.