"“Are you Greek or Turkish Cypriot?”—a common experience for those with heritage from the island. Cyprus is seen as a battleground in some eternal struggle between Greeks and Turks, east and west, Christianity and Islam."http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2017/04/cyprus_has_been_divided_in_two_for_40_years_do_its_people_still_have_anything.html …
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Replying to @o_guest
"It may be hard to believe now, but Cyprus was once a beacon of Christian-Muslim communal harmony. Greek and Turkish Cypriots lived side by side in shared villages and coexisted peacefully for hundreds of years."
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In the best case scenario, their arrival changed the equilibrium, but I suspect it was not just a passive, indirect effect.
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It was a strategic move to pit Turkish and Greek Cypriot against each other. Even the names of the two communities are polemic as they affirm affiliation with another nation state! For example, they made all police officers Turkish Cypriot IIRC.
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