One they can't blame on the 'occupying forces'

AnthonySmith


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Message Posted:
20/02/2011 12:16

Another from Cyprus Mail - http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/relics-found/20110220



It's interesting. I went to the Donkey Day at Buyukkonuk and the old church there is in a terrible state of disrepair. It makes what tourism minister Durust says about religious tourism all make sense - not.

But didn't the Greek Cypriots take relics with them in 1974 and 1975, which later "disappeared"?

Anyhow, I wonder when the TRNC/Turkish card will be played in this story?

Zoots


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Message Posted:
20/02/2011 13:02

It can't be blamed on the "occupying forces" as you put it, if the antiquities in question were stolen in the south. But the article doesn't make that clear.

What is not in dispute among any sensible persons is the Turkish authorities, along with individuals, stole and looted on a commercial scale after 1974. It took them more than two years to cart away anything that wasn't nailed down in Varosha, and the Turkish army did most of the thieving there.

the butler


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Message Posted:
20/02/2011 13:05

Hi,



We to went to the Donkey Day and saw the delapidated church in Buyukkonuk. It looks like it was once a beautiful building, such a shame it has been allowed to get in this state.





The butlers wife

cronos


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Message Posted:
20/02/2011 13:09

Zoots.....good point.



It always makes me smile when people refer to Varosha as being "frozen in time"....a Marie Celeste place where everyone disappeared and everything is just as it was in 1974 !



That would only be true if Varosha had been a place full of ransacked and looted shops, businesses and houses !



It's the spoils of war....a few connected people and their cohorts got very rich.

Zoots


Joined: 05/02/2011
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Message Posted:
20/02/2011 13:26

I read somewhere that the UN have an OP in a flat where everything is still in place, hanging in the wardrobes etc. I think there are some pics out there somewhere. Fascinating but very very sad. As usual the victims were the ordinary people, GC and TC.

Call me an subversive old hippy, but if Cypriots on both sides went on a mass march to occupy and reclaim Varosha that might be enough to move things on. Reading between the lines in the Turkish and TC press, perhaps Erdogan would see it as a blessing in disguise and face-saving way of getting his troops out of Cyprus and his country back on track for the EU.

Lilli



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Message Posted:
20/02/2011 18:55

DC showed some pictures of homes still with clothes. TVs etc last year. We wait and see I guess x