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Current events in Cyprus are very exciting... particularly given that it's the Northern Cypriots who are demonstrating in favour of unification. Will the Cypriots be an example to us all of how wars and disputes can be consigned to history?

Does anyone know if the unification deal has anything in it about restitution of property lost before the partition of the island?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

How do the Turks justify their invasion of Northern Cyprus again?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The government of Cyprus was dominated by Greek Cypriots, and it adopted a FUCK YOU policy towards the minority Turkish Cypriots. Then a coup took place, by people who wanted to unify Cyprus with Greece. Turkey invaded, ostensibly to protect the Turkish Cypriots from being absorbed into Greece.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

So it would be like France invading Belgium if some Flemish supremicist government took hold there?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree current events are exciting. Interesting also that Erdogan 's 'Islamist' government in Turkey have criticised Northern Cyprus's govt lack of flexibility (with an eye on EU membership no doubt).

Can't wait for Trimble, Donaldson, Paisley and Robinson to lead similar reunification demonstrations in Belfast ;-)

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It'd be like France invading Belgium if some Flemish supremacist government took over who wanted to reunite with The Netherlands.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm worried now. Is this going to happen?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

We should send Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger in to sort it out (i.e. bomb the fuck out of it).

N.B. Not a serious suggestion. I have a few old Cypriot pals, Greek and Turkish (and they always got on fine with each other, yes), and a friend who lived there for a year or two, and my ex-wife lived there for a couple of years as a small child.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8627826.stm

― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Sunday, 18 April 2010 09:36 (fifteen years ago)

i always find it very, very weird to consider myself half-cypriot. it feels like i'm a tourist in my own body or something

― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Sunday, 18 April 2010 09:37 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

I'm off to western Cyprus in a few weeks and can barely wait!

― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Saturday, 7 August 2010 12:50 (fifteen years ago)

where exactly?

― let it sb (acoleuthic), Saturday, 7 August 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

Near Polis/Argaka

― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)

nice. my aunt/uncle have a place in Kato Pyrgos right on the Green Line - their house itself is within a few hundred yards

visit as many tavernas as possible obv

― let it sb (acoleuthic), Saturday, 7 August 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)

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