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- From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek
- Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
- Subject: "Paliks" live with an illusion.
- Message-ID: <9301281643@zuma.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 16:43:54 EST
- Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
- References: <schoinas.728038119@cs.wisc.edu>
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- In article <schoinas.728038119@cs.wisc.edu> schoinas@fox.cs.wisc.edu (Yannis Schoinas) writes:
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- >You are not serious, are you? Go read a history book and stop writing
- >nonsense. Do you have any idea of the history of Cyprus? Do you have
- >any idea of the history of the Balkans or the Asia Minor? It seems not.
-
- What would I do if you were blind? 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.
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- 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:
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- 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.
-
- Saddam Hussein claims that Kuwait was once Iraqi territory
- and the Greek Cypriot government and the Greek governments
- think that Cyprus also was once part of the Greek hegemony.
-
- Those people involved in this grandiose hallucination
- should wake up from their sweet daydreams and confront
- reality. Wishful thinking is unproductive, only facts count.
-
- Serdar Argic
-
- 'We closed the roads and mountain passes that
- might serve as ways of escape for the Turks
- and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
- (Ohanus Appressian)
- 'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists
- a single Turkish soul.' (Sahak Melkonian)
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