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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 13:44:16 -0500
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From:         "Varnavas A. Lambrou" <V999SAUM@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
Subject:      PROS OLOUS TOUS ELLHNES, KUPRIOUS H' ELLADITES..
Comments: To: hellas@uga.cc.uga.edu

Twra pou teleiwse to semester exw ligo eleu8ero xrovo, gi auto 8a grafw kati
gia to kupriako. Basika 8a prospa8nsw va avtigrapsw eva evnmerwtko biblio
ekdidomevo apo tnv "Evwsn Dnmwv tns Kuprou". Exei sav titlo:
"Cyprus after the turkish invasion: they make a desert and they call it peace".

8a stelvw kommatia mikra, kai av 8elete mporeite va ta sugkevtrwsete. Elpizw va
kataferw va kavw kaln douleia, gi auto otidnpote sxolia givovte euprosdekta.
To biblio auto eivai arketa kalo, kai mporei va xrnsimopoin8ei evavtia stnv
tourkikn propagavda pou alwvizei tov kosmo olo, kai tis listes oles, tov
teleutaio kairo.

Varnavas A. Lambrou

Akolou8ei to prwto kommati:


INVASION 1974


On the morning of 20th July 1974, Turkey announced to the world that she was
mounting a "peace-keeping operation" in Cyprus.


"Peacekeeping"

Though Turkish planes dropped leaflets on Cyprus promising peace and friendship,
the operation was code-named "ATTILA" by the Turkish military command.

The Turkish forces landed near Kyrenia. They killed civilians, raped women and
looted.
Meanwhile Turkish airforce planes screaming low all over Cyprus bombed
hospitals, homes and hotels and burned forests. They used napalm.

The use of terror tactics and indiscriminate cruelty was deliberate. Turkey
wanted to grab territory without its population. And the methods were effective.
They terrified the civilians who came under the Turkish Army's jackboot. They
fled.


"Restoring Constitutional Order"


The constitution of Cyprus, of which Turkey was one of the three guarantors
provides for a unitary, independent, territorially integral Cyprus.
The Treaty of Guarantee of 1960 between the Republic of Cyprus on the one part
and Greece, Turkey and United Kingdom on the other states:

"Greece, Turkey and the United Kingdom...recognize the independence, territorial
integrity and security of the Republic of Cyprus, and also the state of affairs
established by the basic Articles of its Constitution."

The treaty also provides that:

"In so far as common or concerted action may not prove possible, each of the
three guaranteeing powers reserves the right to take action with the sole aim
of re-establishing the state of affairs created by the present Treaty."

But all this was a scrap of paper for the Government of Turkey.
By the 23rd July, 1974, Turkish troops held 3% of the territory of Cyprus.
There were about 5000 refugees who had fled their homes. The United Nations
Security Council had met and urgently called for an end to all military
intervention in the Republic of Cyprus.

After a United Nations supervised ceasefire was established on July 23rd, after
the UN Security Council had called on Turkey to withdraw its forces from Cyprus,
while a peace conference was going on in Geneva, Turkish troops backed by armour
steadily expanded the corridor they had earlier occupied, capturing village
after village and emptying it of its inhabitants.
The small Cypriot armed force fought desperately. They knew that it was
conquest that they were facing. But disorganized and betrayed by the coup,
armed with First World War rifles, no armour and no airforce, their fighting
was more of an expression of Cypriot determination to remain free, rather
than an effective counter to Turkey's well-armed military might.

On the 12th of August, the Turkish army mounted a second full scale offensive.
Three thousand Cypriots were killed, and eighteen years later 1619 are still
missing. 37% of the area of Cyprus came under the Turkish military
occupation.
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