"Turkish Cypriot people tested for their ‘Turkishness’
06.04.2007
Niyazi Kizilyurek
Instead of having a democratic debate on opposing political ideas, people choose to question the ‘Turkishness’ of Turkish Cypriots, an approach that will do nothing but strengthen the Turkish Cypriot identity movement.
During the Gecitkale dispute in 1967, a group of Turkish Cypriot people arranged a march towards the Turkish Embassy in Nicosia and strongly protested against Turkey. The reason for this protest was that Turkey had not landed any soldiers on the island to interfere with the dispute. The Turkish Cypriot people had experienced such a disappointment before, in 1964. Even though there was a clash between the two communities in 1964, Turkey did not interfere, against all the expectations. "
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