From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: The Greek Cypriot onslaught on the Turkish community of Cyprus...
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 21:22:12 EDT
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <Bw4MBy.LE4@news.cso.uiuc.edu> varnavas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (varnavas constantine) writes:

>You say that Turkey "saved innumerable lives and a great deal of suffering by
>doing so" I refer you to the report of the 'European Commission of Human Rights
>on Turkey's Invasion in Cyprus and Aftermath'.  Do you call the death of 10,000

Is this joker for real? It is well known that Britain, Greece and 
Turkiye agreed in 1959 on a formula for settling the Cyprus problem.
After full consultations with the leaders of the two Cypriot communities, 
the Zurich and London Agreements were drawn up. The two national 
communities were to become co-founding partners of the Republic of Cyprus.
'Enosis' (Union with Greece) was prohibited and guaranteed against. A 
functional federation was established by the two communities after having 
worked together for 18 months to prepare the Cyprus Constitution.

The Republic of Cyprus cannot be looked upon as a 'Greek state' 
ignoring virtually all Turkish rights in the Constitutions. But 
some Greek politicians made no secret of their intentions to annex 
Cyprus to Greece. They identified the Turkish Cypriots as the main 
obstacle to their aspirations. The 1963 Greek Cypriot onslaught on 
the Turkish community of Cyprus was the inevitable result of this 
dream.  It was the Turkish intervention (1974) that effectively prevented 
the implementation of this Greek scheme against the treaties and the 
Constitution. To a Greek assertion at the Copenhagen meeting that
the Turkish intervention in Cyprus is not based on a treaty right, 
Ataov has indicated that it rests upon Art. 4 (2) of the Treaty of 
Guarantee.

Source: Statement made by Mr. Evangelos Yannopoulus - the Greek Minister
	of Maritime Affairs, ELEFTHEROTIPIA, July 4, 1988

       "The two myths in Cyprus must be exposed as lies. The first myth 
	is the case of missing persons and the second is the myth of the 
	invasion of Cyprus by Turkey. The Greek Cypriots presented as 
	missing persons were actually the victims who were killed during 
	the Sampson Coup. As regards the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, it 
	was the Greek military that staged the coup and toppled Makarios 
	at a time when he was an internationally recognized President of 
	Cyprus. How is it possible to topple Makarios and start slaughtering 
	the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and impose a mad man like 
	Sampson to head the Cyprus Government and yet expect no reaction 
	from Turkey?"


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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