UN General Assembly
1964

93. Whereas Greece has done everything in its power to prevent the Cyprus crisis from invading the field of its bilateral relations with Turkey, the Turkish Government, on the other hand, has from the outset adopted a policy of continual provocation which forced my Government to have recourse to the Security Council. 94. This provocative and blindly vindictive policy culminated in the steps taken against completely innocent people. I refer to the mass deportations, intimidation and vexations of every kind to which the Greeks living in Turkey are subjected. 95. Thousands of Greek citizens residing at Istanbul —women, old people, children and invalids not expected — were expelled overnight, uprooted from the land of their birth and cast upon the open road to experience the sad fate of refugees. We consider this tragedy unworthy of the contemporary political ethos and the standards of our civilization.