Turkish Cypriot: North is a pseudostate

A Turkish Cypriot living in Greek Cypriot-administered south Cyprus calls the Turkish-occupied north a pseudostate and refuses to show his passport to cross. Filmed in Nicosia, May 2007.
Copyright © Mel Yiasemide 2016. All rights reserved.

[@olskoolbandito]

Speaks the truth.......

[@costasp100]

He is one very brave Cypriot!

[@steliosgerasimou5689]

Πες τα φίλε!! Αυτή είναι η αλήθεια είτε αρέσει είτε όχι!

[@atillavedataydn1270]

😂😂😂🇹🇷🇨🇾🇹🇷

[@yiasemide]

@@atillavedataydn1270 So you're OK with coming off like the run-of-the-mill nationalist moron on this subject? 😐

[@panostheodoulou1166]

Bravo dou. Well done mate for talking sense, you know the truth

[@catalinsavin3762]

Hey Mel! How are you?

[@georgemina4931]

BRAVE MAN WELL SAID

[@robi9942]

made my day.

[@chrishadjipetris6059]

Unfortunately in 2024 Cyprus ended up in 2 states; the pseudostate (north) and the thieves state (south), or in greek we call them "ψευδοκράτος" and "κλεφτοκράτος". I don't know much about how's life in the north, but in the south everything gets more expensive while salaries remain constantly low.

[@deriser_3q363]

I'm Turkish Cypriot, born and raised in the UK, my dad was from a mixed village in Paphos called Pano Arodes, most were Greek Cypriots , there were a few Turkish Cypriot families there too. We went to the north side twice last year. We go by plane to the south side and cross to the north. Things were bad let's say 15 years ago, but now , things are improving fast. A lot of new projects are starting to appear. New economic zones , it's a shame because this makes original Turkish Cypriots think twice about reunification... I think every year that passes, the chances of a united Cyprus get slimmer. Not only because of the economic situation straightening up fast, but also that Turkish cypriots are being diluted at the ballot box by immigrants from mainland turkey , who are given turkish cypriot citizenship and therefore have the right to vote The best chance was in 2004, the anan plan. I don't even think if the same anan plan was proposed on the north side again, we would say yes to it like we did last time... A lot of Turkish cypriots are getting rich off the land values. Plus we saw a 20 percent jump in gdp in 2022. We now have a brand new airport , with huge capacity potential. Our own airline too. Everything is sooo much cheaper in the north. So if you have land and you can sell it, it's an easy life there.

[@hazalinka1]

Could the division have come as a result of the atrocities that Greek Cypriots committed against their Turkish neighbours starting from „the bloody Christmas“? Many Turkish Cypriots would rather have a separate state rather than a unification if the Republic were recognised.

[@yiasemide]

The atrocities committed by Greek Cypriot nationalist extremists are well documented and inarguable. See also some of the videos on this channel, with more to come. The Greek coup was a travesty. So was the Turkish invasion. I say again: same shit, different uniform. The murder, torture, marginalization and ethnic cleansing of one group of innocents is not solved in committing the same atrocities against another (in this case much larger) group of innocents. You tidily refer to a "division." The Greek coup and Turkish invasion of 1974 were a packaged, pre-planned operation to appease two US NATO allies (Greece and Turkey): Facilitated by American operatives in the US government at the time, it was rubber-stamped by the UK government's delinquency in fulfilling its guarantor obligations to Cyprus. Turkey's 1974 invasion and the never-ending pain and loss it has wrought on hundreds of thousands is not a solution. Mass murder of innocents; mass ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of innocents (both Greek and Turkish Cypriots among them); mass rape; mass pillaging of private property; destruction of cemeteries north of the Green Line (hardly a cross left unbroken, to this day); destroyed and reappropriated churches; an occupation that continues in its islamofascist reappropriation of occupied Cyprus. There is a long and strong history of comradeship between Greek and Turkish Cypriots which continues across the black divide, against the same rabid extremist backdrop we suffered back in the day. Let's look to that as an example of Cyprus' future.

[@EndietheEnderman]

No, it came from Turkey’s geopolitical gain by invading the island for their own gain during the second invasion. Totally illegal and unjustifiable. Created 50,000 Turkish refugees, mind you. If Turkey really wanted to save the Turks from Bloody Christmas, they would’ve invaded back in ‘63. And btw, more Greeks died per capita than Turks during bloody Christmas. You’re over exaggerating the deaths during the decade, they were mostly inter-communal conflicts.

[@panostheodoulou1166]

@@yiasemide Well said. A very detailed and accurate explanation. It seems these people need to be educated on the real facts

[@yiasemide]

@@panostheodoulou1166 Panos, thank you. We get no prizes nor any relief for knowing the truth. But, thank you.

[@yiasemide]

@@EndietheEnderman OK, but "more Greeks died per capita than Turks during bloody Christmas. You’re over exaggerating the deaths during the decade, they were mostly inter-communal conflicts"? This is akin to "U.S. police kill whites too." Let's not minimize the targeting of Turkish Cypriots by the dominating state power at the time: Greek Cypriots. To this day, it's not been acknowledged by the Cypriot state, and it's vastly telling of the sympathies of those still in power, if not those of the people who voted them in.

[@nonamenoname2767]

He looks more cinganos but doesn't behave as one of them. because Gypsies dont asimilate into the culture they live unlike this "so called-not anymore" Turkish Cypriot. A Greek Cypriot never talks against his identity or his/her culture.

[@yiasemide]

He has no problem with anyone's culture. It's you that has a problem with his denunciation of the Turkish occupation and its myriad lawlessness, which you've said nothing about. You can display the flag of Cyprus anywhere in the world, except in occupied Cyprus, where police and local thugs will harass you and you'll end up on a traitor list with nasty repercussions. As for where he chooses to live on this earth: If it's legal, that's his business. Even with the rabid neo-nazi contingent in the Greek-Cypriot administered areas, his civil rights are far better protected where he is than under a Turkish occupation government that has been punishing its detractors in all sorts of devastating ways, on their own fucking soil, for 47 years and counting.

[@user-zj2iu4lu1z]

That's literally how "Greek Cypriots" actually look like. They are literally mainland NeoGreeks darker than him.

[@TurkicAtheist805]

Cyprus literally a island in the middle east if he looks greek greeks are middle eastern

[@bigkebab9310]

Why he speaks greek :D

[@bigkebab9310]

@@yiasemide Maximum %5 of the Turkish Cypriots speaks Greek.

[@yiasemide]

Huge Kebab So there should be no surprise that an older Turkish Cypriot living in the Greek Cypriot administered side speaks it then.

[@bigkebab9310]

@@yiasemide Yes it can be.

[@Alpha-gk6hd]

I know a turkish cypriot called osman, he speaks greek and turkish fluently, including english. He is in mid to late sixties, this man knowing greek is no surprise. What the fuck is this statement, like seriously

[@Golifa]

Most older Cypriots do speak

[@yiasemide]

Straight up abuse will be reported and deleted.