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by **BirKibrisli** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:11 pm

Fatma Azgin,a columnist in the daily YENIDUZEN tells an interesting human story...Back in the late 60s her brother,Fevzi Adanir,was a hard up TC living in Nicosia and trying to support his young family...His ambition was to study business administration,but had no money to go to Turkey to study...Someone told him that The Cyprus College in Nicosia had a course in Business Admin which cost 24 Cyprus Pounds a month...Fevzi had Buckley's chance of affording this fee,as his monthly income was equivalent to about 30 CP...Still, one day he rides his bicycle over to the College,meets the owner and the Principal,and asks them if they would let him do the course on credit,to be paid after he finishes his studies...Amused the GC owner agrees ,so Fevzi becomes the only TC student in the whole College...Years go by and he is one subject away from graduating when the 74 Tragedy happens...

Fevzi never finishes his studies and does not graduate...Fast forward to the year 1996....Fatma Azgin is attending a worshop in Boston,USA,where the Principal of the Cyprus College is also present...The two Cypriots soon start chatting and the Principal (Mr Vassos) wants to know the fate of his former student,Fevzi Adanir....He is delighted to learn that Fevzi is Fatma's brother,hugs her and tells her how much he was impressed by her brother both as a student and as a person...They exchange contact details...After the gates open the Principal and his former student meet...
Fevzi gets invited to a special ceremony at the College where the Principal presents him with his Graduation Diploma,albeit 30 years later...And there was no mention of the fees promised...

This kind of humane action is what will eventually help build those bridges so necessary for a lasting and just solution to our little problem...Not threatening each other with war...

For Turkish speakers:

http://www.yeniduzengazetesi.com/template.asp?articleid=3156&zoneid=17

by **Nikitas** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:16 pm

At last! A truly interesting and hopeful story from Cyprus. There must be many such stories, but our media being what they are, the focus is usually on discord.

by **CBBB** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:50 pm

I will take this it face value (something that is difficult to do on this forum) and say that I agree with NIkitas.

Most of the media here (south of the border) are so anti-solution that we are very unlikely to see stories like this that show a different side to TC/GC relations.

by **Piratis** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:12 pm

CBBB wrote:I will take this it face value (something that is difficult to do on this forum) and say that I agree with NIkitas.

Most of the media here (south of the border) are so anti-solution that we are very unlikely to see stories like this that show a different side to TC/GC relations.

Can you tell me of even a single one of these media that is "anti-solution"?

In fact nobody can be "anti-solution" except those who believe that there is no problem (and since there is no problem there is nothing to solve), and this is somehting said only by some Turks who claim that "the Cyprus problem was solved in 74".

Beyond those people everybody else wants a solution. The difference is in what kind of solution each one wants.

by **denizaksulu** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:31 pm

I have a little story. My uncle had a house in Neapolis/Yeni sehir on the Kyrenia road/Omorphita By-Pass (Ay. Saranta/Kirklar sok).. Just past the old KEAN soft drinks factory. Term times I lived there. Most of our neighbours were Armenians and Greek speakers. In 1961, my uncle built a new house behind Ledra Palace hotel, so the Neapolis house was was rented out to an Officer of the Turkish Contingent stationed in Cyprus under the 1960 treaty. On that street there were only two TC families and the Officer with wife and two infant girls.

At the outbreak of hostilities in 1963 December, he was caught 'behind ''enemy'' lines' so to speak. There was no contact with his unit or anybody else. Those days you had to have a business to have a telephone or had to be damn lucky.

He recounted to us how for three weeks he would sit infront of the door (in the hallway) with revolver in hand. Our GC neighbours knocked on his door and asked of his and families wellbeing and fed the whole family for three weeks, until a ceasefire when was re-united with his unit in Nicosia. He told us that he was greatful to all his neighbours, GC and Armenian.

It was miraculous, considering events at the time all around the island. He would have been a 'prize catch'.

There is plenty humanity in Cyprus. Its a shame that there are those that want to 'kill it off'.

by **Get Real!** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:41 pm

I love the bed-time stories in this thread but can we move them to the general section where they belong?

by **denizaksulu** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:49 pm

Get Real! wrote:I love the bed-time stories in this thread but can we move them to the general section where they belong?

I thought it was your bedtime infanta GR :lol:

I would have told you more had you answered my phone call!! :twisted:

by **CBBB** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 2:49 pm

Piratis,

The majority of the media in the south only talk about problems, not solutions.

I have always been taught that there is no point in higlighting problems unless you can offer a WORKABLE solution.

Your turn.