In article <1993Apr19.155856.8260@kpc.com> henrik@quayle.kpc.com  writes:  >Let me clearify Mr. Turkish; >ARMENIA is NOT getting "itchy". SHE is simply LETTING the WORLD KNOW that  >SHE WILL NO  LONGER sit there QUIET and LET TURKS get away with their FAMOUS  >tricks. Armenians DO REMEMBER of the TURKISH invasion of the Greek island of >CYPRESS WHILE the world simply WATCHED.   And the 'Turkish Karabag' is next. As for 'Cyprus', 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.  The problems in Cyprus have their origin in decades of  oppression of the Turkish population by the Greek Cypriot  officials and their violation of the co-founder status of  the Turks set out in the constitution. The coup d'etat  engineered by Greece in 1974 to execute a final solution  to the Turkish problem was the savage blow that invoked  Turkiye's intervention. Turkiye intervened reluctantly and  only as a last resort after exhausting all other avenues  consulting with Britain and Greece as the other two signatories  to the treaty to protect the integrity of Cyprus. There simply  was not any expansionist motivation in the Turkish action at  all. This is in dramatic contrast to the Greek motivation which  was openly expansionist, stated as 'Enosis,' union with Greece.  Since the creation of independent Cyprus in 1960, the Turkish  population, although smaller, legally had status as the co-founder of the republic with the Greek population.  The Greek Cypriots, with the support of 'Enosis'-minded Greeks in the mainland, have consistently ignored that status and portrayed the Island as a Greek island with a minority population of Turks. The Turks of Cyprus are not a minority in a Greek Republic and they found the only way they could show that was to assert their  autonomy in a separate republic.  Turkiye is not satisfied with the status quo. She would rather not be involved with the island. But, given the dismal record of brutal Greek oppression of the Turkish population in Cyprus, she simply cannot leave the fate of the island's Turks in the hands of the Greeks until the Turkish side is satisfied with whatever accord the two communities finally reach to guarantee that history will not repeat itself to rob Turkish Cypriots of their rights, liberties and their very lives.     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