Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Republic of Cyprus has been independent from Greece for some time now. Cyprus wants North Cyprus back.

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  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TY for gracefully avoiding my egregious mistake.

    goes and reads Wikipedia

    Oh, since 1960. In that case I’ll re phrase it:

    The Republic of Cyprus will be pleased.

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    • assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s fucked up is I knew it was independent but I didn’t realize it was never Greek. They got independence from Britain, like… what???

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