claret21 wrote:Had the Cypriot people, on becoming independent, embraced their true homeland in its embryonic state, there would have been no inter communal strife, no Turkish invasion and occupation of the northern parts, no settlers amounting to thousands and no prospect of any future conflict.
Again the patronising air from ignorance.
Had the Cypriot people genuinely been given independence, been allowed democracy in government and Turkey not brought in to make certain these were never achieved, then, and only then would there not have been any future conflict.
But the imperialists decreed otherwise.