From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Greek invasion in Cyprus 1974 cont...
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 21:45:14 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <C0Gon9.C6G@acsu.buffalo.edu> v999saum@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Varnavas A. Lambrou) writes:

>Cyprus has a history of thousands of years. A cross roads of successive 
>civilizations and under numerous rulers, the population of Cyprus retained a
>continuity in its cultural identity, assimilating foreign influences and
>making them part of the Greek culture of the island. During the thousands

And the record clearly shows that the Greek Cypriot leadership never
believed in equality between the two communities, have accepted the 
independence with great reluctance and then nullified the constitution 
in a unilateral fashion, counting on a forceful fait accompli. 

Source: Cyprus Question and United Nations - Haluk Bayulken - July 1983
        p. 25.

     "As a matter of fact, a new and more dangerous crisis brewed in Cyprus
three years after the establishment of the Republic.
...
     Many publications on the origin of this new dispute, which include the
memoirs of personalities directly connected with the problems of Cyprus as
well as official documents and statements, leave no doubt, today, that this
new crisis did not happen as a result of haphazard developments, but was due
to the implementation of plans prepared in advance by the Greek Cypriot
leadership and in collusion with the authorities in Greece.
An impartial study leaves no room for any illusion that there existed any
will in Greeks as to the integral and honest implementation of the
Constitution of Cyprus, which was an inseparable part of the settlement and 
the very raison d'etre of the Republic."

"It is true that the goal of our struggle is to annex Cyprus to Greece."
Finnish Paper UUSI SUOMI September 5, 1963.

From the same source:
p. 35.

"In this connection, readers will find extensive information in the memoirs
of Mr. Petros Garufalias, Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Mr.
Papendreou, which have been published in Greek newspapers recently.
These memoirs would ordinarily have given the readers the impression of a 
popular adventure novel, were they not be relating to incidents which
created a great tragedy in Cyprus. To give just an idea of the secret
preparations, let me say that these memoirs re-confirmed much information
which had been known 10 years ago and which had been brought to the
attention of the Security Council of the United Nations by Turkiye at that
time. According to Mr. Garafulias' memoirs, the President, Foreign Minister
and Interior Minister of the so-called "Independent Republic of Cyprus", in
addition to the Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and other high ranking 
officials in Greece, met in the House of Prime Minister Papendreou, in Kastri,
on 13th March 1964. The talks concentrated on military preparations of the 
Greeks in Cyprus. It was decided subsequently that Greek generals, officers
and soldiers would be despatched secretly to the island to serve as members
of the National Guard, which was created on 25th February 1964 in defiance
of the Constitution of Cyprus. All measures were taken to ensure that Greek
army units would join to the National Guard under the cover of being
volunteers. The Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus in Athens would provide
passports of the Republic for these military personnel who would enter
Cyprus in civilian clothes and carry in their luggage, such things as arms,
light machine guns and other war materials, instead of the usual personal
belongings. A certain Mr. Potamianos, probably one of the Greek shipping 
magnetes and a personal friend of the notorious General Grivas, would
ensure transportation to Cyprus for these units...
And what is more, if Turkiye found out about these secret operations,
it was decided that the Prime Minister of Greece would declare his complete
innocence and ignorance, and that Defence Minister Garafulias would take all
the blame and tender his resignation.It was equally decided that in such a
situation, the Prime Minister would order the recall of these military units
back to Greece.
     Mr.Garafulias states that all these plans were carried out to the last
detail. He was completely satisfied with the success of this secret operation,
by which thousands of Greek soldiers and officers were sent to Cyprus ..."
The serialization of the Memoirs of Mr. Petros Garufalias began in the
Athens daily "Acropolis" on 22nd September 1974.

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)