Genuine request for info:What are the Greeks rights to Cyprus?

mikelapta



Joined: 20/11/2008
Posts: 2186

Message Posted:
06/09/2011 21:21

I am not argumentative,but Turkey is just 80 km away,I think Greece 800km

Did not the Turkish Ottoman Empire rule Cyprus for 500 years??

How long have Greece ruled this island?

Was it not EOKA and ENOSIS that caused UK to leave?

Were Greeks killing British soldiers to achieve this aim?



I just want clarity on the past .



Thanks



Mike

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
06/09/2011 21:31

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

keldanreb


Joined: 17/09/2009
Posts: 212

Message Posted:
06/09/2011 22:16

put it this way it was owned by the knights templar 500 years ago,hence the town of templos,zetinlik.

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
06/09/2011 22:21

there are no turkish or greeks in Cyprus but only CYPRIOTS.................and of course the accupiers..........

Bradus


Joined: 25/02/2007
Posts: 2641

Message Posted:
06/09/2011 22:23

I think more homework is needed Mike.

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
06/09/2011 22:44

Mike talk to D/C

the chess guy

he knows his history

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
07/09/2011 00:31

message 1:



looks like more opinion than fact in your opener mike...



as I understand it cyprus was only ruled by greece for a couple of days, in '74, if that



the work of eoka resulted in a lot of soldiers dead, but since we were about to enter

a great de-colonising era, so britain might well have left a year or two later anyway:



...only it hasn't entirely left, what with the sovereign bases



I cannot give pat answers about cyprus since I don't have the detailed knowledge

but those that do will tend to see things from one perspective or another:

and that statement itself is opinion rather than "straight facts" ...if they even exist



now where were we?

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
07/09/2011 00:58

There are a range of books avalable in which cover all of the problems and the history.

- The Geneside files

- Trapped in the Green Line

- Death of a Friendship

Read these and others avalable and you will get the recorded history.

blade


Joined: 19/06/2010
Posts: 1286

Message Posted:
07/09/2011 10:17

Mike, i had a little arguement with a GC friend, so i did some research to prove a point.

The first known people in Cyprus can neither be Greek or Turkish as they were people unknown. They did exist but thats as far as it goes back. Hence neither can claim to be the first.