DrCyprus wrote:The moment the British annexed Cyprus to their empire you lost your 'Ottoman' claim to it. Maybe if you had won the first world war you could have still trolled us on your high horse of nothingness.
As for your central asian 'relatives'. They don't give a flying finger about you and would gracefully ask you to talk to the hand. Afterall, anyone who gives two shits about the Ottoman empire knows that the Ottomans themselves preferred to recruit indigenous Greeks, Slavs e.t.c to military offices because their 'brothers' and 'sisters' were some of their most fearsome rivals in the region and couldn't be trusted.
The only reason why this entire region is not a world power anymore is because Turkey's trying to be the obnoxious bipolar boss of the region. If you treated your neighbours as true friends and equals, and not as 'conquered peoples' maybe we could all have stopped hiding behind shields of patriotism and invested into some kind of greco-turkish friendship and kept the fucking talent here instead of dispersing it across the Americas and Australia.
done here.
Dr cyprus .
Just been strolling through this topic I created as a joke just to wind up a few narrow minded cypriots and came across the only context that is correct and honest which is from you .
You are the only person that I can say that has made a sensible and correct assessment of how events have led to the present .
I expect a reaction from my statement that I have made because it totally goes against everything I have been saying on this topic however as I have already stated that this forum has majority of narrow minded people who only think their opinion is the truth I at times just give up and give in .
History should not be painted as all roses and if we go by the way countries are at war internally and externally over oil,religion,power at present nothing has really changed since then. The present paints a picture of the past but now there are same players with different titles like eu, turkey,roc.kktc,israel,Egypt ,Greece,syria,USA, Russia.