Klik wrote:insan wrote:It's from 1955, GR... Elefteria newspaper of Cyprus...
It makes perfect sense because the term "Turkish Cypriot" was coined by the British in the 1930s and wasn't really used in Cyprus until 1960 (officially, due to the Republic of Cyprus also being a British invention) and not until the late 70s by the public, after the 1974 invasion, following the decision to hold negotiations between the Greek and Turkish communities, which also didn't make sense as negotiations/discussions should have always been between Cyprus and Turkey.
The "Turkish Cypriots" were called Muslims, Ottomans, Turks or Turkophones. They were never called 'Cypriot'. Then again, the term Cypriot was not really used by most sides. Not Catholics, not Armenians, not Jews(yes, we had them too), not Turks... It was rather exclusive to the Greek population (until the other minorities auto-absorbed themselves into the Greek community)
The Ottomans didn't really identify as Cypriots until the British told them to in the 30s. But even that took around 20 years to become a thing. They identified as Turks/Ottomans. The Greeks identified as Greeks of course. There was no Cypriot identity to describe a multicultural society as it was rather easily assumed that Cyprus would eventually become a Greek province and Turkey didn't really care about Cyprus until the early 50s.
However, we've never called you as Greeks or Greek Cypriots but usually we called you as urums or by official form rum... and rarely as cypriot urums because sometimes it has to be stated to distinguish any rum under ottoman rule from a rum of Cyprus... and we still call u as urums, colloquially... officially rum...
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