Greek friends, in your own families have you been robbed by the turks ? Have you lost real estate or lands?

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Dellarovere

Stop doing this. One week ago you were pretending to be a Turk and threatened Greeks with invading the Greek islands.
You just play between the Greek and the Turkish section trying to rise a conflict. Get a real life, and find something else to play with....

Mario K

YES. My dad and grandfather owned houses and fields in a village called Petra in Northern Cyprus. During the Turkish Invasion of 1974 all that land was lost, as was the entire village.

My dad left the island in '74 as a refugee (he was only 16) and went to England with his father.

Even though you can now visit the North of the island, the village is still off-limits because it lies on the Green-Line near a military base. It remains abandoned and dilapidated, but such are the tragedies of war...

andreas

Well........Nothing special.....Just 37% of my country......200.000 people became refugees, so i guess about 30-40.000 homes have been stolen....Big deal !!!

leyla

i agree with andreas. i come from cyprus that u foreigners know as a greek island or even worse a turkish island. they havent taken anything from my relatives thankfully but it is not possible to make friends and ask them if they've been robed and tell you no. everybody here knows somebodies that are refugees.. it is a painful story and today is the memorable day that everything started. on july 20 the turkish people came to our islands to fight and kill cypriots..

istanbul bogazi

Jean Charles why would you pollute the sections with your hostile questions? Well are you one of those people whose only happiness is seeing people angry or fighting?
That means you will be sad in Turkish and Greek sections because WE ARE NOT GOING TO FIGHT! We are civilized humans (contrary to you) and we will continue writing and having fun and we don't really care about you.
What is your point with all those questions? What are you going to solve writing these kinds of questions in Y!A?
You know what you need is to socialize more...

the_lipsiot

Mister Jean-Charles

You are a malacca.

Please sod off with your inflammatory questions and go play on the motorway.

Elsa

my grandmother was thrown out of instabul in 1922(or something) but apart from that, i don't think they are bad, we are all people and i respect everybody.

..Tolia..

I come from Pontus - karadeniz coasts

and yes we lost properties
and yes we lost land
and we lost people too

but Turks lost too

their homes
their lands
their people

that political practice, The population exchange, was a meaningless "peace" practice

we lost more from it than we gained

I dont want to live such a thing

have a nice day

p.s hey lamp lady, dont put your nose where you are not supposed to this is Greek section

Tanju

Dear Jean,

Did you read, what Anatolia said ?

Did you reaaly understand, what she talked about or just reading without thinking ...

Congratulations Anatolia,

Regards

Kostas S

20 July 1974 – Turkey launches its invasion of northern Cyprus.The effect of the division was catastrophic for all concerned. Thousands of Greek Cypriots had been killed, wounded or missing. A further two hundred thousand Greek Cypriots had been displaced. In addition to the entire north coast (Kerynia, Morfou) and the Karpas peninsula, the Greek Cypriots were also forced to flee the eastern port city of Famagusta. The vast majority of the Turkish occupied area was predominantly owned by Greek Cypriots prior to 1974. In the process about 160,000 - 200,000 Greek Cypriots who made up 82% of the population in the north became refugees, many of them forced out of their homes (violations of Human Rights by the Turkish army have been acknowledged by the European Court of Human Rights), the rest fleeing at the word of the approaching Turkish army. Since 1974, the ceasefire line separates the two communities on the island, and is commonly referred to as the Green Line.So the answer to your question is 160,000 - 200,000 Greek Cypriots became refugees.

Joannah

This isn't about your issue "supposed" anymore. You just want to spread hate.

My grandfather, a Chinese was beheaded by the Japanese duting WW2 in the Philippines for supporting the country he adopted as his own. You know who turned him in? One of the Filipinos he was supporting! They took him to a shack with no windows, kept him for "interrogation", made him dig his own grave and beheaded him. Not one rebel even tried to rescue him despite the fact he gave them food, shelter and hundreds of thousands which was a lot during those times. After that, since my grandmother was "just" a housewife and knew nothing about business, all my grandfather's business interests were misappropriated by his partners and their employees. Doors were shut on her and it was wartime. Thank goodness she had the presence of mind to hide gold ingots inside bedposts. Today, my mother still passes by some buildings she says were "ours" but was taken from us.

Do I hate the Japanese or the Filipinos? No. That was then, this is now. Do you want to be part of the problem or the solution?

You are a pathetic loser and a war monger. Your parents must be proud of you and you probably are like them.

IKE

Yea some cypriots said everbody knows some refugee in their country.
I ll reply to this like that: Everybody in North Cyprus knows a family member whose life was destroyed because of the mass killings of EOKA...
Maybe its time to stop acting like innocent angels.
I understand folks from Turkey had gone too far but imagine this; Nobody after 1974 got killed in that island. (except for that guy who is trying to take down the Turkish flag on the Turkish side, they cut me off and give my organs to dogs if I do the same thing in South Side)

Leonarda

I ll give a reply to ovchicka....
My dear, you had said that inspite the differences between our countries,you appreciate some persons of this section..Unfortunately,this doesnt correspond to the reality, as soon as you found the chance, you showed the opposite...
I have always been respectful, expressing in a very elegant way my opinions in this section, in order not to offend any country with whom we have differences, because the word ennemy is very hard to use it, since i have said that people are not always responsible for the decisions of the politicians..
I want to ask something..Since greeks are so hateful people, why your citizens use our section so much?In reality, if i hate people, i wont even enter in their section, this would mean provocation...
Have you ever thought how many investments have been done to the Balcanic countries by the greeks?So many people live in Greece working from these countries..If we were so hateful, why we accepted them?We cant live without them you think?
I really got bored of this topic, you have your opinions, we have our history...Please, not anymore wars.For God s sake..People who know can juge..
I never report anyone,i am objective, and many times,i have been criticized bad from my citizens about my neutral position to some topics..I have my opinions, but it is not the right place to express them.I have also dear,declared that we can never accuse a country, neither the people... everyone is free to express his own opinions..But always with respect,and without hating...
I am respectful to all those who have differences with us,i really dont hate anyone...neither turks, neither people from FYROM..Just want a peaceful future if not in national level which can not be obtained, at least in private level, for us, and for the new generations..

? ? ? I. A. ? ? ?

Your account has just been deleted one more time...And it will be deleted again and again each time that you will try to provock people...

You are even neither Greek nor Turk, and your only purpose is to have fun watching people...

You are one the worst trolls that I've never seen in my life...

Pathetic looser...Why don't you try to find a job and get a life ?...

Ipek K

You won't give up trying to provoke, will you?

I am not taking you seriously :)

Edit : Authorize me?? Ha ha, you are cute :)

anlarm

Ahh I was wondering where you were :) So, here you are again provoking people. Go and fight Turks if you are so brave!
My Cypriot compatriots, Turkey did not come to Cyprus to kill Greek Cypriots, but to save Turkish Cypriots from being masaccred by EOKA. You can visit the mass graves in Aloha, Maratha villages in the Famagusta districs. EOKA murdered even 16 day old babes and their mothers, just because they were Turkish Cypriots. I lost all my property in Limassol and cannot get it back. It's under the control of Greek Cypriot government. How about that? But we cannot achieve peace by blaming each other.
We had a chance (the best so far) to settle our problems. Unfortunately you said OXI to Annan plan. That plan was written based on the views and expectations of ordinary Greek and Turkish Cypriots. I know it because indirectly I contributed.

Antigon

After the Greek disaster under Veniselos, hundreds of thousands of Greeks, named "prosfigi" and "madziri", have flooded Aegean (occupied) Macedonia.
Before that, Macedonians were absolute majority in Macedonia. In 1913 Carnegie Commission have wrote that the new Greek administration in Macedonia is unable to be created cause of the fact NOBODY in the new territories (read Macedonia) can understand Greek language.
After this "prosfigi&madziri" flood, Macedonia have been settled by Greeks, and the new toponymes have been appeared, such as NEW Moudania, NEW Calicratia, NEW Effessos, New this, New that.
All because that the old ones remained in Turkey Anadolia.

I_got_the_wow_effect

no lov turks and they are not barbarians

habisce

NOBODY CAN KILL ME...

I'm Macedonian!!!

I'm not categorized in ur greek friends, but i was really inspired by the Q... Do you maybe know how many Macedonians have been robbed and left without their own lands in Eagean Macedonia?! just curious...

regards to you and ur greek friends as well and i'm not trying to be provoctive here...

King Majamatwatwa

OOOH AAAAH

AFTER A MILLION YEARS CHIMPANZEES LIKE ME WILL EVOLVE INTO WORTHLESS *******! THAT'S WHY I WRITE THESE MESSAGES; I CAN NOT SPEAK REALLY, ONLY DEAF LANGUAGE OOOH AAAAH

I HAVE A BIG CHIP ON MY SHOULDER BECAUSE I KNOW I AM A WORTHLESS UGLY BLACK COON MONGREL BASTARD FROM AMERICA AND THE BEST I CAN HOPE FOR IS THE KU KLUX KLAN TO LYNCH ME LIKE THE STINKING UGLY AIDS MONKEY I AM!

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