From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Being a product of the "EOKA-ASALA/SDPA/ARF" generation.
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 19:29:18 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <100454@bu.edu> gavras@acs.bu.edu (alexis gavras) writes:

>In article <9211022018@zuma.UUCP> our ol' pal sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic/
>Hasan Mutlu/whoever-the-fuck-he-is) continues to enthrall us:

>>Source: Jacop P. Fallmerayer, 'Geschichte der Halbinsel Morea,' 
>>        (Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1830).

See, you have already demonstrated ample willingness to put your "palik"
foot where your mouth is. Wait, there is more.

  <<When the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II FATIH (The Conquerer) captured
  Constantinople and brought the Byzantine Empire to its inglorious end
  in 1453, his armies broke into the city through one of the Jewish
  quarters and with the assistance of the local Jewish population who,
  as at Bursa and Edirne, were overjoyed at the opportunity to throw off
  their Greek oppressors. So also at Buda and Pest in 1526, on the island
  of Rhodes in 1522, at Belgrade (1526), in Azerbaijan (1534), Iraq and
  Iran (1534-35, 1638), Yemen (1628) and elsewhere, Jews welcomed the
  conquering forces of Suleyman the Magnificent,...>>

  << Mehmed II's conquest of Costantinople was not followed by killing
     and destruction, as Greek nationalists have claimed to the present
     day in efforts to depict Turks as barbarians, but rather by an effort
     to rebuild and repopulate the city so that it could become the center
     of the great multinational empire he was trying to create, extending
     far beyond the Roman Empire and incorporating all the people of the
     world as he knew it under the dominion of his Turkish dynasty.>>

  <<Even more than the Jews living in the expanding Ottoman Empire itself,
    Mehmed from the start attempted to encourage the emigration of Jews
    from Europe. Just as the Jews of England, France, Germany, Spain, and
    even Poland and Lithuania were being subjected to increasing persecution,
    blood libels, massacres, and deportations, the Turkish rulers of the
    expanding Ottoman state actively encouraged them to come and live in the
    Ottoman Empire under the same conditions of tolerance and freedom which
    had favored the lives of Jews in the empires of the Umayyads of Damascus
    and Abbasids of Baghdad, and more recently in Muslim Spain.>>

  Source: 'Cyprus: The Tale Of An Island,' A. H. Rizvi, p. 42

  21-12-1963 Throughout Cyprus
  "Following the Greek Cypriot premeditated onslaught of 21 December,
   1963, the Turkish Sectors all over Cyprus were completely besieged
   by Greeks; all telephonic, telegraphic and postal communications
   between these sectors were cut off and the Turkish Cypriot
   Community's contact with each other and with the outside world
   was thus prevented."

  21-12-63 -- 31-12-63 Turkish Quarter of Nicosia and suburbs
  "Greek Cypriot armed elements broke into hundreds of Turkish
   homes and fired at the unarmed occupants with automatic
   weapons killing at random many Turks, including women, children
   and elderly persons (51 Turks were killed and 82 wounded). They
   also carried away as hostages more than 700 Turks, including
   women and children, whom they forced to walk bare-footed and
   in night-dresses across rough fields and river beds."

   21-12-63 -- 12-12-64 Throughout Cyprus
   "The Greek Cypriot Administration deprived Turkish Cypriots 
   including Ministers, MPs, and Turkish members of the Public
   services of the republic, of their right to freedom of movement."

   In his report No. S/6102 of 12 December, 1964 to the Security
   Council, the UN Secretary-General stated in this respect the
   following:

  "Restrictions on the free movement of civilians have been one of
   the major features of the situation in Cyprus since the early
   stages of the disturbances, these restrictions have inflicted
   considerable hardship on the population, especially the Turkish
   Cypriot Community, and have kept tension high."

   25-9-1964 -- 31-3-1968 Throughout Cyprus
  
      "Supply of petrol was completely denied to the Turkish sections."

   Makarios Addresses UN Security Council On 19 July 1974
   After being Ousted by the Greek Junta Coup

   "In the beginning I wish to express my sincere thanks to all the
   members of the Security Council for the great interest they have
   shown in the critical situation which has been created in Cyprus
   after the coup organized by the military regime in Greece and
   carried out by the Greek army officers who were serving in the
   National Guard and were commanding it.

   [..]

   13-3-1975 On the road travelling to the South to the freedom of
             the North

   "A Turkish woman was seriously wounded and her four-month old
   baby was riddled with bullets from an automatic weapon fired by
   a Greek Cypriot mobile patrol which had ambushed the car in which
   the mother and her baby were travelling to the Turkish region.
   The baby died in her mother's arms.

   This wanton murder of a four-month-old baby, which shocked foreign
   observers as much as the Turkish Community, was not committed by
   irresponsible persons, but by members of the Greek Cypriot security
   forces. According to the mother's statement the Greek police patrol
   had chased their car and deliberately fired upon it."

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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