Cyprus, Again!

 
nothing funny about it

Its clear in my posts, i do not apportion blame to one side

thats how people from outside the turkish bubble report it; eg 1 from story dating back to when the TRNC knocked back on a earlier peace plan (Greek side accepted it)

So Cyprus remains a cruelly divided economic slum. Such is the dirty legacy of "ethnic cleansing," which occurred in Cyprus long before Bosnia. After independence in 1960, Cyprus's Greek and Turkish communities proved unable to live under a common roof. Reciprocal folly led in 1974 to Turkey's armed intervention and a brutal population exchange that displaced 160,000 Greek Cypriots and 45,000 Turkish Cypriots. Since then, an unrecognized Turkish Cypriot mini-state has been kept alive by Turkish subsidies and soldiers, while United Nations blue helmets patrol a buffer zone. NYT

eg 2

for Al jassas and others who think this isnt similar to Isreal/Palestine look at the map

"In 1960 the Greek and Turkish communities formed a mosaic. After more than 25 years of Turkish occupation of the north of the island and the forced transfer of populations, the two communities - Turkish in the north and Greek in the south - are now strictly separated by a demarcation line."
mondediplo.com/maps/cyprusmdv49

Originally posted by erkut Originally posted by Leonidas apply your number to Turkish cypriots, not settlers form the mainland which also include Kurds.   apply your number to Greek cypriots, not settlers which also include Georgians(Fake Pantios)

whats funny about that? This deserve nothing less than a honest and serious conversation. The logic put to me is that the Turks are a demographic force. Which is BS, the main reasons why the Turkey wants the TRNC remain phyiscally seperate is to make sure it is not assimilated into the majoirty and keep some leverage on the island.

place of birth from the TRNC (Permanent Residence) in their own census 2006
total population is                  256,644
born in the TRNC                   115,600 or 45.04%
turkey                                    94,714  or 36.90%
others making up the diffrerence

TRNC Citizens
born in TRNC 111,679     63.19%
Turkey 27,333                 15.47%

nufussayimi.devplan.org/Census%202006.pdf      

of those born in TRNC 80% have both parents from cyprus. In the peace plan Nicosia was willing to accpet most of these as cypriots - If i remeber right the 11% that had both from turkey were not. You had to have one cypriot parent.

show me the stats on Greeks playing demograhic games? You wouldnt find one group coming even close to double digits. Cyprus has these splits, notice that Cyprus has and cope with multi ethnicities.....

The population of Cyprus is 793.100 of whom 80,7% are Greek Cypriots (including Armenians, Maronites and Latins), 87,600 (11,0%) are Turkish Cypriots and 66,000 (8,3%) foreigners residing in Cyprus.

link

Al Jassas, note that is a substansial % of people that voted were not native Cypriots.