The Leonard Lopate Show

Reunification is only possoble thanks to the decades-long U.N. peace-keeping operations. The U.N. never gets it's due respects for this operation.

While " Communist" is a bad word in America the same is not true everywhere in the world. Europe has many different marxist traditions with nuanced differences between them.

Calling somebody "comrade" stems from a tradition

which, in places like Greece, would be wrong to dismiss.

I visited Cyprus about 10 years ago when my wife was asked to teach a group of Israeli optometrists. I had lots of free time to explore, and was captivated by the gobs of history the island had to offer. We never crossed from the Greek to the Turkish side, but the Greek side was much more commercially advanced. Greek Cypriots stopped us and railed about the Turks. Very few U.S. vacationers go to the island, probably because it’s not easy to get to.

turks are greeks who speak turkish and are Muslim.

Saying that Greek civilisation began in Turkey and the islands, therein, has many inaccuracies. Firstly, it was HELLENIC civilisation that brought about western democracy,law, and literature. The word,Greek, was created by Latins. Second, Turkey became a republic in 1923. Before that time the area was called Asia Minor and was populated by various peoples, mainly Hellenics. Turks came upon the scene in the ninth century,having invaded the entire area and parts of Europe up to what is known as Austria, before receding.So, there had been no Turkey until Attaturk created it. The invasion of Cyprus was the handwork of Henry Kissinger and the C.I.A.no matter what the big boys state.And, the invasion had once been suggested by Pres. Lyndon Johnson when he had hinted to the deposed King Cobnstantine that he might receive the island as a wedding gift.That's when Andreas Papandreas warned that if anything resembling such a dastardous undertaking was attempted he'd whistle for the Soviet Union. Johnson back down.

History is always rewritten in some way. But, the natural peoples of Cyprus, and, that includes Turkish minorities who fought with the Cypriots against the mainlanders, know the truth and they know who their enemies are.