From: baysan@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Okan Baysan)
Subject: Re: Continuation on CYPRUS, Palikaria Terrorists and Makarios!
Summary: OXi ENoSIS, OXI Federation with Enosis Minded Palikaria
Keywords: Palikaria, Enosis, PKK, Troodos Mts, South Cyprus
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:10:08 GMT
Expires: January 1994

In article <BzCCJL.LB0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> msg7038@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michalis  Syrimis) replying to Besime Erin's article, writes:

>>Unless there are grass roots changes in the attitudes of most(not all) Greek
>>Cypriots, a solution in Cyprus is impossible. 
>
>If by "grass roots changes" you mean forgetting everything that we have
>left behind in the occupied areas, and which are now illegally 
>possessed by either Turkish Cypriots or Turkish settlers then I
>hope a solution stays impossible.

   Where were YOU Kirie Michalis when the Greek junta was organizing the 
illegal military coup and invading Cyprus on July 15, 1974? The Turkish 
Cypriot people were forced to live under inhumane  conditions and in caves
for eleven years, from 1963 till 1974, and they were squeezed into 3% land
in their own homeland. Greece had absolutely no legal reason to annex Cyprus
to itself, whereas the Turkish Intervention, 5 days after the coup, had a 
perfect basis to be carried on. There has not been a single gun shot ever
since, and Cyprus has enjoyed peace for 18 years now. Unless a just and fair
solution, which will satisfy both sides, is found, the map of Cyprus will
stay like what it is now forever.

 
>Have you heard of the Turkish Cypriot 
>doctor who has made a case to the european court because he was not 
>allowed by Denktash to attend a professional meeting in Nicosia.

Bologna! Do you have a better story to tell the kids? Have you heard
of the Greek Cypriot Palikaria which was released lately? It shudders me
to read the following articles in these well known papers.

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[1]
President  Vassiliou of  Cyprus has  released from
prison Nicos Sampson, leader of the 1974 coup that
led to the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus.

THE TIMES, Wednesday, April 29, 1992

[2]
COUP LEADER FREED

Cyprus has  conditionally released  Nicos Sampson,
leader of  the coup  which provoked  Turkey's 1974
invasion, who was jailed for 20 years for military
action  against  the  state.  He  was  due  to  be
released in March 1994. - Reuter

THE GUARDIAN, Wednesday, April, 29 1992

[3]
SAMPSON FREED

Nicos Sampson, the Right-wing Greek-Cypriot at the
centre of  the 1974 coup that  sparked the Turkish
invasion,  was  released  from  prison,  yesterday
under a decree signed by President Vassiliou.

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, Wednesday, April 29, 1992

Ex-rebel leaves Cyprus prison early
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NICOSIA, Cyprus-Former guerilla Nicos Sampson, who played a key role
in the coup that triggered the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, was
freed Tuesday, two years before his 20-year prison term was to end.
A government spokesman said Sampson's sentence was suspended under a
decree signed by President Vassiliou. The 56-year-old Sampson's
supporters-the Greek Orthadox Church and right wing and centrist
parties- consider him a hero of the independence war against the British.
They argued it was unfair that Sampson, the only major participant in
the short-lived coup to be jailed, should serve his full term.

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>Maybe soon, more of your people will realize that you can't take people
>homes, land, and lives by force, and expect them to sign the
>papers that will make the theft legal and permanent.

And hopefully soon you and your people will realize that you will not
be able to take away the Turkish Cypriots' independence and soverignty
with papers and signatures prepared by Ghali or whoever et al.

>And just for the sake of conversation what do you think should 
>change by either side in order for a solution to be possible?

Simple. As soon as the Greek Cypriot side changes their Enosis (union of
Cyprus with Greece) dreams, treat Turkish Cypriots as their equal partners
rather than a minority, and get rid of all their high technology guns and
weapons, rockets and missiles, and put the Palikaria Sampson back into his 
cage, then a solution MAY be possible. But remember the following:

   "Until this small Turkish community that forms part of the Turkish
    race which has been the terrible enemy of Hellenism is expelled,
    the duty to the heroes of EOKA cannot be considered as terminated."

                                               Makarios, 1962

   "Greece has come to Cyprus, and Cyprus is Greece. I firmly believe
    that the Pan-Hellenic struggle for the union of Cyprus with
    motherland Greece will shortly be crowned with success. This
    success will be the beginning of a new era of Greek grandeur
    and glory." 
 						Makarios, 1964

   "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."
			Greek Cypriot House of representatives, 1967

   "Cyprus is Greek, Cyprus was Greek since the dawn of history,
    and will remain Greek.
    Greek and undivided we have taken it over.
    Greek and undivided we shall preserve it.
    Greek and undivided we shall DELIVER it to Greece."

					Makarios, 1971


 
>"Ev' va girisei n pita me to meli, tjai tha tnv fate dixws meli"
>" The pie with the honey may flip over, and then you'll have to eat it
>without honey"
 
The "pie with the honey" is too big to flip over, Kirie Michalis.

>Michalis Syrimis
>University of Illinois
>Urbana-Champaign
>

Cheers,
Okan Baysan.