Historian Reacts - Why is Cyprus Divided? (Short Animated Documentary)

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[samrevlej]

5:00 You're essentializing Westerners here, which is exactly what a lot of Westerners are accused of doing to the rest of the world. People don't automatically back another country because they're culturally closer to them. Plus, Greece at the time was a fascist military dictatorship, so supporting a fellow democracy wasn't exactly a winning argument. As for the anti-Islamic element, Turkey was for most of the 20th century a fiercely secularist state (with the French style of securalism, "laïcité", more proactive in forbidding public expressions of religion, like the veil), and I don't think it would've necessarily been associated with Islam per se.

[KimFareseed]

1:52
Sorry for leaving a comment about that on the King & Generals reaction.

If it makes you feel any better, it did get me to relisten to that section a few times. Sixty really did sound like sixteen to me a few times.

[StekTM]

Turkey lost all kind of reason they had once they decided to set up the artificial state of Northern Cyprus. It was basically the proof that the main point of the operation was land grab

[spencersholden]

Turkey went from the good guys to the bad guys real fast.

[kemal]

Dude Turks for the most part look very identitcal to other Greeks and Balkaners plus for most of the 20th century it had a very secularist policy and is Geographically closer to Europe why would you put them into the "supressed" people category especially in that Context ?

[outsiderkk]

there are better vids on Cyprus. I prefere Cold War channel's videos.