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[cypezokyli]

allow me to say that there are very sound reasons to offer that free education, though our nationalism prevents us from seeing that

[cadaunovera]

The only bad comment I have read so far comes from caudonovera and it is not surprising. He/she has made clear the way she feels plenty a times.

Oh really?Can you let me know how i feel pls?

Is it thattttt weird n baddd that i dont want to hang out with someone who calls himself Cypriot ,claims that he wants PEACE in Cyprus and still celebrate "TRNC" ?!I dont get it!

[cypezokyli]

cadaunovera , could you share with us what you think has affected your opinions
thanks

[Natty]

I have a TC friend, a girl around my own age...We get on very well, and my father gets on very well with her father....In fact the whole family are friends...

Also, when people speak about the GC being taught to hate the TC's...I don't know, it's more a bitterness that is passed on, because of the illegal occupation, and can you really blame people? (Although I'm not condoning it...), and it's more directed towards 'the Turks', well those that actually invaded the country...Sort the Cyprus problem out fairly and slowly that bitterness will fade...I think that since the opening of the borders, the GC young are learning more about TC's and vice versa, slowly things are changing....

Well that's my opinion...

Peace!

[zan]

I have a TC friend, a girl around my own age...We get on very well, and my father gets on very well with her father....In fact the whole family are friends...

Also, when people speak about the GC being taught to hate the TC's...I don't know, it's more a bitterness that is passed on, because of the illegal occupation, and can you really blame people? (Although I'm not condoning it...), and it's more directed towards 'the Turks', well those that actually invaded the country...Sort the Cyprus problem out fairly and slowly that bitterness will fade...I think that since the opening of the borders, the GC young are learning more about TC's and vice versa, slowly things are changing....

Well that's my opinion...


With all due respects Natty, if you want to keep those TC as friends I would not go and tell them that you think the whole Cyprus problem is resting on their guilty shoulders as you have suggested above. A little humility will go a long way.



Peace!

[Klik]

An article concerning an incident in my school caused a lot of unrest and chaos there...

It happened on November 7th, and was published and known to the whole school(including teachers!!!!) yesterday!

First: We were protesting about the "punishment" the Turkish student got(nothing)

Second: A mob of high school students(around 25) came into my school and beat up a lot Turkish students during our second break, because of the incident that happened on November 7th. A large portion of the school, mostly my age(6th form) were chasing the high school kids(who were our age as well) even outside the school...

"Point is, nobody can touch any member of my school in my school, with me inside"

What those kids did in my school was something that 80% of the Cypriot youth would want to do...

[RichardB]

An article concerning an incident in my school caused a lot of unrest and chaos there...

It happened on November 7th, and was published and known to the whole school(including teachers!!!!) yesterday!

First: We were protesting about the "punishment" the Turkish student got(nothing)

Second: A mob of high school students(around 25) came into my school and beat up a lot Turkish students during our second break, because of the incident that happened on November 7th. A large portion of the school, mostly my age(6th form) were chasing the high school kids(who were our age as well) even outside the school...

"Point is, nobody can touch any member of my school in my school, with me inside"

What those kids did in my school was something that 80% of the Cypriot youth would want to do...

Klik could you enlighten us as to what the incident was that brought about this ?

[Klik]

Well, I know this from first hand... It's about a Christian cross. (It'll be all over the news by the way. Big story!)

At P.E(physical education) of some 1st forms, a Cypriot was wearing his cross on his neck. Our sports t-shirts are quiet tight to be honest, and I think that he put his cross over his shirt so that he wouldn't choke

The Turk then pointed his eyes on his cross(eg imagine in movies when the mafia people say with body language "i have my eyes on you" ) and then spat on the ground. Then the Cypriot calmly said to him, "you know that you will get into trouble if you do that again..." and then the Turkish student spat on his trousers... The Cypriot didn't react on him, but just told the teacher that was watching the incident, and the teacher told it to the senior teacher responsible.

The senior teacher talked to the Turkish student and the Turkish student told him the exact story, but "forgot" to say that he spat on him...

This happened on November the 7th, as I said earlier.

Today, as the senior teacher realised that we have learnt about the incident through the media, made us stay in the hall for a whole period and told us the story(as the Turkish student told him though)

He told us that the next day, the parent of the Cypriot student was fine with the punishment given. That "punishment" was simply a written apology!!!!

We got angered, because ever since the Turks were allowed to be at our school, they are in a favoured position, even if we had Armenians etc in our school, and they were treated as equals...

If it was a Cypriot doing that, he'd be suspended....
It's against our school's rules to "mock" another religion, and that means expulsion!!! Others got or almost got suspended for removing some posters(which everyone does!!!!) or for jumping through the window(ground floor)... It was ridiculous to leave it as it was. And the funny part is that the senior teacher told us that the case was over then! How the hell was the story leaked into the press? I know teachers that had no idea about the incident until they heared through the media! Do you realise how must this make us all feel? We became the mockery of all schools! Some people were considering protesting, going on a no-lesson strike etc for that, claiming equality in the school. And the school does know that it has no chance of succeeding with us being against them. We are 860 out of 960(approximately) in the school, and we were silent.

Those that hit the Turkish students were outsiders, that were angered by the comment on the newspaper("Simerini" btw...) They are very ignorant. If we wanted to hit the Turkish students, we would have killed them! We are friends with them, never talk politics with them. I despise their existence, but I acknowledge that it's a tragical one, and I don't wanna go deep and sensitive about that with any of them. When I saw one of them with a huge red bruise next to his eye I just wanted to assault the ones who did it. They did nothing. And as one of the Turks my age said, they are all being stigmatised by one foolish action of a 12-year old...

I was against the "riot" just because the kid was only 12, and knows nothing but what he was taught by the Turks, so I "excuse" him for his action. It wasn't worth it, but what the senior teacher said made me and many others want to follow that "riot", because he was just trying to toy us, but he forgets that they tried to select the "best students in Cyprus"... Fortunately, not all people at my school are sheep

[cypezokyli]

bloody fascists of simerini.
one should close down that newspaper or put fire to it!

I despise their existence, but I acknowledge that it's a tragical one,

and you are no better.

[Viewpoint]

The story in Simerini was not correct there was no spiting at a cross, the newspaper raport caused boys from another school come and beat up the TC children. The English school does not allow children to wear symbols of a religious nature.