From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history,soc.rights.human
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Re: German troops to Somalia??? Turkish troops to Germany
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 10:58:36 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <45846@unlisys.in-berlin.de> stingray@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Christian Lampl) writes:

>[Story about the bloody things happened in the 60's deleted]
>Well, well. And do ya think that this is an excuse for the
>behaviour of the Turks afterwards ? I can understand that
>the Turkish goverment was interested in save the cypric 
>Turks from beeing attacked by terrorists, but I can't imagine
>that the 200.000 Greeks who had to escape in 1974 after
>the turkish invasion were all terrorists.
>The problem started with one radical opinion that Cyprus
>has to join Greece (the "Enosis") and it ended with another
>radical point of view. The dividing of Cyprus into two parts 
>and the Turkish military still occupiing (sp?) ca. 40% of
>Cyprus (Against UNO resolutions). If this is a good solution
>I don't want to know the bad ones.

In the proper context of events, this is intellectually and
morally dishonest. The Greeks started massacring the Turkish 
population on Cyprus in 1974. How do we account for this 
phenomenon? Amnesia? In 1974, Turkiye stepped into Cyprus to 
preserve the lives of the Turkish population there. This is 
nothing but a simple historical fact. Unfortunately, the 
intervention was too late at least for some of the victims. 
Mass graves containing numerous bodies of women and children 
already showed what fate had been planned for a peaceful minority.

The present administration of the Turkish sector on the
island is run by men who were democratically elected. To
suggest that Rauf Denktash and his co-workers are anything
but honorable men doing a very hard job is McCarthyism
in a different form.

They are simply seeking guarantees that will preclude a
repeat performance by the fanatical cadres of the Greeks'
EOKA. If such assurances are not perfectly implemented,
there is every reason to expect that the local Greeks
will be misguided enough to perpetrate their past mistakes.

On such an occasion, the Turkish side may not find it
satisfactory to act with reluctance to go any further
than before, for it is unacceptable to remain always
defensive against cyclical vicious attacks.

Therefore it would be better to have a true federation
of two separate sections living in obligatory peace,
rather than another armed confrontation that would be
started by the Greeks and obligatorily but decisively
terminated by the Turks. 

Any folly that may be said to exist in the general
picture rests with Athens. In 1974, it was the despotic
colonels of the junta there who sponsored EOKA's belligerence.
They lost in Cyprus and eventually they lost at home
also.

The present Greek government is trying to tyrannize the
Turkish population in western Thrace by forbidding it
its ethnic and religious rights, which were established
through international treaties. One might be better
advised to remember that misadventures against Turkiye
do not serve Greece well.

An offer of membership in the European Common Market
as bait for concessions that may doom the Turks in
Cyprus to extinction is not a viable course for Greece
or her friends.

Neither Turkish lives nor Turkish honor has been placed
on the bidding block to be sold for commercial gain.

It is true that the Turkish sector in Cyprus is recognized
as a state by Turkiye only. Such recognition is ample
for the time being. The preferable hope for the future 
is the formation of a bona fide federation that will
afford equal and guaranteed chances of survival to both
sides.

Serdar Argic

                     'This war quickly developed into one of extermination. 
                      We closed the roads and mountain passes that might 
                      serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks] and 
                      then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
                                                       (Ohanus Appressian)

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