Pyrpolizer wrote:Hi humanist.
As you know I am a Gc I will try to give you an indication of what I know.In the occupied the have about 20,000 Turkish students. Not all Turkish actually in fact many of them are Israelis and Arabs. They have 3 main universities I believe they are American Universities. Some Tcs I know don't like sending their children at those universities, just because of all those foreigners which they consider scum.So they send them to better schools in Constantinople.
If You say "constantinople" is OK for the TCs but they warn us if a settler hears he will get angry we should say "istanbul"...
They also have 40,000 soldiers from Turkey.
And they have a lot, almost 30,000 workers from Turkey which they house inside some sort of huge Greenhouses where they both sleep,shit,and eat. They are their slaves at the construction sites.
And of course they also have the permanent settlers about 100,000.
The real TCs WERE about 80,000 a few years ago. What happened is that the last few years those TCs who emigrated in the 50s-60s are now becoming pensioners and they started returning en mase. So most propably now the real TCs are about 100,000 i.e about equal with the permanent settlers.
The TCs hate and chase the settlers constantly. Most of the TCs have their jobs, most of the settlers are just dealing with crimes roberies prostitution drags.
The situation there is a chaos, really.
The army regulates EVERYTHING even the prostitution places. Furthermore there is too much secret police man, it's worse than what it was in the ex-soviet union. You talk with someone and you clearly see the stupid SPs walking up and down taking pictures secretely and so on. And they are everywhere, in the streets, in the clubs everywhere.
In our little company we also had a TC military guy, I think he was a leutentant , oh boy he was completely crazy, he wasn't even afraid of the secret police, one day he told them siktir go away
There is absolutely no problem in our contacts with TCs. The TCs in this forum are not representative of the local TCs. I would say we talk very friendly with them. I met absolutely no-one who does not want to re-unite with the GCs. (Contrary to this forum where the majority of TCs want partition). They want to re-unite with us to throw away the settlers and the Turkish Army.
They all hate Papadopoulos too.
They believe he doesn't help them and he doesn't understand them. They feel trapped on one side are the settlers and the Turkish army on the other side it is Papadopoulos who doesn't want them. That's what they feel anyway. They are actually desparate.
What I realised is that most TCs are forming up their political ideas in a strange way, mostly by talking at coffee shops or with friends.Their political patries don't seem to communicate with them, or if they do they don't trust them , i don't know. Someone says something and everybody starts believing it. They believe we are fanatised by our priests and the Archibishop. These are obviously ideas of the 50s.
Perhaps I told you more than what you wanted to know...
What a sinister place. My two sisters have moved back recently and have found some of the things you say to be true in a more diluted state but thirty thousand Turks living in green houses???????
), I know that much of what is said above is utter trash. Conditions for the workers have improved no end in the last two years and to say the place is in chaos is pure propaganda. I know - I work there (and in the South)[/quote]
