From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek,soc.history
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: RE: Cyprus....who does it belong to???
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 21:58:42 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <C0rFI8.C7t@acsu.buffalo.edu> v999saum@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Varnavas A. Lambrou) writes:

>At last!! A Turkish Cypriot with an open mind.
>Not a fanatic, not a racist.
>Somebody who thinks and then acts.

I like your kind of odds. What really counts is the truth.

Source: 'The Cyprus Conflict, national identity and statehood.'
Author: Zenon Stavrinides 

p. 60 - 3rd paragraph:

" 	It should be noted that the Akritas Plan was never disclaimed
by Makarios or other Greek Cypriot leaders. And although the plan was 
abandoned after the first intercommunal fighting - when the Greeks 
failed to become masters of the situation "within a day or two" - 
Makarios continued to proclaim that (to take for example the statement
he made to the London I.T.N. on 15th June 1966):

	 'The demand for enosis is based on the democratic principle 
	  of self-determination...Enosis is a right of the people.'

Earlier, in April 1965, he rejected the recommendation of the U.N. Mediator
in Cyprus that the exercise of self-determination should be short of 
Enosis. After all, the point of relegating the Turkish community to the 
status of a minority and invoking the full application of the principle
of self-determination was none other than achieving Enosis. "

pp. 63-64:

"	Let us now look at what happened in the Greek community of Cyprus
from 1963-1974...
	Makarios never appeared to have regretted the fact that his 
13-point proposals, made against the background of suspicion and tension, 
precipitated the break-up of the bicommunal State. Probably he thought that
the ensuing state-within-the-State situation was preferable to what 
preceded it. At least the events of December 1963 got him off the Zurich-
London hook, and now he felt free to lead his people in a new struggle
towards a goal which would certainly not be a Greco-Turkish State. What
was this new goal to be? The answer was given by him in scores of speeches
and other public statements he made before and after December 1963. To take
a quite typical example, on 3rd November 1963, at Paralimni Church he said:

	 'What is our desire? We have proclaimed it many times: our union
	  with the Motherland, eternal Greece. What will our reply be if
	  such a solution is made difficult, and if some think compromises
	  are required or that something be given in return? No is the 
	  reply, and the struggle will continue until complete fulfilment.'

Again, in interviews with Greek Cypriot newspapers, he explained his 
position in these terms:

	 'The real victory will be achieved when Cyprus will be annexed
	  to Greece without any concessions whatever... I am for Enosis
	  but it must be genuine Enosis without curbs or strings. (Ethniki
	  newspaper, 1.10.1967)'

The same idea was expressed by the House of Representatives which on  
26th June 1967, passed unanimously the following resolution:

	 'Interpreting the age-long aspirations of the Greeks of Cyprus,
	  the House declares that despite any adverse circumstances it will
	  not suspend the struggle conducted with the support of all Greeks
	  until this struggle succeeds in uniting the whole and undivided
	  Cyprus with the Motherland, without any intermediary stages.'"

Serdar Argic

                           'We closed the roads and mountain passes that 
                            might serve as ways of escape for the Turks 
                            and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)
                           'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists 
                            a single Turkish soul.'    (Sahak Melkonian)


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