Yep. They exist.
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When they got their independence, which was negotiated with their representative (the Archbishop of Cyprus). They were and are the majority view in Cyprus, so they voted in the Archbishop as president.
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So when they obtained this power they started murdering Muslims (aka Turkish Cypriots), and moved them into ghettos/enclaves. The constitution they had negotiated with the UK and the two guarantor powers (Greece and Turkey) however, had provisions for such a genocide.
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It states clearly that the guarantor powers are able to intervene into affairs in order to protect their affiliated populations, which Turkey did.
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For some reason the view that it was not a genocide and that Greek Cypriots are innocent and the absolute victims (there are of course victims within both ethnic/religious groups) has become the accepted view worldwide.
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And Cyprus, my side, the G/C side, the Republic of Cyprus, continues to this day to be a highly right wing state in which a Cypriot identity is very very slowly in these last few years being formed. Many in my family for example actively hate Turks and T/Cs and ID as Greek.
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To understand the psyche of modern G/C culture: One very disturbing story that springs to mind is that a year or so ago a man called in to a radio show to admit/boast about how many T/Cs he had murdered in cold blood. Nobody batted an eyelid, nobody was arrested.
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About a decade ago, the Republic's president was a known murderer (went around G/C villages in the 60s and 70s murdering civilians with a shotgun and boasted about it) — again nobody batted an eyelid nor thought this was a "bad thing".
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Every 5-6 months on Twitter somebody asks me about Cyprus. It's very upsetting but I perform this emotionally-tinged labour because I feel it's important. Yesterday was the 54th anniversary of the UN mission in Cyprus (first and longest in the world):https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/974687363048857600 …
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I would send you to the internet if I could but the "facts" out there are a biased re-telling of events (if not out and out lies).
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Thank you so much for sharing all of this history. I understand that it must be terribly painful to have to dwell on. What happened to your brother is horrible! So glad he's ok. Hope he can now laugh about how thinking about his mom saved his ass!
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Did go to the internet to get the 'official' story so that I could make better sense of what you'd written. The politics seem as if The Troubles in Northern Ireland married the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and had really mean babies. Sounds absolutely awful.
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A lot of people make such parallels, and indeed there are similarities but of course it's its own thing. I'd generally say avoid what's out there but you're already bearing in mind it's very biased towards g/c accounts so you'll probably be OK.

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My brother is fine but yeah, neonazis gonna neonazi.


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Also you're super welcome. It's tough to share because nobody really gets it, at least that's how I feel often.

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