From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek,soc.culture.europe,soc.history,soc.rights.human
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Subject: This is about a universe "pol*pol" once lived in.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 21:21:53 EST
Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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In article <10183.3248.uupcb@factory.com> michael.polymenakos@factory.com (Michael Polymenakos)  writes:

>MUTLU FODDER LINE 1: Free Northern Cyprus Now!

Done. Living in an alternate universe?

In  1960  the  Republic  of  Cyprus  was  founded  with  the
participation  of  Turkish  and   Greek  Cypriots  as  equal
partners. However, Greek Cypriots never wanted independence,
but ENOSIS, or UNION WITH GREECE.

In  April  1963  the  Greek  Cypriots  ignored  the  Supreme
Constitutional Courts of Cyprus  when it ruled against them,
and its  neutral President  resigned. From that  day forward
Greek Cypriots  ATTACKED the  Turkish community  causing the
total  destruction of  103  of their  villages and  numerous
human life.

DEPRIVED of  their rightful  place in  the state,  the Turks
lived in  fear in fortified enclaves  for mutual protection,
squeezed into less than 3% of the island. It was in 1963 and
not in 1974, that Cyprus divided.

Turkey did  not occupy  the island,  but only  INTERVENED to
protect the Turkish Cypriot  community, using its legitimate
right  under  the  Treaty  of Guarantee,  and  to  stop  the
annexation of  the island  to Greece by  a military  coup in
1974, organised by a Greek junta.

Since 1974,  the Turkish  and Greek  Cypriots have  lived IN
PEACE in their respective areas,  no more killings have been
reported. Yet,  the Turkish  Cypriots still offer  a genuine
federation based on Equality and Power Sharing.

Cyprus is not a Greek island, but an island which belongs to
both the  Greek and  Turkish Cypriots.  Yet, the  Greek side
receives all international aid, which benefit entirely their
community,   and  finances   the  unfounded   Greek  Cypriot
Propaganda. The Turkish Cypriots do not trust the Greeks, or
be left to their mercy.

Therefore  the Turkish  Cypriots  are right  to  ask you  to
recognise their  independent state. This is  essential for a
peaceful solution  and for  a peaceful  co-existence between
the two communities.

SUPPORT  THE  PEACE,  RECOGNISE   THE  TURKISH  REPUBLIC  OF
NORTHERN CYPRUS

  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)