Having spent a year in Bordeaux ... yeah. Also love making fun of the Mexican middle class whose standards for good taste are a french “gift” 

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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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