[A-List] Cyprus: This country is ours rally!

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Sabri,
>
> I fear if the island is re-united the massacre of
> Turks will start afresh. What do you say?
>
> Tariq

I am not that pessimistic. Believe it or not, but we Greeks and
Turks get along quite well, especially when we meet here in North
America. The peoples of Greece and Turkey are so similar
culturally and emotionally that it has always been a puzzle to me
why there has been this stupid "hatred" between these two
countries. I don't think religion can be an explanation to that
either because although they believe in Jesus and we believe in
Allah, even the ways we believe in our respective Gods are so
similar.

I remember a movie I watched many years ago, "Mediterranean" its
name was if I am not wrong, and in one of the scenes, a few
Italians, Greeks and Turks were together, smoking something like
marijuana or some such thing and one of them, I guess one of the
Italians, said this about these three:

"One face, one race."

So, why should there be a massacre of Turks by Greeks or Greeks
by Turks unless there is something stupid going on?

What could that stupid thing be?

Best,
Sabri

PS: By the way, one of my very good friends during my engineering
school days many years ago was a Pakistani poet by the name of
Anisurrahman Khan, who used to tell me that if I went to
Pakistan, everybody would think that I was a Pakistani. And
whenever I go to Mexico, they speak to me in Spanish. And a few
Brazilians thought I was a Brazilian. And ...