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To: AM2000
>> Now, my question is this - is Turkey is so secular, why do this?

Who knows why "some" people do what they do. Maybe they didn't have enough mosques around, after they all had to flee north for their lives.

There are many mosques in Turkey which at one point in time were temples to Apollo or Venus, whatever. What's the big deal. Mosques in southern Cyprus are used as latrines..

Here:



Greek Cypriots attend Orthodox Easter mass in the monastery of Apostolos Andreas in the Turkish occupied area of Cyprus Saturday, April 26, 2003. The mass, which was the first Easter one there since 1974, was held in the afternoon as the worshipers had to be back in the Greek-Cypriot controlled area before midnight.

But the flipping anti-Turks here won't show you this picture..

Turkish Cypriots were musrdered by the tens of thousands - whole villages at a time, and then bulldozed - between 1960, the year of Cypriot independence which was guaranteed by Turkey, Greece, and England, and 1974, when Turkey finally put a stop to it at the height of the ongoing Greek activity which was designed to kill all Turks and make the place part of Greece (ENOSIS).

So there. The world can see that northern Cyprus is just fine, and there has not been any exodus of Turks leaving there for the south. The place is packed, and the soutrherners are leaving millions of dollars there as they visit their old houses where the bushes may be overgrown a bit I guess..
8 posted on 04/27/2003 2:00:26 PM PDT by a_Turk (Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
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To: a_Turk
Maybe they didn't have enough mosques around, after they all had to flee north for their lives."

The alternative was to build down the street from the church.

"There are many mosques in Turkey which at one point in time were temples to Apollo or Venus, whatever."

Funny you dont mention that the great Hagia Sophia was also turned into a Mosque during the Ottoman period after a millenium as a Christian Cathedral.

Muslims have done this to other religions from the first instant - turning the pagan Meccan shrine into Islam's holiest center, then Jerusalem building a dome on the old Jewish temple, etc.

13 posted on 04/27/2003 4:24:17 PM PDT by WOSG (All Hail The Free Republic of Iraq! God Bless our Troops!)
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