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Bereta_Eder
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NICOSIA, Cyprus - Waving flags and olive branches, some 30,000 Turkish Cypriots marched through the capital Thursday to support reunification of divided Cyprus — a requirement for their joining the European Union (news - web sites).
AP Photo
The demonstration, the largest pro-EU rally held in the northern Turkish part of Cyprus, comes after Turkish and Greek Cypriots failed to iron out their differences at the European Union summit in Copenhagen earlier this month.
"Peace in Cyprus cannot be prevented," chanted the crowd, which gathered at a main square in the Turkish sector of divided Nicosia before dispersing peacefully.
The demonstrators were demanding the resignation of Rauf Denktash, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot Republic, whom they accuse of blocking an agreement with Greek Cypriots.
"Feb. 28 is our last chance and Denktash is not negotiating," said Mehmet Ali Talat, leader of the opposition Republican Turk Party.
At the Copenhagen summit, the European Union invited Cyprus to join the economic bloc by 2004 and asked both sides to find a solution by Feb. 28. If no agreement is reached by that date, only the Greek part of the island would enter the EU.
Cyprus-born Turkish Cypriots number 80,000. The total population in Turkish-held northern Cyprus is around 200,000, with the rest settlers from Turkey.
Five Turkish Cypriots on Thursday entered a third day of a hunger strike to push for the reunification of the island.
The Turkish side is especially concerned about the return of land to Greek Cypriots envisaged in a United Nations (news - web sites)-drafted plan. The plan seeks to unify the divided island into a single country consisting of two component states.
Cyprus has been split into a Greek Cypriot south and a Turkish Cypriot north since Turkey invaded in 1974 after a short-lived coup by supporters of union with Greece. The self-declared breakaway Turkish Cypriot administration is only recognized by Turkey, which maintains some 35,000 troops there.
Heavy are the chains of their dictatorship.
Peace Baris 
Some 30,000 Turkish Cypriots take to streets in Turkish part of Nicosia to call for the reunification of the divided Mediterranean island, a requirement for EU membership, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002. The banner at right reads: ' They went to the moon with logic, not by fighting .' (AP Photo/Esra Aygin)
(small correction, we didnt actually go to the moon, that was the americans)
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Bereta_Eder
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i really hope that one day the turkish cypriotes will be free to decide themselves for their future.
protests are good but turkey has the tanks on them fearing they will tear the wall that separates the island down...
like in berlin...
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Bereta_Eder
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it wasnt happening, it was attacks by both sides.
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Bereta_Eder
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besides the turks invaded to keep it from joining greece
there is a reason noone recognizes the turkish cypriote part and thats because the invasion was illegal
the turks would be perfectly happy with the greeks if the brits didnt stir them up so as to keep cyprus for themselves.
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Bereta_Eder
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didnt i already say that the policies of makarios were a bit blinded vis a vis the turks?
he should have brought them in the game instead of letting them be played for pawns in the hands of the gays
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Bereta_Eder
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but inocent little minority?
they put machine guns next to the roads and started shooting for gods sake.
cant have a country with that
of course the responce of the greeks was not honourable either
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Bereta_Eder
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its clear that the turks of cyprus were manipulated by the brits to create terrorist attacks against the greeks.
THAT much is clear.
if greeks have wanted they had 1 bazilion chances to wipe out the turks.
the turks invaded WHEN cyprus was to join with greece (which makarios did not want!)
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Bereta_Eder
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there was even a coup from greece (by them under US backed dictatorship) to overthrow makarios and unite.
thats when turks invaded.
genocide is puppy **** crap.
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Ozz
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Canada
Mar 2002
time: 05:24
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quote:
Originally posted by paiktis22
there is a reason noone recognizes the turkish cypriote part and thats because the invasion was illegal.
the turks would be perfectly happy with the greeks if the brits didnt stir them up so as to keep cyprus for themselves. |
Wasn't the coup illegal? Both Greece and Turkey have been screwin' the cypriotes around. They'd be better off independent and be Cypriotes first, and let the Greeks and Turks fight and bicker somewhere else.
This is equally true. the Greeks and Turks would be perfectly happy with the British if the Turks/Greeks didnt stir them up so as to CLAIM cyprus for themselves.
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Bereta_Eder
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i agree means:
the coup was illegal (doh!) but greece had a dictatorship back then (which was backed by the US/UK scam)
so youre not talking about a democratic greece wanting the union.
(and i repeat makarios did not want the union, greece sent its own squads there to overthrow him)
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Bereta_Eder
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quote:
Originally posted by Ozz
What was he hanged for, murder, treason, terroristism? |
Fighting to have his own parliement in his own country.
That was why a 15 years old cypriote boy was hanged by the British.
What do you say about that?
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Elas was fighting for independent Greece, (or so they said  ) against the British in 1945. Maybe the British should have stayed home and Greece could have had a big Stalin statue at the Parthedon in Athens. |
Elas was fighting for a lot of things.
It fought against the Nazi Germans and then against the british and the state fascists.
The English opened fire in the crowd and killed scores, precipitating the civil war.
They also, along with the state fascists, sent scores in exile.
Are you ok with that?
Stalin in the Parthenon?
Better read a lot more history....
There COULD have been a compromise between the rebels and the state. The Brits just created a chaos and then left when the sh!t hit the fan since they couldn't handle the rebels anymore.
That's for history.
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Cyprus was NOT a colony. It was handed over to the UK from TURKEY/OTTANMANs in the 1880/1890s. Since then it was undeveloped terrority which paid a small tribute to the empire in exchange for British seapower ending piracy. |
Cyprus was under british rule = a colony.
It was dirt poor and exploited. After it fought to gain its independance from the brits, and it got it, it prospered. The Greek-Cypriote part that is.
Are you ok with that?
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Why would the British develop Cyprus? Alien language,population, poor resources. They had 1/4 of the world to pick from, Cyprus would be about least desirable investment. |
Hanging 15 years old migth give them a hard on? Who knows.
Maybe you can answer it?
The Cypriotes had a right to
_Freedom
_Prosperity
and that meant getting the gays off their backs.
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Blame the British? Neithier Greece or Turkey would even exist if it was'nt for the evil British. |
Trying to be serious in the face of such "unbiased", "educated" declarations, at least I try to find the mistakes on each side, instead of treating the Brits like angels like you seem to do. And without knowing sh!t about the whole matter as it seems.
Last edited by Bereta_Eder on 28-12-2002 at 16:14
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Bereta_Eder
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It's not Israel
Oh and may I point out Ozz, in the line of your oqn rhetorics, you wouldn't exist without Greece. (unless you consider existance being a monkey eating bananas in the cave and wondering why the sky goes BOOM from time to time).
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27-12-2002 22:59
now, that the fears of the Genocide of turkish cypriots are over, It's time to reunite. 
we can go on with this for ever, it's a stupid arguement.
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