Acikgoz wrote:Please find below my original post to which I have been interested to hear responses about.
I put it out there again as subsequent to posting I keep finding everyone commenting on issues as though they are writing for some pubescent comic book for neo-nazis.
- 400 years ago... what!!!
- Turkey's involvement... what!!!
etc. etc. a large helping of nationalistic xenophobic rants with decent helpings of put downs. Stick to the point
I am Cypriot born
I am talking about Turkish title deed holder of land in south.
etc.
STOP sidelining the issues
Unfortunately in your mind what's yours is yours and what's ours is yours; oh and not only in your mind from what I have been reading by most contributors on this site.
What about me. Get off my land, pay me rent since 1964 when we were threatened off it, pay me restitution to ease some of the pain for my relatives murdered in 1964 and the trauma of living in a hovel of an enclave away from my beautiful gardens by the Trodos mountains, and only in 1974 have the feeling that this 3rd class citizen and embargoes would end. Oh while you're at it pay me restıtution for the years I've suffered under an embargo post 1974 whilst watching the freedoms you have enjoyed, the opportunities your children have had. Admit this, and then you are worthy of being respected as a human being. Otherwise you are no more than a bigoted, racist, self-interested, freeloader, brain washed and/or naturally masochistic individual.
All this talk of who is the thieves of who's land - Remember a good quote from the bible John 8:7 "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." For a country where the church is a regular part of everyday life what a shame the true virtues of love, compasion and brotherhood are so far removed.
If we are talking about legality, rules, laws etc. and how this justifies our actions then how can one disregard the unconstitutional change of the constitution whilst basing one's position on UN resolutions. Remember this is not one side is right the other is wrong, both are right, both are wrong.
It is sad that there are so few on this forum that could be said to be true thinkers, it means to step up and admit to "yourself" the "truth", it's so easy if you only take a moment and think for yourself. Please just try.
Here's one of the replies you apparently missed:
... and you've been doing this in someone else's beautiful garden while they were raped, tortured, murdered and buried in an unmarked grave in your back yard for all you know, or if they were lucky just ethnicaly cleansed and forced to flee South, settle in tents and then hearded into a hovel of a refugee settelement and spend much of the rest of their lives as third class citizens while you were enjoying your "freedom" in their land.
In the meantime you have an absolute right to return to your beautiful home and garden in Troodos (which by the way is a mountain, not a settlement), pay your taxes and live as a first class citizen but you choose not to.
Christ might have challenged the one without sin to cast the first stone but that was a call for forgiveness not a blank defence for a continuous crime. You are an apologist for ethnic cleansing which last time I checked is a crime against humanity and a war crime and you are exploiting property you obtained through murder, rape, torture and intimidation. If you think that quoting the bible will earn you sympathy think again.
