Nikitas wrote:Viewpoint, your opinions sometimes make me think I am reading posts by a mainland Greek Golden Dawn fanatic.
Yes we left Cyprus in 1963, and lived in London, next to a TC family from Lefka. The intention was to have a good education and return. The town that I knew best, the community I was tied into, was Famagusta. Chance would have it that Famagusta was lost and the community dispersed all over the world just when I graduated. It was next to impossible for a new graduate to find a job in Cyprus in the late 70s. I ended up in Athens, my brother in England, my parents in Cyprus, and other relatives flung all over, including Australia and the USA.
All of us are excluded, according to you, because we were forced to leave or stay away by the idiotic Turkish invasion. That is the kind of drastic solution you expect from a Golden Dawnist.
@ Nikitas
There was no Turkish " invasion" in 1963. You left for the same reasons as me. Unrest because of EOKA activity. Because of national guard mobilising so please have the decency to be honest.
@VP
I am sorry but this time I have to disagree with you. Our lives were disrupted and we moved for many reasons. I will never blame my parents for making that decision. Not being educated or monied, I can only guess what they must have been going through to leave the only place they knew with £10 in their pockets and six children, one married. Jump forward to now. I have three children and a grandchild. I would love to come back home but the reality is I can't. Not for money but I do not want to have my life disrupted AGAIN and miss out on generations of family like I did with those we left behind in Cyprus. I dream of doing so and having my family come stay for months at a time but the reality is they won't be able to because of cost and the entirely reliant lives they will live in the UK. My parents have a short time left on this earth and we, as their children have a responsibility to look after them. The heat in Cyprus will shorten that considerably. If I win the £100,000,000 lottery, I will pack the lot up and bring them over in an instant providing 24 hour care for my parents in air conditioned splendour but.......It is a mistake to think that we are no longer a part of Cyprus. We have land, although inaccessible, and family that rely on us. Not financially but support in our cause and to show we have not just pulled up the drawbridge and forgotten them. I want my vote to count in the TRNC also because of that reason and because it makes sense that it will strengthen TCs internationally. The "RoC" doesn't want us to do that and neither do the big boys.
This does not cover Kiks though. As far as I have read he is all over the place in a boat. Maybe I am wrong and have lost touch with his situation
I had to edit because I have just seen Kiks upgrading me to his version of a Cypriot. Any old port in a storm huh kiks