Yiango writes:
Cyprus is politically, culturally and historically part of Europe [...] [snip] Even the Turkish-cypriot community, although of Anatolian origin, has a claim over European identity proved by a) the fact there's a lot of cultural convergence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and b) Turkey's endeavors to become an EU member.
These taken together seem to me, at least, to prove too much: if Cyprus is in Europe geographically because it is part of European civilization past, present, and future, why then so is Turkey. (Before 1914, the Ottoman Empire was traditionally treated as a European power.) And yet all but a small part of Turkey is indisputably in Asia, geographically considered.
With the above quotation, I'd like to contest the legitimacy and validity of purely geographical frontiers that are used in segmenting the globe (because frontiers are in themselves imaginary, determined on the negotiation table of political powers, etc.).
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