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[theresa]

So says the local saturday paper! It seems that more people have been detained at the border and their cars searched for documents relating to the purchase of Greek properties. This seems a little strange to me, they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces arent they? I thought they came North to buy cheap properties - but entered via the South to get cheap direct flights! Knowing the sensitivity and bad feelings of the Greek Cypriots regarding the sale of Greek land and houses I have no sympathy for those detained - surely to God they have some idea of how the Greek Cypriots feel about the property issue? I have to say I think they are ignorant.
Tess

[Kifeas]

So says the local saturday paper! It seems that more people have been detained at the border and their cars searched for documents relating to the purchase of Greek properties. This seems a little strange to me, they are cutting off their noses to spite their faces arent they? I thought they came North to buy cheap properties - but entered via the South to get cheap direct flights! Knowing the sensitivity and bad feelings of the Greek Cypriots regarding the sale of Greek land and houses I have no sympathy for those detained - surely to God they have some idea of how the Greek Cypriots feel about the property issue? I have to say I think they are ignorant.
Tess

They are ignorant, but above all they are arrogant and cynical to the worst possible degree. When I visited my mother's land in Lapithos and found them (a couple of British "buyers") "supervising" the construction of their villas in my land, when I explained to them who I was their reply was (sic) "it is not your land anymore, but our land! You lost the war -which you started (sic,) and this is what happens in such cases!" (sic.)

I never though that in my life I would have ever been confronted with such an extent of historical and factual revisionism in relation to Cyprus, nor that anyone in his right senses would have ever shown such a cynicism towards another person, up until I met this couple of British ex-pats. Interestingly, this is more or less similar to what most other G/C property owners from Kyrenia have been confronted with, by those British expats.

[MR-from-NG]

What they told you wasn't for from the truth, what's wrong with that?

[davidp]

Excuse my ignorance, but is it only the British who are buying GC land in the North?

[Svetlana]

Hi David

Within the RoC, 70% of foreign buyers are British, 13% Russian and 7% Greek. I think the assumption is that Briish people are the majority buyers in the 'North'.

So, British people have odium poured upon them, even though only a very small proportion of them coming to Cyprus, choose to buy in the North.

Lana

[Piratis]

I think its the other way around: RoC (indirectly) boycotting those that illegally bought GC land in the occupied areas. This until all of them are brought to justice like the Orams.

[cypezokyli]

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"it is not your land anymore, but our land! You lost the war -which you started (sic,) and this is what happens in such cases!" (sic.)

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funny, but this "historical view" has an unparalleled uniformity between these people. it is hard to find two gcs (or tcs) agreeing that much on their history. this one sentence was also repeated here a number of times .....and not from tcs
do you guys visit any "educational " seminars ?

[Kifeas]

What they told you wasn't for from the truth, what's wrong with that?

What they told me is the typical response any audacious vagabond and cynical outlaw would have given, when arrogantly feels that he can get away with his theft; and it is precisely the result of misinformation propaganda that some T/C scumbags of your kind have been "preaching" on them so that they alleviate their moral hesitations and "convince" them to buy stolen G/C properties!

[Kifeas]

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"it is not your land anymore, but our land! You lost the war -which you started (sic,) and this is what happens in such cases!" (sic.)

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funny, but this "historical view" has an unparalleled uniformity between these people. it is hard to find two gcs (or tcs) agreeing that much on their history. this one sentence was also repeated here a number of times .....and not from tcs
do you guys visit any "educational " seminars ?

In fact this is precisely what they do to them in order to convince them to proceed with "purchases" of stolen G/C properties! For many years they would tell them that the G/Cs started the war in 1974, in order to annihilate them from Cyprus (sic,) and that Turkey invaded (made a peace operation) and saved them (sic,) and that the G/Cs have voluntary exchanged their properties with compensation or other T/C property in the south (sic.) After the Annan plan, they changed the record and they started a new set of lies; i.e. that the Annan plan (hiding the fact that upon its rejection by the G/Cs, it became by default and by its own definition null and void and a non-document –i.e. a non a legal precedent,) allows anyone who “buys” G/C property and develops it to automatically obtain the right to keep this property (sic,) and that even if some extra compensation will be required, this will be peanuts in comparison to the real value of the land (sic.) In fact, even the last part of their claims and irrespective of the fact that the provisions of the Annan plan have absolutely no validity (and this is also what the ECHRs re-affirmed in the Xenides case,) did not provide for such claims either.

[West Side]

"it is not your land anymore, but our land! You lost the war -which you started (sic,) and this is what happens in such cases!" (sic.)

That is actually sad. When a country invades to protect its people I did not realise they automatically had people property.