Patsy Stoned

...... for a week, to go and see my Mummy...it is her 85th birthday
Fortunately, she lives in Northern Cyprus..so no bank issues for me

Alexa

Have a nice trip, and happy B day to your mom from me

Bob

Have a fun trip and happy birthday to the old dear!

flares

Have fun Cornish

mikewot

Enjoy the TRNC

Sue

Have a great time and Happy Birthday to your mum.

Eva

Glad no-one is stealing her pounds.
Have a great time,a special time with your mater x

mentalist

You mean that illegal entity which only Turkey recognises and where almost all of the land actually belongs to Greek Cypriots? Just repeating what I was told by umpteen posters on the Europe Forum when I once enquired about buying property there.

britexpat76

if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all.

Thumper (Bambi)

Meow

It's not as simple as that. In the South there are numerous properties that were owned by Turkish Cypriots, now 'owned' by Greeks; just as there is in the North. People moved in both directions when the country was divided.


Patsy - Have a good break x

Blue Cat

85! wow I remember her 80th, didn't you got that time as well, she is amazing, enjoy your trip PS

fluffymoo

Hope you have lots of fun and a very happy birthday to your mumsy xx

ctfc

I do remember seeing a very surprising sign in a shop on the Greek side in Nicosia; it said "I would rather serve a thousand Turks than a single Greek".

It turned out the guy was a coffin maker.

I suspect 'Turks' has now been changed to 'Germans'.

Patsy Stoned

I would suggest that you do some research rather than depend on opinions on a Greek Cypriot forum.
In fact Larnaca airport is build on Turkish Cypriot land, but nothing gets said about that.
If you can get hold of a copy of The Cyprus Tapes by David Matthew it is an excellent book which will help to explain the circumstances of the Cyprus issue.
This also has some interesting FACTS..
http://www.ataa.org/reference/trnc/facts_trnc.html

Anyway.. I like the North side and the banks are certainly a lot more stable!

Norm_uk

Cyprus was illegally invaded and occupied...still is but we don't hear half the venom about Turkey (which also committed mass genocides it still denies against Kurds, Greeks and Armenian people) as we do about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Someone has better marketing.

Anyway happy birthday to Mumsy...am sure she was part of the invading army.

N.