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Saturday, December 09, 2006


Division of an island: Cyprus


I looked at some reader comments on the issue in
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6215410.stm

Some people say the divion of the island is the consequences of the turkish occupation of northern part and the blamed one should be Turkey. But why Turkey decided to take this hard decision in 1974, which caused so many problems for decades in all its international relations incuding ongoing EU negotiations? What about suffering, massacres and bloodshed from both sides between 1960 -1974? What about the coup d'etat supported by Greek nationalist and EOKA, whose aim was to unify the island with Greece and clean the turkish territory on the island or in the best case give them a second class citizenship? Should Turkey wait and watch all those things as a legal guarantor state of the Republic of Cyprus, a state with two communities, which gained its independence in 1960? Please be rational..

A reader said:
"And all this under the pretext of protecting the interests of a 14% Turkish minority!"
K D Verrichio

So their interest should not be taken into consideration because they are the "minority". The problem is lying exactly there, Greeks or Greek Cypriots want to see the Turkish Cypriots as the second class citizens of the island and since Greeks are in majority they have the right to do everything they want. If this would be the mentality how can we think of a re-unification of Cyprus.