No, technically and really it isn't, at all. In fact the very idea of chasing exactly that is what precipitated the Turkis invasion of the Northern half.
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If you want to get technical, no, they are not. Cypriots are actually descended from Venetians and the vast majority of them are no more GReek than me or you. THey share a church but not DNA.
I dont care for the term bubbles, as mentioned here previously.
I mean, you wouldn't call SW a mic would you.....
It's an interesting point, mind. One wonders whether, back in the day, there was much fraternising between the English oppressor and the native colleen, and whether this planted a pernicious seam of Englishness within the sacred DNA of the Sons and Daughters of Eirrean.
THey speak Cypriot Greek, which is a bit different. Also, they dont refer to themselves as Greek. Greeks consider them GReek, they consider themselves Cypriots, or Greek Cypriots.
They can get rather touchy about this.
Anyway, the woman is ****ing thick, that was my point.