Can’t they see the paradox of protesting against the illegal declaration of a state within the territory of the Republic of Cyprus and at the same time instead of flying the flag of the legal state they fly the flags of Greece and ‘Greek Cyprus’? (efen above, psem below)

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  4. How convenient of you of to forget that according to the Constitution Greek Cypriots may fly the Greek Flag and Tc may fly the Turkish flag. How convenient indeed… Also flying the flag of a UN member state at a rally cannot be compared with illegally invading and occupying part of another country…

  7. Let’s first remove giant flags covering entire mountains along with their caption before judging a few flag wavers.

    Don’t get me wrong, I agree that the Cyprus flag makes more sense, but it is a bit hypocritical to comment on 10-15 people waving them when the abortion on Pentadaktylos can be seen from space

  8. Ah yes, GC nationalist. Most Turks think free Cyprus is all like that and we are ready for an other 1963 but the truth is they are just bunch of dicks that like to shout and do pashama. Like that kinda marches ever helped the reunification narrative smh.

  10. There is no paradox. They are self declared Unionists (Enotikoi), ergo against the RoC. They see the RoC in an instrumental way, as just a diplomatic weapon or security line against turcification, but their ultimate goal is Union with Greece (total hellenization).

  11. I’ve always felt like waving the Greek flag drives us deeper into partition, playing right into Turkey’s hands. We like to say that Cyprus belongs to both GC and TCs, but when we fly the Greek flag we undermine that message and signal that we don’t really mean it. We didn’t mean it when we called for Enosis and we didn’t mean it in the 1960’s. Deep down we consider Cyprus to be just Greek, where the TCs are just another minority like the Armenians, and it doesn’t take much to get a Greek Cypriot to say that outright.

    How would we feel if Turkish Cypriots called us brothers and wanted a peaceful union, but at the same time waved the Turkish flag everywhere? We wave it voluntarily at football matches, elections (!) and churches. Would we not feel threatened by organised groups collectively and enthusiastically waving the flag of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire towards us? Would it be possible to even hear them calling us brothers?

    You’re going to tell me it’s important to be proud of our Greek heritage. But you’re missing the fact that waving the Greek flag, an act synonymous with calls for Enosis, our own unilateral repudiation of the constitution, the murders under the Akritas plan of the 1960’s and the coup of 1974, is so tone deaf. We’ve overcompensated for our sense of weakness after the invasion by coming across as aggressive and threatening towards the Turkish Cypriots, undermining our own self-interest. We’re too busy flexing muscles to see that we can also be intimidating. We validate their concern that if we reunited, we’re liable to repeat the 1960’s. This fear of the TCs is perhaps our biggest obstacle to reunification, yet we do nothing to assuage it. In fact we make it worse by flying Greek flags.

    What makes me sad is that despite having some vague and fragile sentiment that it would be good for us to reunite and call each other brothers, we don’t really mean it. We only talk about it. A whole generation has grown up brainwashed about how Greek this island is that any sense of actual loyalty towards the Turkish Cypriots is going to die with the older generations. In fair weather we can talk idealistically about brotherhood, but as soon as the emotions are turned on (see football matches, elections and churches), we’re just Greek. As a Greek Cypriot, it depresses me. To my Turkish Cypriot brothers, I wish we could find a way past this. We’re not all like this.

  13. On the flag fanatics there is nothing to say other than the fact that 38 years of waiving Greek flag had zero impact over the illegal declaration of trnc. It has only wider consequences of justifying Turkish nationalists claims on security guarantees desire of enosis etc… Idiotic suicidal act done unilaterally that only serves for Turkish nationalists rhetoric.

  15. The Cypriot state is a 60yo British construct you brainwashed janissary, go yell at those who’ve been lying to you.
    And so is the modern Greek state since we are at it, that’s also a western subversion.

  16. For those saying that GCs flying the Greek flag is the same as TCs waving the Turkish flag: I disagree. Greece is a western, EU state that respects human rights. It has a “let Cypriots decide for themselves” policy and doesn’t want to stay a guarantee power. It’s administrations since the establishment of the 3rd Hellenic Republic (after the fall of Junta) have no policy against TCs.

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