From: han@anadolu.michigan.com (hasan.b.mutlu)
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Subject: 'PXP111' Has Troubles Enough Of His Own: Exposing A Pseudo-Scholar.
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:15:17 GMT





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PXP111@psuvm.psu.edu

>and I could not help wondering how funny and tragic it appears to read
>this by a Turk..., using these very words...  An Irony?   :-(
>Does this guy say  similar things to his own people  or  Hypocritically
>now accuses others?

But, why should one believe a compulsive liar? There is a very long list of 
atrocities, massacres, and genocides committed by the Armenians against the 
Turkish people. Among this long list, I would give you just one example. Not 
by the words of Turks, not by the words of Westerners, but from the mouth of 
an Armenian. When Armenia became an independent republic between 1918 and 
1921, about 40% of the population within their frontiers were Moslem people 
- mostly Turks, whom they'd call Tartars. In 1919 and 1920 the Armenian 
government decided to solve the Tartar problem (actually Turkish problem) 
with the final solution of total extermination of these people. Now I am 
writing you from the memoirs of an Armenian army officer, Capt. Ohannes 
Appressian who told this story to an American Near East Relief Officer. He 
published his memoirs in this country in 1928 ("MEN ARE LIKE THAT" - Bobbs 
Co., Indianapolis). 

Source: "Men Are Like That" by Leonard Ramsden Hartill. The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Indianapolis (1928). (305 pages). 

>From "Foreword:"

"For example, we were camped one night in a half-ruined Tartar mosque, the most
 habitable building of a destroyed village, near the border of Persia and
 Russian Armenia. During the course of evening I asked Ohanus if he could tell
 me anything of the history of the village and the cause of its destruction.
 In his matter of fact way he replied, Yes, I assisted in its sack and 
 destruction, and witnessed the slaying of those whose bones you saw to-day
 scattered among its ruins." 

p. 20 (second paragraph).

"Our men armed themselves, gathered together and advanced on the Tartar
 section of the village. There were no lights in the houses and the doors
 were barred, for the Tartars suspected what as to happen and were in great 
 fear. Our men hammered on the doors, but got no response; whereupon they
 smashed in the doors and began a carnage that continued until the last
 Tartar was slain. Throughout the hideous night, I cowered at home in terror,
 unable to shut my ears to the piercing screams of the helpless victims and
 the loud shouts of our men. By morning the work was finished."

The following is the review of the above-mentioned book which gives 
the whole account of the genocide of all Turkish and Moslem
people in Armenia organized and executed by the Armenian Dictatorship.

"A vivid and a fascinating book."

+ Bookm 67:xxxvi My '28 300w

"He is telling the story of another, he has told it in such a 
 convincing manner that it reads more as the direct narrative
 of Ohanus Appressian than a second-handed account. The book 
 abounds with thrilling incidents."
    
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 '28 150w

  Christian Century 45:858 J1 5 '28 80w

  Cleveland Open Shelf p63 My '28

Reviewed by Lyman Bryson
	New Repub 56:26 Ag 22 '28 430w

"It is a straightforward, live, human document and shows men as they
 are - good, bad, worse or indifferent. Refreshing is the artlessness
 with which these pages disengage the fact that the Armenians, over 
 whom so many tears have been shed, are as murderously that-ish as
 Turk or Tartar; and as a picture at first hand of the efficacy of
 war and race hatred as producers of bestiality and ruin..."

 + N.Y. Evening Post p12 F 11 '28 220w

"He tells his story simply and directly..."

 + N.Y. Times p3 Ji 1 '28 430w

"It abounds with cruelty, bloodshed, and abject misery..."

 + Outlook 148:434 Mr 14 '28 250w

"...Appressian telling his own story in his words..."

 + Sat R of Lit 4:655 Mr 3 '28 300w

"The story is well told, and gives remarkable insight into the manners
 and life of an interesting people of Caucasus. It holds the scales
 evenly in its judgements, is easy reading, and mingles with sorrow
 for these people, excellent comprehension of all sides of the problem 
 that the Armenians so long have created for other nations of the world."

 + Springf'd Republican p10 Ap 11 '28 650w 

Source: Hovannisian, Richard G.: Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918.
University of California Press (Berkeley and Los Angeles), 1967, p. 13.

"The addition of the Kars and Batum oblasts to the Empire increased the
 area of Transcaucasia to over 130,000 square miles. The estimated population
 of the entire region in 1886 was 4,700,000, of whom 940,000 (20 percent) were
 Armenian, 1,200,000 (25 percent) Georgian, and 2,220,000 (45 percent) Moslem.
 Of the latter group, 1,140,000 were Tatars. Paradoxically, barely one-third
 of Transcaucasia's Armenians lived in the Erevan guberniia, where the 
 Christians constituted a majority in only three of the seven uezds. Erevan
 uezd, the administrative center of the province, had only 44,000 Armenians
 as compared to 68,000 Moslems. By the time of the Russian Census of 1897,
 however, the Armenians had established a scant majority, 53 percent, in the
 guberniia; it had risen by 1916 to 60 percent, or 670,000 of the 1,120,000
 inhabitants. This impressive change in the province's ethnic character 
 notwithstanding, there was, on the eve of the creation of the Armenian 
 Republic, a solid block of 370,000 Tartars who continued to dominate the 
 southern districts, from the outskirts of Ereven to the border of Persia." 
 (See also Map 1. Historic Armenia and Map 4. Administrative subdivisions of 
 Transcaucasia).

In 1920, '0' percent Turk. 

"We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as 
 ways of escape for the Tartars and then proceeded in the work 
 of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village. 
 Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts 
 into heaps of stone and dust and when the villages became untenable 
 and inhabitants fled from them into fields, bullets and bayonets 
 completed the work. Some of the Tartars escaped of course. They 
 found refuge in the mountains or succeeded in crossing the border 
 into Turkey. The rest were killed. And so it is that the whole 
 length of the borderland of Russian Armenia from Nakhitchevan to 
 Akhalkalaki from the hot plains of Ararat to the cold mountain 
 plateau of the North were dotted with mute mournful ruins of 
 Tartar villages. They are quiet now, those villages, except for 
 howling of wolves and jackals that visit them to paw over the 
 scattered bones of the dead." 

                             Ohanus Appressian
                            "Men Are Like That"
                                   p. 202.

As for Cyprus,

        The  Letter  Sent by Archbishop Makarios to the President of  the 
        Greek Republic, General Phaedon Gizikis on 2 July 1974

        Mr President,

          It  is with profound grief that I have set out for you  certain 
        inadmissable  situations and events in Cyprus for which I  regard 
        the Greek government responsible.

           Since  the clandestine arrival of General Grivas in Cyprus  in 
        September 1971, rumours have been circulating and there have been 
        reliable  indications that he came to Cyprus at  the  instigation 
        and  with the encouragement of certain circles in Athens.  In any 
        case, it is certain that from the first days of his arrival here, 
        Grivas  was in touch  with officers from Greece  serving  in  the 
        National  Guard  from whom he received help and  support  in  his 
        effort  to set up an unlawful organisation and allegedly to fight 
        for   Enosis.   And   he  established  the  criminal   EOKA   'B' 
        organization,  which  has  become the cause and  source  of  many 
        sufferings for Cyprus.  The activity of this organization,  which 
        has  committed  political murders and many other crimes  under  a 
        patriotic  mantle advancing Enosis slogans,  is well  known.  The 
        National  Guard,   which  is  staffed  and  controlled  by  Greek 
        Officers,  has  been from the outset the main supplier of men and 
        material  to EOKA 'B',  the members and supporters of  which were 
        euphemistically self-styled the 'Enosis camp'.

           I  have many times asked myself why an unlawful and nationally 
        harmful  organization which is creating division and  dissension, 
        causing rifts in our internal front and leading the Greek Cypriot 
        people  to civil strife,  is supported by Greek officers.  And  I 
        have  also  many  times wondered whether  such  support  has  the 
        approval  of  the Greek government.  I have done a great deal  of 
        thinking and made many hypothetical assumptions in order to find a 
        logical reply to my questions.  No reply, under any prerequisites 
        and  assumptions  could be based on  logic.  However,  the  Greek 
        officers'  support for EOKA B constitutes an undeniable  reality. 
        The  National  Guard  camps in various areas of  the  island  and 
        nearby  sites  are smeared with slogans in favour of  Grivas  and 
        EOKA  B and also against the Cyprus government  and  particularly 
        myself. In the National Guard camps, propaganda by Greek officers 
        in favour of EOKA B is often undisguised.  It is also known,  and 
        an  undeniable  fact,  that the opposition Cypriot  press,  which 
        supports  the  criminal  activity of EOKA B  and  which  has  its 
        sources  of  finance in Athens,  receives guidance and  direction 
        from  those  in charge of the 2nd General Staff  Office  and  the 
        branch of the Greek Central Intelligence Service in Cyprus.

           It is true that frequent complaints were conveyed by me to the 
        Greek  Government  about  the  attitude  and  conduct  of  certain 
        officers,  and  I  have  received  the reply that  I  should  not 
        hesitate  to report them by name and state the  specific  charges 
        against  them so that they could be recalled from Cyprus.  I  did 
        this  only  in one instance.  This is an unpleasant task for  me. 
        Moreover,  this  evil cannot be remedied by such means.  What  is 
        important  is  the uprooting and prevention of the evil  and  not 
        merely the facing of its consequences.

           I am sorry to say,  Mr President, that the root of the evil is 
        very deep,  reaching as far as Athens.  It is from there that the 
        tree of evil, the bitter fruits of which the Greek Cypriot people 
        are tasting today, is being fed and maintained and helped to grow 
        and spread. In order to be absolutely clear, I say that cadres of 
        the  Greek military regime support and direct the  activities  of 
        EOKA B terrorist organization. This explains also the involvement 
        of Greek officers of the National Guard in illegal activities and 
        in  conspiratorial and inadmissible situations. The guilt of  the 
        circles of the military regime  is proved by documents which were 
        found recently in the leading cadres of EOKA B.  Plenty of  money 
        was  sent  from  the National Center for the maintenance  of  the 
        organization and directives were given concerning the  leadership 
        after  the death of Grivas and the recall of Major Karousos,  who 
        had  come  to  Cyprus with  him,  and  generally  everything  was 
        directed from Athens.  The genuineness of the documents cannot be 
        called  into  question because even those which  are  typewritten 
        have  corrections made by hand and the handwriting of the  writer 
        is known. I attach one such document.

           I  have  always adhered to the principle,  and I have on  many 
        occasions stated,  that my co-operation with the Greek government 
        for  the  time  being is for me a  national  duty.  the  national 
        interests dictate harmonious and close cooperation between Athens 
        and Nicosia.  No matter what Greek government was in power it was 
        to  me the government of mother country and I had  to  co-operate 
        with  it.  I cannot say that I have a special liking for military 
        regimes,  particularly  in  Greece the birthplace and  cradle  of 
        democracy.  But  even in this case,  I have not departed from  my 
        principle about co-operation.  You realize, Mr President, the sad 
        thoughts  which  have been preoccupying and tormenting  me  since 
        ascertaining  that  men of the Greek government  are  incessantly 
        hatching conspiracies against me and, what is worse, are dividing 
        the  Greek  Cypriot people and pushing them  towards  catastrophe 
        through civil strife.  I have more than once so far felt,  and in 
        some cases I have almost touched, a hand invisibly extending from 
        Athens and seeking to liquidate my human existence.  For the sake 
        of National expediency,  however,  I kept silence.  Even the evil 
        spirit  which  possessed the three defrocked Cypriot bishops  who 
        have  caused a major crisis in the Church emanated  from  Athens. 
        However,  I said nothing in this connection.  I am wondering what 
        the object of all this is.  I would have continued to keep silent 
        about the responsibility and role of the Greek government in  the 
        present  drama of Cyprus if I had been the only one to suffer  on 
        the scene of the drama. But covering things up and keeping silent 
        is  not  permissible  when the entire Greek  Cypriot  people  are 
        suffering,  when  Greek  officers of the National Guard,  at  the 
        instigation of Athens,  support EOKA B in its criminal  activity, 
        including   political   murders  and  generally  aiming  at   the 
        dissolution of the state.

           The  Greek government must take great responsibility for  this 
        attempt to abolish the state of Cyprus. The Cyprus state could be 
        dissolved only in the event of Enosis. However, as long as Enosis 
        is   not  feasible  it  is  imperative  that  Cyprus  should   be 
        strengthened  as  a  state.  By its whole  attitude  towards  the 
        National  Guard issue,  the Greek government has been following a 
        policy calculated to abolish the Cyprus state.

           A  few months ago the National Guard General Staff  consisting 
        of  Greek  officers,  submitted  to  the  Cyprus  government  for 
        approval  of  a  list of candidates for  cadet  reserve  officers 
        during their military service.  Fifty-seven of the candidates  on 
        the list submitted were not approved by the Council of Ministers. 
        The  General Staff was informed of this in writing.  Despite this 
        the General Staff,  following instructions from  Athens,  paid no
        attention to the decision of the Council of Ministers  which  has 
        the  absolute  right to appoint National Guard  officers.  Acting 
        arbitrarily,   the  general  Staff  trampled  upon  laws,  showed 
        contempt  for the decision of the Cyprus government and  enrolled 
        the candidates who had not been approved in the Officers Training 
        School.  I  regard  this attitude of the National  Guard  General 
        Staff, which is controlled by the Greek government, as absolutely 
        inadmissable.  The National Guard is an organ of the Cyprus state 
        and  should be controlled by it and not from Athens.  The  theory 
        about a common area of defence between Greece and Cyprus has  its 
        emotional aspect. In reality, however, the position is different. 
        The  National Guard,  with its present composition and  staffing, 
        has  deviated  from its aim and has become a breeding ground  for 
        illegal activities,  a centre of conspiracy against the state and 
        a  source  of recruitment for EOKA B.  It suffices  to  say  that 
        during  the  recently  stepped up terrorist activity of  EOKA  B, 
        National  Guard  vehicles transported arms and  moved  to  safety 
        members  of  the  organization  who were about  to  be  arrested. 
        Complete responsibility for this improper conduct of the National 
        Guard rests with Greek officers,  some of whom are involved  head 
        over ears in the activities of EOKA B. And the National Centre is 
        not  free  from  responsibility in  this  connection.  The  Greek 
        government  could  by a mere nod put an end to  this  regrettable 
        situation.  The  National Centre could order the  termination  of 
        violence  and terrorism by EOKA B because it is from Athens  that 
        the  organisation  derives the means for its maintenance and  its 
        strength,  as confirmed by written evidence and proof.  the Greek 
        government,  however,  had failed to do so. As an illustration of 
        the inadmissible situation I note here in passing that in  Athens 
        slogans  were  also recently written against me and in favour  of 
        EOKA  B on the walls of churches and other  buildings,  including 
        the building of the Cyprus Embassy.  They did not seek to  arrest 
        and punish anybody,  thus tolerating propaganda in favour of EOKA 
        B. 

           I have a lot to say,  Mr President,  but I do not think that I 
        should say any more now.  In conclusion,  I convey that the Greek 
        officered  National  Guard,  the plight of which has  shaken  the 
        Cypriot people's confidence in it,  will be restructured on a new 
        basis. I have reduced military service so that the National Guard 
        ceiling may be reduced and the extent of the evil may be limited. 
        It  may  be observed that the reduction of the  National  Guard's 
        strength  by the shortening of military service,  would render it 
        incapable  of  carrying out its mission in the face  of  national 
        danger.  For reasons which I do not wish to set out here I do not 
        share  this  view.  And  I  would ask  that  the  Greek  officers 
        staffing  the National Guard be recalled.  Their remaining in the 
        National  Guard  and  commanding the force would  be  harmful  to 
        relations between Athens and Nicosia.  I would, however, be happy 
        if you were to send Cyprus about 100 officers as instructors  and 
        military advisers to help in the reorganization and restructuring 
        of  the armed forces of Cyprus.  I hope,  in the  meantime,  that 
        instructions  have  been given to EOKA B to end  its  activities, 
        even  though,  as  long  as this organization is  not  definitely 
        dissolved,  a  new wave of violence and murders cannot  be  ruled 
        out.

           I  am sorry,  Mr President,  that I have found it necessary to 
        say  many unpleasant things in order to give a broad  outline  in 
        open  and frank terms of the long-standing,  deplorable situation 
        in Cyprus. This is however, necessitated by the national interest 
        which  has always guided all my actions.  I do not desire my  co-
        operation  with the Greek government to be  interrupted.  But  it 
        should  be  borne in mind that I am not an appointed  prefect  or 
        locum  tenes  of the Greek government in Cyprus,  but an  elected 
        leader  of a large section of Hellenism and as such I  demand  an 
        appropriate conduct by the National Centre towards me.

           The contents of this letter is not confidential,

                                                      With cordial wishes
                                                      ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS
                                                                President

        (Based on translation published by the Sunday Times, 21 July 1974)

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.


Source: 'The Cyprus Conflict, national identity and statehood.'
Author: Zenon Stavrinides 

p. 60 - 3rd paragraph:

" 	It should be noted that the Akritas Plan was never disclaimed
by Makarios or other Greek Cypriot leaders. And although the plan was 
abandoned after the first intercommunal fighting - when the Greeks 
failed to become masters of the situation "within a day or two" - 
Makarios continued to proclaim that (to take for example the statement
he made to the London I.T.N. on 15th June 1966):

	 'The demand for enosis is based on the democratic principle 
	  of self-determination...Enosis is a right of the people.'

Earlier, in April 1965, he rejected the recommendation of the U.N. Mediator
in Cyprus that the exercise of self-determination should be short of 
Enosis. After all, the point of relegating the Turkish community to the 
status of a minority and invoking the full application of the principle
of self-determination was none other than achieving Enosis. "


pp. 63-64:

"	Let us now look at what happened in the Greek community of Cyprus
from 1963-1974...
	Makarios never appeared to have regretted the fact that his 
13-point proposals, made against the background of suspicion and tension, 
precipitated the break-up of the bicommunal State. Probably he thought that
the ensuing state-within-the-State situation was preferable to what 
preceded it. At least the events of December 1963 got him off the Zurich-
London hook, and now he felt free to lead his people in a new struggle
towards a goal which would certainly not be a Greco-Turkish State. What
was this new goal to be? The answer was given by him in scores of speeches
and other public statements he made before and after December 1963. To take
a quite typical example, on 3rd November 1963, at Paralimni Church he said:

	 'What is our desire? We have proclaimed it many times: our union
	  with the Motherland, eternal Greece. What will our reply be if
	  such a solution is made difficult, and if some think compromises
	  are required or that something be given in return? No is the 
	  reply, and the struggle will continue until complete fulfilment.'

Again, in interviews with Greek Cypriot newspapers, he explained his 
position in these terms:

	 'The real victory will be achieved when Cyprus will be annexed
	  to Greece without any concessions whatever... I am for Enosis
	  but it must be genuine Enosis without curbs or strings. (Ethniki
	  newspaper, 1.10.1967)'

The same idea was expressed by the House of Representatives which on  
26th June 1967, passed unanimously the following resolution:

	 'Interpreting the age-long aspirations of the Greeks of Cyprus,
	  the House declares that despite any adverse circumstances it will
	  not suspend the struggle conducted with the support of all Greeks
	  until this struggle succeeds in uniting the whole and undivided
	  Cyprus with the Motherland, without any intermediary stages.'"


 Peter Moorhead reporting from the village of Skyloura, Cyprus. 
 Date : 1 January,1964. 

 IL GIARNO ( Italy)
 
 THEY ARE TURK-HUNTING, THEY WANT TO EXTERMINATE THEM.

 Discussions start in London; in Cyprus terror continues. Right now we
 are witnessing the exodus of Turks from the villages. Thousands of people
 abandoning homes, land, herds; Greek Cypriot terrorism is relentless. This 
 time, the rhetoric of the Hellenes and the bust of Plato do not suffice 
 to cover up barbaric and ferocious behaviors.

 Article by Giorgo Bocca, Correspondent of Il Giorno
 Date: 14 January 1964
 
 DAILY HERALD (London)

 AN APPALLING SIGHT

And when I came across the Turkish homes they were an appalling sight.
Apart from the walls, they just did not exist. I doubt if a napalm bomb
attack could have created more devastation. I counted 40 blackened brick
and concrete shells that had once been homes. Each house had been deliberately
fired by petrol. Under red tile roofs which had caved in, I found a twisted
mass of bed springs, children's conts and cribs, and ankle deep grey
ashes of what had once been chairs, tables and wardrobes.

In the neighbouring village of Ayios Vassilios, a mile away, I counted 16 
wrecked and burned out homes. They were all Turkish Cypriot homes. From
this village more than 100 Turkish Cypriots had also vanished. In neither 
village did I find a scrap of damage to any Greek Cypriot house.

Date: 1 January, 1964.

 DAILY TELEGRAPH(London)
 
 GRAVES OF 12 SHOT TURKISH CYPRIOTS FOUND IN CYPRUS VILLAGE

 Silent crowds gathered tonight outside the Red Crescent hospital in the
 Turkish Sector of Nicosia, as the bodies of 9 Turkish Cypriots found
 crudely buried outside the village of Ayios Vassilios, 13 miles away, were
 brought to the hospital under the escort of the Parachute Regiment. Three 
 more bodies, including one of a woman, were discovered nearby but could
 not be removed.
 Turkish Cypriots guarded by paratroops are still trying to locate the 
 bodies of 20 more believed to have been buried on the same site.


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?"

Hasan B-) Mutlu

                     'Kill Turks and Kurds wherever you find them 
                      and in whatever circumstances you find them. 
                      Turkish children also should be killed as 
                      they form a danger to the Armenian nation.' 
                                     (Hamparsum Boyadjian - 1914)

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