You and P keep repeating this. Given that you always telling us that TCs were 1/5 of population, that means we had 5 times the impact!
Or you had 5 times the agression than Greek Cypriots.
Yep, and it happened to both sides. There are 1000s of Turkish Cypriots in London and Cyprus who were ethnically cleansed from their homelends during 63-74 - my own father included - by GCs. I don't need to hype it up - it's as real as your people's pains.
It sounds like you can't come to terms with your people's past like we TCs have. Shame, cos till enough of you do, this island will stay split.
So all of a sudden, TCs who decided to move to the UK for a better living were 'ethnically cleansed' as opposed to being immigrants? What about the 10's of thousands of GCs who emigrated to the UK during that time...can I say they were ethnically cleansed too if it was convenient for a false argument I wanted to make. It's totally despicable how TC can manipulate historical points and turn them into such lies.
...and so what your telling me is, unless we beleive the lies and heresay that has come out of Turkish propaganda over the last couple of years, we will not be able to go home?
Some sports embargoes - like football - started in 1955. Nothing to do with the TRNC. And if we talk about illegal, what gives GCs the right to a monopoly over the RoC? This is the crux of Cyprus - either you learn to share or there will have to be 2 of everything.
What sports embargoes started in 1955? Whilst the British were still in rule may I add. Nothing gives Greek Cypriots the right of the RoC, its TC who left it remember and its TC who want their own state at our expense. Why should TC get special priveledges in Cyprus over any other ethnicity? Why should TC be guranateed certain positions that neither Greek Cypriot, Maronite Cypriot or Armenian Cypriot are entitled too? Why dont you ask your genocidic-tendenceid father, Ataturk, how to treat ethnic minorities.
GCs have a greater hand in the current state of affairs than most care to admit. If you cannot face up to past/present actions, others will sort this problem out for you.
At the end of the day, who is occupying who? Who currently ethnically cleanses who? and who has murdered more?
A BBF or two state solution is not racist - they are merely political options. Many countries were borne out of the nation-state concept. It may not be to your liking, but given integration won't happen asap, surely better to go for next best thing, living side by side and introducing integration gradually?
Honestly, I never met so much stubbornness.
What you want is to limit the amount of GreekCypriots that can live in a particular part of Cyprus...that is racist and suppreses their human rights. Oh yeah, its not OK to let Greek Cypriots live in the north but its ok for thousands of Turkish Cypriots to come to the south everyday for work. At the end of the day, it you who keep us from our homes so stop acting the victim still.
Since seizing power in 63, nothing has changed for so many GCs: you pretend to represent the whole island when you have neither the moral, legal or political right - is that not undemocratic? You got one major phobia about all things Turkish (prejudice for sure, for some def'ly racism), and you use past traumas to justify present negative actions cos you are the only victim here - right? WRONG!
GCs need to learn their rights aren't the only ones that matter.
At the end of the day, if we make up over 80% of the population, who do you expect to be in power of the island? If a Greek Cypriot happend to be ellected as president, then YES, we DO have the moral right, we DO have the legal right and we DO have the political right! Remember, the Ottoman Empire is dead...I know you Turks are very nationalistic...but you have to come to terms that Cyprus is first and foremost a culturally Greek island. It is populated by mostly Greek Cypriots, so in any democratic election, Greek Cypriots are more than likely to make most of the votes. If you dont like it, it doesnt mean you can call mother Turkey, to ethnically cleanse us so they can trick you into thinking you have your own illegal state when really its a huge military base.
I have no problem living side by side with a Turkish Cypriot like I have in London all my life...but dont expect me to lie down when you want to oppress my rights and make lies up about me.
going through this thread i can only say :
if we recycled paper, glass and plastic the same way we recycle our (by our i mean all cypriots ) arguments, cyprus would have been the cleanest place on earth
True...but im not going to sit and lie down while Turkish Cypriots go around manipulating the truth or go and make the most fabricated lies up.
