NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/talk/politics/mideast/24594

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From: [e-mail] (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.greek
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Subject: Re: Macedonia: Reality versus History.
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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 16:50:43 EST
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Panos Tamamidis ) writes:

>>    Excuse me. If the lands now in former SFR macedonia are not part of the
>>geographic region of "Macedonia" and if this name does not derive by tradition
>>from the ancient Macedonia, well--I guess we can rewrite history.

> What tradition? How many different and irrelevant names did the area of
> Skopje have in the past?  There is no historical or geographical relation of
> Skopje with Macedonia.

So the Greek educational system is also in a shambles, 'tamtam.'
This is the same mentality which allows Greeks to rationalize that
Cyprus is a Greek Island. No history book shows that it ever was. It
belonged to the Ottoman Turks 'lock, stock and barrel' for a period of
well over 300 years. In fact, prior to the Turks' acquisition of it,
following bloody naval battles with the Venetians in 1570 AD, the
island of Cyprus belonged, invariably, to several nations: The
Assyrians, the Sumerians, the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Ottoman
Turks, of course in that order, owned it as their territory. But, it
has never been the possession of the government of Greece - not even
for one day - in the history of the world. Moreover, Cyprus is
located 1500 miles from the Greek mainland, but only 40 miles from
Turkiye's southern coastline. Following the Greek Cypriot attempt
to annex the island to Greece with the aid of the Greek army, Turkiye
intervened by using her legal right given by two international agreements.
Turkiye did it for the frequently and conveniently forgotten people of the
island, Turkish Cypriots. For those Turkish Cypriots whose grandparents
have been living on the island since 1571.

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination.
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)