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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Replying to @o_guest @aeryn_thrace and
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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Replying to @o_guest @aeryn_thrace and
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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Replying to @o_guest @aeryn_thrace and
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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I have asked some Cypriot friends for history books (or just books) to have a look at to learn more and they gave me the same answer.
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...and the funny thing is I have no idea what your friends might mean as it's likely they think what's out there is not right wing enough.
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See this for example to see what I mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamas_(film)#Negative_reception_and_response …
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Adding to my "to watch" list.
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I just meant the reaction not the film itself, but of course, by all means,
watch it!
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I got that but the Film looked interesting too.
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