From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history,soc.culture.soviet
Followup-To: soc.culture.turkish
Subject: Re: Occupation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 22:44:40 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Distribution: world

In article <BzosuM.6Fn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> varnavas@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (varnavas constantine) writes:

>>Right from the outset certain things must be made clear to everyone.
>>Turkiye's territorial integrity is not negotiable. If some day the
>>white-hating black extremists [or Klu Klux Klan or Nazi Armenians, 
>>for that matter] in this country would go far enough to want an 
>>independent purely black [or white or Nazi Armenian] state, I do not 
>>believe that the United States Government would just donate part of its 
>>territory for this 'noble cause.' I do not want to even imagine
>>what the white majority [or blacks] will do to them. The pundits
>>who love to construct some of the scenarios that give large chunks
>>of other peoples' lands to Kurds, would not be that generous with
>>their own lands. Have you ever heard of 'The Turkish Independence
>>War?'

>Given your above argument, how do you justify the Turkish invasion in Cyprus
>in Cyprus and the establisment of a separate state for a minority roughly

Like conversing with a brick wall. First of all, it was not an 'illegal 
invasion' but a 'legal intervention,' specified as an obligation in the 
Article IV of the Treaty of Guarantees signed between Turkiye, Greece and 
Britain. Article IV of the 1960 Tripartite Treaty of Guarantee among Great 
Britain, Turkiye, and Greece gave Turkiye the right to intervene if 
the 1960 agreement was violated. When Greece invaded the island on 
July 15, 1974, and then tried to annex it, the Turkish government 
acted to establish an area in northern Cyprus where Turkish Cypriots 
could live free of fear.

The August 30, 1974, "Die Zeit" German newspaper report of "the 
Massacre of Turkish Cypriots in Paphos and Famagusta," proves how 
justified the Turks were in undertaking their intervention.

Turkish forces are stationed in Cyprus in accordance with Turkiye's 
obligations under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee and with the full 
consent of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Turkiye does not 
maintain "occupation forces" on the island, as Hate-the-Turk club 
members allege, but provides effective guarantees for the security 
of the Turkish Cypriots, faced with a hostile and heavily armed 
neighbor in the south.


  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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