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[Strahd]

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Btw Crete was never independent so check your history knowledge before accusing someone not knowing his history.
Another inacuracy: Greece took part in WW1

By March 1897, the Great Powers decided to restore order by governing the island temporarily through a committee of four admirals who remained in charge until the arrival of Prince George of Greece as first governor-general of an autonomous Crete, effectively detached from the Ottoman Empire, in late December 1898.

A new Cretan insurrection in 1897 led the Ottoman Empire declaring war on Greece. However, the Great Powers (Britain, France, Italy and Russia) decided that Turkey could no longer maintain control and intervened. Turkish forces were expelled in 1898, and an independent Cretan Republic, headed by Prince George of Greece, was founded. Taking advantage of domestic turmoil in Turkey in 1908, the Cretan deputies declared union with Greece. But this act was not internationally recognized until 1913 after the Balkan Wars. Under the Treaty of London, Sultan Mehmed V relinquished his formal rights to the island. In December, the Greek flag was raised at the Firkas fortress in Chania, with Eleftherios Venizelos and King Constantine in attendance, and Crete was unified with mainland Greece. The Muslim minority of Crete initially remained in the island but was later relocated to Turkey under the general population exchange agreed in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne between Turkey and Greece.

The Flag of the Cretan Republic(1898-1913)




During World War one, Cyprus was formally annexed by Great Britain as a result of the Ottoman Empire's decision to become an ally of Germany. In 1923, British rule over Cyprus was formalized by the Treaty of Lausanne while Turkey formally renounced all claims to Cyprus.
As for Greece yes it entered WW1 on 1917 one year before the end of the war and Cyprus was offered to Greece from the British so at to bribe them to enter the war. That was on 1915.

[OB1]

brave people

[Pyrpolizer]

@ venizelist

What do you mean you are Greeks? Half the population of Greece is Germano-spores. The real decendents of Ancient Greeks are some of us in Cyprus, go to Paphos for example and you will see how the Ancient Greeks looked like, including their slightly dark skin. See a young Paphian male and compare his face with the "kouros" statues.

No, you are a German race. We are different than you and the mentality of most mainland "Greeks" is totally different from ours. I personally could never identify with you..

The Cyprus population (excluding remote areas like Paphos) is also bastardised too. We are a unique new race here some of us speak a Greek dialect some a Turkish dialect. The DNA of all Cypriots is genetically the same.
I feel closer to a TC than to mainland Greeks.

[karma]

Cypirots look like Arabs, Alexander the gr8, doesnt look like arab tough

[Venizelist]

@ venizelist

What do you mean you are Greeks? Half the population of Greece is Germano-spores. The real decendents of Ancient Greeks are some of us in Cyprus, go to Paphos for example and you will see how the Ancient Greeks looked like, including their slightly dark skin. See a young Paphian male and compare his face with the "kouros" statues.

No, you are a German race. We are different than you and the mentality of most mainland "Greeks" is totally different from ours. I personally could never identify with you..

The Cyprus population (excluding remote areas like Paphos) is also bastardised too. We are a unique new race here some of us speak a Greek dialect some a Turkish dialect. The DNA of all Cypriots is genetically the same.
I feel closer to a TC than to mainland Greeks.

Not really. Many of us Greeks of Greece are the same as the Ancient Greeks and many of the Greek Cypriots are the same as the Ancient Greeks as well. Dienekes Pontikos has a good site regarding the modern Greek race but this is not the point here.

[THE HIGHLANDER]

I would shudder to think what life would be like without Greece ........... what a nightmare trying to to cook and bake with no Greece,vitualy impossabile !!!!

[Natty]

I believe that many Greek Cypriots feel a connection with Greece, but above all they are Cypriot and then Greek...

Although, I have a question for the Greek forum members. It seems that some people get the impression that Greek people do not tend to particualry like Greek Cypriots...(although honestly I didn't really get that impression when I visited... )

So my question is, what do the Greeks really think of Greek Cypriots and Cyprus?

[karma]

I believe that many Greek Cypriots feel a connection with Greece, but above all they are Cypriot and then Greek...

Although, I have a question for the Greek forum members. It seems that some people get the impression that Greek people do not tend to particualry like Greek Cypriots...(although honestly I didn't really get that impression when I visited... )

So my question is, what do the Greeks really think of Greek Cypriots and Cyprus?

I had better not say the comments I have been hearing for years

[GAVCARoCOM]

@ venizelist

What do you mean you are Greeks? Half the population of Greece is Germano-spores. The real decendents of Ancient Greeks are some of us in Cyprus, go to Paphos for example and you will see how the Ancient Greeks looked like, including their slightly dark skin. See a young Paphian male and compare his face with the "kouros" statues.

No, you are a German race. We are different than you and the mentality of most mainland "Greeks" is totally different from ours. I personally could never identify with you..

The Cyprus population (excluding remote areas like Paphos) is also bastardised too. We are a unique new race here some of us speak a Greek dialect some a Turkish dialect. The DNA of all Cypriots is genetically the same.
I feel closer to a TC than to mainland Greeks.

Seriously ? Nice to here this .

[Sotos]

Cypirots look like Arabs, Alexander the gr8, doesnt look like arab tough

Maybe you look like Arab. I don't.