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    1. Yellowapple1000 on

      The 1831 census was done by the Ottomans, 1881 and 1931 by the UK and 1960 by Cyprus.

      There was emigration of the Muslims and the Greek population seems to have higher population growth.

      The Muslim grew from around 30 thousand in 1831 (when the 15 thousand recorded males are doubled) to 104 thousand in 1960. They fell as a percentage from 34% to 18%.

      The Non Muslim population grew from some 60 thousand (males doubled) in 1831 to 469 thousand.

    2. They tried to erase the Turkish presence in island. They failed and now they are crying.

    3. Diligent_Touch7548 on

      Never happened but they deserved it but it doesn’t matter anyway because everyone else also did it

    4. The only reason has to be ethnic cleansing! There can be no other cause for the decline in % of Muslim populations. Just like in Thessaly in 1881 and Macedonia or Crete in 1913.

      /s

    5. Another thread in which Turks will jack each other off and hate on Greeks, lol. Classic.

    6. DontCareHowICallMe on

      People claiming ethnic cleansing in the comments while the island wasn’t ruled by anyone but colonisers till 1960. How did the Greeks ethnic cleansed them and the ottomans didn’t ever bother about it?