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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Thanks a lot for sharing and explaining this. Even more so given the emotional cost you mention.
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You're welcome. It's the least I can do as I, unlike many others sadly, have had a chance to escape the propaganda we were fed as children and teens.
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Does it make it hard to feel at home when you go back (if you do)? Like feelings of not fitting in?
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Certainly. I can't even fit in that well with Cypriots in the UK TBH because The Church has a very strong hold on Cypriot-ness.
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It's a spectrum as I never felt at home when I was there. I counted down the days to moving/emigrating to the UK to study.
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