MR-from-NG wrote:Sotos wrote:Lordo wrote:johnoddy wrote:repulsewarrior wrote:...my dislike of "Greeks", is only equal to my dislike of "Turks". Although i can respect a person (as an individual) for their opinion, having allowed me, mine. Boors, bullies, and murderers are another story.
...i never saw Cyprus as Greek, i always saw Cyprus as Cypriot, so did my cousin the closest i had to a brother and the rest of my family, actually. Many years later with his sister we recalled those wonderful nights together under the stars, when we were younger, and before the coup. She cried for the shame, because she never knew that the Flag of Cyprus represented her, then. I cried and felt the shame of knowing that the Flag of Greece could never represent me, and as a Greek i felt the shame of having to forgive those who could not understand my shame.
...i know there is a man behind the door of my great uncle's i am afraid to see. All these years where i have expressed the loving nature of one who follows, the way, i fear most how i would fail myself with him.
...and what of my dear friend Grivas, the brother, is he dead, his story untold; that would be a shame, because he was as great a man and maybe greater as a man because he knew when to stop, and on the holidays, although the "Greeks" would spit on him (i remember) he did not say a word.
My thoughts and understanding go out to you my OP, because it is a struggle for all of us, because i sense you need this support, and because i believe your intentions are for goodness; cheers.
@johnoddy, welcome. a question for you i have never found the answer to; of the UN soldiers stationed in Cyprus how many died and from whom?
..although you were shot at, i have been led to believe that, in all these years, not one of the UN Forces were killed, or injured, by a Grecophone in action; is this true?
I can certainly say that none of my Regiment, at that time, were killed or injured and to my recollection the only mortality was due to a road accident. We were under strict instructions never to get involved in any conflict hence we could only observe and report any atrocities we came across. We were issued with 5 rounds that were only to be used if we felt our lives were in danger, we could not use them in order to protect civilians, we felt helpless and, at times used our own bodies to protect civilians from groups of GNG, it was a hopeless situation and we felt like toothless guard dogs.
and yet there are greek cypriots here who do not believe the the turkish cypriots were under any threat.
Of course they were under threat AFTER they decided to side with foreign powers and attack the native Cypriot people. What did you think asshole... that you can attack us, demand partition, take away our democratic rights, help the colonialists to fight us, help the Turks invade us ... and you would come out of this unscathed? ASSHOLE! YOU are the aggressors in Cyprus. It is YOU who keep invading our island. In fact the first ancestors of the TCs are the Ottoman soldiers who invaded us and killed 10s of thousands of innocent people. And your mentality of oppressing the native people has NEVER changed since then... you invaded us again, you brought more foreign Settlers and gave to them our homes and you still occupy 1/3rd of our island. Our only fault is that we didn't have the power to kill enough of you. If, like the allies in WWII, we had the power to bomb you to the ground and even nuke Turkish cities, then Cyprus would be free today and you wouldn't be able to cause problems to us anymore.
Don't be so mad with us Sotos. Think about it, how many of your women and girls would have escaped from the hot-bloodied Ottomans? If you really think about this and do a mathematical calculation there is every chance you are as Turkish as me or Lordo is
I don't look like Asian at all... so nothing Turkish in me. If you don't look fully Asian as real Turks were, then it means you are a bastard
