From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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Subject: The two myths in Cyprus must be exposed as lies.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 19:39:36 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <BzE8Lq.2r6@acsu.buffalo.edu> v999saum@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Varnavas A. Lambrou) writes:

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

Yup. The Greeks started massacring the Turkish population on 
Cyprus in 1974. In 1974, Turkiye stepped into Cyprus to preserve 
the lives of the Turkish population there. This is nothing but a 
simple historical fact. Unfortunately, the intervention was too
late at least for some of the victims. Mass graves containing 
numerous bodies of women and children already showed what
fate had been planned for a peaceful minority.

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?"


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.'"

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)