kurupetos wrote:repulsewarrior wrote:kurupetos wrote:Klik wrote:What's Cypriotness? Greeks and Turks fighting over eachother for 80 years?
If anything, Cypriotness is the same thing as Creteness or Corfuness or Zanteness... A Greek island identity.
It is indeed odd, mate...
Just because we have a small Turkish speaking minority in Cyprus, we all have to renounce our Hellenic identity and become "Cypriots".
i would not blame the Turkish without blaming the Brits. Greece did not help matters much, what with the "Greekness" they exported to us (Junta and all). Mankind still hopes that Cyprus is Free from either and all of them, with new thinking, that of the Modern Age. Cypriot is choosing something bigger than the Liberty Greekness or Turkishness can offer, it is a Cyprus where Cypriots live Free. (you might say an antithesis to all the other islands, Greek.) Bicommunal (, and Bizonal), does not mean partition, or tearing the island in two. it demands from us, as Cypriots, to place one Love first, to secure happiness where we defend each other, as Cypriots, where one flag, this Flag, the Cypriot Flag always flies higher; even as an island where many fly, and most are Greek, to a Cypriot, (just look at how Makarios saved Cyprus from being hacked apart at Zurich), this truth rings truest.
Are you saying that disguised partition (BBF) is the solution to the Cyprus problem? Thanks for the laughs.
...i would expect from you such a comment, it is "your" side that committed the ultimate betrayal, and it is "your" side that continues the charade with "them", after having torn the island in two. kurupetos, can you say, "i love Cyprus", can you say, "i love Cyprus, first"? indeed, Cyprus will not be a part of Greece, a Greek in Australia, or in Canada, does not renounce their Hellenic Identity, if they choose not to, and they haven't, living as minorities perhaps (Greeks thrive as Greeks all over the world), and as Australians, or Canadians. in Cyprus there exists the possibility of a State, which i would think, even in your world, there would be an interest, another country, where the vast majority are Greek.