tsukoui wrote:you will find most Cypriots can likely trace most of their ancestry back to the earliest permanent settlers , which was long before there was anything Greek about Greece, let a alone before any movement of people from Greece to Cyprus,
You don't get it do you? Cyprus and what is now Turkey didn't become "Greek" through conquest, they became Greek through trade, Greek was an idea. That idea may have been cemented and built upon by Alexander when the various peoples' who had adopted the Greek idea were unified into an empire, but the idea existed before that.
Similarly, Islam is a message, and that message has been adopted by various people across the globe and for a time was partially unified under the Ottomans following a conquest.
Turkey is another idea, the idea of Ataturk.
Both the Ottomans and Turkey are partially built on ancient Greek foundations.
DNA has nothing to do with whether Cyprus is "Greek" or "Turkish", these are ideas, Cypriot DNA as you rightly state can be traced back to the earliest settlers.
And you do not get the point I am making, which is that Turkish Speaking Cypriots are not for the most oart Anatolian Remnants who came over in 1571 but are Cypriots with Cypriot ancestry dating to the earliest continuous settlement of the Island and what some wish for, the departure of the Turkish Speaking Cypriots csnnot be justified, certainly not on the incorrect grounds that they are primarily descendants of invaders and settlers following 1571.
Indeed the fact thatvTurkish Cyriots exist shows how flexible Ethnicity in fact is, where adoption of a differnent Language (and Religion ) will lead to a replacement ethnicity emerging, probably to follow a dominant elitist group and gain benefits from association with if not membership of that group. There were plainly advantages in being Turkish soeaking Moslems for some. BTW i saw some stats, not sure how reliable they were, that in the late 18th and early 19th century, Turkish speaking Moslem Cypriots may have been a majority in the Island.