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To: Turk2
How has screwing Muslims become so popular these days? Can't you live without a scapegoat to blame all your troubles on?

To scape goat would be affixing blame to the party which does not deserve it. In this case, it appears pretty plainly to me and the rest of the world that the party responsible for dividing Cyprus and commiting numerous violations of internationally recognized civil rights is the Turkish Army. Its not like the Greek Army invaded there and caused the Turks to come in, is it?

The party comitting illegal agression in another country always dreams up a million excuses why the resort to war and expulsion is justified.

13 posted on 04/26/2004 8:03:04 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
>> Its not like the Greek Army invaded there and caused the Turks to come in, is it?

That in fact was done covertly. We acted within our rights under the treaty signed at Cyprus' inception.
15 posted on 04/26/2004 8:35:23 AM PDT by a_Turk (Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, and Justice..)
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
As I have noted elsewhere:

Being smack dab in the middle of the Eastern Med, Cyprus has been occupied and governed by anyone with the wherewithal to keep it running. The Mycenaeans, the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Persians, the Hellenes, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, Richard the Lionhearted, the Knights Templar, Guy de Lusignan and his descendents, the Venetians, and the British, who got it from the Turks, have all had a hand in making Cyprus what it is today. Turks have been living there since 1571. Need I add that they have as much right to live there as anyone else?

Cyprus is not some mystically sui generis "elementally" Greek island, regardless of how big or bloody a temper tantrum enosis lunatics throw.

55 posted on 04/26/2004 5:05:47 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely (Comitas, Firmitas, Gravitas, Humanitas, Industria)
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