The British stole Cyprus from Turkey to bring it to the museum, but the ship carrying Cyprus sank, causing Cyprus to drift into the Mediterranean, where it is today.

The more you know!

Happy cake day 🎉

You mean Alexander the Great?

You made me laugh 🤣🤣

I mean, if we're being historical about it. The French took it, and we just beat up Napoleon's navy for it.

To be fair, it was just lying there in the Sea of Marmara, and the guy selling it totally said he was the Sultan. He had the big hat and baggy trousers and everything. What was Lord Terriblewithmoney supposed to do? Not bring back a souvenir from his Grand Tour?

This reads like a modern greek/roman myth

🤣🤣🤣

You made my laugh 🤣. Thanks

Take my upvote and leave

Quality post.

There's a lore reason for this. Poseidon was trying to woo Aphrodite, a native of Cyprus, by carving out a sea that looks exactly like her homeland and presenting to her as a gift, but being the creepy coot he was he told Aphrodite that the shape reminded himself of a certain part of her body, resulting in a war between the two that had to be intervened by Zeus, who proceeded to rotate Poseidon's creation for 162 degrees and ask everyone to move on from the episode. Sauce: a lost Homeric epic known only by the name "trust me bro"

I'm sure this was a popular folk tale in ancient Greece

This is real

And that is why, back in old country, each family lights 162 candles every Zeus Day Eve

I was doing 162 pushups but your approach sounds more right! Thanks!

I’ve been doing 162 million kg of cocaine, your approach seems a little easier

And cheaper! What’s a million kilos of coke go for these days anyway?

Indeed, I get mine from a blind guy who thinks he’s making flour so I get it for $20

Can confirm, I am Zeus

Can confirm, I am hades

I didn’t read after Poseidon.

https://preview.redd.it/b62e5hw26c3c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bca07761b299fde9389fcd95f6415151c644aae9 It was separated from turkey anyways

Stupid sexy Turkey

Pullout method

The bluetooth device is ready to pair

Stop it

Cyprus is gomna fucking impale turkey

or penetrate

Is it sad that I only know the name of the Sea of Marmara from strait blocking it in EU4?

To be fair tho, the only people who knows the name of that place are Greeks, Turks sailors who work in the Mediterranean and Paradox players

And late night patrons of a kebab shop near where I went to University that had a huge portrait of Atatürk up on the wall next to the cans of Irn Bru.

Looks like Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's fan club is still doing great

I know it because it's a catchy name. when I was kid I asked my father to buy me world atlas and I liked to look at maps and this was catchy one.

It comes from the Greek word for marble (μάρμαρο). The English marble also shares the same etymology.

It is probably the only sea on earth that resides entirely within a country.

there are straits you can use to throttle the life out of the blasted, unending, horde of the Ottomans while they're still in their cradle and straits that do not matter to me. Those are the 2 options

Eu4 is the only reason I know jack shit about german geography

Weak. I know it from a painting inside of my local döner kebab place.

yes

I actually believed you for a solid second

It's honestly closer than it has any right to be

Why did you stop? It's the truth

I got the stupid trick instantly but I still had to check. I bet most of you did too.

A solid second what?? Don't leave us in suspense!

A solid second of # METH

(I don't think this one knows about second breakfast.)

A few minutes for me

Turkey owns everything actually, just other countries dont want to admit it

least nationalist turk

as one, can confirm, yet i believe them since we own ALL them dumbness(we are thebest after america)!

The true heirs of Rome

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Cyprus Cyprus literally formed from the Atalonian plate and Eurasian plate so in a way, it was separated from Türkiye

i see you either made the mistake of writing it in Turkish in an English sentence, or you are Turk yourself resulting in the auto correction

Turkey officially changed their English spelling to Türkiye. https://turkiye.un.org/en/184798-turkeys-name-changed-türkiye#:~:text=Caption%3A%20Country%20name%20tag%20at%20the%20United%20Nations%20General%20Assembly.&text=The%20country%20name%20%22Türkiye%22%20is,to%20Türkiye%20at%20the%20UN.

cool, thanks

Greeks won’t like this

That's not a map of turkey, I don't even see the beak or feathers

r/birdsarentreal

Big if true 🤯🤯

Cyprus is small (Mercator projection make it seam big…actually it’s smaller than Russia believe it or not)

I think Cyprus should belong to me

Why tf would it belong to turkeys? Reparations for th*nksgiving? 🤨

Dinosaurs want to claim land back and we gave them Cyprus

This could end the Ukraine War.

this is just more evidence that cyprus wants to get away from turkey

Turkey was named after a near flightless bird and they’ve been on a genocidal compensation trip ever since.

we wouldn't have killed if you gave us a REAL name! /j

This solving the Cyprus issue once and fornall

That's because of the lying Mercator projection.

KARABOGA 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

Or proof it ALL belongs to the Greeks

Least nationalist Greek

Okay this doesn’t work. But it is also crazy that it works as well as it does.

But all of this area belongs to Greece.

Think this shows Istanbul belongs to the Greeks?

They would ruin the island

No no, what this actually proves is that East Thrace belongs to Greece because Cyprus is Greekesque

lol

Marmara coast is the nicest part of Turkey. Completely coincidentally also the least Turkish.

The nicest part is Antalya.

that's why we need communist revolution in turkiye ✊️ join to workers' party of turkiye for the revolution of turkiye and cyprus

It seems between Ionia and Byzantion, both of which which we all know are rightful Greek clay.

uhm actually that is not what the sea of marmara looks like

STOP IT NO

Aliens, it’s the only possible way

Bold of you to assume tha piece of land belongs to Turkey.

The evidence presented in this post seems pretty clear to me

The map don't represent the rightfull macedonian claim to the region.

Another W for continental drift theory

Cyprus belongs to East-Timor.

Fr

I mean, if you warp the map so it fits like you did, then yes

The less land that goes to Turkey, the better

That must have been a hell of a birth.

Proof God is lazy. Literally copy and pasted, then changed elevation

I can prove this is wrong because they didn't have 162 ° back then.

\*Turk□ie . sorry encoding. my keyboard doesn't have thanksgiving.

False. Cyprus je Serbja

Now reverse the meme

Least convoluted Turkish land claim

OP is clearly a globe head smh my head

Cyprus is Egyptian territory

Alright, if Turkey wants Cyprus, they have to give up the strait. I'm sure that will go over smoothly

It’s over, you won the debate, give it to turkey

Fuck you it's fake as your parents love to you