Missed my favourite watering hole. The Grand Hotel in Platres. A cold beer under the Carob trees with time to chat to both old friends and new. delightful
That period in time was utterly beautiful. What I find interesting is that when we see shots of people in modern dress, it it still beautiful (alongside the traditional/ancient). The fashions of the Sixties had increible class. But if we were to record these same locations today...we would be disgusted.
I mean, when they gave 16% of the population the same representation as the rest 84% (no surprise since that 16% took their side during the war of independence), as well as veto powers in parliament and court, and when 16% was represented by 70% in the police force, they really did.
I got lucky, The RAF posted me to RAF Troodos in December 1968. My first mistake was buying a Morgan 4/4 Sports car. Troodos has many feet of snow every winter, not an ideal choice, great in the summer though. Cheap place to live, nice people, great beaches, good food. Hardly surprising the RAF has 5 volunteers ready to fill evey vacancy that occurs..
I have been in both sides for several times, both people are kind and nice. The only way is the federation system also the both communities need to learn to speak Greek and Tu
You’re not Cypriot. You’re not well informed and frankly shouldn’t have an opinion on the matter. Why create a federation between Cypriots and illegal Turkish settlers? Why legalise the colonisation of Cyprus by Turkey and the war crimes that came with it (ie displacement of 200.000 Greek Cypriots and demographic alteration by Turkish colonisers)?
The commentary and the music is very over dramatic but maybe not exaggerating as there was violence on the island at the time. Ten years later the Greek Cypriots were fleeing to the south of the island while Turkish Cypriots were moving to the north of the island.
You're right, you shouldn't call it a civil war. You can call this genocide against the Turks. They even wanted to kill their own president and bishop, Archbishop Makarios. The man barely escaped with his life and took refuge in the British base.
@@metinkozan9237 Learn your facts: there was no genocide just conflict of interests and Turkey's long-term plans to recapture the island. As for Makarios he was in on the plot and allowed to escape during the staged events. By way of after-effects sadly many people had to pay either by loss of life, limb, or property.
@@78a67h Bu olaylar uzak bir tarihte olmadı. Toplu mezarların ve Kanlı noel olaylarının olmadıgını mı söylüyosunuz. Makarios u öldürmeye çalıştıgınızdamı yalan.. Hükümeti ortadan kaldırdıgınız da yalan. Samson katilini yeni cumhurbaşkanı yaptıgınız da yalan. Adayı enosis hayalleriyle Yunanistana baglamak istemeniz de yalan.. Gerçekten komiksiniz
@@78a67h Bulunan toplu mezarlar ve Kanlı noel yalanmıydı. Neden gerçekleri inkar ediyosunuz.. Amacınız soykırım yapıp adayı Yunanistana baglamaktı.. Bu kadar basit.
"Still no sign of strife as a gay parade gets underway....The fervent love that can provoke hatred." - hahahaha now that's a good example of how language and attitudes change over time.
I plead the blood of Jesus to the present, beings of darkness, posing as spirits of the present.❤❤❤ Spirits of the present,help us to pray for a more majestic and heavenly reality, like the one around 2018, and all of God's wasted and stolen energy and magic to return back to him,angels help to take these messages and prayers to God. The bible, God's magic, Moses magic, Joseph, the giant spiritual shooting star, success, Jesus Christ magic.... your will God be done thu no matter what, not as us.❤❤❤❤
This is so blatantly condescending it's almost funny. Also nothing on how the Brits, the colonisers, turned the 'island of love into an island of hate'? Hm.
The greek and turkish cypriots managed do that without any help of the British, once they were given the chance to be free of colonial rule they started murdering each other ,how hateful is that..
@@12shankley Oh... did they start murdering each other out of the blue? Were they murdering each before 1878? Who came up with the terms 'Greek Cypriot' and 'Turkish Cypriot' in the first place? The Brits. Why would that be? Didn't the Belgians do something similar in Belgium with the Hutu and the Tutsi? When did the interethnic conflict began? During the British colonisation of Cyprus. Who hired Turkish Cypriot as policemen against Greek Cypriots? The Brits. If we are truly independent why do the Brits still hold three massive military bases on our island? You are as condescending and misinformed as this cringy documentary and you, just like many others, remove the oppressor (BRITAIN) from the picture. Please...
@@PARAZARELLE No, it really isn't. It's exclusively about the two main ethnic groups seeking dominance of the island. And within their own homelands, both countries have been part of NATO since the organization was founded. I refuse to recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. I never have recognized the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. And I wouldn't recognize a hypothetical Greek Republic if it were established on Cyprus either.
@DTD110865 No! - It's about one group which seeks dominance and the other group that seeks survival. It's about one group who fanatically sought unification with Greece in the 1950's and were prepared to kill to achieve it, and still wish to control the island, against the will of the other group. It's about one group who consistently rejects the UN peace proposals, which the other group accepts. Like the island of Ireland, peace can only be achieved through division, and international recognition of each part.
A beautiful island with beautiful people.
One of which is in the thumbnail of this video.
Wait, really???
I went to Cyprus in 1985 for 10 days on vacation. Absolutely beautiful
@Ataturkist3775 Cyprus is Phoenician, it belongs to Lebanon 🇱🇧
My time on Cyprus was most definitely interesting & much enjoyed. Was there from mid Sep 79 to April 80.
@Ataturkist3775 türkiye is in mongolia
I was a soldier there in 1959, memories of Episkopi Garrison and Happy Valley. then home to Bonnie Scotland in 1960.
Amazing!
An awful lot has changed since to the worse, not as a result of the strife, but because of senseless "development work" which is in fact disastrous.
The Brits done the Greeks dirty and you know it
Missed my favourite watering hole. The Grand Hotel in Platres. A cold beer under the Carob trees with time to chat to both old friends and new. delightful
That period in time was utterly beautiful. What I find interesting is that when we see shots of people in modern dress, it it still beautiful (alongside the traditional/ancient). The fashions of the Sixties had increible class. But if we were to record these same locations today...we would be disgusted.
It's called "new age"..
@@apapa5495 You forgot to add GODLESS
@@susanpower-q5qI’m okay with that much lol.
Lovely place!
Wow
The Royal Oak tree unfortunately had persished i remember visiting it as a kid in the mid 90s. Great memories.
RAF Akrotiri - my best overseas tour 1965-67 on a 4 watch system covering 24/7 so no nasty station duties to bother us.
sad what they all had to go through. Northern people are still suffering directly from the conflict. I wish the best for all
I love the sarcasm, hahaha!
The "Gay Parade" mentioned at 7.22 has a totally different meaning by today's standards.
Indeed
I wonder when that term was at a stage that it would no longer have been used in this context in such a video. Perhaps in the early 70s.
What was the meaning of it back then?
@@manos.h High spirited!
@Ataturkist3775 What are you trying to say with your spam?
The British set the Greek and Turkish Cypriots against each other...😢
I mean, when they gave 16% of the population the same representation as the rest 84% (no surprise since that 16% took their side during the war of independence), as well as veto powers in parliament and court, and when 16% was represented by 70% in the police force, they really did.
I got lucky, The RAF posted me to RAF Troodos in December 1968. My first mistake was buying a Morgan 4/4 Sports car. Troodos has many feet of snow every winter, not an ideal choice, great in the summer though.
Cheap place to live, nice people, great beaches, good food. Hardly surprising the RAF has 5 volunteers ready to fill evey vacancy that occurs..
Man that’s nice, my father was born in 1968 and he worked in the raf base in akrotiri in Cyprus !
Cyprus once a nice holiday island turned into a war-torn island, separated by a UN Buffer Zone.
Thanks to the anglo-saxons of khazarian origin
It always has been a war torn island, read up on history.
Also, there has been peace for half a century, so it has been very clam recently.
Same for neighboring Lebanon...
I have been in both sides for several times, both people are kind and nice. The only way is the federation system also the both communities need to learn to speak Greek and Tu
You’re not Cypriot. You’re not well informed and frankly shouldn’t have an opinion on the matter. Why create a federation between Cypriots and illegal Turkish settlers? Why legalise the colonisation of Cyprus by Turkey and the war crimes that came with it (ie displacement of 200.000 Greek Cypriots and demographic alteration by Turkish colonisers)?
Any info on the music?
Pathe current staff have no record of any of the music used in any of their film clips… :-(
The commentary and the music is very over dramatic but maybe not exaggerating as there was violence on the island at the time. Ten years later the Greek Cypriots were fleeing to the south of the island while Turkish Cypriots were moving to the north of the island.
I wouldn't quite call fighting between Greeks and Turks on the island "civil war".
You're right, you shouldn't call it a civil war. You can call this genocide against the Turks. They even wanted to kill their own president and bishop, Archbishop Makarios. The man barely escaped with his life and took refuge in the British base.
@@metinkozan9237 Learn your facts: there was no genocide just conflict of interests and Turkey's long-term plans to recapture the island. As for Makarios he was in on the plot and allowed to escape during the staged events. By way of after-effects sadly many people had to pay either by loss of life, limb, or property.
@@78a67h Bu olaylar uzak bir tarihte olmadı. Toplu mezarların ve Kanlı noel olaylarının olmadıgını mı söylüyosunuz. Makarios u öldürmeye çalıştıgınızdamı yalan.. Hükümeti ortadan kaldırdıgınız da yalan. Samson katilini yeni cumhurbaşkanı yaptıgınız da yalan. Adayı enosis hayalleriyle Yunanistana baglamak istemeniz de yalan.. Gerçekten komiksiniz
@@78a67h Bulunan toplu mezarlar ve Kanlı noel yalanmıydı. Neden gerçekleri inkar ediyosunuz.. Amacınız soykırım yapıp adayı Yunanistana baglamaktı.. Bu kadar basit.
This type of commentary would be racist nowadays!
Was the narrater high or something
"Still no sign of strife as a gay parade gets underway....The fervent love that can provoke hatred." - hahahaha now that's a good example of how language and attitudes change over time.
Nowadays there's only parades for gays instead of gay parades
who is she, looks like me
It's your grandmother.
- GreaT Idilyc Times,BeFore The Turks Invasion 1.974...~
I plead the blood of Jesus to the present, beings of darkness, posing as spirits of the present.❤❤❤
Spirits of the present,help us to pray for a more majestic and heavenly reality, like the one around 2018, and all of God's wasted and stolen energy and magic to return back to him,angels help to take these messages and prayers to God.
The bible, God's magic, Moses magic, Joseph, the giant spiritual shooting star, success, Jesus Christ magic.... your will God be done thu no matter what, not as us.❤❤❤❤
Hahahaha!
What an appalling commentary. But beautiful place
1960s!! Get some perspective.
Video 7/22 Gay Parade did not mean in 1965 what it means today 2024
more bikinis and less blab
This is so blatantly condescending it's almost funny. Also nothing on how the Brits, the colonisers, turned the 'island of love into an island of hate'? Hm.
The greek and turkish cypriots managed do that without any help of the British, once they were given the chance to be free of colonial rule they started murdering each other ,how hateful is that..
@@12shankley Oh... did they start murdering each other out of the blue? Were they murdering each before 1878? Who came up with the terms 'Greek Cypriot' and 'Turkish Cypriot' in the first place? The Brits. Why would that be? Didn't the Belgians do something similar in Belgium with the Hutu and the Tutsi?
When did the interethnic conflict began? During the British colonisation of Cyprus. Who hired Turkish Cypriot as policemen against Greek Cypriots? The Brits. If we are truly independent why do the Brits still hold three massive military bases on our island? You are as condescending and misinformed as this cringy documentary and you, just like many others, remove the oppressor (BRITAIN) from the picture. Please...
It's all part of British "exceptionalism"
@@PARAZARELLE No, it really isn't. It's exclusively about the two main ethnic groups seeking dominance of the island. And within their own homelands, both countries have been part of NATO since the organization was founded.
I refuse to recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. I never have recognized the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. And I wouldn't recognize a hypothetical Greek Republic if it were established on Cyprus either.
@DTD110865 No! - It's about one group which seeks dominance and the other group that seeks survival. It's about one group who fanatically sought unification with Greece in the 1950's and were prepared to kill to achieve it, and still wish to control the island, against the will of the other group. It's about one group who consistently rejects the UN peace proposals, which the other group accepts. Like the island of Ireland, peace can only be achieved through division, and international recognition of each part.