So says DISI’s president and presidential candidate Averof Neofitos…
In the nationalist speech that his party gave in a tearful tone at the preparation and ideological renewal convention for the 2023 elections, between the Greek flag and the few glaring Cyprus flags, he said, “Cyprus is our Home, Greece is our Heart, and the European Union is our Future”!
Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis, who was present at the congress, also spoke at length about “Hellenism”.
The Greek vice-president of the European Union Commission, Margaritas Hinas, gave speeches about the “two Hellenic states”, referring to Greece and the Republic of Cyprus.
(However, just a few weeks ago, he took the floor at the presentation of “A History of Resentment and Violence” in Athens and said, referring to Greece and Turkey, that “the homelands do not do good things for Cyprus, so it would be better for them to leave Cyprus alone.”)
Nikos Anastasiadis also attended the parade of nationalist speeches. In a speech he delivered at the opening ceremony of the ferry services that started between Limassol and Piraeus last weekend, he said, “We are connected with Greece by the umbilical cord, thanks to shipping.” These nationalist discourses are neither compatible with today’s realities nor with the pursuit of the future.
The Republic of Cyprus is not exactly a “second Hellenic state”. There has been a lot of struggle for this to happen in the past, but every step taken in this direction has brought Cyprus one step closer to partition.
Today there can only be a “half Hellenic state” if desired, which the vast majority of Greek Cypriots are against. If there is going to be a half-Cypriot state, they would prefer it to be a Greek-Cypriot state. The bio-nationalist discourse of Nikos Anastasiadis on the umbilical cord is also incompatible with the current tendencies of Greek Cypriots.
It doesn’t excite them. If a referendum were held today to join Greece, the result would be “no” for sure. Then the question might be asked: “If such rhetoric does not excite the masses, why do nationalist populists give such speeches?” The answer is simple. Because they don’t know any other language. Although the Motherland Nationalism (Enosis) was defeated, the cultural and symbolic language it left permeated the discourses of the nationalist elites. They console themselves with an empty nostalgia, a “past is in my heart ” type of whining. They do not know how to speak the language of the future. Turkish and Turkish Cypriot nationalists also use a similar language. , depending on its place “One Nation Two States” or “One Nation Three States” . Cyprus is “connected to Turkey with an umbilical cord” .
In short, nationalists, Greek-Greek or Turkish-Cypriot, it doesn’t matter. They imitate each other and repeat the rhetoric that is destroying this country. As if they have destroyed the past of this country, they also want to darken its future.
**However, the future is elsewhere! It is in Doğuş Derya’s response to the question “What does Cyprus” mean to you in a television program: “Cyprus is my homeland, my heart…” Here is Averof, the Doğuş difference… Here are the differences between nationalism and post-nationalism’s understanding of home…**
Here is the language of the Motherland Nationalism and the struggle to make Cyprus a homeland against it… One faces the past, the other the future.
Anyone supporting a solution which classifies citizens as GCs/TCs looses the right to complain about such comments.
DISY and AKEL are the parties with the most “sheep”. Such kind of rhetoric is aimed at the sheep of DISY.
In reality for Averof it is neither Greece nor EU. If he is elected he will do whatever the AngloAmericans ask him.
Well, Greece is in my heart what can i say. Am i a nationalist? I want a reunification but… am I allowed to say i love Greece?
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“ Cyprus is our Home, Greece is our Heart…”
So says DISI’s president and presidential candidate Averof Neofitos…
In the nationalist speech that his party gave in a tearful tone at the preparation and ideological renewal convention for the 2023 elections, between the Greek flag and the few glaring Cyprus flags, he said, “Cyprus is our Home, Greece is our Heart, and the European Union is our Future”!
Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis, who was present at the congress, also spoke at length about “Hellenism”.
The Greek vice-president of the European Union Commission, Margaritas Hinas, gave speeches about the “two Hellenic states”, referring to Greece and the Republic of Cyprus.
(However, just a few weeks ago, he took the floor at the presentation of “A History of Resentment and Violence” in Athens and said, referring to Greece and Turkey, that “the homelands do not do good things for Cyprus, so it would be better for them to leave Cyprus alone.”)
Nikos Anastasiadis also attended the parade of nationalist speeches. In a speech he delivered at the opening ceremony of the ferry services that started between Limassol and Piraeus last weekend, he said, “We are connected with Greece by the umbilical cord, thanks to shipping.” These nationalist discourses are neither compatible with today’s realities nor with the pursuit of the future.
The Republic of Cyprus is not exactly a “second Hellenic state”. There has been a lot of struggle for this to happen in the past, but every step taken in this direction has brought Cyprus one step closer to partition.
Today there can only be a “half Hellenic state” if desired, which the vast majority of Greek Cypriots are against. If there is going to be a half-Cypriot state, they would prefer it to be a Greek-Cypriot state. The bio-nationalist discourse of Nikos Anastasiadis on the umbilical cord is also incompatible with the current tendencies of Greek Cypriots.
It doesn’t excite them. If a referendum were held today to join Greece, the result would be “no” for sure. Then the question might be asked: “If such rhetoric does not excite the masses, why do nationalist populists give such speeches?” The answer is simple. Because they don’t know any other language. Although the Motherland Nationalism (Enosis) was defeated, the cultural and symbolic language it left permeated the discourses of the nationalist elites. They console themselves with an empty nostalgia, a “past is in my heart ” type of whining. They do not know how to speak the language of the future. Turkish and Turkish Cypriot nationalists also use a similar language. , depending on its place “One Nation Two States” or “One Nation Three States” . Cyprus is “connected to Turkey with an umbilical cord” .
In short, nationalists, Greek-Greek or Turkish-Cypriot, it doesn’t matter. They imitate each other and repeat the rhetoric that is destroying this country. As if they have destroyed the past of this country, they also want to darken its future.
**However, the future is elsewhere! It is in Doğuş Derya’s response to the question “What does Cyprus” mean to you in a television program: “Cyprus is my homeland, my heart…” Here is Averof, the Doğuş difference… Here are the differences between nationalism and post-nationalism’s understanding of home…**
Here is the language of the Motherland Nationalism and the struggle to make Cyprus a homeland against it… One faces the past, the other the future.
Anyone supporting a solution which classifies citizens as GCs/TCs looses the right to complain about such comments.
DISY and AKEL are the parties with the most “sheep”. Such kind of rhetoric is aimed at the sheep of DISY.
In reality for Averof it is neither Greece nor EU. If he is elected he will do whatever the AngloAmericans ask him.
Well, Greece is in my heart what can i say. Am i a nationalist? I want a reunification but… am I allowed to say i love Greece?