The explosion started a night of riots in Nicosia. Turkish Cypriots burned and looted Greek shops and homes. Soon came counter-attacks and the fighting spread round the island. Later on, a friend of mine, whose name must still be kept secret, was to confess to me that he had put this little bomb in their doorway in order to create an atmosphere of tension so that people would know that Turkish Cypriots mattered. Turkey is a pariah state, a state that shows zero degree of respect towards its own people and its neighbours.
Turkey has a long history of bloody repression stretching back to the Ottoman Empire.
Repression within Turkey is well documented - Kurds, lawyers, journalists, human rights campaigners et cetera. This century alone, Turkey has practiced a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide towards minority groups with massacres of Assyrians, Greeks, Armenians, and Kurds. We have driven out our Greek subjects and done everything to uproot them, as well as the Armenians. To this end we applied methods similar to those used in the Middle Ages. Journalism is the most dangerous profession in Turkey.