The over -patriotic denials of contacts between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots

DI by no means keep in mind being even a bi -communal occasion, even a bi -communal program, even a joint effort and motion of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots who didn’t encounter reactions, assaults, hate rhetoric and ancestral One other neighborhood. The standard suspects all the time tear their clothes, generally for barricades, generally for EU grants. and overseas governments bi -communal applications – instructional, skilled, coaching and others – for the business transactions of the 2 communities. Even easy social gatherings are focused and shooted.

Any contact of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots is abandoned, cursed, mocked, accused and sometimes – densely introduced as the last word betrayal, undermining our reflection battle and so forth. We had been first informed that whoever crosses on the opposite aspect of our island is both a bullshit, a gambler or a prostitute or a prostitute. There was no proper man, solely mansters and state -of -the -arts. In keeping with this logic, patriots should see the opposite half of our homeland solely with binoculars, solely from afar and solely via their reminiscences.

Bi -communal instructional applications have lengthy been within the eye of the over -patriots. They erode our nationwide thoughts, they harm our Greekness, weaken our vigor. Don't our youngsters know Kyrenia and Famagusta, Lapithos, Carmi, Karpasia? Solely know their homeland and the opposite half to comprehend it solely about textbooks and notebooks? By no means get to know their compatriots, by no means to pay attention with them?

In any other case, we’re all alleged to be the answer of the Cyprus downside. You see, the answer can be referred to as upon to use … aliens or foreigners and never ourselves. So what’s the must get to know one another our youthful generations? What’s the must get our personal youngsters within the fort of Kyrenia, Salamis, Solos, Abbey of Belapas? What’s the want for the kids of the Turkish Cypriots to come back to the Temple of Apollo Ylati, on the historical theater of Kourion, within the baths of Aphrodite? Is it ever attainable to disclaim us they usually to know our nation? Is it ever attainable to not need our youngsters to see the ancestral homes of their grandparents both within the north or south?

The denials of the contacts between the Turkish and the Turkish and the Turkish, deliberate or unintentionally, consciously or unconsciously, the possession and separation serve, the perpetuation quite than the decision of our downside.

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