[STORY] This tells it all about competence in TRNC

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 10:44

Read it here: http://www.allcrusades.com/BB_pics/Ayia_Katerina_church_bulldozed.jpg (This post doesn't need any explanation).

proger1



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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 10:48

To last over 400 years and then to be lost through negligence, depressing really.

iceman


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 10:51

and your point is?

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 10:56

Iceman, you must be kidding.

iceman


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:01

Hans

You know i wouldn't..

JohnW


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:08

Perhaps it would have been negligent to left it in a dangerous state with children playing in it. I'm not sure there is enough information in that article to make a judgement on the issue.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:11

Iceman, here's another 'pointless' tourism subject (read page 1 & 2): http://is.gd/eR2PA (I only give the URL because imo it's not necessary to copy all the text and pics - DC)

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:16

RE msg 6, JohnW: (...) Perhaps it would have been negligent to left it in a dangerous state with children playing in it (...)

=> I don't think children should play inside a late medieval church - as far as I am concerned not because the church is a 'holy building' but because the church belongs (erm, sorry, belonged) to the cultural heritage of (Northern) Cyprus. And closing the entrance(s) of the church would have been cheap and easy - awaiting better times.

iceman


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:28

proger1

This is NOT negligence..it is more like total disrespect towards other religions and cultures.



JohnW re: msg 6

Perhaps if the administration showed some respect to cultural heritage of Cyprus ( as Hans pointed out) and repaired the church, it wouldn't been in a dangerous state to anyone!!



The Republic of Cyprus in the south is constantly repairing/restoring the cultural heritage of the island...even if it is mosques or buildings left from Ottoman period..



Hans

We are in agreement on this one..

apc2010


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:30

all mosques tobe repaired in s/cyprus...........



http://www.financialmirror.com/News/Business_and_Finance/21183

Blackpoolfan


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:36

Another article that further enhances the total incompetence of the TRNC government, bulldozing their cultural heritage they haven't got a clue

Tenakoutou



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Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:42

Just another 'black mark' to be logged against TRNC - how shortsighted can whoever allowed this desecration to perpetrated be?



Hardly the best way to attract the desperately needed 'International Sympathy Vote'!



No doubt the GC's will have a 'field day' with this one!



Only a cynic might presume that the stones of the church might come in useful for some village house restoration project..................? !

Tenakoutou



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Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:44

Just another 'black mark' to be logged against TRNC - how shortsighted can whoever allowed this desecration to be perpetrated be?



Only a cynic might presume that the stones of the church might come in useful for some village house, or pub, restoration project..................? !



Hardly the best way to attract the desperately needed 'International Sympathy Vote'!



No doubt the GC's will have a 'field day' with this one!

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:50

Thanks for the link, apc2010!

Troodo


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 11:56

Someone, in the last government, gave permission for electric pylons to be erected on the flight path of an airport, which is know costing a packet to remove – bulldozing a church by mistake is nothing to these lunatics.

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 12:01

This thread had now 250 views and my stats tell me that only 16 visitors bothered to click this URL http://is.gd/eR2PA . Don't worry: the given link is virus free...

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
02/09/2010 12:18

Its an absolute disgrace. They can allow 7 star hotels and casinos, but cant look after their hertiage. Dutch the photos you have shown on your link saddens me to the core. I cant beleive nothing is done.

bookworm


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Posts: 340

Message Posted:
02/09/2010 12:25

I know the church.I took some photos just before

it was demolished.It wasn't in use even before '74,either.

There were signs reading 'Dangerous Building'.

iceman


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 12:45

bookworm

So what if it wasn't used before 74....does that justify demolishing it?

bookworm


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 14:46

It doesn't.

spider


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Message Posted:
02/09/2010 15:06

Well they just love their heaps of rubbish, this just goes to show. the next the banks that own peoples homes will be sending the bulldozers in and clear them all away..outrageous..





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