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Post by tileiohmaleas on Jan 2, 2008 16:03:01 GMT -5
Thats not what the world sees Cheerio
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Jan 1, 2008 21:49:15 GMT -5
heh Fetta will always be Greek, aswell as the loukoumi. Live with it Sweet sorrow hehe
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 19, 2007 7:30:09 GMT -5
So what are we saying here. That Istanbul is a Greek city and loukoumi is Turkish ? LoL
Does it really matter son, Cypriots got the rights. Just gotta live with it I guess.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 18, 2007 6:57:20 GMT -5
Yeh and the name Istanbul has meaning (etymology) in Greek aswell
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 14, 2007 10:10:43 GMT -5
Sorry, never heard of it. You must be reffering to the sweet called Loukoumi
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 14, 2007 8:05:57 GMT -5
Does it really matter what it means. Cypriots make it better than the TUrks and thats why we got the rights..... hehe ^ ^ Anyway, most cuisne in Turkey has been copied from other groups of peoples within its borders over the years. They shouldnt be complaining. "Cyprus, an EU member since 2004, put in its bid for trademark protection before Turkey and will therefore get official recognition for its sweet" Maybe Turks can try take the word souvlaki to an all new level ? LoL
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 14, 2007 8:09:26 GMT -5
Man I guess they were right. Turks were on Cyprus before any other group of people showed up
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 7, 2007 7:35:44 GMT -5
Dwarf hippo fossils found on Cyprus By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press Writer
Petros Karadjias Cyprus Geological Survey Department Senior Officer Ioannis Panayides cover the fossilized remains of dozens of dwarf hippopotamuses lying in an excavated cave outside the resort village of Ayia Napa, some 80km (40 miles) southeast of the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007. A collapsed cave believed to contain the fossilized remains of dozens of dwarf hippopotamuses that are believed to have swum to this east Mediterranean island as many as 250,000 years ago. The fossils date to 9,000-11,500 BC and could provide clues as to when the island was actually inhabited by humans. AYIA NAPA, Cyprus --An abattoir used by early Cypriots, a place where animals went to die, or a shelter that ultimately proved a death trap?
Cypriot and Greek scientists are studying a collapsed cave filled with the fossilized remains of extinct dwarf hippopotamuses - descendants of hippos believed to have reached the island a quarter-million years ago.
Paleontologists have unearthed an estimated 80 dwarf hippos in recent digs at the site just outside the resort of Ayia Napa on the island's southeastern coast. Hundreds more may lie beneath an exposed layer of jumbled fossils.
Scientists hope the fossil haul, tentatively dated to 9,000-11,500 B.C., could offer clues to when humans first set foot on this Mediterranean island.
"It's about our origins," said Ioannis Panayides, the Cyprus Geological Survey Department official in charge of the excavations in conjunction with the University of Athens. "Knowledge of our geological history makes us more knowledgeable about ourselves."
Until the Ayia Napa discovery, the earliest trace of humans on Cyprus dated to 8,000 B.C. But signs of human activity at the new dig could turn back the clock on the first Cypriots by as much as 3,500 years.
"That's very significant, but we can't be certain yet. The task of examining is laborious and time consuming," said University of Athens Professor George Theodorou, who is tasked with examining some 1.5 tons of fossils.
The dwarf hippopotamuses were herbivores, like their modern cousins, but were only about 2 1/2 feet tall and 4 feet long. Unlike modern hippos, whose upturned nostrils seem designed for swimming, Cypriot hippos had low-slung nostrils better suited to foraging on land.
Panayides said the fossils show the Cypriot hippos had legs and feet adapted to land, enabling them to stand on their hind legs to reach tree branches.
Experts believe hippos arrived on Cyprus between 100,000 to 250,000 ago, and likely got smaller to adapt to the hilly island landscape. But scientists do not know how the animals reached Cyprus, which has never been physically linked to another land mass.
Panayides said paleontologists theorize hippos may have swum or floated here during a Pleistocene ice age from land that is now Turkey or Syria. They may have clung to tree trunks and other debris during the crossing.
Lower sea levels at the time made Cyprus much larger than its present 3,570 square miles, meaning it was much closer to other lands. By some estimates, what is now Syria was a mere 18 miles away.
Digs over the last century uncovered smaller numbers of dwarf hippo fossils at 40 locations across Cyprus. One cave found 20 years ago had evidence of fire, stone tools and scorched bones indicating dwarf hippos were hunted by humans.
Carbon dating on those hippo fossils showed the site dated to 8,000 B.C. Evidence of human activity at Ayia Napa means the island may have been settled by humans as much as 3,500 years earlier.
A human footprint at the Ayia Napa site could bolster the theory that the island's earliest inhabitants could have driven the dwarf hippos to extinction through hunting, said Panayides.
"If these new bones are found to be older than bones previously discovered and scientists can find an association with humans, then the discovery has the potential to tell us more about the island's first human inhabitants," said Eleanor Weston, a paleontologist at London's Natural History Museum who was not connected with the Ayia Napa discovery.
Panayides said indications that hippo bones at Ayia Napa had been crushed as if trampled by other hippos, suggesting successive generations came to the cave. Shelter is the most likely explanation, but Panayides didn't rule out the possibility the hippos returned to an ancient burial ground to die.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Jan 4, 2008 9:58:44 GMT -5
Yeh you are, you just havent accepted it yet. In time young man in time.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Jan 2, 2008 15:58:38 GMT -5
heh my friend, EU will never be saing thank you to Turkey.
EU has beeen tossing Turkey around like your so called dogs and TUrkey has been returning every time.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Jan 1, 2008 21:57:15 GMT -5
why you laughing. Its a serious matter. Just say thank you on behalf of all Turkish Cypriots and it should be fine. Say thank you to the imperialistic Christian countries which despise muslims all over the world. DO IT DO IT ! ! ! hehe cheers Janny
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 14, 2007 10:15:37 GMT -5
Still no thank you ? Cmon Jan, its not that hard.
You guys area always good at taking handouts, should be easy for you.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 14, 2007 8:01:06 GMT -5
Ofcourse nobody travels the North freely. Not even the Turkish Cypriots travel freely. Constant fear of the army. Must be the extremists.
heh subject to others. Yeh, people enjoyed invading Cyprus. But the people never changed their Greekness. That was the fault of the Turks. Didnt try hard enough champ.
Pay us how ? with what money ? the money that the Turkish Cypriots are working in the south for ? lol or the money the EU has given the North to aid in their infrastructure ?
What no thank you for EU money ? keeping quiet on that one are we ? just imagining your reaction when the Turkish Cypriots accept a nice cheque of millions from the EU. Priceless.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 7, 2007 7:23:13 GMT -5
Everyone else being Turks only right ?
People need to understand they cant always have what they want.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 6, 2007 8:00:10 GMT -5
Umm like are we ment to be surprised. THey felt the same way in 1955.
Yeh ofcourse they'd favour an Annan plan. Anything that would give them control of government is a bonus.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 7, 2007 7:22:31 GMT -5
Ohh yeh like it was almost recognised by Congo ? LoL
All wishful thinking.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 6, 2007 8:11:02 GMT -5
yes valued just like the fake concept of TRNC is valued world wide.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Dec 4, 2007 7:27:39 GMT -5
President Papadopoulos says no official initiative for Cyprus settlement 30/11/2007
President of the Republic of Cyprus Tassos Papadopoulos said on Thursday that the Government did not have any official proposal for a new initiative for a Cyprus settlement after the presidential elections, noting that there was however information regarding mobility on the matter.
Speaking at Larnaca Airport on his return from Athens and asked about a new initiative on the Cyprus problem, President Papadopoulos said ''it is information, it is statements, press reports, and everyone is speaking about mobility.''
''I am not aware of a specific initiative. There is nothing concrete,'' President Papadopoulos pointed out.
Replying to questions, President Papadopoulos said that there was a possibility for a window of opportunity to appear, based on pres reports, diplomatic sources and the UN Secretary General's recent report, adding that there was a long distance between these remarks and an initiative.
Commenting on reactions by the Turkish occupation regime regarding the purchase of products by Turkish Cypriots in the government-controlled areas of the Republic, President Papadopoulos said the Greek Cypriot side permitted free trade, while the occupation regime imposed restrictions.
''The economic active between the two communities is totally free from our side. If there are any restrictions there are imposed by the occupation regime for its own reasons and it would be good for those speaking about free trade to know that trade is not one-way. It involves both sides and not one side forbidding it and us leaving it free,'' he said.
President Papadopoulos added that the measures taken by the occupation regime to restrict the purchases made by Turkish Cypriots in the government-controlled areas was ''an answer to those who say that the Turkish Cypriots are in economic isolation.''
''If there is isolation it is isolation imposed by the occupation troops and the efforts of the Turkish Cypriots to project that they are a separate legal entity in Cyprus,'' the President pointed out. ==============================
''If there is isolation it is isolation imposed by the occupation troops and the efforts of the Turkish Cypriots to project that they are a separate legal entity in Cyprus,''
you guys had that coming a mileeeee away.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Jan 4, 2008 9:55:11 GMT -5
Anything is possible with a little leverage.........and some bending over to the USA.
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Post by tileiohmaleas on Jan 2, 2008 16:02:43 GMT -5
"The Turkish government has consistently thwarted attempts by the Kurds to organize politically. Kurdish political parties are shut down one after another, and party members are harassed and imprisoned for "crimes of opinion." "
Yeh thats the Kurds for you trusting in their government. They must really love the Turks hehe man you must be soo blinded by Turtkish nationalism. But give the Turkish army credit for having an impact on your 'nice' sized brain.
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