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TOPIC: Cyprus: A Portrait of Anti-Turkish Hatred by Barbaric Greeks
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Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:00 pm
From: "rich murphy"
http://www.turkses.com/index.asp
On Cyprus
by Ahmet Cosar
Cyprus formed part of the Ottoman Empire from 1571 to 1914, when it was
formally annexed by Great Britain at the beginning of World War I. In
1950s the revival of "Hellenism" and the ideal of re- building the
great "Hellen Empire" started a bloody struggle in Cyprus, Enosis, in
other words the annexation of Cyprus by Greece. The religious leader of
Greek Cypriots, Archbishop Makarios, was the head of the movement and
there were massive terrorist attacks on British rulers and Turkish
Cypriots who didn't share this "ideal". The numbers show that between
1955 and 1960, 508 people were murdered and 1,260 people were wounded
in these attacks by EOKA, a Greek Cypriot terrorist organization, under
the leadership of an ex- colonel from the Greek army, Grivas[2].
By 1958 it had become clear that it was not possible to achieve Enosis.
Turkish Cypriots, just like Greek Cypriots, wanted self- determination
and freedom and they didn't want to be a mere "minority" which, soon
after independence, would be "persuaded" to leave Cyprus. In 1959 the
Greek side accepted the formation of an independent republic in which
Turkish Cypriots would be one of the two equal partners. However, what
Greek side understood from "independence" was merely "a step before
Enosis" as it was soon discovered. Knowing the Greek aim of Enosis, the
Republic of Cyprus was founded in 1960 with a detailed Constitution
which strictly forbade the annexation of Cyprus by any country.
Furthermore permanent guarantees were written in the Constitution of
Cyprus so that the "independent democracy" would not turn into a
"dictatorship of majority"[3]. Nevertheless, beginning right after the
foundation of Cyprus in 1960, the Greek Cypriots made it clear that
they had not given up the struggle for Enosis. Makarios, also first
President of Cyprus, made the following public declaration:
"The Zurich and London Agreements form a landmark in the course of this
struggle, but, at the same time, are a starting point for further
struggles, with the object of capitalising on what has been achieved
for further conquests",
on 5 January 1962. On 15 August 1962, in Kykko monastery, he reiterated
that Enosis was his aim and said:
"Greek Cypriots must continue to march forward to complete the work
began by the EOKA heroes."
He also made the following provocative remark at his native village of
Panayia on 4 September 1962:
"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."
In 1962, Polykarpos Yorkadjis, Minister of Interior, declared that:
"There is no place in Cyprus for anyone who is not Greek, who does not
think Greek and who does not constantly feel Greek."
Meanwhile, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation regularly broadcast
virulently anti-Turkish plays. In one play, a mother asks her son what
her son wants to become; the boy replies:
- "a hero."
When she asks him,:
- "What will you bring to us?",
he answers:
- "I am going to bring seven Turkish heads to you [4]."
In fact the Akritas plan, published by Greek Cypriot newspaper Patris
on 21 April 1966, was a clear proof of the fact that Greek Cypriot side
deliberately tried to prove the constitution as unworkable and to
replace it with a settlement in order to re-open the way to Enosis. It
was disclosed that Archbishop Makarios had assumed responsibility for
the implementation of the plan and he had appointed Polycarpos
Georkadjis to be the "Chief Akritas". In an interview with the Italian
journalist Oriana Fallaci, Makarios said how Ioannides (a Greek officer
in the Greek contingent on Cyprus) and Nikos Sampson, a bloody EOKA
terrorist leader responsible from the "execution squads" of EOKA, came
to him one day in 1964 and told:
"Your Beatitude, here is my project. To attack the Turkish Cypriots on
the island, and eliminate them to the last one [5]."
Ioannides was the leader of the fascist Greek Junta in 1974 and Nikos
Sampson was declared the "president" with the Coup organized by Athens,
and their plan was still as revealed by Makarios. Knowing these facts
it is easy to understand the reasons behind the Turkish fears for the
security of Turkish Cypriots and the decision for intervention. In fact
after the intervention it was found out that in Sandallaris village the
whole population of 57, and at Maratha village 82 Turkish Cypriots were
massacred and buried in mass-graves, among the victims were babies,
women, and elderly people. In Tokhni village all able-bodied male
Turkish inhabitants (50 in number) were taken by the Greek Cypriot
National Guard soldiers to the outskirts of Ayia Phyla village in
Limassol district where they were massacred and buried in a pre-opened
pit together with about 40 Turks from Tatlisu (Mari)[6].
Greek people, repeating the official Greek claim, tell us that more
than 2,000 Greek Cypriots were/are "missing". For some strange reason
they forget to tell us that a Greek Cypriot Priest, Father Papatsetsos,
made a declaration to Greek newspapers saying that he had personally
buried 127 people, 10 of them were Turkish Cypriots, and all of them
were murdered by EOKA-B terrorists and the Greek National Guard(there
were violent clashes between left-wing and right-wing Greek Cypriots
after the Coup in 1974)[7] . On 23 July 1974, The Times of London
quoted the American wife of Dr. Lyssarides (head of the EDEK party)
saying that many supporters of Makarios had been massacred during and
after the coup. On 25 July 1974 Combat published in Belgium, reported:
"it has been confirmed that during the days following the coup at least
2,000 of Makarios's supporters have either been killed in the fighting
or executed."
A report in Washington Star News said similar things:
"Bodies littered the streets and there were mass burials."
Until this day Greek Cypriot Government has rejected to open these
mass-graves and to reveal the identities of these people, mainly to
continue the Greek propaganda of "missing Greeks". The fact is that,
the question of missing persons was investigated by International
Committee of Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC representative stated
categorically in the presence of the UN Secretary-General's Special
Representative in Cyprus that all POWs were delivered to the Greek
side. This fact was also confirmed in the report of the head of the
ICRC dated 18 March 1977. At the time there were only 23-24 cases
pending investigation, and the Turkish side is ready to investigate
these cases along with hundreds of Turkish Cypriots who are missing
since 1963[8]. As for the "atrocity stories" made up by Greek side, a
report by the Study Mission of the Sub-committee of the Judiciary of
the US Senate (October 1974), about the first phase of the Turkish
military operation, said:
"Whenever and wherever the Study Mission talked with Greek Cypriot
refugees, the story was basically the same: people moved the instant
they saw or thought the Turkish army was advancing towards their town
or village."
About the second phase of the operation, the report says:
"Greek Cypriots fled the moment there was rumor or sight of military
forces - creating a virtual vacuum into which the Turkish army could
and did move without resistance and without the presence of people."
Since 1974 there have been many series of negotiations between Greek
and Turkish Cypriots. All of these negotiations have been fruitless
because of the Greek side's unwillingness to accept Turkish Cypriots'
equality and the guarantee of their rights by Turkey. The Greek Cypriot
side has been enjoying hundreds of millions of dollars of help from UN
and EEC while the Turkish Cypriots have been denied all of their
citizenship rights and share. What is worse, these helps have been used
by Greek Cypriots for their military expenses which rose to $500
Million between 1977-87 and $762 Million are envisaged for 1990-93
period. Today there are less than 20,000 Turkish soldiers in Cyprus as
opposed to more than 15,000 Greek mainland troops and the Greek
National Guard includes 21,000 troops and with reserves reaches 85,000.
Former EOKA members are still in powerful government positions and not
a single Greek Cypriot has been punished for their acts during 1974
Coup. Even Nikos Sampson has been allowed to leave Cyprus, with the
pretext of being treated, and has not returned from France for years
and when he did he was greeted as a "hero". Finally, I am finishing my
article with the words of the Greek Cypriot Defense Minister, Mr.
Alonetis, on 11 March 1989:
"At the first opportunity we get, the Greek Cypriot National Guard will
attack and regain by force of arms our occupied lands."
Therefore, nobody was surprised when Greek Cypriots began moving their
forces to the Turkish Cypriot border during the recent Gulf-Crisis,
hoping that Iraq would attack Turkey.
I believe the latest UN-Resolution in the Cyprus Problem must guide
both Greeks and Turks to the correct path:
Resolution 649, 1990
[...]
"Calls upon the leaders of the two communities to pursue their efforts
to reach freely a mutually acceptable solution providing for the
establishment of a federation that will be BI-COMMUNAL as regards the
constitutional aspects and BI-ZONAL as regards the territorial aspects
in line with the present resolution and their 1977 and 1979 agreements,
and to co-operate, on an EQUAL FOOTING, with the Secretary-General in
completing, in the first instance and on an urgent basis, an outline of
an overall agreement, as agreed in june 1989."
[...]
References
[1] Sir H. Luke, Cyprus Under the Turks, pp. vi-xi.
[2] L. Stern, The Wrong Horse, pp. 160-177.
[3] J. Reddaway, The British Connection with Cyprus Since
Independence, pp. 1-23.
[4] L. Stern, ibid, pp. 92-93.
[5] P. Oberling, The Cyprus Tragedy, pp.4-5.
[6] A. H. Rizvi, Cyprus: The Tale of an Island, pp. 38-39.
[7] R. R. Denktash, The Cyprus Triangle, 1982, pp. 145-148.
[8] R. R. Denktash, ibid, pp. 92-95.
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These people were killed just because they were Turkish Cypriots.
The horrifying fate of a Turkish Cypriot mother, Ülfet Osman (21) and
her daughter and a teenage girl in the hands of a Greek Cypriot driver
who deceived them with a promise to transport them to the Turkish
controlled region of Cyprus on November 12, 1974.
Foreign Journalists at Ayios Vasilios mass grave establishing evidence
of Greek-Greek Cypriot Barbarism
Picture above shows the Turkish Cpriot victims of a mass grave near the
village of Maratha which was discovered by the Turkish authorities on
September 2, 1974
Devastated Turkish Cypriot houses at Omorphita (a suburb of Nicosia)
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THE CYPRUS QUESTION
by Okan Baysan
As a response to the recent posting concerning Cyprus in this
newsgroup, I would like to present the Turkish Cypriot
perspective
so that one can have the opportunity to listen to both North
and
South Cyprus before reaching a healthy conclusion.
HOW AND WHY DID THE CYPRUS ISSUE START?
Cyprus has been conquered and governed by various nations in
its
history as a result of its strategic location in the eastern
Mediterranean. Among these were the Egyptians, Assyrians,
Byzantines,
Lusignans, Venetians, Ottomans, and the British. When the
island
gained its independence from the British in 1960, a partnership
government was established between the Turkish and Greek
Cypriot
communities of the island.
Since the Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1820's,
the people who call themselves Greek Cypriots today thought
that
they could obtain a similar independece, and eventually annex
the
island to Greece with the hope of resurrecting the once
Byzantine
Empire, by acquiring the permanently 'lost lands' (Megali Idea
=
Great Dream/Idea). This desire of union with Greece, ENOSIS,
constitutes the entire roots of the Cyprus question today and
is
in fact still alive among the majority of Greek Cypriots in
South
Cyprus.
After the British extended their rule to Cyprus, starting in
1878,
the desire for ENOSIS -union of Cyprus with Greece - started
to show its presence among the members of the Greek Cypriots,
and
in late 1940's and early 1950's their struggle became more
obvious
all over Cyprus. Their primary target was the British, and with
the import of guns and weapons from Greece, Greek Cypriot
agitation
for ENOSIS turned into an armed struggle, which resulted in the
killing of scores of innocent lives.
GREEK CYPRIOT ARMED STRUGGLE FOR ENOSIS & INDEPENDENCE FROM
BRITAIN
In 1955, a Greek Cypriot terrorist organization, EOKA, was
established in order to carry out these attacks in a more
organized
manner, and soon, the British realised that the island had to
be
granted to its actual owners, the Turkish Cypriots, whose
origin
dates back to the Ottoman Conquest of the island in 1571, and
the
Greek Cypriots, who have chosen to identify themselves as such
even though their roots do not lie in Greece.
The first president of the Republic of Cyprus was a Greek
Cypriot,
Makarios, who publicly promoted ENOSIS, and the first Vice
president,
a Turkish Cypriot, Fazil Kucuk. United Kingdom, Turkey, and
Greece
signed a Treaty of Guarantee which gave them the obligaton to
protect and defend the island against any external attack that
was
likely to come to Cyprus. The partnership republic also had a
7:3 ratio in its administrative organs, and it appeared to
function well in its early stages. The Greek Cypriot agitation
for ENOSIS, which had never dwindled after the bi-communal
republic was established, became more obvious than before, but
this time, the primary target was the Turkish Cypriots, the
co-partners of the 1960 Republic. With the so-called 13 point
proposals of Makarios, which would alter the 1960 constitution,
remove the Vice President's veto power, take away the rights
of the Turkish Cypriot community, and speed up the annexation
of
Cyprus to Greece, ENOSIS, brought the partnership to an
end, and indeed, the Turkish Cypriots were denied their most
basic rights, and forced to live under inhumane conditions in
their own homeland.
1963-1974 was the worst decade in the history of the island,
and
hundreds of innocent Turkish Cypriots were massacred, taken
away
from their homes never to be seen again, buried in massgraves,
and relentlessly and barbarically attacked by their
co-partners,
the Greek Cypriots and their sponsors, Greeks of mainland
Greece.
And all this was the result of the sheer greed and the
so-called
'civilised' respect of the Greek Cypriots towards their
co-partners
and neighbours. In the meantime, Turkish Cypriots established
their own administration, the Turkish Cypriot transitional
Administra-
tion in late 1960's in order to take care of the urgent needs
of
the Turkish Cypriot community all over the island.
15 JULY 1974 GREEK INVASION & 20 JULY 1974 TURKISH PEACE
OPERATION
Eleven entire years of untold suffering and ethnic cleansing of
the
Turkish Cypriots, just because they constituted a barrier to
the
fulfillment of the Greek Cypriot desires for ENOSIS, reached
its
peak with the invasion of GREECE on 15 July 1974, when the
military
government then ruling Greece finally decided to annex the
island
officially.The colonels of Greece organized a Coup D'etat on
this
day and installed a criminal and a murderer as the puppet
president
of Cyprus, remotely controlled by Athens. This criminal was in
fact
the butcher of many Turkish Cypriots for more than a decade.
Death toll reached unbelievable numbers in Cyprus and hundreds
of
Turkish and Greek Cypriots paid the cost of the Greek invasion
with
their very lives.
Turkey, as one of the Guarantor powers, asked United Kingdom to
act together and bring the order in Cyprus back to what it was
in 1960. Refusing to cooperate, Turkey was forced to act alone
and intervene the situation in order to protect the lives and
rights of the Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus, as well as put an
end to the Greek expansionism and aggression in the island. So
5 days after the Greek Invasion, Turkish Peace Operation of
20 July 1974 was started with the orders of the then prime
minister
of Turkey, Bulent Ecevit. It was the most important day in the
lives of the Turkish Cypriots to see the Turkish Peace troops
coming to their rescue, and it was the most exciting day that
they waited to see during the preceeding 11 entire years of
Greek suppression and aggression. Their dreams came true with
the arrival of Turkish Peace troops on 20 July, and they
regained
their FREEDOM in their own homeland.
DEVELOPMENTS AFTER 1974
When the Peace Operation was victoriously completed and the
Turkish
Cypriots were freed from Greek barbarism during the preceeding
decade, their political evolution started to accelerate. In
1975
the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus was established in the
Turkish Cypriot controlled of northern Cyprus, and the first
Turkish Cypriot national assembly was formed. In the meantime,
various agreements were signed between Turkish Federated State
of
Cyprus and the Greek Cypriot administration in south Cyprus,
which still identified itself as the so-called Republic of
Cyprus
and illegally and unconstitutionally continued to enjoy the
recognition and financial aid of the United Nations even though
this administration should, according to the 1960 constitution,
consist of the Turkish Cypriot members as well. Among these
were the Population Transfer Agreements signed by the leaders
of both communities in order to allow Greek Cypriots in the
north
to move to south, and Turkish Cypriots in the south to move to
north for their own safety and security. This resulted in the
creation of two homogeneous communities each of which had a
different
religion, culture, language, ethnic background, and values.
Continued negotiations to reunite the island and establish a
federal government hopelessly continued during the following
years
despite the fact that the Greek Cypriot claims over the entire
island
have not showed any change whatsoever.
TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS
As a result of the failure in the negotiations and the
continued
support of United Nations for the Greek Cypriot demands, and
their
accepting the Greek Cypriot administration as the only
so-called
government in Cyprus, as well as their non-recognition of the
existence of the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus, the
national
assembly of the Turkish Federated State in the north
unanimously
voted for the establishment of the TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN
CYPRUS on 15 November 1983. This was to assert the Turkish
Cypriots'
existence and their demands in the establishment of a future
just and fair federal republic in Cyprus. Even though TRNC
enjoys
Turkiye's recognition only as of now, it does have trade
relations
with European, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries and it also
maintains consulates or representative offices in various
countries.
INALIENABLE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF TURKISH CYPRIOTS
In order to appreciate fully the Turkish Cypriot position,
it should be noted that the very survival of the Turkish
Cypriots
living as a free people, and in security, in their own
homeland,
depends on adherence to, and respect for, the following
principles:
(a) the equal political status of the two national Communities,
(b) bi-zonality,
(c) the security of the Turkish Cypriot people,
(d) the continuation of the adequate and effective guarantee of
Turkiye, which the Turkish Cypriots regard as teh only
effective
guarantee of their right to live, of their very existence
and
of their security,
(e) the participation of the two peoples, as politically equal
entitites, with equal effectiveness and right of say, in
decisions of the Legislature and the Executive,
(f) the so-called "three freedoms" to be regulated and applied
in
such a way as to ensure that the security of the Turkish
Cypriot
people is not endangered in any way and that the bi-zonal
structure of the proposed federation is not impaired,
(g) the federal government to hav eonly the powers and
functions
agreed to be assigned to it by the federated states, and
the
residual powers to remain within the federated states.
Turkiye has not territorial claims in Cyprus. On the contrary,
it
is Greece, which is expansionist. Greece is the party which
wants
to annex Cyprus, and thereby to condemn the Turkish people of
Cyprus to annihilation.
Turkiye's intention is quite clear: It is to ensure and protect
the
survival and rights of the Turkish Cypriot people. Nobody
should
expect Turkiye to allow the Turkish Cypriot people to be
abandoned
to death and oppresion, once again.
GREEK CYPRIOT POSITION, and their SYSTEMATIC,
DECEIVING and FAKE PROPAGANDA
The Greek Cypriots tried and managed to convince the world with
their relentless political propaganda that the Cyprus issue
started in 1974 with the "invasion", as they call it, of
Turkey.
Somehow, they don't see the FACT that there has been no
gunshot,
no killing, no massacres, and no more massgraves in Cyprus with
the conclusion of Turkish Peace troops.
They also artificially created a "missing people" issue with
the
blame on the Turkish side. In fact, the Greek military regime
who organised the Coup D'etat on 15 July 1974 is responsible
for
the missing and all the unaccounted people. Rumors that Turkey
hold some Greek Cypriot prisoners of war are nothing more than
intentional creations of Greek Cypriot fake propaganda in order
to make political gains in the international arenas against
Turkey
and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. There are also more
than
800 Turkish Cypriot missing people and the families of those
people came to believe that they will never see their loved
ones
again, and returned to normal lives eventually.
Refugee problem is another artificially created propaganda
material
for the Greek Cypriot politcal gains because all population
transfers
were made based on the international agreements for the safety
and
security of each community. The leaders or both communities
signed
these agreements. Let's also not forget the FACT that one third
of the Turkish Cypriot population also had to move, for their
own
security , but the Turkish Cypriot administrations have never
made
a political propaganda out of this even today.
The Greek Cypriot administration of South Cyprus imposed
political,
cultural, economic and sports embargo on Northern Cyprus and
they are trying to achieve what they could not achieve with
arms,
that is, ENOSIS -union of Cyprus with Greece - at the dawn of
the 21st century.
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*APPENDICES
(1) Enosis Claims of the Greek Cypriot leaders with their own
words
(2) Greek official's statement on the missing people issue
(3) Population Transfer Agreement
(4) Proof of Greek Invasion on 15 July 1974, with Makarios's
own words.
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"The noble struggles of the people never come to an end. These
struggles
although undergo transformation, are never terminated. The struggle of
the
people of Cyprus too will go on.
The Zurich and London Agreements form a landmark in the course of this
struggle, but at the same time, are a starting point and bastion for
further
struggles, with the object of capitalizing on what has been achieved
for
further conquests."
From Makarios's speech delivered on 01/05/1962
"Greek Cypriots must continue to march forward to complete the work
began by
the EOKA heroes... The struggle is continuing in a new form, and will
go
until we achieve our goal..."
From Makarios's sermon at Kykko Monastery on
08/15/1962
"The aim of the Cyprus struggle was not the establishment of a
Republic. These
agreements only laid the foundations."
From Makarios's statement made on 03/13/1963
"Union of Cyprus with Greeceisan aspiration always cherished within the
hearts
of all Greek Cypriots. It is impossible to put an end to this
aspiration by
establishing a Republic."
From Makarios's statement to the correspondent
of London
TIMES on 04/09/1963
"It is true that the goal of our struggle is to annex Cyprus to
Greece."
From Makarios's interview published in the Uusi
Suomi of
Stockholm on 09/05/1963
"... No power is able to close the Cyprus question. We shall keep it
open and
will never close it under any circumstances or conditions... until we
close it
through our union with Greece, a genuine Enosis without exchanges..."
From Makarios's public speech at Larnaca on
05/16/1965
"Either the whole of Cyprus is to be united with Greece or [it will]
become a
a holocaust... The road to the fulfillment of national aspirations may
be
full of difficulties, but we shall reach the goal -which is Enosis-
alive
or dead."
From Makarios's speech, at Rizokarpasso,
05/26/1965
"Freedom for us means only the integration of this southern outpost of
Hellenism into the national entity..."
Tasos Papadopoulos on U.N. day in Limassol,
10/23/1967
"... I shall never violate my oath, and I shall never deviate from my
goal.
I have desired ENOSIS, and I have never struggled for anything else
other
than its achievement."
Makarios, in an interview with Eleftheros Kosmo
and Ta Simerina, Athens, 08/19/1970
"Cyprus is Greek. Cyprus was Greek since the dawn of its history, and
will remain Greek.
Greek and undivided we have taken it over.
Greek and undivided we shall preserve it.
Greek and undiveded we shall deliver it to Greece."
Makarios, in a speech at Yialousa on 03/14/1971
"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, Yialousa, 03/14/1971
"The struggle of Cyprus is the struggle of all Hellenism. Cyprus, where
the
Greek virtue is being tested, is today the place where the Greek
history and
Greek struggle are continuing."
Spyros Kyprianou at a meeting in Limassol on
03/24/1971
to celebrate the Greek Independence Day
"I am in favour of ENOSIS. ENOSIS is the national aspiration of Greek
Cypriots."
Makarios, in an interview withthe ITN
correspondent,
Mr. Robert Southgate, published on 09/21/1971
"If your aim is the launching of a struggle for ENOSIS, then both I and
the people of Cyprus are ready to enter such a struggle provided it is
backed by the Greek Government."
Makarios, in his reply to the Greek
Government's
note of 02/11/1972 as reported in the Greek
Cypriot
press on 03/16/1972
"Those who disagree with the way of handling Cyprus' national problem
and
call themselves ENOSISTS accuse and call the others, the overwhelming
majority of the Greek Cypriot people, anti-ENOSISTS. The charge is
false
and inadmissible. All Greek Cypriots are and will be ENOSISTS.
Makarios, in a speech at the unveiling if the
statue
of EOKA man Michalakis Savva at Akaki village
on
11/05/1972
"I have struggled for union of Cyprus with Greece, and ENOSIS will
always
be my deep national aspiration as it is the aspiration of all Greek
Cypriots. My national creed has never changed and my career as a
national
leader has shown no inconsistency or contradiction. I have accepted
independence instead of ENOSIS because certain external conditions and
factors have not allowed a free choice.
If I had any ambitions, my greatest ambition would be for my name to
be
associated with ENOSIS."
Makarios, in an interview with Mme Maria Rejane
of the French Magazine "Le Point", published on
02/19/1973
"ENOSIS has always been for the Greek Cypriots a deep rooted national
aspiration. To me independence is a compromise. In other words, if I
had
a free choice between independence and ENOSIS, I would support ENOSIS."
Makarios, in an interview with the
correspondent
of Frankfurter Rundshau as published in the
Cyprus
Mail on 05/16/1974
"The Cyprus State should be dissolved only in the event of ENOSIS."
Makarios, in a letter to General Gizikis,
President
of Greece, dated 07/02/1974
"The Greek Cypriot leadership prepared the AKRITAS PLAN in order to
knock the
Turks out and realize ENOSIS -union of Cyprus with Greece- ..."
Aristos Katsis, a Greek historian, in his
article
published by the Greek Cypriot daily
Phileleftheros on
11/10/1979
"My first goal will be to get rid of the concessions and promises given
by
Vasiliou. Our goal is the same. [It is] to liberate Varosha,
Pentadaktylons,
Kyrenia, Morphou, Karpasia, Cyprus."
Glafkos Klerides, Eleftherotipia, 02/13/1993
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Statement of Greek Minister on Greek Cypriot Missing Persons
Source: The Tragedy of Turkish Cypriot Missing Persons in Cyprus -Third
Decade-
June 1989
Mr Evangelos Yannopolos, the then Greek Minister of Maritime
Affairs,
said on 4/7/1988 the following which was published in Eleftherotipia
newspaper in Nicosia.
"The two myths in Cyprus must be exposed as lies. The first
myth
is the case of missing persons and the second is the myth of the
invasion
of Cyprus by Turkey. The Greek Cypriots presented as missing persons
were
actually the victims who were killed during the Sampson Coup. As
regards the
invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, it was the Greek military that staged the
coup and toppled Makarios at a time when he was an internationally
recognized
President of Cyprus. How is it possible to topple Makarios and start
slaughtering the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and impose a mad
man
like Sampson to head the Cyprus Government and yet expect no reaction
from
Turkey."
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VOLUNTARY REGROUPING OF POPULATIONS
On 2 August 1975, at the third round of the Vienna Talks, an
Agreement was reached between the representatives of the two
peoples of Cyprus, President Denktas and Mr. Clerides, for the
Voluntary Regrouping of Populations. (U.N. Document, S/11789,
2 August 1975)
This Agreement, reached under the auspices of the U.N.
Secretary
General and implemented in September 1975 under U.N.
supervision,
consolidated the peace reached as the result of the Turkish
Peace
Operation. The voluntary regrouping of populations made it
possible for the two peoples of Cyprus to live in complete
security in their respective zones. No intercommunal fighting
or
acts of violence took place in Cyprus since the implementation
of the Agreement of 2 August 1975. The peace achieved by the
Turkish Peace Operation became a permanent feature in the
Island.
Source: The Crux of the Cyprus Question
Turhan Feyzioglu, Necati M. Ertekun
Population Exchange Agreement
Signed on August 2, 1975.
(1) The Turkish Cypriots at present in the south of the island will be
allowed,
if they want to do so, to proceed north with their belongings under
an
organized programme and with the assistance of the United Nations
Peace
keeping Force in Cyprus.
(2) Mr. Denktas reaffirmed, and it was agreed, that the Greek Cypriots
at
present in the north of the island are free to stay and that they
will be
given every help to lead a normal life, including facilities for
education
and for the practice of their religion, as well as medical care by
their
own doctors and freedom of movement in the north.
(3) The Greek Cypriots at present in the north who, at their own
request and
without having been subjected to any kind of pressure, wish to move
to the
south, will be permitted to do so.
(4) The United Nations will have free and normal access to Greek
Cypriot
villages and habitations in the north.
(5) In connexion with the the implementations of the above agreement,
priority
will be given to the reunification of families, which may also
involve
the transfer of a number of Greek Cypriots, at present in the
south, to
the north.
Source: U.N. Document S/11789
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MAKARIOS ADDRESSING THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL
UNITED NATIONS
SECURITY COUNCIL Official Records
1780th Meeting: 19 JULY 1974
New York
18.
...It is clearly an invasion from outside, inflagrant violation
of the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus.
The so-called coup was the work of the Greek officers staffing
and
commanding the National Guard.
19.
... the Greek officers serving with the National guard....
recruited many members of the terrorist organization EOKA-B.
21.
The coup caused much bloodshed and took a great toll of human
lives...
...It was an invasion which violated the independence and
sovereignty of the Republic. And the invasion is continuing
so long as there are Greek officers in Cyprus.
25.
It may be said that it was the Cyprus Government which invited
the Greek officers to staff the National Guard. I regret to say
that it was a mistake on my part...
32. As I have already stated, the events in Cyprus do not
constitute
an internal matter of the Greeks of Cyprus. The Turks of Cyprus
are also affected. The coup of the Greek junta is an invasion,
and
from its consequences the whole people of Cyprus suffers, both
Greeks and Turks.
Source: U.N. Security Council Official Record of the 1780th meeting.
"Makarios' address on 19 July 1974"
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Interview & the Testimony of the Greek Cypriot Priest, Papatsetsos,as
Published in Local Greek Newspaper, Ta Nea on 28 February 1976
PAPATSETSOS:
Two days after the coup, on 17 July, I witnessed something which has
perhaps never been witnessed by any mortal before. I saw a young Greek
Cypriot buried alive. That was when two Junta officers came to my house
and ordered me to accompany them to the cemetery. I taught they were
going to kill me, but they said they only wanted me for burying some
dead people.
In the cemetery there were two open graves and two bodies lying beside
them. I went to see if I could recognise them. One was dead. But the
other, a curly haired, fair-com- plexioned, 18 year-old youth, was
moving. Startled, I turned back and shouted:'But officer, this man is
alive!'
'Shut up you dirty priest, or I will shut you up for good', the officer
retorted. Then the youth was pushed into the open grave which was
filled with earth. I swear to God that they buried this youth while he
was still alive!
[Pointing at the cemetery, Papatsetsos said] Here people were buried
like dogs by the Junta. There were also bodies which had been dumped
outside the cemetery. They were not identified, and not claimed. As a
priest my conscience is troubled, but they were holding a pistol to my
head at the time.
I remember the day they first came to me. They said 'Father, we have
some dead bodies which we want you to bury'. 'Certainly', I replied and
asked how many bodies they had. SEVENTY-SEVEN they said. An hour later
a lorry arrived and I heard someone order: 'Dump them outside.' They
were the dead bodies; they were all put in one common grave, without
waiting for identification by their relatives. The Junta men produced
some small crosses(seven only), wrote some names on them and put them
on the grave.
The Junta men scornfully called persons loyal to Makarios 'Muskos
supporters', and wanted to bury them 'like dogs', in a sheep fold
outside the cemetery. And that is what they did in the end. They dug
two graves with excavators-one inside and the other outside the
cemetery. They buried their own dead (27) inside the cemetery and
others(5) outside.
TA NEA: Father, about the youth man buried alive, could he have been
saved?
PAPATSETSOS: Of course he could have been saved. He had a wound in the
right leg. I went to the hospital and asked a doctor there, if a dead
man could move. The doctor laughed, and said 'No'. But I was not the
one who had buried him alive.
TA NEA: Could you recognise any of the Junta men?
PAPATSETSOS: THEY HAD ALL COME FROM GREECE FOR THE COUP. They were
looting, and even broke into my house. They entered houses on the
pretext of searching for deserters but actually stole valuable articles
from them.
TA NEA: Have you witnessed any other atrocities?
PAPATSETSOS: I listened to telephone conversations between Junta men.
In one case they were talking about the people resisting at Kaimakli
suburb, and saying:'SHOOT THEM ALL, HAVE NO MERCY AT ALL!' I also
noticed that in the hospi- tal they were giving polluted water to the
sick.
TA NEA: Father, could you swear that you have not secretly buried dead
Turks in the cemetery?
PAPATSETSOS: Only about 10. We did not know who they were and where
they were found.
TA NEA: How many bodies did you bury during the coup?
PAPATSETSOS: 127. Fifty of them were collected from the streets and
they were buried outside the cemetery; the other 77 were buried inside.
TA NEA: If the Turkish invasion had not taken place, would more Greek
Cypriots have been killed in the coup?
PAPATSETSOS: OH YES, MANY MORE. They wanted to kill me too. It is
rather a hard thing to say, but it is true, that the Turkish
intervention saved us from a merciless internecine war. They had
prepared a list of all Makarios supporters and they would have
slaughtered them all.
TA NEA: Now, father tell me sincerely, were people brutally killed in
those days?
PAPATSETSOS: YES, MY SON. MASSACRES were committed outside Kykko
Monastery and in Limassol. I heard with my own ears the order. 'ALL OF
THEM, TO THE LAST MAN, MUST BE KILLED TONIGHT.'
THOSE WHO HAVE WITNESSED THESE CRIMES ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK. AS A MATTER
OF FACT MOST OF THEM ARE GRIVAS SUPPORTERS AND THEY WILL NEVER SPEAK.
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Greek's confession of the massacre
The ex-Prime Minister of Greece, Mitsotakis, announced that Cypriot
Greeks had slaughtered Turks mercilessly under Makarios' bad
administration.
Terrible massacres carried out by the Cypriot Greeks against the
Turkish population of the island 26 years ago has been confirmed by
Konstantinos Mitsotakis, the ex-Prime Minister of Greece. The Cypriot
Greeks, who killed Turks brutally at that time, were denying these
massacres on the international arena up till now. Konstantinos
Mitsotakis said that "under Makarios' administration, Cypriot
Greeks carried out killings of Turks to reach the goal of abolishing
the signed agreements". These remarkable statements of the ex-Prime
Minister to the daily Greek newspaper Ta Nae have also been published
on Fileleftheros, the newspaper with the highest circulation in South
Cyprus. In his statements, Mitsotakis accused Archbishop Makarios with
criminal mistakes. Mitsotakis said that Makarios had dragged Cyprus
into bloody events in order to abolish the agreements signed personally
by himself and that this process had led Cypriot Greeks to commit
undeniable murders against the Turkish side. Mitsotakis also criticized
Konstantin Karamanlis, the Greek Prime Minister of the period and said
that "if I were in place of him I would accept the proposals made by
the Turks after the operation of 20th July,1974 and would prevent the
second operation".
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From: WASHINGTON POST, 17.02.1964
"...the fanatic Greeks are gradually approaching to ethnic genocide..."
From: Statement by Archbishop Makarios, August 1964
"...If Turkey comes in order to save Turkish Cypriots, Turkey will find
no Turkish Cypriots to save..."
From: A speech by Makarios made on the occasion of the visit of the
Defense Minister of Greece - on 27 October 1964 - As reported by all
Greek Cypriot newspapers on 28 October 1964
"...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."
From: HERALD TRIBUNE, NEW YORK, 16 SEPTEMBER 1964
".....degrading, sub-human standard of life in Cyprus for Turks...",
"....economic restrictions being imposed upon the Turkish community in
Cyprus were in some instances so severe as to be a siege..."
From: UN SECRETARY GENERAL'S REPORT NO.s/610 of 12 December 1964, Annex
II
20. "At present no mail is being delivered to areas under Turkish
Cypriot control..."
From: A statement by Makarios as quoted in the Greek Cypriot Press of
17 March 1965
"...We shall keep the Cyprus question open and will never close it
under any circumstances or conditions...until we close it through union
with Greece, a genuine ENOSIS without exchanges."
From: CYPRUS MAIL - Statement of Makarios on 28 March 1966
"No Greek who knows me can ever believe that I would wish to work for
the creation of a Cypriot national awareness. The Agreements (Referring
to Zurich-Longon Agreements which led for the Creation of the Republic
of Cyprus) have created a State but not a Nation."
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From: DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON) 15.02.1964 EDITORIAL
"...If the Turkish Army has not already landed reinforcements to its
Treaty Force in Cyprus, that is simply proof of the patience of Turkey.
Its right to do so cannot be denied. If international treaties mean
anything, Turkey can protect the Turkish Cypriot minority from further
massacre. It is radical discrimination in its most bestial form.
Although there have been efforts to cloud the issue by suggesting that
both Cypriot communities are to blame, by far the heaviest guilt is
that of the Greek Cypriot force known as EOKA or EDMA..."
From: LE FIGARO (PARIS) 15-16.02.1964 REPORT BY MAX CLOS
"...It is a military operation that the Greeks launched against the six
thousand inhabitants of the Turkish quarter yesterday morning. A
spokesman of the Greek Cypriot Government has recognized this
officially... It is hard to conceive, how Greeks and Turks may
seriously contemplate working together after all that has happened.."
From: National Review, 12.06.1995, by Brian Cozier
"Greek Cypriot terrorist movement led by political bandit called George
Grivas had one simple aim: Enosis or union with Greece." ....
"In my view, the Turkish intervention of 1974 was not an invasion, as
widely accepted, but a morally justified rescue operation." .....
"I regret the Greek rejection of a federal solution, which alone makes
sense to me." .....
"Greek Cypriots are trying to make life uncomfortable for Northern
Cyprus by cutting of gas and electricity daily." .....
"There are warning signs today in the Greek Cypriot Republic..."
...for months past, a Russian Mafia and ex-KGB presence has been
building up there. There is a massive arms build-up as well... There
are also reliable reports on a still more sinister development, with
the training of anti-Turkish, leninist terrorists of the PKK in the
South (Greek Cypriot)..."
From: PERIODIKA, 6.2.1994 (Greek Cypriot weekly magazine) From an
interview with Mr. Ayionatitis, the leader of the Greek Political Party
"Ergatikei Demokratika Association"
"Greek Cypriot leadership says that the Cyprus problem began in 1974;
but it began long before this and even before the independence
(1960)...Power-holders on our side were oppressing Turkish Cypriots
before 1974..."
"...We should not forget that before 1974 Turkish Cypriots had been
treated like Negroes...Turks were doing the worst work but receiving
the least money. Turks had not had any control over the island's
economy."
"Reverting to the state of affairs before 1974 would not be a justified
move at all. Turks will never agree to this. And we have to admit one
more thing: If Turkey arrived in 1974 to save the Turkish Cypriots, the
latter were really in need of being saved. No one could know what the
coupists would do if they took over. Turkish Cypriots were concerned
about their fate in case Cyprus was united with Greece and they were
justified with their concern. It is because of this concern that
Turkish Cypriots have been fighting against Enosis since 1945. Under
this climate, there remains to be no justification for refugees to
return to their homes."
From: THE WIND BLOWS MEMOIRS OF SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HUME, FORMER PRIME
MINISTER OF THE UK
"...I was early convinced that if Archbishop Makarios could not bring
himself to treat the Turkish Cypriots as human beings, he was inviting
the invasion and partition of the island."
From: VOICE OF GERMANY, 30.07.1974
(FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH MS INGRID HEBIL, A GERMAN TOURIST IN CYPRUS)
"...the human mind cannot comprehend the Greeks butchery. Greek
National Guard ... entering the Turkish homes, ruthlessly rained
bullets on women and children, they cut the throats of many Turks;
rounding up the Turkish women, they ... raped them all ..."
From: THE UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, 20.08.1974
"...Every hour new ditches and numerous corpses are being discovered.
It is very difficult to endure the job..."
From: NBC, NATIONAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 29.07.1974 JOHN PALMER
REPORTING:
"...In the Turkish village of Aleminio, the Turks were collected in
front of a wall and the Greek national army shot them all and killed
them indiscriminately..."
From: THE WASHINGTON POST, 23.07.1974
"...In a Greek raid on a small village near Limassol, 36 people out of
the population of 200 were killed. The Greeks said they had been given
orders to kill the inhabitants before the Turkish forces arrived.."
From: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (upi), USA, 23.07.1974
"...the Greeks killed many women and children in Limassol. I have seen
the bodies of 20 children lying on the road...some were wounded and
crying...the Greek soldiers are waiting for their turn to enter in the
Turkish homes and kill the women..."
From: THE LONDON TIMES, 22.07.1974
"In the island, thousands of Turks were held as hostages. turkish women
were raped and Turkish children killed on the streets. The Turkish
Quarter in Limassol was burnt down. The incidents have been confirmed
by Greek Cypriots."
From: EVENING STANDARD, 19.07.1974
"...today, early in the morning Greek ships boarded on Famagusta (the
main seaport of Cyprus) port and discharged Greek soldiers fully
furnished with modern arms...soon after the discharge, atrocities
started to take place ... Cyprus is not a soverign state
anymore...Widespread massacre is taking place all over the island..."
"...At the main police station, one witness saw people tied to each
other....they were later executed.."
From: IL GIORNO, 14.1.1964 REPORTED BY GIORGIO BOCCO
"In Cyprus the terror continues. Right now we are witnessing the exodus
of Turks from villages. Thousands of people are abandoning their homes,
lands, herds: Greek terrorism is relentless. This time, the rhetoric of
the Hellens and the busts of Plato do not suffice to cover up their
barbaric and ferocious behavior. At four o'clock in the afternoon
curfew is imposed on the Turkish villages. Threats, shootings, and
attempts of arson start as soon as it becomes dark. After the massacre
during the past Christmas that spared neither women, nor children, it
is difficult to put up any resistance..."
From: A STATEMENT BY MAKARIOS AS QUOTED IN THE GREEK CYPRIOT PRESS OF
17 MARCH 1965
"...We shall keep the Cyprus question open and will never close it
under any circumstances or conditions....until we close it through
union with Greece, a genuine ENOSIS without exchanges."
From: WASHINGTON POST, 16.02.1964 ARTICLE BY ROBERT H. ESTABROOK
"...Archbishop Makarios, robed adn bearded cleric who serves as
President of Cyprus, has a Byzantine talent for equitation....his
Government deliberately provoked the clashes and is bent upon the
extermination of the Turkish population..."
From; EVENING POST, 15.1.1964 REPORTED BY JOHN WHITE FROM NICOSIA,
CYPRUS
Background to the London Conference
"This week 2,000 miles from that dusty Cypriot road, men are meeting
round a table in london to try to sort out the tragedy of Cyprus. Their
aim will be to find a solution to a problem which has produced
wide-spread murder, arson, looting and kidnapping. It is profoundly to
be hoped they discover such a solution. But very few people I met in
Cyprus last week have much faith in this painfully arranged Conference.
As the Greek Cypriot taxi man who drove me around Nicosia said: "The
conference will solve nothing. It is just words."
When I asked him for his solution he said "If the Turks want to stay -
O.K. But they can't have any rights. they should not have the good
jobs. They are the minority and must do what we say."
"Some Greeks are more extremist than the taxi man. They don't merely
wish to deprive the Turks of all rights. They want to deprive them of
the right to live. I have heard men say all Turks should die and these
were men with nervous trigger fingers."
" Many Greek and Turkish Cypriots are embittered - understandably - and
some are apparently resigned to everlasting conflict. 'I would like to
live peaceably with the Greeks' said one Turk, 'But I do not see how it
can be done.' Possibly he spoke for many others."
"The British Army in Cyprus have been playing a most difficult role.
One of their jobs has been to try and build confidence between Greeks
and Turks."
"Last Thursday hundreds of soldiers were drafted into a suburb of
Nicosia to safeguard Turkish families coming back to their homes and
'restore confidence'. I saw more Turks going than coming back. As one
of them said 'My four your old daughter was shot by my next door
neighbor. I don't want to return and be killed.'.."
From: THE GUARDIAN, 02.04.1988 (FROM THE 'SECRET" REPORT OF COMMANDER
PACKARD, WHO WAS A HIGH RANKING BRITISH OFFICER IN CYPRUS DURING
1963-64)
" One of Packard's first tasks was to try to find out what had happened
to the Turkish hospital patients. Secret discussions took place with a
Greek Minister in the collapsed government. After a brief
investigation, he was able to confirm local rumors. it appeared that
greek medical staff had slit the Turkish patients' throats as they lay
in their beds. Their bodies were loaded onto a truck and driven to a
farm north of the city where they were fed into mechanical choppers and
ground into the earth."
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The following is a list of Greek Cypriot Organizations which promoted
ENOSIS -union of Cyprus with Greece- through armed assaults,
killings, and terrorism all over the island.
(Source: The Cyprus Revolt by Nancy Crawshaw)
AKEL Anorthotikon Komma Ergazomenou Laou
Reform Party of the Working People
ANE Alkimos Neolaia Tis EOKA
Valiant Youth of EOKA
AON Anorthotiki Organismos Neolaias
Reform Youth Organisation
EAM Ethnikon Apeleftheritikon Metopon
National Liberation Front
EAS Ethnikos Apeleftherotikos Synaspimos
National Leberation Coalition
EDMA Eniaion Dimokratikon Metopon Anadimiurgias
United Democratic Reconstruction Front
ELAS Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos
People's National Liberation Army
EMAK Ethnikon Metopon Apeleftheroseos Kyprou
Cyprus National Liberation Front
EOKA Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston
National Organization of Cypriot Fighters
KEM Kypriakon Enotikon Metapon
Cyprus Enosis Front
OAE Organosis Aristeron Ethnikophronon
Left-wing Nationalists' Organisation
OAP Organosis Aristeron Patrioton
Left-wing Patriots' Organisation
OHEN Orthodoxos Christianiki Enosis Neon
Orthodox Christian Union of Youth
PEAEK Panellinikos Epiropi Agonos Enoseos Kyprou
Panhellenic Committee for the Struggle for the Union of Cyprus
PEK Panagrotiki Enosis Kyprou
Panagrarian Union of Cyprus
PEKA Politiki Epiropi Kypriakou Agonos
Political Committee of the Cyprus Struggle
PEO Pankyprios Ergatiki Omospondia
Pancyprian Federation of Labour
PEOM Pankyprios Ethniki Organosis Mathiton
Pancyprian National Organisation of Pupils
PEON Pankyprios Ethniki Organosis Neolaisas
Pancyprian National Organisation of Youth
SEK Synomospondia Ergaton Kyprou
Confederation of Cypriot Workers
SEKA Syndonistiki Epitropi Kypriakos Agonos
Coordination Committee of the Cyprus Struggle
AKEL, ANE, AON, EAM, EAS, EDMA,ELAS, EMAK, EOKA, KEM, OAE, OAP, OHEN,
PEAEK, PEK, PEKA, PEO, PEOM, PEON, SEK, SEKA
ANE's wide range of duties included surveillance and intimidation...
Later, on demonstrating proficiency as gunmen, they were promoted to
full membership of EOKA. [p. 255]
AON ... the communist youth organisation... [p. 54]
EAS immediately offered to support the Church plebiscite on condition
that it was a 'genuine' plebiscite for Enosis [p. 47]
EDMA ..., the potential successor to EOKA was formed out of ex-fighters
in support of Makarios [p. 352]
ELAS ... the overwhelmingly superior forces of ELAS... [p.92]
EMAK ... a secret revolutionary organisation, well organised and fully
armed, which aimed at Enosis... [p.111]
KEM... a plot by KEM to assasinate Makarios and start civil war in the
island... [p. 353]
OAE & OAP ... The two new organisations,..., sought to capture the
loyalties of the moderate leftists and claimed to represent
Akelists...[p.306]
OHEN ... had exercised a pernicious influence over Cypriot youth
through OHEN
and had frequently preached sedition in recent years [p. 169]
PEAEK ... This organisation, according to its own accord, had issued
over 3
million anti-British pamphlets printed by departments of the Greek Army
and
Government [p. 219]
PEK ... its subversive activities were in any case notorious and its
links
with Greece essentially political. [p. 128]
PEKA ... [EOKA]'s political wing... [p. 242]
PEON ...since its prescription in 1953, had functioned underground...
[p. 101]
SEKA... pledged to self-determination and Enosis.. [p. 384]
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GREEK CYPRIOTS HAVE ALWAYS HARBOURED PKK AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL
TERROR GROUPS
Greek Cypriot support given to the PKK terrorist organisation, known as
one of the most dangerous international terror groups in the world, has
once been proven, when a Cypriot passport issued by the Greek Cypriot
Administration in South Cyprus was found in the possession of PKK
leader Abdullah OCALAN who was recently captured and arrested by the
Turkish security officers.
The Turkish Government has stated that the passport found in OCALAN's
possession bore the name of LAZAROS MAVROS, the current President of
the Committee for Solidarity with Kurdistan, operating in south Cyprus
with the purpose of securing all sorts of support to PKK in this part
of the island.
Despite the Greek Cypriot sides desperate denials of its role in this
passport issue, its link with PKK in particular and international
terrorism in general has been proven with various reports, press
articles and other official documents.
Indeed, not only the Greek Cypriot officials but also other non- or
semi-official figures or organisations have, at times, been reported to
have been supporting and harbouring morally and materially, PKK and
other terror groups, such as ASALA. The prevailing mentality has always
been The enemy of my enemy is my friend, that has finally backfired, as
seen in the recent Kurdish violence against the Greeks in connection
with the arrest of CALAN and his subsequent bringing to Turkey.
SAMPSON
An ex-EOKA militant and the man installed for a few days as the Greek
Cypriot President in July 1974 by the Greek coupists who toppled over
Makarios Nicos SAMPSON is one of the Greek Cypriot figures who has been
linked to many acts of terrorism after 1974.
During those days when he was in the jail in South Cyprus, he planned a
series of terrorist acts against Turkey. The most striking aspects of
these acts were that their origin was Europe and that third parties
were employed.
Year 1976 was one when the Armenian and Arab terrorists chose France as
a base for their acts. French intelligence agency permitted PLOs
terrorist groups to be settled in France with the condition of not
giving any harm to the French interests both in and outside the
country.
In the years after 1975, during which international terrorism and
terror acts against Turkey were escalating, a report from Cyprus did
not draw much attention. Greek Cypriot President gave partial amnesty
to Nicos Sampson, a cancer patient, to go to France for treatment.
Sampson flew to Paris for treatment.
About four years after Sampsons arrival in Paris, ie. in 1980 when
terror turned Europe into a blood-lake, certain information reached
INTERPOL. The information was about a bomb blast on 3 October 1980 at a
synagogue in Copernicus Street in Paris that caused the death of many
people. Explosives were implanted in a Suzuki 125 model car and was
exploded with an electronic device. The car had been bought from a
used-car gallery for 1000 dollars at Grand Arme Avenue on 23 September.
In his deposition to the police, the gallery owner said that the car
was bought by a short, thin man with a moustache wearing blue jeans and
a leather jacket. For the preparation of the cars documents a Greek
Cypriot passport issued in South Cyprus was used. The passport was
issued under the name of Alexanders Panariou. Embassy of the Greek
Cypriot Administration in South Cyprus in Paris claimed that the
passport was fake.
According to the police Spanish terrorist Ernesto Mila Rodriguez was
behind this incident. Rodriguez had been caught, shortly before this
incident, while trying to smuggle Ingram sub-machine guns.
Names of four other Spanish terrorists were also mentioned in
connection with the synagogue explosion. While the investigation into
the issue was under way, the perpetrators had relations with Nicos
Sampson and some other Greek Cypriots living in Paris and frequently
visited South Cyprus. The passports of these Spanish terrorists caught
by the police contained many entry-exit visa stamps to and from South
Cyprus and Beirut. Also an address reading, Rue de la Pane, 100 was
found in the terrorists possession. This was Nicos Sampsons home
address in Paris.
French police found out that Sampson had occasional meetings with
suspected Greek Cypriots, Greek diplomats, Armenian businessmen and
Arabs. The most striking activity of Sampson was to rent houses and
provide cars for certain Arabs known as terrorists, using Greek Cypriot
names. He especially had very close relations with Syrians and Libyans.
He was supplying them with Greek Cypriot passports to use for their
acts and helping them to leave the country with planes of South Cyprus.
LYSSARIDES
Besides Sampson Dr Vassos Lyssarides, the leader of the Socialist EDEK
Party in South Cyprus, has been actively and seriously involved in
anti-Turkish terrorism both before and after 1974.
Lyssarides is the founder of the the Committee for Solidarity with
Kurdistan, established with the aim of supporting and harbouring PKK in
South Cyprus. His name is also linked with ASALA and other Arab terror
groups. He has constantly worked to bring such terrorist groups to the
island, give them all sorts of support and assistance and unleash them
on to the Turkish targets from their Southern Cyprus base.
In his speeches delivered during anti-Turkish rallies in Athens and
Paris in 1976, Lyssarides openly declared that they were preparing for
a second Vietnam War in order to expel the Turks from the island.
For 40 years, Vassos Lyssarides has been playing the same game over the
island of Cyprus. His relations with certain persons have drawn the
attention of foreign intelligence agencies. He has also served as an
adviser to the Palestinian, Libyan and Syrian terrorists.
Being well aware of the hostile feelings of Greek Cypriots against the
Turks and wishing to exploit this for its own ends, the Syrian
intelligence agency Mukhaberat has managed to turn the island into a
base for international terrorism, by using Lyssarides as a tool. By the
end of 1970s, in more than 30 camps in South Cyprus, Greek, Greek
Cypriot, Armenian, Kurdish, Turkish (Communist militant) terrorists, as
well as terrorists from various other countries were under the training
of Cuban, Libyan, Palestinian and Greek army officers.
That Greece transported arms and ammunition to PKK and ASALA terrorists
through South Cyprus was revealed by the Israeli intelligence agency,
Mossad. Moreover, Israeli patrol ships, at times, searched South Cyprus
and Greece registered ships off the Lebanon to find large quantities of
Kalashnikov guns. In the meantime, it was found out that Lyssarides and
his men often went to Lebanon and Syria and met Majeed Sharar, known as
the coordinator of terrorist acts against Turkey, terrorist leaders
Abou Nidal, and George Habbash.
By 1983, acts by the Greek-Greek Cypriot trio against Turkeys security
have been noticeably intensified. In the meantime, Turkish intelligence
units obtained information to the effect that Greek and Greek Cypriot
agents established contacts with Kurdish and Turkish terrorists who
fled to West Germany, Switzerland and Sweden after committing crimes in
Turkey.
News arriving from South Cyprus also confirmed these reports. It was
also reported that about 50 terrorists who fled Turkey on 20 September
1980 agreed to collaborate with Greece and South Cyprus.
All the contacts and links were forged by Lyssarides and his men.
Lyssarides has a dark past. In his book entitled, AKEL: The Communist
Party of Cyprus (A Stanford University publication), researcher T.W.
Adams gives the following information about Lyssarides:
Lyssarides. He established the Cyprus Representation of Asian-African
Peoples Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO). It was Makarios who wanted
most the establishment of ties with this organisation. He thought
differently from Lyssarides who wished to make Cyprus Communist. His
aim was to infiltrate into the third-world countries in order to gain
strength. Lyssarides who was elected MP and Parliament Speaker in 1981
is so merciless that he had his men kill AAPSOs Secretary General,
during a General Assembly meeting of the organisation in Nicosia, just
because the latter prevented his appointment to a high-level post
within the organisation as he knew his (Lyssaridess) true personality.
Lyssarides has a private armed group that has links with terror groups.
Greek Cypriot press gave, in mid-1980s, introduced Lyssarides as Libyan
leader Qaddafis man and gave interesting information about him. For
instance, it was written that the Cypro-Libya company operating in
South Nicosia was a cover-up firm that laundered the money he was given
to feed terrorist groups. The firm was also used as a base of Libya and
Syria for their acts in Western Europe and the U.S. One of the most
important activities of Cypro-Libya was drugs and arms-smuggling.
Lyssarides still nurtures international and anti-Turkish terrorism and
pursues an adamant and militant policy against Turkey. He has recently
pulled out from a coalition Government under Clerides, because the
latter has agreed not to deploy the S-300 missiles in South Cyprus.
Lyssarides is reported to have lent support to pro-PKK demonstrators in
South Cyprus who carried out a number of frenzied demos in protest of
Abdullah calans capture.
ROLANDIS
Nicos Rolandis, a former Foreign Minister of the Greek Cypriot
Administration in South Cyprus, is among the Greek Cypriot high-ranking
officials who are linked with support to international terrorism.
INTERPOL has found out that business partners of Rolandis, namely
Moassil from Kuwait and Joseph Sambi from Lebanon were involved in arms
and heroin smuggling and supplied arms to separatist terrorist
organisations in South Cyprus. Rolandis, Moassil and Joseph were known,
between 1981-84, as linkages of drug-trafficking to the Middle and
Western Europe via South Cyprus. While drugs were sent to the West
through Cyprus and smuggled arms arriving from the West, to the East.
Rolandis and his partners were loading arms aboard Cyprus-registered
ships at Varna Port in Bulgaria, storing them at Larnaca port in south
Cyprus and there, in return for the drugs they took over, they were
smuggling to the East, through Cyprus, the arms arriving from the West.
The drugs, on the other hand, were being sent to Europe in diplomatic
courier sacks aboard the planes of the national flag carrier Cyprus
Airways.
Concerned about the whole affair, the Greek Cypriot press in the South
occasionally raised the issue and informed the public opinion about the
situation in a way that confirmed the INTERPOL findings. The papers
frequently reported that the then Foreign Minister Nicos Rolandis,
using his diplomatic immunity, sent heroin in diplomatic courier sacks,
in collaboration with his Arab partners. No-one attempted to deny all
this.
BENJAMIN
Christodulos Benjamin is known as an organiser, coordinator and patron
of terror in South Cyprus too. For many years he has served as the
Minister of Interior or Defence and he is known for his close relations
with all the terror groups in the world. Benjamin has never taken the
pains of covering up or denying these dark relations. He was known for
his fanaticism against the Turks before 1974 as well. During the era of
Makarios, he is known to have been securing contacts between KGB and
the Syrian Mukhaberat and South Cyprus.
An incident between Deputy Police Chief Paulos Stokkos and then
Interior Minister Christodulos Benjamin is an example of the latters
role in terrorism.
During those days when ASALA terrorist organisation was assassinating
the Turkish diplomats one after the other, it was Benjamin who
harboured the ASALA terrorists in South Cyprus and kept them away from
sights. There were rational persons who did not welcome Benjamins
turning the island of Cyprus into a base for terrorism and who were
concerned about this. One of these people was Paulos Stokkos, Deputy
Police Chief of the Greek Cypriot Administration in South Cyprus.
Stokkos thought that state protection granted to ASALA that committed
murders in Europe could create serious problems for South Cyprus and
did not want to allow the Armenians to stay in South Cyprus.
Thats why the two men were at loggerheads. He opposed to Benjamins
orders on the issue and resisted the stationing of the Armenian
terrorists in the South.
In order to weaken Stokkos and dismiss him from his post, Benjamin
slandered that he was a spy working for Israel and using his men as
false witnesses accused Stokkos and had him arrested. He was charged of
high treason.
When foreign diplomats in South Cyprus showed considerable interest in
the trial and Stokkos revealed Benjamins entire relations with
international relations, Interior Ministry, headed by Benjamin,
demanded the trial to be held in closed session, on the grounds of
national security. But things revealed with all the legal evidence and
documentation during the open session of the trial revealed that South
Cyprus was a base for international terrorism.
Moreover, in July 1990, it was discovered that a firm named Orbit,
belonging to an Armenian from Limassol, supplied arms to PKK, that the
then Interior Minister Benjamin organised these activities and that
arms and ammunition coming from third countries were packed in Greece
and brought to Limassol in containers belonging to Orbit company.
COMMITTEE ON SOLIDARITY FOR KURDISTAN
It is known by all that ever since 1990, Greek Cypriot administration
in South Cyprus, has been openly harbouring, abetting and accommodating
the PKK terrorist organisation, besides its previous support to other
terror groups. It is especially noteworthy that through certain
associations and organisations that it has established under the cover
of respect and advancement of human rights, the Greek Cypriot
administration has been granting logistic support to PKK.
In order to organise and manipulate these activities the Greek Cypriot
Press and Information Office and EDEK Socialist Party under Vassos
Lyssarides formed the Committee on Solidarity with Kurdistan in 1989.
In a press conference held on 4 February 1990, the then Chairman of the
Committee Theophilos Georghiades, an agent from the Greek national
intelligence agency wearing the mask of a Press and Information
Officer, revealed that the committee also had members from among the
members of parliament from various political parties in South Cyprus.
In yet another meeting organised by the Committee on 19 March 1990,
Georghiades delivered a speech on the Kurdish movement, stating that
they would support the struggle of the Kurdish people on every occasion
and by all means.
Following the Committees formation and the launch of its activities,
financial support to the Kurds has been extended in various ways.
On 12 November 1990, according to a report broadcast by the Greek
Cypriot state TV RIK-1, a group consisting of four MPs from DIKO, AKEL,
EDEK and ADISOK, as well as members of the Committee on Solidarity for
Kurdistan, as well as journalists went to the Beqaa Valley and met
Abdullah calan. RIK-1 also showed scenes filmed from the Beqaa Valley,
headquarters of PKK. Those scenes showing the Greek Cypriot MPs
embracing and kissing the PKK murderers were especially striking.
On 30 November 1990, RIK-1 held an open panel discussion on PKK. The
participants of the programme were the MPs who visited PKKs camp at
Beqaa Valley and the members of the Committee on Solidarity for
Kurdistan. The programme was concluded in the following remarks: PKK
has become a well-organised army and that it was imperative for the
Greek Cypriot administration in South Cyprus to give support to this
struggle if the Turks were to be expelled from Cyprus.
In the meantime, PKK supporters, Greek Cypriots and Armenians, bearing
flags of Kurdistan, Armenia and Greece, began to demonstrate in the
streets.
Yet in another demo, organised in south Nicosia by the Committee on
Solidarity with Kurdistan on 21 February 1991, placards were carried
and slogans were shouted to the effect that Turkey violates the rights
of the Kurdish people.
On 2 March 1991, a club was opened for the PKK militants based in South
Cyprus. Funds necessary for the building the premises of the club were
provided by the National Liberation Front of Kurdistan.
Activities aimed at nurturing PKK in South Cyprus were continued with
the establishment of an Association on the Support for the Kurdish
People by the Committee on Solidarity with Kurdistan and EDEK party.
The fact that EDEK leader Vassos Lyssarides chairs the frequently held
meetings of the Association clearly reveals the identity of the circles
who nurture the subversive activities aimed at Turkey.
One regularly observes that the Greek Cypriot community, bombarded by
the Committees pro-PKK propaganda, is sent to the streets for protests
against Turkey, bearing flags of PKK and Greece and burning the Turkish
national flag.
PKK members based in South Cyprus do not hesitate either in exploiting
the sentiments of the Greek Cypriot people in order to win their
sympathy. Between 21-26 April 1992, ten PKK militants staged a hunger
strike at Eleftheria Square in south Nicosia. This show was organised
by the Committee on Solidarity with Kurdistan. Greek Cypriot
politicians and associations also attended this event that amounted to
a festival. During this show, financial assistance was raised for PKK
and the magazine named the Voice of Kurdistan, published in Greece in
the Greek language as a propaganda material against Turkey and released
free of charge, was sold for money to the passers-by through
compulsion.
A folk-dance troupe from South Cyprus participated in the Kurdistan
Festival held by PKK in Bochum in Germany in August 1992. The troupe
was taken to Germany by Theophilos Georghiades.
Using the events in rnak as a pretext, the Committee had the Kurds in
the island organise a demo against Turkey in South Nicosia in August
1992. This demo was again a stage for collecting funds for PKK, under
the cover of humanitarian assistance. Leaflets were distributed, in
which the Greek Cypriot people were invited to deposit funds at bank
accounts at the Banks of Cyprus and Laiki, to be transferred to PKK.
Meanwhile, a representative of ARGK, the military wing of PKK, took
part in a meeting that was also participated in by Vassos Lyssarides
and Theophilos Georghiades. During the meeting, formation of sabotage
and assassination teams that would operate against the targets in
Turkey and their training and manipulation in South Cyprus were
discussed and decided upon. Georghiades was appointed as the
coordinator of this operation.
GEORGHIADES
Theophilos Georghiades was the founder and first chairman of the
Committee on Solidarity with Kurdistan. He formed a special terrorist
group, consisting of the Kurds chosen from among pro-PKK fugitives
based in Greece and Syria, that would carry out terrorist acts in
Turkey, for South Cyprus.
Eight PKK militants were caught in Turkey a few years ago, who
explained in detail how they had been trained in South Cyprus by the
officers of the Greek Cypriot National Guard to carry out terrorist
acts in Turkey.
Theophilos Georghiades were shot dead in 1994. In contrary to the
claims put forward by the Greek Cypriot administration that he had been
killed by the Turks, the truth into Georghiadess murder finally came to
surface. The truth was much more different than the Greek Cypriot
allegations.
In order for the PKK, an essentially Marxist-Leninist group, to
survive, and thus buy arms, it deals with drug-smuggling and
trafficking. This is a fact known by all.
South Cyprus is a centre from where PKK distributes its narcotics since
1988. It is in the reports of INTERPOL that Greek Mafia, the majority
of whom are ship-owners, carry PKKs drugs to Europe and America and
market them there. The ex-Chairman of the Committee on Solidarity with
Kurdistan Georghiades had established a link between the Greek Cypriot
Mafia and Abdullah calans men for the formers transporting and selling
of PKKs drugs.
In this manner, drugs transported from Syria to South Cyprus were
distributed to the rest of the world from this point. But the amount of
drugs deposited by PKK in South Cyprus rose considerably, requiring the
drop of prices proportionately. Naturally, this angered other Greek
Cypriot drug-smugglers who were dealing with the same business through
different channels. When they began to oppose PKK, Georghiades caused
the Greek and Greek Cypriot intelligence agencies, of whom he was a
member, and the police to confront these traffickers who aimed at
blocking PKKs drug-trafficking. This was a declaration war by
Georghiades on others. But this challenge cost him his life.
Indeed, one year after Georghiadess death, Greek Cypriot leader Glafkos
Clerides himself declared that the Former had been killed by three
Greek Cypriot drug-smugglers who were executed. But for one year,
Turkey was blamed falsely by the Greek Cypriot administration and the
issue was even taken to international platforms and Turkey was tried to
be unjustly cornered.
It was Lyssarides who reacted most strongly to Georghiadess murder. He
asked the Ministry of Interior to pay compensation to his family on the
grounds that he was killed while he was on duty and called on the
parliament to use the issue as a propaganda material against Turkey on
the international arena.
After a few months after Georghiadess death, that was followed by
statements and slogans of revenge on the Turks, a Turkish diplomat
named mer Sipahiolu was killed in Athens. Greek Cypriot press used
headlines reading, the Turkish diplomat was assassinated in retaliation
to Theophiloss murder.
GEORGHIDESS PRESS INTERVIEWS SHEDS AMPLE LIGHT TO GREEK CYPRIOT SUPPORT
TO PKK TERROR
Before his assassination, Theophilos Georghiades was quite active in
promoting the cause of PKK terror group. He has been interviewed by a
number of newspapers and given a considerable idea about the Greek
Cypriot support to PKK.
The Greek Cypriot daily Agon, for instance, published an interview on 2
February 1994 on the issue.
Among other things, Georghiades said: "We have a joint enemy with the
Kurds: the Turks".
The Kurds will not only be able to form their own state but also will
contribute to the solution of the Cyprus problem. Following the defeat
of the Turkish state, the Hellenes can also capitalize on the new
opportunities that would emerge from the readjustment of the
territories in the Asia Minor.
The Kurds are helping enough (South) Cyprus. Turkish armys fight with
the Kurds with 350 thousand troops is an enough help to us (Greek
Cypriots). The Turkish army fully fights the Kurds. This shows that it
cannot dare to start a second war on Greece.
As we (Greek Cypriots) cannot fight (Turkey), we should, at least, help
those who fight for us. If Turkeys problems multiply and the number of
wars she fights increases and thus she extends her battleground, the
Turkish army will either be isolated in Cyprus or will be forced to
withdraw.
The Kurds will continue to strike the Turkish tourism so as to dry up
the economic sources of the country. As far as I see and know, the
Turkish tourism will be razed to the ground in 1994.
OTHER GREEK CYPRIOT ADMIRERS OF PKK AND OCALAN
Retired Greek Army General Matafias has been known so far as PKK leader
Abdullah Ocalan in Greece. Matafias has repeatedly gone to Beqaa Valley
where he has met Ocalan and made joint plans for acts of terrorism and
murders to be committed in Turkey. He has constantly taken part in
meeting and demos held by and for the Kurds in Athens and South Cyprus.
General Matafias is known as an ardent admirer of calan, as the latter
has done to the Turks that Greece has never dared to do: ie killing the
Turks in cold-blood. Meanwhile, a recent report published in the Greek
Cypriot press has written that Retired Greek General Matafias has
become an adviser to Vassos Lyssarides. As their common denominator is
PKK, no-one has been taken surprise by the news. Matafias was among the
participants of Georghiadess funeral.
Greek Navy Retired Admiral Andonis Naksakis is known as Abdullah
Ocalans representative in Greece and his linkage to the Greek
Government. Taking part in Georghiadess funeral, as Abdullah calan,
Naksakis made a speech, saying, Until the Turkish state gives its final
breath and until Cyprus and Kurdistan gains their independence, our
struggle will continue and we will take our revenge on Georghiades.
After the death of Theophilos Georghiades, the Committee on Solidarity
with Kurdistan has been taken over by Lazaros Mavros, a journalist.
Mavros, whose name was found in the passport found in Abdullah calans
possession, is very well-known by its articles praising PKK and
Abdullah calan. While Mavros keeps silent over the passport issue,
another leading member of the Committee Lakis Pigguras are indignant
towards Greece relating to the arrest of calan. In a recent TV
programme, Pigguras accused the Greek Government of treachery for
handing over calan to the Turkish officials for trial.
Vassos Lyssaridess wife Barbara Lyssarides, Communist AKEL party MP
Andreas Philippou, EDEK MP Dimitris Eliades, EDEK official Takis
Christodoulou, former MPs Andreas Panaiotou, Christos Betas and
Georghios Savvides are the main leading figures who have devoted
themselves to the support of the PKK cause and all sorts of assistance
to the PKK terrorists and militants in South Cyprus.
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GREEKS THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE NOT
Prepared by: K.N. Raif
page 5, Introduction
[...]
During my childhood, our Greek neighbors used to love me as if I was
their own child; and I remember their children playing happily in our
backyard.During my boyhood, I played football with my Greek friends and
at flirting age we ran together after the most alluring girls of our
town.
I remember taking our special dish of "Kadayif" to our Greek neighbors
during our "Bayram" festivities and receiving in reciprocation their
special "Pilavuna" during their "Easter" festivities.
When we grew up we enjoyed many feasts around the same tables and
frequented the same night-clubs. We attended to each other's funerals
and wedding ceremonies so many times that we knew exactly how to behave
on those occasions. And at maturity, we worked together at the same
government offices and jointly attended the same international seminars
and meetings of technical nature. What I mean is, I know Greeks as good
as I know Turks. They are great company, especially when it comes to
enjoy life together.
Then, what makes Greeks the way they are: so unfair, so cruel, so
unjust, so one-sighted and so undemocrat when it comes to politics,
religion and ideologies?
It seems to me that this is in their blood. However, there is no doubt
that the Greek educational structure and the Greek political parties
are highly influential in this regard.
Another factor I know for sure that is responsible for this phenomenon
is the Greek Orthodox Church. I will give an example for this from my
life experience.
One Sunday morning, my Greek friends collected me from my home for a
picnic. We were teenagers then. They said we had to pass by the church
because their parents would not allow them to go for picnic if they did
not attend the morning prayers. So, we went together to the church
which was also within our neighborhood.
The priest was preaching. the final words of the priest are still in my
ears:"...a good Greek is the one who is fortunate enough to kill a Turk
and bring his head to our church-yard. When the time comes you will all
be asked to do so. We will now pray for this time to come...soon..."
"This time" came during the Noel of 1963.
During this Noel, the Turkish community witnessed with great pain and
bewilderement that all their good Greek friends suddenly became
professional fighters running after their heads. Where and when these
people were mentally prepared and physically trained for such a cruel
and inhuman mission? Who were behind this hatred?
One final note for the reader: It is a historical fact that before the
Island entered under the Ottoman rule in 1571, there existed no
influential Greek community in the Island. The Island was then under
the Venecian rule and the Catholic leadership kept under severe
suppression the Greek population which was sparsely scattered on the
Island. After 1571, the Ottomans allowed the construction of new
Orthodox Churches at every settlement and granted autonomy to the Greek
Archbishopship. It is extremely sad that this very Archbishop, in years
to come, professed to its followers the genocide of the Island's Turks.
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20 July 1974 Turkish Happy Peace Operation
As the 24th anniversary of the Greek Coup d'Etat of 15 July, 1974 and
Turkey's legitimate intervention five days later on 20 July, 1974
approaches, it is important to recall several fundamental points which
reflect the true nature of the Cyprus question.
The enmity and mistrust between the two peoples; Turkish and Greek
Cypriots are rooted in history and are mainly the result of the ethnic
cleansing which the Greek and Greek Cypriots staged against the Turkish
Cypriots between 1963 and 1974 for achieving Enosis (the union of
Cyprus with Greece). These attempts to bring Cyprus under Greek
domination and particularly the coup staged by the Athens Junta on 15
July 1974 compelled Turkey as one of the Guarantor Powers of the Cyprus
settlement under the Treaty of Guarantee to intervene on 20 July 1974
in order to stop the ethnic cleansing of our community.
The Turkish Cypriot people are grateful to Turkey for the effective
security guarantees whiich are vital for the preservation of peace and
stability on the island. The practical consequences of the events of
1963-1974 have been the emergence of parallel administrative, judicial
and legislative organs for each of the two peoples. The institutional
organisation of the Turkish Cypriot people developed through various
stages and culminated in 1983 in the setting up of the Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). The Turkish Cypriot people in the meantime,
are leading their own life under their own flag, in peace and security
within the territories of the TRNC. In spite of this, in the
international field the Turkish Cypriots are denied the full exercise
of their basic rights and freedoms.
The Greek Cypriot administration has embarked on a massive propaganda
effort in misleading world public opinion on all aspects pertaining to
the Cyprus issue. By perpetuating the fallacy of treating the illegal
Greek Cypriot regime as the legitimate government under the false
pretence of "Republic of Cyprus", the Greek Cypriot side reaps the
benefits of satehood, engage in inhuman practices of embargoes against
the Turkish Cypriots and benefit from practically all international aid
originally given for both peoples of the island. Naturally they have
shown no real interest in any kind of settlement which should be based
on two sovereign states.
Most recently the efforts to deploy the S-300 missiles, putting into
effect a joint military doctrine, the construction of air and naval
bases for use by the Greek armed forces are the latest examples of
their aggressive move. Despite the warnings of the Turkish Cypriot side
and other countries and the UN, they went ahead and purchased the S-300
missile system from the Russian Federation. The S-300 missiles which
would alter the military balance in the region dramatically, are a
direct threat to the security of the Turkish Cypriot people and to that
of Turkey. Naturally, Turkey as a Guarantor Power and the TRNC will
take all the necessary measures to preserve the military balance.
Consequently, I can say that we as Turkish Cypriot people, are
determined to defend our rights of equality, sovereignty, our
independent state, the TRNC and Turkey's guarantorship no matter what
trick the Greek Cypriots play.
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The Secrets in the Cypriot Graves
When Turkish Peace Force landed on the island not only Cypriot Turks
were being killed. There was a slaughter between Greek Cypriots who are
for a coup supported by Greece and who are for a Cyprus cleansed from
its Turkish population.
Turkish Peace Force brought peace to the whole of the island and to all
groups living there. This peace has been lasting for 25 years.
Southern Cypriot Greek Administration had hastily done away with the
corpses remaining from the war between Cypriot Greeks and for 25 years
he said to the relatives of the victims, who are its own people, that
"they were killed or abducted by Turks".
There were some who knew the reality. But for wearing the common enemy
down they kept themselves silent by burying their sorrow inside. There
was a law of nature which they forgot : Truth certainly comes to light
sooner or later.
For learning the truth please read the below text. If you want to
confirm it, please look at the news article of June, 12, 1999 on The
Guardian's internet site :
(http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,57601,00.htm)
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Cypriot graves reveal secrets
Wives of the 'missing' from the 1974 war have won the right at last to
know what really happened
Helena Smith in Nicosia
Saturday June 12, 1999
The Guardian
The war cemetery of Lakatamia seems to be respectable. For 25 years
Greek Cypriots have visited its precisely aligned rows of graves to
honour those who died fighting to defend their island from the invasion
by Turkish forces in the summer of 1974.
But the well-tended surface of the cemetery conceals a very different
story, as the wives of those missing or dead discovered officially this
week when the graves were exhumed to reveal piles of bodies
unceremoniously buried together.
"If those bones could speak, their stories would send shivers down the
spines of those who live," said Maroulla Siamisi, who lost her husband
Andreas that summer.
She discovered the truth about the cemetery, which is close to the
capital Nicosia, one hot morning in August 1974, 17 days after Andreas
went missing behind enemy lines.
"I got a bulldozer to dig up the graves, and couldn't believe what I
saw. Bodies stacked one on top of another. I went through all of them -
limbs, I'll never forget, dropping off in my hands. I was determined to
find Andreas. I felt I owed it to our children."
She did not find him. Nearly a quarter of a century later she is still
waiting to hear the truth about the 2,000-plus Greek and Turkish
Cypriots who have not been seen since the war.
Although there have been repeated rumours of Greek Cypriot PoWs being
held in Turkish jails and Anatolian salt mines, none has ever been
found.
Mrs Siamisi said: "There were faces there.They could easily have been
identified. Why deny there were lots of bodies in there? Why mock us
for 25 years?"
Mrs Siamisi, 33 when Andreas disappeared, is not alone: an estimated
1,619 Greek Cypriot civilians and soldiers vanished in 1974.
The wives and fiancees left behind are known as Penelopes by a society
that has expected them to remain faithful to their hero-husbands.
But unlike Homer's heroine, who waited for more than 20 years for
Odysseus to return from the Trojan war, these Penelopes have run out of
patience.
"We've lost our womanhood, we've lost our looks, we've lost our years
but my God are we going to get to the bottom of the truth," said
58-year-old Androulla Palma.
She last heard her husband's voice on August 8 1974.
They are angry that since the invasion, which partitioned the island on
religious and ethnic lines, successive Cypriot governments have used
them at huge rallies to denounce the Turks for concealing the fate of
the missing.
They now believe that their own government may have been involved in
the hurried disposal of bodies in the chaotic aftermath of the war.
Last summer Mrs Palma and Mrs Siamisi took pickaxes to one of the
graves. In six hours they dug knee-deep into the tomb.
"We did it in desperation, to put pressure on the government to close
this painful chapter," said Mrs Palma. "We are sure our husbands are
somewhere in there. I was told mine was dead in 1993. If that is the
case I want to see bones."
At last, it seems, that moment may have come. For the first time
President Glafkos Clerides's government seems determined to crack the
mystery of Cyprus's missing.
This week Physicians for Human Rights, a non-governmental organisation
with experience in Rwanda, Somalia, Croatia and Bosnia, began exhuming
bodies from the cemetery's pits. Forensic scientists hope to be able to
identify the remains by DNA testing.
"It's still unclear how many bodies are there but what is sure is that
they were buried very hastily," said William Haglund, who is leading
the team of 20.
"Some bodies were buried very close together and some on top of each
other. None were in coffins or boxes."
Laid out on wooden desks in a laboratory in Nicosia are the skeletal
remains of seven people. Professor Haglund says the relatives will be
brought in to see the remains.
"After 25 years," he said, "it will be a privileged glimpse of the
dead."
The exhumation process is expected to be long and drawn out and it will
not be possible to identify all the bodies.
But it may be embarrassing to the Greek Cypriot government. Many of the
bodies could turn out to be those of men listed as missing. The list
has long been used by the Greek Cypriots to raise sympathy for their
plight.
Greek Cypriot officials hope that by putting their own house in order
the Turkish Cypriots - who claim that 803 of their community
disappeared during the inter-communal strife - will be encouraged to
follow suit.
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ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING IN CYPRUS
This article is written for a daily newspaper by former British
Parliamentarian (1992-1997) Michael STEPHEN
Former British Parliamentarian Michael STEPHEN reminds Mr. Michael B.
Christides, The Charge D'affaires of the Greek Embassy in Ankara, and
many others who appear to have forgotten what indeed the case in Cyprus
from 1963 to 1974.
The assertion by Mr. Christides (May 10, 1999) that there was no ethnic
cleansing or attempted genocide of Turkish Cypriots by Greek Cypriots
is ridiculous. Until influential Greek Cypriots come to terms with the
appalling behavior of their community toward the smaller Turkish
Cypriot community and stop trying to persuade themselves and world that
each side was as much to blame as the other, there will be no
reconciliation in Cyprus.
In his memoirs, American Undersecretary of State George Ball said:
"Makarios's central interest was to block off Turkish intervention
so that he and his Greek Cypriots could go on happily massacring
Turkish Cypriots. Obviously we would never permit that." The fact is,
however, that neither the United States, the United Kingdom, nor the
United Nations, nor anyone, other than Turkey ever took effective
action to prevent it. On Feb. 17, 1964 the Washington Post reported
that "Greek Cypriot fanatics appear bent on a policy of genocide."
Former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home said, "I was
convinced that if Archbishop Makarios could not bring himself to treat
the Turkish Cypriots as human beings he was inviting the invasion and
partition of the island." On July 28, 1960 Makarios, the Greek
Cypriot president, said: "The independence agreements do not form the
goal - they are the present and not the future. The Greek Cypriot
people will continue their national cause and shape their future in
accordance with THEIR will."
In a speech on Sept. 4, 1962 at Panayia Makarios said, "Until this
Turkish community forming part of the Turkish race that has been the
terrible enemy of Hellenism is expelled, the duty of the heroes of EOKA
can never be considered terminated."
In November 1963 the Greek Cypriots demanded the abolition of no less
than eight of the basic articles that had been included in the 1960
agreement for the protection of the Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish
Cypriots, naturally, refused to agree. The aim of the Greek Cypriots,
was to reduce the Turkish Cypriots people to the status of a mere
minority, wholly subject to the control of the Greek Cypriots, pending
ultimate destruction or expulsion of the Turkish Cypriots from the
island.
When the Turkish Cypriots objected to the ammendment of the
Constitution, Makarios put his plan into effect, and the Greek Cypriots
attack began in December 1963," wrote Lt. Gen. George Karayiannis of
the Greek Cypriot militia ("Ethnikos Kiryx" 15.6.65). The general
was referring to the notorious "Akritas" plan, which was the
blueprint for the annihilation of the Turkish Cypriots and the
annexation of the island to Greece.
On Christmas Eve 1963 the Greek Cypriot militia attacked Turkish
Cypriots communities across the island. Large numbers of men, women,
and children were killed and 270 mosques, shrines and other places of
worship were desecrated.
On Dec. 28, 1963, the Daily Express carried the following report from
Cyprus: "We went tonight into the sealed-off Turkish Cypriot quarter
of Nicosia in which 200 to 300 people had been slaughtered in the last
five days. We were the first Western reporters there, and we have seen
sights too frigthful to be described in print. Horror so extreme that
the people seemed stunned beyond tears."
On Dec. 31, 1963, The Guardian reported: "It is nonsense to claim, as
the Greek Cypriots do, that all casualties were caused by fighting
between armed men of both sides. On Christmas Eve many Turkish Cypriot
people were brutally attacked and murdered in their suburban homes,
including the wife and children of a doctor - allegedly by a group of
40 men, many in army boots and greatcoats." Although the Turkish
Cypriots fought back as best they could and killed some militia, there
were no massacres of Greek Cypriot civilians.
On Jan.1, 1964, the Daily Herald reported: "When I came across the
Turkish Cypriot homes they were an appalling sight. Apart from the
walls they just did not exist. I doubt if a napalm attack could have
created more devastation. Under roofs which had caved in I found a
twisted mass of bed springs, children's cots, and grey ashes of what
had once been tables, chairs and wardrobes. In the neighboring village
of Ayios Vassilios I counted 16 wrecked and burned out homes. They were
all Turkish Cypriot. In neither village did I find a scrap of damage to
any Greek Cypriot house."
On Jan. 2, 1964, the Daily Telegraph wrote: "The Greek Cypriot
community should not assume that the British military presence can or
should secure them against Turkish intervention if they persecute the
Turkish Cypriots. We must not be a shelter for double-crossers."
On Jan. 12, 1964, the British High Commission in Nicosia wrote in a
telegram to London: "The Greek (Cypriot) police are led by extremists
who provoked the fighting and deliberately engaged in atrocities. They
have recruited into their ranks as 'special constables' gun-happy
young thugs. They threaten to try and punish any Turkish Cypriot police
who wishes to return to the Cyprus Government... Makarios assured Sir
Arthur Clark that there will be no attack. His assurance is as
worthless as previous assurance have proved.
On Jan. 14, 1964, the Daily Telegraph reported that the Turkish Cypriot
inhabitants of Ayios Vassilios had been massacred on Dec. 26, 1963 and
reported their exhumation from a mass grave in the presence of the Red
Cross. A further massacre of Turkish Cypriots, at Limasol, was reported
by the Observer on Feb. 16, 1964; and there were many more.
On Feb. 6, 1964, a British patrol found armed Greek Cypriot police
attacking the Turkish Cypriots of Ayios Sozomenos. They were unable to
stop the attack.
On Feb. 13,1964, the Greeks and Greek Cypriots attacked the Turkish
Cypriot quarter of Limassol with tanks, killing 16 and injuring 35. On
Feb. 15, 1964, the Daily Telegraph reported: "It is a real military
operation which the Greek Cypriots launched against the 6,000
inhabitants of the Turkish Cypriot quarter yesterday morning. A
spokesman for the Greek Cypriot government has recognized this
officially. It is hard to conceive how Greek and Turkish Cypriots may
seriously contemplate working together after all that has happened."
On Sep. 10, 1964, the U.N. Secretary-General that, "UNFICYP carried
out a detailed survey of all damage to properties throughout the island
during the disturbances. ...it shows that in 109 villages, most of them
Turkish-Cypriot or mixed villages, 527 houses have been destroyed while
2,000 others have suffered damage from looting. In Ktima 38 houses and
shops have been destroyed totally and 122 partially. In the Orphomita
suburb of Nicosia, 50 houses have been totally destroyed while a
further 240 have been partially destroyed there and in adjacent
suburbs."
The U.K. House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs reviewed
the Cyprus question in 1987,and reported unanimously on July 2 of that
year that "although the Cyprus Government now claims to have been
merely seeking to 'operate the 1960 Constitution modified to the
extent dictated by the necessities of the situation,' this claims
ignores the fact that both before and after the events of December 1963
the Makarios Government continued to advocate the cause of enosis and
actively pursued the amendment of the Constitution and related treaties
to facilitate this ultimate objective."
The committee continued: "Moreover, in June 1967 the Greek Cypriot
legislature unanimously passed a resolution in favor of enosis, in
blatant contravention of the 1960 Treaties and Constitution." (Art. 1
of the Treaty of Guarantee prohibited any action likely to directly or
indirectly promote union with any other state partition of the island,
and Art. 185 (2) of the Constitution is to similar effect.)
Prof. Ernst Forsthoff, the neutral president of the Supreme
Constitutional Court of Cyprus, told Die Welt on Dec. 27, 1963:
"Makarios bears on his shoulders the sole responsibility for the
recent tragic events. His aim is to deprive the Turkish community of
their rights." In an interview with the UPI press agency on Dec. 30,
1963 he said, "All this happened because Makarios wanted to take away
all constitutional rights from the Turkish Cypriots."
The United Nations not only failed to condemn the forceable usurpation
of the legal order in Cyprus, but actually rewarded it by treating the
by then wholly Greek Cypriot administration as if it were the
government of Cyprus (Security Council Res. 186 of 1964). This
acceptance has continued to the present day, and reflects no credit to
upon the United Nations, nor upon Britain, nor the other countries who
have acquiesced.
On Aug. 12, 1964, the U.K. representative to the United Nations wrote
to his government in London as follows:
"What is our policy and true feelings about the future of Cyprus and
about Makarios? Judging from the English newspapers and many others,
the feeling is very strong indeed against Makarios and his so-called
government, and nothing would please the British people more than to
see him toppled and the Cyprus problem solved by the direct dealings
between the Turks and the Greeks. We are of course supporting the
latter course, but I have never seen any expression of the official
disapproval in public against Makarios and his evil doings. Is there an
official view about this, and what do we think we should do in the long
run? Sometimes it seems that the obsession of some people with 'the
Commonwealth' blinds us to everything else and it would be high
treason to take a more active line against Makarios and his henchmen.
At other times the dominant feature seems to be concern lest active
opposition against Makarios should lead to direct conflict with the
Cypriots and end up with our losing our bases."
Thereafter Turkish Cypriot MPs, judges, and other officials were
intimidated or prevented by force from carrying out their duties.
According to the Select Committee, "The effect of the crisis of
December 1963 was to deliver control of the formal organs of government
into the hands of the Greek Cypriots alone. Claiming to be acting in
accordance with 'the doctrine of necessity,' the Greek Cypriot
members of the House of Representatives enacted a series of laws which
provided for the operation of the organs of governments without Turkish
Cypriot participation."
The report of the Select Committee contiued: "Equally damaging from
the Turkish Cypriot point of view was what they concidered to be their
effective exclusion from representation at and participation in the
international fora where their case could have been deployed... An
official Turkish Cypriot presence in the international political scene
virtually disappeared overnight." It is not therefore surprising that
the world has been persuaded to the Greek Cypriot point of view.
More than 300 Turkish Cypriots are still missing without trace from
these massacres of 1963/64. These dreadful events were not the
resposibility of "the Greek Colonels" of 1974 or an
unrepresentative handful of Greek Cypriot extremists. The persecution
of the Turkish Cypriots was an act of policy on the part of the Greek
Cypriot political and religious leadership, which has to this day made
no serious attempt to bring the murderers to justice.
The U.K. Commons Select Committee found that "there is little doubt
that much of the violence which the Turkish Cypriots claim led to the
total or partial destruction of 103 Turkish villages and the
displacement of about a quarter of the total Turkish Cypriot population
was either directly inspired by, or certainly connived at, by the Greek
Cypriot leadership."
The U.N. secretary-general reported to the Security Council: "When
the disturbances broke out in December 1963 and continued during the
first part of 1964, thousands of Turkish Cypriots fled their homes,
taking with them only what they could drive or carry, and sought refuge
in safer villages and areas."On Jan. 14, 1964, "Il Giorno" of
Italy reported: "Right now we are witnessing the exodus of Turkish
Cypriots from the villages. Thousands of people abandoning homes, land,
herds. Greek Cypriot terrorism is relentless. This time the rhetoric of
the Hellenes and the statues of Plato do not cover up their barbaric
and ferocious behavior."
The Greek Cypriots sometimes allege that it was they who were attacked,
by the Turkish Cypriots, who were determined to wreck the 1960
agreements. However, the Turkish Cypriots were not only outnumbered by
nearly four to one; they were also surrounded in their villages by
armed Greek Cypriots; they had no way of protecting their women and
children, and Turkey was 40 miles away across the sea. The very idea
that in those circumstances the Turkish Cypriots were the aggressors is
absurd.
There were further attacks on the Turkish Cypriots in 1967. In 1971,
General Grivas returned to Cyprus to form EOKA-B, which was again
commited to making Cyprus a wholly Greek island and annexing it to
Greece. In a speech to the Greek Cypriot armed forces at the time
(quoted in "New Cyprus", May 1987) Grivas said: "The Greek forces
from Greece have come to Cyprus in order to impose the will of the
Greeks of Cyprus upon the Turks. We want ENOSIS, but the Turks are
aginst it. We shall impose our will. We are strong, and we shall do
so."
By July 15, 1974, a powerful force of mainland Greek troops had
assembled in Cyprus and with their backing, the Greek Cypriot National
Guard owerthrew Makarios and installed one Nicos Sampson as
"president." On July 22, the Washington Star News reported:
"Bodies littered the streets and there were mass burials... People
told by Makarios to lay down their guns were shot by the National
Guard."
On April 17, 1991, Ambassador Nelson Ledsky testified before the U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "most of the 'missing
persons'disappeared in the first days of July 1974, before the
Turkish intervention on the 20th. Many killed on the Greek side were
killed by Greek Cypriots in fighting between supporters of Makarios and
Sampson."
On Nov. 6, 1974, Ta Nea reported that dates from the graves of Greek
Cypriots killed in the five days between July 15-20 were erased in
order to blame these deaths on the subsequent Turkish military action.
On March 3, 1996, the Greek Cypriot Cyprus Mail wrote: "(Greek)
Cypriot governments have found it convenient to conceal the scale of
atrocities during the July 15 coup in an attempt to downplay its
contribution to the tragedy of the summer of 1974 and instead blame the
Turkish invasion for all casualties. There can be no justification for
any government that failed to investigate this sensitive humanitarian
issue. The shocking admission by the Clerides government that there are
people buried in Nicosia cemetery who are still included in the list
of the 'missing' is the last episode of a human drama which has been
turned into a propaganda tool."
On Oct. 19, 1996, Mr Georgios Lanitis wrote: "I was serving with the
foreign Information Service of the Republic of Cyprus in London... I
deeply apologize to all those I told that there are 1,619 missing
persons. I misled them. I was made a liar, deliberately, by the
government of Cyprus... today it seems that the credibility of Cyprus
is nil."
Turkish Cypriots appealed to the guarartor powers for help, but only
Turkey was willing to make any effective response. On July 20, 1974
Turkey intervened under Article IV of the Treaty of Guarantee. The
Greek newspaper Eleftherotipia published an interview with Nicos
Sampson on Feb. 26,1981 in which he said, "Had Turkey not intervened
I would not only have proclaimed enosis, I would have annihilated the
Turks in Cyprus."
The Times and The Guardian reported on Aug. 21, 1974 that in the
village of Tokhni on Aug. 14, 1974 all the Turkish Cypriot men between
the ages of 13 and 74, except for eighteen who managed to escape, were
taken away and shot.
There were also reports that in Zyyi on the same day all the
Turkish-Cypriot men aged between 19 and 38 were taken away and were
never seen again and that Greek-Cypriots opened fire on the
Turkish-Cypriot neighborhood of Paphos killing men, women and children
indiscriminately.
On July 23, 1974, the Washington Post reported that "in Greek raid on
a small Turkish village near Limassol 36 people out of a population of
200 were killed. The Greeks said that they had been given orders to
kill the inhabitants of the Turkish villages before the Turkish forces
arrived." The Times and The Guardian also reported on the killings.
"The Greeks began to shell the Turkish quarter on Saturday, refugees
said. Kazan Dervis, a Turkish Cypriot girl aged 15, said she had been
staying with her uncle. The (Greek Cypriot) National Guard came into
the Turkish sector and shooting began. She saw her uncle and other
relatives taken away as prisoners, and later heard her uncle had been
shot." (Times 23.7.1974)
On July 28, 1974 the New York Times reported that 14 Turkish-Cypriot
men had been shot in Alaminos. On July 24, 1974 France Soir reported
that "the Greeks burned Turkish mosques and set fire to Turkish homes
in the villages around Famagusta. Defensless Turkish villagers who have
no weapons live in an atmosphere of terror and they evacuate their
homes and go and live in tents in the forests. The Greeks' actions
are a shame to humanity."
On July 22, Turkish Prime Minister Ecevit called upon the United
Nations to "stop the genocide of Turkish-Cypriots" and declared,
"Turkey has accepted a ceace-fire, but will not allow
Turkish-Cypriots to be massacred."
The German newspaper Die Zeit wrote on Aug. 30, "The massacre of
Turkish Cypriots in Paphos and Famagusta is the proof of how justified
the Turks were to undertake their intervention." "Turkish Cypriots,
who had suffered from physical attacks since 1963, called on the
guarantor powers to prevent a Greek conquest of the island. When
Britain did nothing Turkey invaded Cyprus and occupied its northern
part. Turkish Cypriots have constitutional right on their side and
understandably fear a renewal of persecution if the Turkish army
withdraws." the Daily Telegraph wrote on Aug. 15, 1996.
Turkey intervened to protect the lives and property of the
Turkish-Cypriots, and to its credit it has done just that. In the 12
years since, there have been no killings and no massacres" Lord
Willis (Labor) told the House of Lords on Dec. 17, 1986. On March 12,
1977, Makarios declared, "It is in the name of enosis that Cyprus has
been destroyed."
The United Nations, the Commonwealth and the rest of the world have put
political expediency before principle and failed to condemn this
appalling behavior.Greek Cypriots are guilty of attempted genocide but
no action has ever been taken against them. Instead they have been
rewarded by recognition as the government of all Cyprus. The Turkish
Cypriots by contrast were frozen out of the United Nations, the
Commonwealth and the almost every other international organization.
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OFFICIAL GREEK CYPRIOT REPORT ON EDUCATION:
SCHOOLS IN SOUTH CYPRUS AIM TO SPUR MILITANCY
Students in South Cyprus are systematically encouraged by Greek Cypriot
authorities to take part in demonstrations against the TRNC along the
borders. Schools officially close in order to allow children to
participate and teachers along with officials typically make speeches
which incite children to acts of violence and hatred. On many occasions
teenager students have clashed with UNFICYP personnel inside the
buffer-zone. They have chanted anti-Turkish slogans and thrown rocks
etc. towards the North.
A recently published report on education in 1997 has revealed that: The
primary aim of education in South Cyprus is to teach children not to
forget the "occupation". One educational programme is entitled "I get
to know, I do not forget, I struggle against the occupation".
The Greek Cypriot government's programme to remember the "invasion" is
the primary objective in schools. The report states that: "The
programme formed the spine of militancy in schools and the route of the
people of Cyprus for achieving its visions."
"The main target is to keep alive the memory of our land still under
occupation, to foster and strengthen optimism, confidence and militancy
for freedom and return to our fatherland."
Greek Cypriot authorities described the aim of the programme as
educating children to "wake up and see Pentadactylos (mountain-range in
Northern Cyprus) and not to forget about their villages in the occupied
areas."
Some examples of text books used in Junior High Schools in South Cyprus
which contain elements inciting enmity are given below:
"Cyprus Geography", Nicosia, 1991, Min. of Education Portrays Cyprus as
an Hellenic island. Urges struggle to liberate the "occupied
territories." There is no mention of the Turkish population on the
island. One photograph depicts "enslaved youth" in 1974. Underneath it
says "the population of Greeks has dropped following the Turkish
occupation resulting in 5000 dead and 1619 missing." (p.24)
Pentadactylos is portrayed as a symbol of the "struggle to return
home."
"It is our primary responsibility to struggle with determination and
vigour in order to remove the danger threatening our Pentadactylos and
other territories under occupation. Only then Pentadactylos will
breathe freely and embrace its own folk." (p.42)
"Byzantine Period-Cyprus History", Nicosia, 1991, Min. of Education
Designed to portray Cyprus as an Hellenistic island populated by
Cypriots of Christian origin.
"Middle Ages-Cyprus History", Nicosia, 1992, Min. of Education Depicts
Turks as Christians who were forced to adopt Islam under pressure. The
book claims that in 1881 an insignificant part of the population spoke
Turkish. EOKA activities are described in detail.
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GREEK CYPRIOT MP DISCLOSES LARGE SCALE ARMS TRANSFERS FROM GREECE TO
SOUTH CYPRUS
It has been reported in the Greek Cypriot press that following a
meeting of the Greek Cypriot House of Representatives Defence
Committee, its Vice- Chairman Mr. Andonis Karas disclosed that lately
Greece has been sending sophisticated weaponry valued at hundreds of
millions of dollars to South Cyprus, including tanks operated by Greek
personnel (Greek Cypriot dailies, Fileleftheros and Simerinidated 8
January, 1999).
The Cyprus Weekly of 8 January 1999 establishes a linkage between the
aforesaid development and the recent decision of the Greek Cypriot
administration regarding the S-300 missiles. The Cyprus Weekly reports
that "in return for taking over the Russian missiles, Greece is said to
have sent ?arge amounts' of modern weapons to the island, worth
millions of pounds".
Meanwhile, the Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister, Mr. Yannakis
Cassoulides, who appeared on Greek Cypriot TV on 7 January made the
following remarks in the light of the systematic implementation of the
Joint Military Doctrine between Greece and the Greek Cypriot
administration, which includes the construction of air and naval bases
in South Cyprus for use by the Greek Armed Forces: "The Greek- Greek
Cypriot Joint Military Doctrine is not confined to the S-300 missiles
alone. Greece has a formidable military presence on the island".
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Greek Cypriot Administration Approves New Arms Purchases
It has been reported in the Greek Cypriot press of 18 December 1998
that the Greek Cypriot Council of Ministers has approved the release of
178 million Greek Cypriot pounds (approximately 350 million U.S
dollars) for a new round of military procurement within the context of
the Joint Military Doctrine between the Greek Cypriot administration
and Greece.
The Greek Cypriot newspaper Mahi (18 December 1998) reports that this
new round of military procurement will include the purchase of at least
a squadron of warplanes, possibly Mirage fighters, and CSH-2 Roovihalk
assault helicopters from South Africa. The Greek Cypriot administration
will also reportedly consult with the Greek naval construction company
Skaramanga', with a view to ordering two warships capable of delivering
Exocet missiles.
This further military build-up comes at a time when tensions are
already high due to the construction of air and naval bases in South
Cyprus for use by Greece and the imminent deployment of the S-300
missile system. Moreover, this decision to expand the Joint Military
Doctrine comes in the wake of the call made upon the two sides by the
UN Secretary-General "to avoid any actions which might increase
tension, including by further expansion of military forces and
armaments"
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LARGE-SCALE ICON THEFT IN SOUTH CYPRUS UNCOVERS GREEK CYPRIOT
HYPOCRISY
The recent discovery of many stolen icons in South Cyprus in the
possession of Greek Cypriot persons has uncovered the true state of
affairs with regard to the protection of cultural heritage in the
island. The Greek Cypriot administration who has made a habit of
falsely accusing the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus of plundering
historical monuments, is now fully answerable for these large-scale
illegal acts taking place in South Cyprus.
According to Greek Cypriot daily Fileleftheros of 23 September 1998,
two Greek Cypriots were taken into custody in connection with the theft
of icons from churches in the Limassol area in South Cyprus. Greek
Cypriot police found 32 icons in a house belonging to one of the
suspects. Cyprus Mail of 24 September reported that a third Greek
Cypriot involved in the same case was arrested by the Greek Cypriot
police. In Paphos, three other Greek Cypriots were remanded in
connection with theft of icons from churches in that area. Police in
South Cyprus will reportedly conduct a further investigation in an
attempt to recover large number of historic icons believed to be in the
possession of certain Greek Cypriots residing in Nicosia and
Peristerona.
The Greek Cypriot side would be well advised to stop exploiting the
issue of preservation of cultural property but rather concentrate its
efforts towards the prevention of theft and smuggling of objects of
archaeological value from its territory. The Turkish Cypriot side
within its limited budget effectively administers measures to control
and preserve the cultural wealth of the island.
(Cyprus Mail 24 Dec 1980) STOLEN MOSAIC RECOVERED IN LONDON;
Cyprus Weekly, 24-30 January 1986 ARREST MADE OVER ICONS -
ANDREAS COSTA KYRIAKOU OF PAPTHOS WAS ARRESTED, AND IS
HELD IN CONNECTION WITH A BREAK IN INTO THE CHAPEL OF ST
GEORGE TERATSIOLIS NEAR AVGOROU.
CYPRUS PLEA TO INTERPOL - INTERPOL IS ASKED TO APPREHEND
YIANGOS SOLOMOU, A GREEK CYPRIOT RESIDENT OF BRITAIN,
RECENTLY LIVING IN AVGTHOROU, IN CONNECTION WITH THE
THEFT OF A NUMBER OF ICONS AND GOLD PLATED OIL CANDLE
HOLDERS FROM A CHAPEL
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They are trying to change the ethnic composition of Cyprus
>From the articles appearing on the Southern Cyprus press, it has been
learned that the Greek Cypriot administration is applying all kinds of
methods for changing the ethnic composition in Cyprus and has settled
Russians, who are claimed to be of Greek origin, to Cyprus by bringing
them from Russia and Ukraine.
The number of the Russians, who have brought to Cyprus in this way and
who have been accommodated in the Island after being baptized by the
Greek Cypriot Church, has exceeded 10.000. At present, more than 4.000
Russians are living only in Baf.
On the other hand, the number of those, who came from Greece for not
fulfilling their military service there and who were accepted to the
Greek Cypriot citizenship, has also reached thousands.
At a discussion program, which has been broadcasted by the television
station ANT-1 on October 20, 1999, it has been stated that there are
major problems between the Greek Cypriots living in Baf and the
Russians, who have been settled in the island since 1983, and that
there did not exist safety of life and property anymore.
Again from the Southern Cyprus press it has been learned that a letter
has been left to the Baf television station by an organization called
"Golden Dawn", and on this letter it has been required that "all the
Greek Cypriots, who are living in the same building with the Russians,
should leave all the places they are staying until the year 2000", and
it is added that "otherwise, they will be burnt alive together with the
Russians".
The conclusion which is to be drawn from these news is as follows :
The Southern Cypriot Greek Administration is accepting everyone, who
claims being from Greek descend, to the southern Cypriot citizenship
for altering the ethnic composition in Cyprus in favor of the Greek
Cypriots and for using this as a means to obtain some rights.
If those people, who are brought from Ukraine and Russia, are of Greek
origin, then the organized and illegal activities in Baf should be a
shame for others of Greek origin.
The Island is being made a shelter for those Greeks, who are escaping
the laws in Greece, for the sake of changing the population ratios in
their favor.
The letter, which is left to the Baf television station, is proving
Greek Cypriots' extreme nationalism, racism and intolerance towards
other people who are not from their own ethnic origin; and is
constituting a good example for exposing how Cyprus problem have been
led to the current circumstances. The Turkish inhabitants of the
island, who were living quietly and without any illegal tendencies
unlike the Russian immigrants, were slaughtered by the Greek Cypriot
bands between the years 1960 and 1974, by the same methods which have
been described on the above-mentioned threatening letter.
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Keeping on Enosis
For quarter of a century, Greek Cypriot Representatives have opposed
to every kind of division forming as either a separate state or a
federation or confederation in the international meetings arranged to
solve the Cyprus problem. Have Greek Cypriots opposed to the condition
of being divided of Island with humane sense or by believing that they
can live with Turkish Cypriots together? Of course not. They just
consider running after Enosis (Annexation of Cyprus to Greece as a
whole). They are also under strict control in order to prevent the
divison of Island by Greeks who have the idea of Enosis. Because Enosis
with just Southern Cyprus is not sufficent for Greece. To be reached
the idea of Enosis all at once, Greeks want that Cyprus should
absolutely be stay as a whole.
The below news about the remembrance ceremony of the 26th anniversary
of colonel Grivas's death in which Klerides, the leader of Greek
Cypriot Community, and who charge Mr. Denktas, The President of TRNC,
with stubbornness, also attended proves the evil desire of Greece and
Greek Administration of Southern Cyprus.
The Oath of "Keeping on Enosis"
Lefkose (A.A) - In the ceremony of the 26th anniversary of the death of
Yorgos Grivas Digenis, the founder leader of terror organization-EOKA,
it was taken the oath of "Keeping on Enosis".
In the ceremony arranged in Aya Nikolau Church in Limasol yesterday,
where Glafkos Klerides who is the leader of Greek Cypriot, Archbishop
Hrisostomos, Lieutenent-General Dimitrios Dimu who is the commander of
Greek Cypriot Army, Kiriakos Rodusakis who is the ambassador of Greece
to Southern Cyprus and politicians attended, the oath so-called
"Keeping on struggling to reach of the ideal of Enosis (Annexing Cyprus
to Greece)" was taken.
Avgerinos Papares, secretary general of the "Limasol Eoka Strugglers
Association", pointed out in the ceremony that Grivas's constant ideal
is to annex Cyprus to Greece, and also said "Grivas did not struggle
for the solution suggesting a confederacy or a Turk President. Grivas
struggled to save Cyprus and to become fact the ideal of annexing it to
homeland Greece." Nikos Samson, the leader of the 1974 coup and the
military service friend of Grivas, said that he himself prevented the
corpse of Grivas from taken away to and buried in Greece.
After the ceremony in the church, by going to the shelter where the
tomb of Grivas placed, a ceremony was also arranged in there. Klerides
and other officials placed a wreath on the tomb of Grivas.
Date: 24/01/00
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AKRITAS PLAN
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HEADQUARTERS
Recent public statements by Archbishop Makarios have shown
the course which our national problem will take in near future.
As we have stressed in the past, national struggles cannot be
concluded overnight; nor is it possible to fix definite
chronological
limits for the conclusion of the various stages of development
in
national causes. Our national problem must be viewed in the
light of
developments which take place and conditions that arise from
time to
time, and measures to be taken, as well as their implementation
and
timing, must be in keeping with the internal and external
political
conditions. The whole process is difficult and must go through
various stages because factors which will affect the final
conclusion
are numerous and different. It is sufficient for everyone to
know,
however, that every step taken constitutes the result of a
study and
that at the same time it forms the basis of future measures.
Also,
it is sufficient to know that every measure now contemplated is
a
first step and only constitutes a stage towards the final and
unalterable national objective which is the full and
unconditional
application of the right of self-determination.
As the final objective remains unchanged, what must be
dwelt
upon is the method to be employed towards attaining that
objective.
This must, of necessity, be divided into internal and external
(international) tactics because the methods of the presentation
and
handling of our cause within and outside the country are
different.
A. METHOD TO BE USED OUTSIDE
In the closing stages of the (EOKA) struggle, the Cyprus
problem
had been presented to the world public opinion and to
diplomatic
circles as a demand of the people of Cyprus to exercise the
right of
self-determination. But the question of Turkish minority had
been
introduced in circumstances that are known, inter-communal
clashes
had taken place and it had been tried to make it accepted that
it
was impossible for the two communities to live together under a
united administration. Finally the problem was solved, in the
eyes
of many international circles, by the London and Zurich
Agreements,
which were shown as solving the problem following negotiations
and
agreements between the contending parties.
(a) Consequently our first aim has been to create the
impression
in the international field that the Cyprus problem has not
been solved and that it has to be reviewed.
(b) The creation of the following impressions has been
accepted
as the primary objective:
(i) that the solution which has been found is not
satisfactory
and just
(ii) that the agreement which has been reached is not the
result of the free will of the contending parties.
(iii)that the demand for the revision for the agreements
is not
because of any desire on the part of the Greeks to
dishonor
their signature, but an imperative necessity of
survival
of them.
(iv) that the co-existence of the two communities is
possible, and
(v) that the Greek majority, and not the Turks,
constitute the
strong elements on which foreigners must rely.
(c) Although it was most difficult to attain the above
objectives,
satisfactory results have been achieved. Many diplomatic
missions have already come to believe strongly that the
Agreements
are neither just nor satisfactory, that they were signed
as a
result of pressures and intimidations without real
negotiations,
and that they were imposed after many threats. It has been
an
important trump in our hands that the solution brought by
the
Agreements was not submitted to the approval of the
people; acting
wisely in this respect, our leadership avoided holding a
referandum. Otherwise, the people would have definitely
approved
the Agreements in the atmosphere that prevailed in 1959.
Generally speaking, it has been shown that so far the
adminis-
tration of Cyprus has been carried out by the Greeks and
that the
Turks played only a negative part acting as a brake.
(d) Having completed the first stage of our activities and
objectives
we must materialize the second stage on an international
level.
Our objective in this second stage is to show:
(i) that the aim of the Greeks is not to oppress the
Turks but
only to remove unreasonable and unjust provisions of
the
administrative mechanism;
(ii) that it is necessary to remove these provisions right
away
because tomorrow may be too late;
(iii)Omitted
(iv) that this question of revision is a domestic issue
for
Cypriots and does not therefore give the right of
intervention to anyone by force or otherwise;
(v) that the proposed amendments are reasonable and just
and
safeguard the reasonable rights of the minority.
(e) Generally speaking, it is obvious that today the
international
opinion is against any form of oppression, and especially
against
oppresion of minorities. The Turks have so far been able
to
convince world public opinion that the union of Cyprus
with
Greece will amount to their enslavement. Under these
circumstances
we stand a good chance of success in influencing world
public
opinion if we base our struggle not on ENOSIS but on self-
determination. But in order to be able to exercise the
right
of self-determination fully and without hindrance, we must
first
get rid of the Agreements (e.g. the Treaty of Gurantee,
the
Treaty of Alliance etc) and of those provisions in the
Constitution which will inhibit the free and unbridled
expression
of the will of people and which they carry dangers of
external
intervention. For this reason, our first target has been
the
Treaty of Guarantee, which is the first Agreement to be
cited
as not being recognized by the Greek Cypriots.
When the Treaty of Guarantee is removed no legal or moral
force
will remain to obstruct us in determining our future through a
plebiscite.
It will be understood from the above explanations that it
is
necessary to follow a chain of efforts and developments in
order
to ensure the success of our Plan. If these efforts and
developments failed to materialize, our future actions would
be legally unjustified and politically unattainable and we
would
be exposing Cyprus and its people to grave consequences.
Actions
to be taken are as follows:
(a) The amendment of the negative elements of the Agreements
and
the consequent de facto nullification of the Treaties of
Guarantee and Alliance. This step is essential because the
necessity of amending the negative aspects of any
Agreement is
generally acceptable internationally and is considered
reasonable
(passage omitted) whereas an external intervention to
prevent
the amendment of such negative provisions is held
unjustified
and inapplicable.
(b) Once this is achieved the Treaty of Guarantee (the right
of
intervention) will become legally and substantially
inapplicable.
(c) Once those provisions of the Treaties of Guarantee and
Alliance
which restrict the exercise of the right of
self-determination
are removed, the people of Cyprus will be able, freely, to
express
and apply its will.
(d) It will be possible for the Force of the State (the Police
Force)
and in addition, friendly military Forces, to resist
legitimately
any intervention internally or from outside, because we
will then
be completely independent.
It will be seen that it is necessary for actions from (a)
to (d)
to be carried out in the order indicated.
It is consequently evident that if we ever hope to have
any chance
of success in the international field, we cannot and should not
reveal
or proclaim any stage of the struggle before the previous stage
is
completed. For instance, it is accepted that the above four
stages
constitute the necessary course to be taken, then it is obvious
that
it would be senseless for us to speak of amendment (a) if stage
(d)
is revealed, because it would then be rediculous for us to seek
the
amendment of the negative points with the excuse that these
amendments
are necessary for the functioning of the State and of the
Agreements.
The above are the points regarding our targets and aims,
and the
procedure to be followed in the international field.
B. THE INTERNAL ASPECT
Our activities in the internal field will be regulated
according
to their repercussions and to interpretations to be given to
them in
the world and according to the effect of our actions on our
national
cause.
1- The only danger that can be described as insurmountable is the
possibility of a forceful intervention. This danger, which
could be
met partly or wholly by our forces is important because of the
political damage that it could do rather than the material
losses
that it could entail. If intervention took place before stage
(c),
then such intervention would be legally tenable at least, if
not
entirely justifiable. This would be very much against us both
internationally and at the United Nations. The history of many
similar
incidents in recent times shows us that in no case of
intervention,
even if legally excusable, has the attacker been removed by
either
the United Nations or the other powers without significant
concessions
to the detriment of the attacked party. Even in the case of the
attack
on Suez Canal by Israel, which was condemned by almost all
members of
the United Nations and for which Russia threatened
intervention, the
Israelis were removed but, as a concession, they continued to
keep
the port of Eliat in the Red Sea. There are, however, more
serious
dangers in the case of Cyprus.
If we do our work well and justify the attempt we shall
make
under stage (a) above, we will see, on the one hand, that
intervention
will not be justified and, on the other hand, we will have
every
support since, by the Treaty of Guarantee, intervention cannot
take
place before negotiations take place between the Guarantor
Powers, that
is, Britain, Greece, and Turkey. It is at this stage, i.e. at
the stage
of contacts (before intervention) that we shall need
international
support. We shall obtain this support if the amendments
proposed by us
seem reasonable and justified. Therefore, we have to be
extremely
careful in selecting the amendments that we shall propose.
The first step, therefore, would be to get rid of
intervention
by proposing amendments in the first stage. Tactic to be
followed:
(Omitted)
2- It is evident that for intervention to be justified there
must
be a more serious reason and a more immediate danger than
simple
Constitutional amendments. Such reasons can be:
(a) The declaration of ENOSIS before actions (a) to (c)
(b) Serious intercommunal unrest which may be shown as a
massacre
of Turks.
The first reason is removed as a result of the Plan drawn
up for
the first stage and consequently what remains, is the danger of
intercommunal strife. We do not intend to engage, without
provocation,
in massacre or attack against the Turks. Therefore, (section
omitted)
the Turks can react strongly and incite incidents and strife,
or falsely
stage massacres, clashes or bomb explosions in order to create
the
impression that the Greeks attacked the Turks and that
intervention
is imperative for their protection. Tactic to be employed: Our
actions
for amending the Constitution will not be secret; we would
always appear
to be ready for peaceful talks and our actions would not take
any
provocative and violent form. Any incidents that may take place
will be
met, at the beginning, in a legal fashion by the legal Security
Forces,
according to a plan. Our actions will have a legal form.
3- (Omitted)
4- It is, however, naive to believe that it is impossible
for us to
proceed to substantial actions for amending the Constitution,
as a first
step towards our more general Plan as described above, without
expecting
the Turks to create or stage incidents and clashes. For this
reason,
the existence and the strengthening of our Organization is
imperative
because: (a) if, in case of spontaneous resistance by the
Turks, our
counter attack is not immediate, we run the risk of having a
panic
created among the Greeks, in towns particular. We will then be
in
danger of losing vast areas of vital importance to the Turks,
while
if we show our strength to the Turks immediately and
forcefully, then
they will probably be brought to their senses and restrict
their
activities to insignificant, isolated incidents. (b) In case of
a
planned or unplanned attack by the Turks, whether this be
staged or not
it is necessary to suppress this forcefully in the shortest
possible
time, since, if we manage to become masters of the situation
within
a day or two, outside intervention would not be possible,
probable or
justifiable. (c) The forceful and decisive suppressing of any
Turkish
effort will greatly facilitate our subsequent actions for
further
Constitutional amendments, and it should then be possible to
apply
these without the Turks being able to show any reaction.
Because they
will learn that it is impossible for them to show any reaction
without
serious consequences for their Community. (d) In case of the
clashes
becoming widespread, we must be ready to proceed immediately
through
actions (a) to (d), including the immediate declaration of
ENOSIS,
because, then, there will be no need to wait or to engage in
diplomatic
activity.
5- In all these stages we must not overlook the factor of
enlightening, and of facing the propaganda of those who do not
know or
cannot be expected to know our plans, as well as of the
reactionary
elements. It has been shown that our struggle must go through
at least
four stages and that we are obliged not to reveal our plans and
intentions prematurely. It is therefore more than a national
duty for
everyone to observe full secrecy in the matter. Secrecy is
vitally
essential for our success and survival. This, however, does not
prevent
the reactionaries and irresponsible demagogues from indulging
in false
patriotic manifestations and provocations. Our Plan would
provide them
with the possibility of putting forward accusations to the
effect that
the aims of our leadership are not national and that only the
amendment
of the Constitution is envisaged. The need for carrying out
Constitutional amendments in stages and in accordance with the
prevailing conditions, makes our job even more difficult. All
this must
not, however, be allowed to drag us to irresponsible demagogy,
street
politics and a race of nationalism. Our deeds will be our
undeniable
justification. In any case owing to the fact that, for
well-known
reasons, the above Plan must have been carried out and borne
fruit long
before the next elections, we must distinguish ourselves with
self-restraint and moderation in the short time that we have.
Parallel
with this, we should not only maintain but reinforce the
present unity
and discipline of our patriotic forces. We can succeed in this
only by
properly enlightening our members so that they in turn
enlighten the
public.
Before anything else we must expose the true identity of
the
reactionaries. These are petty and irresponsible demagogues and
opportunists. Their recent history shows this. They are
unsuccessful,
negative and antiprogressive elements who attack our leadership
like
mad dogs but who are unable to put forward any substantive and
practical solution of their own. In order to succeed in all our
activities we need a strong and stable government, up to the
last
minute. They are known as clamorous slogan-creators who are
good for
nothing but speech-making. When it comes to taking definite
actions
or making sacrifices they are soon shown to be unwilling
weaklings. A
typical example of this is that even at the present stage they
have no
better proposal to make than to suggest that we should have
recourse
to the United Nations. It is therefore necessary that they
should be
isolated and kept at a distance.
We must enlighten our members about our plans and
objectives ONLY
VERBALLY. Meetings must be held at the sub-headquarters of the
Organization to enlighten leaders and members so that they are
properly
equipped to enlighten others. NO WRITTEN EXPLANATION OF ANY
SORT IS
ALLOWED. LOSS OR LEAKAGE OF ANY DOCUMENT PERTAINING TO THE
ABOVE IS
EQUIVALENT TO HIGH TREASON. There can be no action that would
inflict
a heavier blow to our struggle than any revealing of the
contents of
the present document or the publication of this by the
opposition.
Outside the verbal enlightenment of our members, all our
activities, and our publications in the press in particular,
must be
most restrained and must not divulge any of the above. Only
responsible
persons will be allowed to make public speeches and statements
and will
refer to this Plan only generally under their personal
responsibility
and under the personal responsibilty of the Chief of
sub-headquarters
concerned. Also, any reference to the written Plan should be
done only
after the formal approval of the Chief of the sub-headquarters
who will
control the speech or statement. But in any case such speech or
statement MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO APPEAR IN THE PRESS OR ANY
OTHER
PUBLICATION.
The tactic to be followed: Great effort must be made to
enlighten
our members and the public VERBALLY. Every effort must be made
to show
ourselves as moderates. Any reference to our plans in writing,
or
any reference in the press or in any document is strictly
prohibited.
Responsible officials and other responsible persons will
continue
to enlighten the public and to increase its morale and fighting
spirit
without ever divulging any of our plans through the press or
otherwise.
NOTE: The present document should be destroyed by burning under
the
personal responsibilities of the Chief of the sub-headquarters
and in
the presence of all members of the staff within 10 days of its
being
received. It is strictly prohibited to make copies of the whole
or any
part of this document. Staff members of sub-headquarters may
have it in
their possession only under the personal responsibility of the
Chief
of sub-headquarters, but in no case is anyone allowed to take
it out
of the office of sub-headquarters.
The Chief
AKRITAS
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TOPIC: CONDI DESERVES A SCREW!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/77203d0d797f0e89
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 4 2006 12:02 am
From: "serwad"
"DoD" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote in message
news:YYlYf.40104$ty4.14271@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
>
> "serwad" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:tSlYf.36504$g6.2524@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
>
> Isn't it in one of your Hadiths that it is said that Mo had the staying
> power of ten men, or something to that effect?
"MY HADITHS"? YOU ARE BOTH MAD AND STUPID AND YOU MAKE UP LIES AS YOU GO
ALONG!
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:08 pm
From: "DoD"
"serwad" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:W9mYf.36508$g6.21519@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
>
> "DoD" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote in message
> news:YYlYf.40104$ty4.14271@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
>>
>> "serwad" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> news:tSlYf.36504$g6.2524@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
>>
>> Isn't it in one of your Hadiths that it is said that Mo had the staying
>> power of ten men, or something to that effect?
>
> "MY HADITHS"? YOU ARE BOTH MAD AND STUPID AND YOU MAKE UP LIES AS YOU GO
> ALONG!
If you claim to be a Muslim, and you have, then they are your Hadiths. They
certainly are not mine. I claim Matt, Marcus, Lucas and that naughtly school
boy, dirty Johnny.
If you want a dirty Johnny joke, just ask.
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TOPIC: El Pan Polemico......... "el antipan".
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/857c6b1c50548ac1
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 11:48 pm
From: "PM"
El Pan Polémico
2006-04-02
Raras veces en un noticiero televisivo cubano, aparece un reporte donde
se enfoca un tema crítico que afecte al cubano de a pie. Y cuando lo
transmiten, es porque ya escapa del comentario popular y llegó a las
altas esferas del gobierno.
El de esta vez, se enfocó hacia y sobre la calidad del pan normado a la
población en la ciudad de La Hababa. Pero pudiera extenderse también al
que se consume en el resto de la Isla.
El reportero se auxilió para que no quedara dudas y no se pensara que
era un invento, en las opiniones vertidas por diversos ciudadanos.
Ninguno ofreció la más mínima opinión satisfactoria. Todos fueron
unánimes: el pan que adquieren, aún el ofertado a un precio más elevado,
que debiera tener mayor calidad, es tan malo como el otro.
Ácido, de tonos verdoso, de una consistencia parecida al chicle, no
aguanta su calidad a las doce horas de ser comprado, constituyeron la
mayoría de los comentarios de los entrevistados. Y para colofón, para
ponerle la tapa al pomo, un famoso humorista del patio, en un monólogo
que se ha hecho muy popular, donde la ironía y la sátira están
presentes, lo calificó como "el antipan".
Sin embargo, para buscar los matices necesarios el reportero se dirigió
a la Empresa Cubana del Pan y entrevistó a su representante Mario
Arencibia por conocer sus puntos de vista de por qué el pan tenía esas
condiciones. Este le argumentó que su organismo proveía a todas las
panaderías de los elementos necesarios para que el citado alimento
saliera al mercado con la calidad requerida.
Pero lo que Arencibia no dijo y ocultó a sabiendas, es que la corrupción
que existe en los centros de elaboración, que la grasa para elaborar el
producto, los mismos trabajadores lo venden en el submundo del
contrabando y así obtener un poco de dinero que compense a los bajos
salarios que reciben.
Mientras, la población continúa con sus quejas. Lo mismo en las mismas
bodegas que en las asambleas cederistas de las cuadras. Y dicho por los
mismos afectados, a veces lo que hacen es cojer el pan para alimentar a
los animales avícolas o porcinos que tienen en sus patios. Otros ni se
toman el trabajo de hacer las colas cuando el susodicho llega a los
centros de expendios, y los que compran el más caro, rápidamente lo
tuestan para que no se les eche a perder.
Podemos añadir que ese pan de cualquier precio, mal confeccionado y con
sabores desconocidos pero muy lejos del que debiera tener, a veces es el
primordial sustituto del almuerzo o la comida en muchos hogares de la
Isla, para mitigar o engañar al estómago, cuando éste reclama que le
caiga algo en su interior.
http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=5084
--
CALLES DE LA HABANA: (ESTE WEBSITE ES UNA JOYA)
Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle23/index.htm 23
Quinta http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/quinta/index.htm
Avenida
Línea http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/linea/index.htm
Almendares
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/almendares/index.htm
Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle26/index.htm 26
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave26/index.htm 26
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave11/index.htm 11
Avenida
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/presidentes/index.htm
de los Presidentes
Rancho http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/rancho/index.htm
Boyeros
Monserrate
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/monserrate/index.htm
Empedrado http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/empedrado/index.htm
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/puerto/index.htm del
Puerto
Calle Cuba http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/cuba/ind
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TOPIC: El Pan Polémico
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/d2fe99e321b33179
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 11:49 pm
From: "PM"
2006-04-02
El Pan Polémico
Raras veces en un noticiero televisivo cubano, aparece un reporte donde
se enfoca un tema crítico que afecte al cubano de a pie. Y cuando lo
transmiten, es porque ya escapa del comentario popular y llegó a las
altas esferas del gobierno.
El de esta vez, se enfocó hacia y sobre la calidad del pan normado a la
población en la ciudad de La Hababa. Pero pudiera extenderse también al
que se consume en el resto de la Isla.
El reportero se auxilió para que no quedara dudas y no se pensara que
era un invento, en las opiniones vertidas por diversos ciudadanos.
Ninguno ofreció la más mínima opinión satisfactoria. Todos fueron
unánimes: el pan que adquieren, aún el ofertado a un precio más elevado,
que debiera tener mayor calidad, es tan malo como el otro.
Ácido, de tonos verdoso, de una consistencia parecida al chicle, no
aguanta su calidad a las doce horas de ser comprado, constituyeron la
mayoría de los comentarios de los entrevistados. Y para colofón, para
ponerle la tapa al pomo, un famoso humorista del patio, en un monólogo
que se ha hecho muy popular, donde la ironía y la sátira están
presentes, lo calificó como "el antipan".
Sin embargo, para buscar los matices necesarios el reportero se dirigió
a la Empresa Cubana del Pan y entrevistó a su representante Mario
Arencibia por conocer sus puntos de vista de por qué el pan tenía esas
condiciones. Este le argumentó que su organismo proveía a todas las
panaderías de los elementos necesarios para que el citado alimento
saliera al mercado con la calidad requerida.
Pero lo que Arencibia no dijo y ocultó a sabiendas, es que la corrupción
que existe en los centros de elaboración, que la grasa para elaborar el
producto, los mismos trabajadores lo venden en el submundo del
contrabando y así obtener un poco de dinero que compense a los bajos
salarios que reciben.
Mientras, la población continúa con sus quejas. Lo mismo en las mismas
bodegas que en las asambleas cederistas de las cuadras. Y dicho por los
mismos afectados, a veces lo que hacen es cojer el pan para alimentar a
los animales avícolas o porcinos que tienen en sus patios. Otros ni se
toman el trabajo de hacer las colas cuando el susodicho llega a los
centros de expendios, y los que compran el más caro, rápidamente lo
tuestan para que no se les eche a perder.
Podemos añadir que ese pan de cualquier precio, mal confeccionado y con
sabores desconocidos pero muy lejos del que debiera tener, a veces es el
primordial sustituto del almuerzo o la comida en muchos hogares de la
Isla, para mitigar o engañar al estómago, cuando éste reclama que le
caiga algo en su interior.
http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=5084
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Quinta http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/quinta/index.htm
Avenida
Línea http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/linea/index.htm
Almendares
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/almendares/index.htm
Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle26/index.htm 26
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave26/index.htm 26
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave11/index.htm 11
Avenida
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/presidentes/index.htm
de los Presidentes
Rancho http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/rancho/index.htm
Boyeros
Monserrate
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/monserrate/index.htm
Empedrado http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/empedrado/index.htm
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/puerto/index.htm del
Puerto
Calle Cuba http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/cuba/ind
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Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle23/index.htm 23
Quinta http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/quinta/index.htm
Avenida
Línea <http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/linea/index.htm
Almendares
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/almendares/index.htm
Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle26/index.htm 26
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave26/index.htm 26
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave11/index.htm 11
Avenida
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/presidentes/index.htm
de los Presidentes
Rancho http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/rancho/index.htm
Boyeros
Monserrate
http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/monserrate/index.htm
Empedrado http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/empedrado/index.htm
Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/puerto/index.htm del
Puerto
Calle Cuba http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/cuba/ind
<periodistalibre@aol.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
1144088604.236506.122410@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> Bottom line: China is sucking the life out of the American dream. But,
> there is still some good news. Even though the financial news is
> reporting the devastating affects of China's astronomical growth.
>
> And to follow that up, this was reported:
>
> "The Asian Development Bank warned readers last week to 'prepare for
> a collapse of the dollar.'"
>
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TOPIC: MURDER OF RACHEL CORRIE, AN AMERICAN HEROINE
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/230b20b958a3d3ba
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Tues, Apr 4 2006 4:05 am
From: "DoD"
"Daniel Bernard" <bad@bad.one> wrote in message
news:s1v132d2gblb4k1i8r75kui6r4vr4hq26c@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:19:23 -0500, AnonMoos
> Moos, surely cannot be talking about people like Susie Cochon and
> Dipshit Dave.
If you are refering to me... My name is David, not Dave. If you want to
pronounce it in Hrvatski, then say Dahved..... Otherwise you half baked euro
ding dong.... call me DoD.
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TOPIC: ISRAEL MAY IMPOSE A VICTOR'S PEACE ON PALESTINIANS
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/57010bab65b01f98
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:05 pm
From: "Jim E"
"serwad" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:zYjYf.36079$g6.33596@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
>
> "Shlomo" <stanleykr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1144113377.581417.317860@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
>> The biggest obstacle is that the Pallie Arabs do not recognize any sort
>> of two-state solution.
>
> Why should they provide the land for a fascist apartheid entity called
> Israel?
> If you want to live in peace share the land in peace, arsehole!
>
What do the palislime know how to do with land except launch mortars, or dig
tunnels?
They have zero agricultural ability.
They subsist on the foreign aid of others.
Pali parasites.
Jim E
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:07 pm
From: "Jim E"
"serwad" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:lXjYf.36067$g6.9123@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
> And how do you do that?Find all the victors and impose them?
>
Another display of ignorance to the degree only alex would be capable of.
Damn you're stewpid.
Jim E
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TOPIC: EL CRIMEN DE PIEDRA
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/ddcfcc4382eb4de
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:07 pm
From: "Luis Fernando"
PM Solidaridad al Pueblo Cubano, ya que se vaya Castro pero la verdad
como comparas a Castro, con Chavez Evo, Kirchner, Lula
Además pues es muy extremo eso de la pena de muerte, pero que querias
que hicieran con las rebeliones, como en Colombia que al narco en vez
de aplastarlos los felicitan incluso por sus vinculos con Wall Street.
http://www.narconews.com/images/feb12fab54a8589b4b0e.jpeg
> EL CRIMEN DE PIEDRA
>
> En la decada del 60 se instrumento en Cuba la ley que sancionaba a la pena
> capital por fusilamiento a todo aquel que se levantara en armas contra el
> gobierno, eso con el fin de frenar las distintas guerrillas que se formaban
> el los lomerios, sobre todo en La Sierra del Escambray, que fueron
> eliminadas por la doctrina militar de la masividad, cuando el gobierno
> cubano movilizo miles de milicianos en una operacion genericamente llamada
> "Lucha contra bandidos", la cual consistia en al menos cien milicianos por
> cada alzado en armas de las guerrillas, en ese tiempo sostenidas de armas y
> pertrechos por la CIA segun el decir oficial.
>
> Por esa epoca era yo un estudiante de medicina que vivia en Camajuani, pero
> con amigos en el cercano poblado de Caibarien, donde solia ir a playear.
> Uno de mis amigos, Evaristo Herrera, me contacto para ir a "una actividad"
> en un central cercano.
> Accedi y esa tarde en un jeep de Los Comites de Defensa donde era dirigente
> mi amigo, nos traladamos al Central Adela, a disfrutar de la dichosa
> actividad, nos acompanaban a Osvaldo Sanchez Nieto, alguien llamado El
> Gallego, zapatero de oficio y otros que no recuerdo.
> Llegamos al circulo social obrero del lugar y entonces se me dijo que
> realmente la actividad consistia en un Juicio sumarisimo que se haria a unos
> jovenes alzados en las lomas de Buena Vista, un poblado cercano.
>
> Habia muchos vecinos y el tribunal estaba entrando, presidido por el
> Comandante Felix Torres, entonces jefe militar del area.
> Fue entonces que detras de los jueces, en fila macabra, entraron 6 personas,
> cargando cada dos de ellas un ataud, quedando estos, uno al lado del otro a
> la izquierda del improvisado tribunal.
> Entonces trajeron los reos,uno de ellos bien conocido por mi, por haber sido
> companero de estudios de bachillerato en el Instituto "Mario Pando", del
> poblado de Remedios, donde fue Presidente de la FEM, federacion de
> Estudiantes de ensenanza media. No habia cumplido los 24 anos, su nombre
> NORBERTO CAMACHO, y otros mas que conocia de vista pero no de nombre, todos
> a la sazon mienbros de la Juventud catolica de Remedios.
> Ellos palidecieron al ver los ataudes y por supuesto supieron el destino
> final de aquella farsa de juicio, donde la condena estaba escrita antes de
> celebrarlo.
> En el juicio se supo que su alzamiento fue puramente simbolico, pues no
> tenias armas en el momento de su captura, ni la tuvieron antes, ni les fue
> confiscada arma alguna en los registros de sus casas.
> Ademas se habian alzado casi como si fueran a un picnic, en unas lomas
> descampadas sin refugios, que servirian para todo menos para formar una
> guerrilla armada.
>
> Se dicto la sentencia para asombro de todos, y de ellos que no daban credito
> a lo que oian. Alli mismo fueron llevados a una pared de piedra un poco
> detras del sitio donde fueron juzgados y fueron fusilados.
>
> Fue un crimen terrible, que se hizo solo para escarmiento de futuros
> alzamientos y para estrenar un Ley recien promulgada.
> Sus cadaveros fueron echados a las cajas y llevados al cementerio de
> Caibarien, segun me dijeron despues, eso no puedo confirmarlo, y sepultados
> superficialmente, para despues entrgarlos a los familiares.
> No los vi matar, no quise hacerlo, y mi amistad con Evaristo, al cual
> conocia por medio de un hermano, termino para siempre, tratando
> politicamente de evadir futuros contactos con el.
> Durante toda mi vida he recordado ese juicio montado como espectaculo y
> pienso cuantos crimenes como ese, se habran llevado a ejecucion en un pais
> que desconocia la pena de muerte hasta que llegaron al poder aquellos
> barbudos que venian proclamando PAZ y PROSPERIDAD al despues enganado pueblo
> cubano.
> Fue un crimen, una burla legalizada a la dignidad humana, y al derecho a la
> defensa de todo humano.
> Muchos de los acores de aquella escena ya murieron, de muerte natural y
> suicidado uno de ellos, segun me dijeron, a todos sin exccepcion la maquina
> destructiva de la revolucion le paso por encima, siendo "despatados" como se
> dice en Cuba, y envejecieron asqueados de muchos, odiados por otros y en la
> autoconviccion que lucharon e hicieron cosas detestables por un presente
> descalabrado y sin futuro, como lo es la sociedad remendada por el Gobierno
> de Castro.
> OJO seguidores de Chavez, de Evo y otros....no terminen como estos, cuando
> les lleguen los dias viejos y se den cuenta que han perdido lo mejor de sus
> animos por causas erroneas y curas remendadas de los males sociales que
> sufren.
> Consejo: cuidado no salgan de guatemala para entrar en guatapeor
>
>
>
> --
> CALLES DE LA HABANA: (ESTE WEBSITE ES UNA JOYA)
>
> Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle23/index.htm 23
> Quinta http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/quinta/index.htm
> Avenida
> Línea <http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/linea/index.htm
> Almendares
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/almendares/index.htm
>
> Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle26/index.htm 26
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave26/index.htm 26
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave11/index.htm 11
> Avenida
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/presidentes/index.htm
> de los Presidentes
> Rancho http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/rancho/index.htm
> Boyeros
> Monserrate
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/monserrate/index.htm
> Empedrado http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/empedrado/index.htm
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/puerto/index.htm del
> Puerto
> Calle Cuba http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/cuba/ind
> "Miguel" <michaelgayoso1948@msn.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 1144027143.215598.218510@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > El monstruo de Biran
> >
>
> --
> CALLES DE LA HABANA: (ESTE WEBSITE ES UNA JOYA)
>
> Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle23/index.htm 23
> Quinta http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/quinta/index.htm
> Avenida
> Línea <http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/linea/index.htm
> Almendares
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/almendares/index.htm
>
> Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle26/index.htm 26
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave26/index.htm 26
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave11/index.htm 11
> Avenida
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/presidentes/index.htm
> de los Presidentes
> Rancho http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/rancho/index.htm
> Boyeros
> Monserrate
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/monserrate/index.htm
> Empedrado http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/empedrado/index.htm
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/puerto/index.htm del
> Puerto
> Calle Cuba http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/cuba/ind
>
> --
> CALLES DE LA HABANA: (ESTE WEBSITE ES UNA JOYA)
>
> Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle23/index.htm 23
> Quinta http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/quinta/index.htm
> Avenida
> Línea <http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/linea/index.htm
> Almendares
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/almendares/index.htm
>
> Calle http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/calle26/index.htm 26
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave26/index.htm 26
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/ave11/index.htm 11
> Avenida
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/presidentes/index.htm
> de los Presidentes
> Rancho http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/rancho/index.htm
> Boyeros
> Monserrate
> http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/monserrate/index.htm
> Empedrado http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/empedrado/index.htm
> Avenida http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/puerto/index.htm del
> Puerto
> Calle Cuba http://www.guije.com/pueblo/habana/calles/cuba/ind
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TOPIC: Palestinian MPs Shout "Jihad Is Our Path" as Hamas Government Wins
Confidence Vote
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/40865e679b94e054
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:08 pm
From: "Jim E"
"serwad" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:T_jYf.36103$g6.21705@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
> Wow! What did you expect Palestinians to say?
>
Something not suicidally stupid?
Jim E
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:08 pm
From: "Jim E"
"serebel" <serebel@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1144119348.033229.200720@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hey, never underestimate the stupidity of a Palestinian. I think they
> hold a world record in this category.
>
Iran is currently trying for first runner up.
Jim E
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TOPIC: The True Colors of Greek Barbarians Brain-washed to Massacre Innocent
Turks Unconditionally
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/92f50e0682ae87d4
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:08 pm
From: "rich murphy"
http://www.turkses.com/index.asp
On Cyprus
by Ahmet Cosar
Cyprus formed part of the Ottoman Empire from 1571 to 1914, when it was
formally annexed by Great Britain at the beginning of World War I. In
1950s the revival of "Hellenism" and the ideal of re- building the
great "Hellen Empire" started a bloody struggle in Cyprus, Enosis, in
other words the annexation of Cyprus by Greece. The religious leader of
Greek Cypriots, Archbishop Makarios, was the head of the movement and
there were massive terrorist attacks on British rulers and Turkish
Cypriots who didn't share this "ideal". The numbers show that between
1955 and 1960, 508 people were murdered and 1,260 people were wounded
in these attacks by EOKA, a Greek Cypriot terrorist organization, under
the leadership of an ex- colonel from the Greek army, Grivas[2].
By 1958 it had become clear that it was not possible to achieve Enosis.
Turkish Cypriots, just like Greek Cypriots, wanted self- determination
and freedom and they didn't want to be a mere "minority" which, soon
after independence, would be "persuaded" to leave Cyprus. In 1959 the
Greek side accepted the formation of an independent republic in which
Turkish Cypriots would be one of the two equal partners. However, what
Greek side understood from "independence" was merely "a step before
Enosis" as it was soon discovered. Knowing the Greek aim of Enosis, the
Republic of Cyprus was founded in 1960 with a detailed Constitution
which strictly forbade the annexation of Cyprus by any country.
Furthermore permanent guarantees were written in the Constitution of
Cyprus so that the "independent democracy" would not turn into a
"dictatorship of majority"[3]. Nevertheless, beginning right after the
foundation of Cyprus in 1960, the Greek Cypriots made it clear that
they had not given up the struggle for Enosis. Makarios, also first
President of Cyprus, made the following public declaration:
"The Zurich and London Agreements form a landmark in the course of this
struggle, but, at the same time, are a starting point for further
struggles, with the object of capitalising on what has been achieved
for further conquests",
on 5 January 1962. On 15 August 1962, in Kykko monastery, he reiterated
that Enosis was his aim and said:
"Greek Cypriots must continue to march forward to complete the work
began by the EOKA heroes."
He also made the following provocative remark at his native village of
Panayia on 4 September 1962:
"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."
In 1962, Polykarpos Yorkadjis, Minister of Interior, declared that:
"There is no place in Cyprus for anyone who is not Greek, who does not
think Greek and who does not constantly feel Greek."
Meanwhile, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation regularly broadcast
virulently anti-Turkish plays. In one play, a mother asks her son what
her son wants to become; the boy replies:
- "a hero."
When she asks him,:
- "What will you bring to us?",
he answers:
- "I am going to bring seven Turkish heads to you [4]."
In fact the Akritas plan, published by Greek Cypriot newspaper Patris
on 21 April 1966, was a clear proof of the fact that Greek Cypriot side
deliberately tried to prove the constitution as unworkable and to
replace it with a settlement in order to re-open the way to Enosis. It
was disclosed that Archbishop Makarios had assumed responsibility for
the implementation of the plan and he had appointed Polycarpos
Georkadjis to be the "Chief Akritas". In an interview with the Italian
journalist Oriana Fallaci, Makarios said how Ioannides (a Greek officer
in the Greek contingent on Cyprus) and Nikos Sampson, a bloody EOKA
terrorist leader responsible from the "execution squads" of EOKA, came
to him one day in 1964 and told:
"Your Beatitude, here is my project. To attack the Turkish Cypriots on
the island, and eliminate them to the last one [5]."
Ioannides was the leader of the fascist Greek Junta in 1974 and Nikos
Sampson was declared the "president" with the Coup organized by Athens,
and their plan was still as revealed by Makarios. Knowing these facts
it is easy to understand the reasons behind the Turkish fears for the
security of Turkish Cypriots and the decision for intervention. In fact
after the intervention it was found out that in Sandallaris village the
whole population of 57, and at Maratha village 82 Turkish Cypriots were
massacred and buried in mass-graves, among the victims were babies,
women, and elderly people. In Tokhni village all able-bodied male
Turkish inhabitants (50 in number) were taken by the Greek Cypriot
National Guard soldiers to the outskirts of Ayia Phyla village in
Limassol district where they were massacred and buried in a pre-opened
pit together with about 40 Turks from Tatlisu (Mari)[6].
Greek people, repeating the official Greek claim, tell us that more
than 2,000 Greek Cypriots were/are "missing". For some strange reason
they forget to tell us that a Greek Cypriot Priest, Father Papatsetsos,
made a declaration to Greek newspapers saying that he had personally
buried 127 people, 10 of them were Turkish Cypriots, and all of them
were murdered by EOKA-B terrorists and the Greek National Guard(there
were violent clashes between left-wing and right-wing Greek Cypriots
after the Coup in 1974)[7] . On 23 July 1974, The Times of London
quoted the American wife of Dr. Lyssarides (head of the EDEK party)
saying that many supporters of Makarios had been massacred during and
after the coup. On 25 July 1974 Combat published in Belgium, reported:
"it has been confirmed that during the days following the coup at least
2,000 of Makarios's supporters have either been killed in the fighting
or executed."
A report in Washington Star News said similar things:
"Bodies littered the streets and there were mass burials."
Until this day Greek Cypriot Government has rejected to open these
mass-graves and to reveal the identities of these people, mainly to
continue the Greek propaganda of "missing Greeks". The fact is that,
the question of missing persons was investigated by International
Committee of Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC representative stated
categorically in the presence of the UN Secretary-General's Special
Representative in Cyprus that all POWs were delivered to the Greek
side. This fact was also confirmed in the report of the head of the
ICRC dated 18 March 1977. At the time there were only 23-24 cases
pending investigation, and the Turkish side is ready to investigate
these cases along with hundreds of Turkish Cypriots who are missing
since 1963[8]. As for the "atrocity stories" made up by Greek side, a
report by the Study Mission of the Sub-committee of the Judiciary of
the US Senate (October 1974), about the first phase of the Turkish
military operation, said:
"Whenever and wherever the Study Mission talked with Greek Cypriot
refugees, the story was basically the same: people moved the instant
they saw or thought the Turkish army was advancing towards their town
or village."
About the second phase of the operation, the report says:
"Greek Cypriots fled the moment there was rumor or sight of military
forces - creating a virtual vacuum into which the Turkish army could
and did move without resistance and without the presence of people."
Since 1974 there have been many series of negotiations between Greek
and Turkish Cypriots. All of these negotiations have been fruitless
because of the Greek side's unwillingness to accept Turkish Cypriots'
equality and the guarantee of their rights by Turkey. The Greek Cypriot
side has been enjoying hundreds of millions of dollars of help from UN
and EEC while the Turkish Cypriots have been denied all of their
citizenship rights and share. What is worse, these helps have been used
by Greek Cypriots for their military expenses which rose to $500
Million between 1977-87 and $762 Million are envisaged for 1990-93
period. Today there are less than 20,000 Turkish soldiers in Cyprus as
opposed to more than 15,000 Greek mainland troops and the Greek
National Guard includes 21,000 troops and with reserves reaches 85,000.
Former EOKA members are still in powerful government positions and not
a single Greek Cypriot has been punished for their acts during 1974
Coup. Even Nikos Sampson has been allowed to leave Cyprus, with the
pretext of being treated, and has not returned from France for years
and when he did he was greeted as a "hero". Finally, I am finishing my
article with the words of the Greek Cypriot Defense Minister, Mr.
Alonetis, on 11 March 1989:
"At the first opportunity we get, the Greek Cypriot National Guard will
attack and regain by force of arms our occupied lands."
Therefore, nobody was surprised when Greek Cypriots began moving their
forces to the Turkish Cypriot border during the recent Gulf-Crisis,
hoping that Iraq would attack Turkey.
I believe the latest UN-Resolution in the Cyprus Problem must guide
both Greeks and Turks to the correct path:
Resolution 649, 1990
[...]
"Calls upon the leaders of the two communities to pursue their efforts
to reach freely a mutually acceptable solution providing for the
establishment of a federation that will be BI-COMMUNAL as regards the
constitutional aspects and BI-ZONAL as regards the territorial aspects
in line with the present resolution and their 1977 and 1979 agreements,
and to co-operate, on an EQUAL FOOTING, with the Secretary-General in
completing, in the first instance and on an urgent basis, an outline of
an overall agreement, as agreed in june 1989."
[...]
References
[1] Sir H. Luke, Cyprus Under the Turks, pp. vi-xi.
[2] L. Stern, The Wrong Horse, pp. 160-177.
[3] J. Reddaway, The British Connection with Cyprus Since
Independence, pp. 1-23.
[4] L. Stern, ibid, pp. 92-93.
[5] P. Oberling, The Cyprus Tragedy, pp.4-5.
[6] A. H. Rizvi, Cyprus: The Tale of an Island, pp. 38-39.
[7] R. R. Denktash, The Cyprus Triangle, 1982, pp. 145-148.
[8] R. R. Denktash, ibid, pp. 92-95.
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These people were killed just because they were Turkish Cypriots.
The horrifying fate of a Turkish Cypriot mother, Ülfet Osman (21) and
her daughter and a teenage girl in the hands of a Greek Cypriot driver
who deceived them with a promise to transport them to the Turkish
controlled region of Cyprus on November 12, 1974.
Foreign Journalists at Ayios Vasilios mass grave establishing evidence
of Greek-Greek Cypriot Barbarism
Picture above shows the Turkish Cpriot victims of a mass grave near the
village of Maratha which was discovered by the Turkish authorities on
September 2, 1974
Devastated Turkish Cypriot houses at Omorphita (a suburb of Nicosia)
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THE CYPRUS QUESTION
by Okan Baysan
As a response to the recent posting concerning Cyprus in this
newsgroup, I would like to present the Turkish Cypriot
perspective
so that one can have the opportunity to listen to both North
and
South Cyprus before reaching a healthy conclusion.
HOW AND WHY DID THE CYPRUS ISSUE START?
Cyprus has been conquered and governed by various nations in
its
history as a result of its strategic location in the eastern
Mediterranean. Among these were the Egyptians, Assyrians,
Byzantines,
Lusignans, Venetians, Ottomans, and the British. When the
island
gained its independence from the British in 1960, a partnership
government was established between the Turkish and Greek
Cypriot
communities of the island.
Since the Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1820's,
the people who call themselves Greek Cypriots today thought
that
they could obtain a similar independece, and eventually annex
the
island to Greece with the hope of resurrecting the once
Byzantine
Empire, by acquiring the permanently 'lost lands' (Megali Idea
=
Great Dream/Idea). This desire of union with Greece, ENOSIS,
constitutes the entire roots of the Cyprus question today and
is
in fact still alive among the majority of Greek Cypriots in
South
Cyprus.
After the British extended their rule to Cyprus, starting in
1878,
the desire for ENOSIS -union of Cyprus with Greece - started
to show its presence among the members of the Greek Cypriots,
and
in late 1940's and early 1950's their struggle became more
obvious
all over Cyprus. Their primary target was the British, and with
the import of guns and weapons from Greece, Greek Cypriot
agitation
for ENOSIS turned into an armed struggle, which resulted in the
killing of scores of innocent lives.
GREEK CYPRIOT ARMED STRUGGLE FOR ENOSIS & INDEPENDENCE FROM
BRITAIN
In 1955, a Greek Cypriot terrorist organization, EOKA, was
established in order to carry out these attacks in a more
organized
manner, and soon, the British realised that the island had to
be
granted to its actual owners, the Turkish Cypriots, whose
origin
dates back to the Ottoman Conquest of the island in 1571, and
the
Greek Cypriots, who have chosen to identify themselves as such
even though their roots do not lie in Greece.
The first president of the Republic of Cyprus was a Greek
Cypriot,
Makarios, who publicly promoted ENOSIS, and the first Vice
president,
a Turkish Cypriot, Fazil Kucuk. United Kingdom, Turkey, and
Greece
signed a Treaty of Guarantee which gave them the obligaton to
protect and defend the island against any external attack that
was
likely to come to Cyprus. The partnership republic also had a
7:3 ratio in its administrative organs, and it appeared to
function well in its early stages. The Greek Cypriot agitation
for ENOSIS, which had never dwindled after the bi-communal
republic was established, became more obvious than before, but
this time, the primary target was the Turkish Cypriots, the
co-partners of the 1960 Republic. With the so-called 13 point
proposals of Makarios, which would alter the 1960 constitution,
remove the Vice President's veto power, take away the rights
of the Turkish Cypriot community, and speed up the annexation
of
Cyprus to Greece, ENOSIS, brought the partnership to an
end, and indeed, the Turkish Cypriots were denied their most
basic rights, and forced to live under inhumane conditions in
their own homeland.
1963-1974 was the worst decade in the history of the island,
and
hundreds of innocent Turkish Cypriots were massacred, taken
away
from their homes never to be seen again, buried in massgraves,
and relentlessly and barbarically attacked by their
co-partners,
the Greek Cypriots and their sponsors, Greeks of mainland
Greece.
And all this was the result of the sheer greed and the
so-called
'civilised' respect of the Greek Cypriots towards their
co-partners
and neighbours. In the meantime, Turkish Cypriots established
their own administration, the Turkish Cypriot transitional
Administra-
tion in late 1960's in order to take care of the urgent needs
of
the Turkish Cypriot community all over the island.
15 JULY 1974 GREEK INVASION & 20 JULY 1974 TURKISH PEACE
OPERATION
Eleven entire years of untold suffering and ethnic cleansing of
the
Turkish Cypriots, just because they constituted a barrier to
the
fulfillment of the Greek Cypriot desires for ENOSIS, reached
its
peak with the invasion of GREECE on 15 July 1974, when the
military
government then ruling Greece finally decided to annex the
island
officially.The colonels of Greece organized a Coup D'etat on
this
day and installed a criminal and a murderer as the puppet
president
of Cyprus, remotely controlled by Athens. This criminal was in
fact
the butcher of many Turkish Cypriots for more than a decade.
Death toll reached unbelievable numbers in Cyprus and hundreds
of
Turkish and Greek Cypriots paid the cost of the Greek invasion
with
their very lives.
Turkey, as one of the Guarantor powers, asked United Kingdom to
act together and bring the order in Cyprus back to what it was
in 1960. Refusing to cooperate, Turkey was forced to act alone
and intervene the situation in order to protect the lives and
rights of the Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus, as well as put an
end to the Greek expansionism and aggression in the island. So
5 days after the Greek Invasion, Turkish Peace Operation of
20 July 1974 was started with the orders of the then prime
minister
of Turkey, Bulent Ecevit. It was the most important day in the
lives of the Turkish Cypriots to see the Turkish Peace troops
coming to their rescue, and it was the most exciting day that
they waited to see during the preceeding 11 entire years of
Greek suppression and aggression. Their dreams came true with
the arrival of Turkish Peace troops on 20 July, and they
regained
their FREEDOM in their own homeland.
DEVELOPMENTS AFTER 1974
When the Peace Operation was victoriously completed and the
Turkish
Cypriots were freed from Greek barbarism during the preceeding
decade, their political evolution started to accelerate. In
1975
the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus was established in the
Turkish Cypriot controlled of northern Cyprus, and the first
Turkish Cypriot national assembly was formed. In the meantime,
various agreements were signed between Turkish Federated State
of
Cyprus and the Greek Cypriot administration in south Cyprus,
which still identified itself as the so-called Republic of
Cyprus
and illegally and unconstitutionally continued to enjoy the
recognition and financial aid of the United Nations even though
this administration should, according to the 1960 constitution,
consist of the Turkish Cypriot members as well. Among these
were the Population Transfer Agreements signed by the leaders
of both communities in order to allow Greek Cypriots in the
north
to move to south, and Turkish Cypriots in the south to move to
north for their own safety and security. This resulted in the
creation of two homogeneous communities each of which had a
different
religion, culture, language, ethnic background, and values.
Continued negotiations to reunite the island and establish a
federal government hopelessly continued during the following
years
despite the fact that the Greek Cypriot claims over the entire
island
have not showed any change whatsoever.
TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS
As a result of the failure in the negotiations and the
continued
support of United Nations for the Greek Cypriot demands, and
their
accepting the Greek Cypriot administration as the only
so-called
government in Cyprus, as well as their non-recognition of the
existence of the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus, the
national
assembly of the Turkish Federated State in the north
unanimously
voted for the establishment of the TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN
CYPRUS on 15 November 1983. This was to assert the Turkish
Cypriots'
existence and their demands in the establishment of a future
just and fair federal republic in Cyprus. Even though TRNC
enjoys
Turkiye's recognition only as of now, it does have trade
relations
with European, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries and it also
maintains consulates or representative offices in various
countries.
INALIENABLE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF TURKISH CYPRIOTS
In order to appreciate fully the Turkish Cypriot position,
it should be noted that the very survival of the Turkish
Cypriots
living as a free people, and in security, in their own
homeland,
depends on adherence to, and respect for, the following
principles:
(a) the equal political status of the two national Communities,
(b) bi-zonality,
(c) the security of the Turkish Cypriot people,
(d) the continuation of the adequate and effective guarantee of
Turkiye, which the Turkish Cypriots regard as teh only
effective
guarantee of their right to live, of their very existence
and
of their security,
(e) the participation of the two peoples, as politically equal
entitites, with equal effectiveness and right of say, in
decisions of the Legislature and the Executive,
(f) the so-called "three freedoms" to be regulated and applied
in
such a way as to ensure that the security of the Turkish
Cypriot
people is not endangered in any way and that the bi-zonal
structure of the proposed federation is not impaired,
(g) the federal government to hav eonly the powers and
functions
agreed to be assigned to it by the federated states, and
the
residual powers to remain within the federated states.
Turkiye has not territorial claims in Cyprus. On the contrary,
it
is Greece, which is expansionist. Greece is the party which
wants
to annex Cyprus, and thereby to condemn the Turkish people of
Cyprus to annihilation.
Turkiye's intention is quite clear: It is to ensure and protect
the
survival and rights of the Turkish Cypriot people. Nobody
should
expect Turkiye to allow the Turkish Cypriot people to be
abandoned
to death and oppresion, once again.
GREEK CYPRIOT POSITION, and their SYSTEMATIC,
DECEIVING and FAKE PROPAGANDA
The Greek Cypriots tried and managed to convince the world with
their relentless political propaganda that the Cyprus issue
started in 1974 with the "invasion", as they call it, of
Turkey.
Somehow, they don't see the FACT that there has been no
gunshot,
no killing, no massacres, and no more massgraves in Cyprus with
the conclusion of Turkish Peace troops.
They also artificially created a "missing people" issue with
the
blame on the Turkish side. In fact, the Greek military regime
who organised the Coup D'etat on 15 July 1974 is responsible
for
the missing and all the unaccounted people. Rumors that Turkey
hold some Greek Cypriot prisoners of war are nothing more than
intentional creations of Greek Cypriot fake propaganda in order
to make political gains in the international arenas against
Turkey
and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. There are also more
than
800 Turkish Cypriot missing people and the families of those
people came to believe that they will never see their loved
ones
again, and returned to normal lives eventually.
Refugee problem is another artificially created propaganda
material
for the Greek Cypriot politcal gains because all population
transfers
were made based on the international agreements for the safety
and
security of each community. The leaders or both communities
signed
these agreements. Let's also not forget the FACT that one third
of the Turkish Cypriot population also had to move, for their
own
security , but the Turkish Cypriot administrations have never
made
a political propaganda out of this even today.
The Greek Cypriot administration of South Cyprus imposed
political,
cultural, economic and sports embargo on Northern Cyprus and
they are trying to achieve what they could not achieve with
arms,
that is, ENOSIS -union of Cyprus with Greece - at the dawn of
the 21st century.
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(1) Enosis Claims of the Greek Cypriot leaders with their own
words
(2) Greek official's statement on the missing people issue
(3) Population Transfer Agreement
(4) Proof of Greek Invasion on 15 July 1974, with Makarios's
own words.
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"The noble struggles of the people never come to an end. These
struggles
although undergo transformation, are never terminated. The struggle of
the
people of Cyprus too will go on.
The Zurich and London Agreements form a landmark in the course of this
struggle, but at the same time, are a starting point and bastion for
further
struggles, with the object of capitalizing on what has been achieved
for
further conquests."
From Makarios's speech delivered on 01/05/1962
"Greek Cypriots must continue to march forward to complete the work
began by
the EOKA heroes... The struggle is continuing in a new form, and will
go
until we achieve our goal..."
From Makarios's sermon at Kykko Monastery on
08/15/1962
"The aim of the Cyprus struggle was not the establishment of a
Republic. These
agreements only laid the foundations."
From Makarios's statement made on 03/13/1963
"Union of Cyprus with Greeceisan aspiration always cherished within the
hearts
of all Greek Cypriots. It is impossible to put an end to this
aspiration by
establishing a Republic."
From Makarios's statement to the correspondent
of London
TIMES on 04/09/1963
"It is true that the goal of our struggle is to annex Cyprus to
Greece."
From Makarios's interview published in the Uusi
Suomi of
Stockholm on 09/05/1963
"... No power is able to close the Cyprus question. We shall keep it
open and
will never close it under any circumstances or conditions... until we
close it
through our union with Greece, a genuine Enosis without exchanges..."
From Makarios's public speech at Larnaca on
05/16/1965
"Either the whole of Cyprus is to be united with Greece or [it will]
become a
a holocaust... The road to the fulfillment of national aspirations may
be
full of difficulties, but we shall reach the goal -which is Enosis-
alive
or dead."
From Makarios's speech, at Rizokarpasso,
05/26/1965
"Freedom for us means only the integration of this southern outpost of
Hellenism into the national entity..."
Tasos Papadopoulos on U.N. day in Limassol,
10/23/1967
"... I shall never violate my oath, and I shall never deviate from my
goal.
I have desired ENOSIS, and I have never struggled for anything else
other
than its achievement."
Makarios, in an interview with Eleftheros Kosmo
and Ta Simerina, Athens, 08/19/1970
"Cyprus is Greek. Cyprus was Greek since the dawn of its history, and
will remain Greek.
Greek and undivided we have taken it over.
Greek and undivided we shall preserve it.
Greek and undiveded we shall deliver it to Greece."
Makarios, in a speech at Yialousa on 03/14/1971
"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, Yialousa, 03/14/1971
"The struggle of Cyprus is the struggle of all Hellenism. Cyprus, where
the
Greek virtue is being tested, is today the place where the Greek
history and
Greek struggle are continuing."
Spyros Kyprianou at a meeting in Limassol on
03/24/1971
to celebrate the Greek Independence Day
"I am in favour of ENOSIS. ENOSIS is the national aspiration of Greek
Cypriots."
Makarios, in an interview withthe ITN
correspondent,
Mr. Robert Southgate, published on 09/21/1971
"If your aim is the launching of a struggle for ENOSIS, then both I and
the people of Cyprus are ready to enter such a struggle provided it is
backed by the Greek Government."
Makarios, in his reply to the Greek
Government's
note of 02/11/1972 as reported in the Greek
Cypriot
press on 03/16/1972
"Those who disagree with the way of handling Cyprus' national problem
and
call themselves ENOSISTS accuse and call the others, the overwhelming
majority of the Greek Cypriot people, anti-ENOSISTS. The charge is
false
and inadmissible. All Greek Cypriots are and will be ENOSISTS.
Makarios, in a speech at the unveiling if the
statue
of EOKA man Michalakis Savva at Akaki village
on
11/05/1972
"I have struggled for union of Cyprus with Greece, and ENOSIS will
always
be my deep national aspiration as it is the aspiration of all Greek
Cypriots. My national creed has never changed and my career as a
national
leader has shown no inconsistency or contradiction. I have accepted
independence instead of ENOSIS because certain external conditions and
factors have not allowed a free choice.
If I had any ambitions, my greatest ambition would be for my name to
be
associated with ENOSIS."
Makarios, in an interview with Mme Maria Rejane
of the French Magazine "Le Point", published on
02/19/1973
"ENOSIS has always been for the Greek Cypriots a deep rooted national
aspiration. To me independence is a compromise. In other words, if I
had
a free choice between independence and ENOSIS, I would support ENOSIS."
Makarios, in an interview with the
correspondent
of Frankfurter Rundshau as published in the
Cyprus
Mail on 05/16/1974
"The Cyprus State should be dissolved only in the event of ENOSIS."
Makarios, in a letter to General Gizikis,
President
of Greece, dated 07/02/1974
"The Greek Cypriot leadership prepared the AKRITAS PLAN in order to
knock the
Turks out and realize ENOSIS -union of Cyprus with Greece- ..."
Aristos Katsis, a Greek historian, in his
article
published by the Greek Cypriot daily
Phileleftheros on
11/10/1979
"My first goal will be to get rid of the concessions and promises given
by
Vasiliou. Our goal is the same. [It is] to liberate Varosha,
Pentadaktylons,
Kyrenia, Morphou, Karpasia, Cyprus."
Glafkos Klerides, Eleftherotipia, 02/13/1993
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Statement of Greek Minister on Greek Cypriot Missing Persons
Source: The Tragedy of Turkish Cypriot Missing Persons in Cyprus -Third
Decade-
June 1989
Mr Evangelos Yannopolos, the then Greek Minister of Maritime
Affairs,
said on 4/7/1988 the following which was published in Eleftherotipia
newspaper in Nicosia.
"The two myths in Cyprus must be exposed as lies. The first
myth
is the case of missing persons and the second is the myth of the
invasion
of Cyprus by Turkey. The Greek Cypriots presented as missing persons
were
actually the victims who were killed during the Sampson Coup. As
regards the
invasion of Cyprus by Turkey, it was the Greek military that staged the
coup and toppled Makarios at a time when he was an internationally
recognized
President of Cyprus. How is it possible to topple Makarios and start
slaughtering the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots and impose a mad
man
like Sampson to head the Cyprus Government and yet expect no reaction
from
Turkey."
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VOLUNTARY REGROUPING OF POPULATIONS
On 2 August 1975, at the third round of the Vienna Talks, an
Agreement was reached between the representatives of the two
peoples of Cyprus, President Denktas and Mr. Clerides, for the
Voluntary Regrouping of Populations. (U.N. Document, S/11789,
2 August 1975)
This Agreement, reached under the auspices of the U.N.
Secretary
General and implemented in September 1975 under U.N.
supervision,
consolidated the peace reached as the result of the Turkish
Peace
Operation. The voluntary regrouping of populations made it
possible for the two peoples of Cyprus to live in complete
security in their respective zones. No intercommunal fighting
or
acts of violence took place in Cyprus since the implementation
of the Agreement of 2 August 1975. The peace achieved by the
Turkish Peace Operation became a permanent feature in the
Island.
Source: The Crux of the Cyprus Question
Turhan Feyzioglu, Necati M. Ertekun
Population Exchange Agreement
Signed on August 2, 1975.
(1) The Turkish Cypriots at present in the south of the island will be
allowed,
if they want to do so, to proceed north with their belongings under
an
organized programme and with the assistance of the United Nations
Peace
keeping Force in Cyprus.
(2) Mr. Denktas reaffirmed, and it was agreed, that the Greek Cypriots
at
present in the north of the island are free to stay and that they
will be
given every help to lead a normal life, including facilities for
education
and for the practice of their religion, as well as medical care by
their
own doctors and freedom of movement in the north.
(3) The Greek Cypriots at present in the north who, at their own
request and
without having been subjected to any kind of pressure, wish to move
to the
south, will be permitted to do so.
(4) The United Nations will have free and normal access to Greek
Cypriot
villages and habitations in the north.
(5) In connexion with the the implementations of the above agreement,
priority
will be given to the reunification of families, which may also
involve
the transfer of a number of Greek Cypriots, at present in the
south, to
the north.
Source: U.N. Document S/11789
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MAKARIOS ADDRESSING THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL
UNITED NATIONS
SECURITY COUNCIL Official Records
1780th Meeting: 19 JULY 1974
New York
18.
...It is clearly an invasion from outside, inflagrant violation
of the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus.
The so-called coup was the work of the Greek officers staffing
and
commanding the National Guard.
19.
... the Greek officers serving with the National guard....
recruited many members of the terrorist organization EOKA-B.
21.
The coup caused much bloodshed and took a great toll of human
lives...
...It was an invasion which violated the independence and
sovereignty of the Republic. And the invasion is continuing
so long as there are Greek officers in Cyprus.
25.
It may be said that it was the Cyprus Government which invited
the Greek officers to staff the National Guard. I regret to say
that it was a mistake on my part...
32. As I have already stated, the events in Cyprus do not
constitute
an internal matter of the Greeks of Cyprus. The Turks of Cyprus
are also affected. The coup of the Greek junta is an invasion,
and
from its consequences the whole people of Cyprus suffers, both
Greeks and Turks.
Source: U.N. Security Council Official Record of the 1780th meeting.
"Makarios' address on 19 July 1974"
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Interview & the Testimony of the Greek Cypriot Priest, Papatsetsos,as
Published in Local Greek Newspaper, Ta Nea on 28 February 1976
PAPATSETSOS:
Two days after the coup, on 17 July, I witnessed something which has
perhaps never been witnessed by any mortal before. I saw a young Greek
Cypriot buried alive. That was when two Junta officers came to my house
and ordered me to accompany them to the cemetery. I taught they were
going to kill me, but they said they only wanted me for burying some
dead people.
In the cemetery there were two open graves and two bodies lying beside
them. I went to see if I could recognise them. One was dead. But the
other, a curly haired, fair-com- plexioned, 18 year-old youth, was
moving. Startled, I turned back and shouted:'But officer, this man is
alive!'
'Shut up you dirty priest, or I will shut you up for good', the officer
retorted. Then the youth was pushed into the open grave which was
filled with earth. I swear to God that they buried this youth while he
was still alive!
[Pointing at the cemetery, Papatsetsos said] Here people were buried
like dogs by the Junta. There were also bodies which had been dumped
outside the cemetery. They were not identified, and not claimed. As a
priest my conscience is troubled, but they were holding a pistol to my
head at the time.
I remember the day they first came to me. They said 'Father, we have
some dead bodies which we want you to bury'. 'Certainly', I replied and
asked how many bodies they had. SEVENTY-SEVEN they said. An hour later
a lorry arrived and I heard someone order: 'Dump them outside.' They
were the dead bodies; they were all put in one common grave, without
waiting for identification by their relatives. The Junta men produced
some small crosses(seven only), wrote some names on them and put them
on the grave.
The Junta men scornfully called persons loyal to Makarios 'Muskos
supporters', and wanted to bury them 'like dogs', in a sheep fold
outside the cemetery. And that is what they did in the end. They dug
two graves with excavators-one inside and the other outside the
cemetery. They buried their own dead (27) inside the cemetery and
others(5) outside.
TA NEA: Father, about the youth man buried alive, could he have been
saved?
PAPATSETSOS: Of course he could have been saved. He had a wound in the
right leg. I went to the hospital and asked a doctor there, if a dead
man could move. The doctor laughed, and said 'No'. But I was not the
one who had buried him alive.
TA NEA: Could you recognise any of the Junta men?
PAPATSETSOS: THEY HAD ALL COME FROM GREECE FOR THE COUP. They were
looting, and even broke into my house. They entered houses on the
pretext of searching for deserters but actually stole valuable articles
from them.
TA NEA: Have you witnessed any other atrocities?
PAPATSETSOS: I listened to telephone conversations between Junta men.
In one case they were talking about the people resisting at Kaimakli
suburb, and saying:'SHOOT THEM ALL, HAVE NO MERCY AT ALL!' I also
noticed that in the hospi- tal they were giving polluted water to the
sick.
TA NEA: Father, could you swear that you have not secretly buried dead
Turks in the cemetery?
PAPATSETSOS: Only about 10. We did not know who they were and where
they were found.
TA NEA: How many bodies did you bury during the coup?
PAPATSETSOS: 127. Fifty of them were collected from the streets and
they were buried outside the cemetery; the other 77 were buried inside.
TA NEA: If the Turkish invasion had not taken place, would more Greek
Cypriots have been killed in the coup?
PAPATSETSOS: OH YES, MANY MORE. They wanted to kill me too. It is
rather a hard thing to say, but it is true, that the Turkish
intervention saved us from a merciless internecine war. They had
prepared a list of all Makarios supporters and they would have
slaughtered them all.
TA NEA: Now, father tell me sincerely, were people brutally killed in
those days?
PAPATSETSOS: YES, MY SON. MASSACRES were committed outside Kykko
Monastery and in Limassol. I heard with my own ears the order. 'ALL OF
THEM, TO THE LAST MAN, MUST BE KILLED TONIGHT.'
THOSE WHO HAVE WITNESSED THESE CRIMES ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK. AS A MATTER
OF FACT MOST OF THEM ARE GRIVAS SUPPORTERS AND THEY WILL NEVER SPEAK.
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Greek's confession of the massacre
The ex-Prime Minister of Greece, Mitsotakis, announced that Cypriot
Greeks had slaughtered Turks mercilessly under Makarios' bad
administration.
Terrible massacres carried out by the Cypriot Greeks against the
Turkish population of the island 26 years ago has been confirmed by
Konstantinos Mitsotakis, the ex-Prime Minister of Greece. The Cypriot
Greeks, who killed Turks brutally at that time, were denying these
massacres on the international arena up till now. Konstantinos
Mitsotakis said that "under Makarios' administration, Cypriot
Greeks carried out killings of Turks to reach the goal of abolishing
the signed agreements". These remarkable statements of the ex-Prime
Minister to the daily Greek newspaper Ta Nae have also been published
on Fileleftheros, the newspaper with the highest circulation in South
Cyprus. In his statements, Mitsotakis accused Archbishop Makarios with
criminal mistakes. Mitsotakis said that Makarios had dragged Cyprus
into bloody events in order to abolish the agreements signed personally
by himself and that this process had led Cypriot Greeks to commit
undeniable murders against the Turkish side. Mitsotakis also criticized
Konstantin Karamanlis, the Greek Prime Minister of the period and said
that "if I were in place of him I would accept the proposals made by
the Turks after the operation of 20th July,1974 and would prevent the
second operation".
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From: WASHINGTON POST, 17.02.1964
"...the fanatic Greeks are gradually approaching to ethnic genocide..."
From: Statement by Archbishop Makarios, August 1964
"...If Turkey comes in order to save Turkish Cypriots, Turkey will find
no Turkish Cypriots to save..."
From: A speech by Makarios made on the occasion of the visit of the
Defense Minister of Greece - on 27 October 1964 - As reported by all
Greek Cypriot newspapers on 28 October 1964
"...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."
From: HERALD TRIBUNE, NEW YORK, 16 SEPTEMBER 1964
".....degrading, sub-human standard of life in Cyprus for Turks...",
"....economic restrictions being imposed upon the Turkish community in
Cyprus were in some instances so severe as to be a siege..."
From: UN SECRETARY GENERAL'S REPORT NO.s/610 of 12 December 1964, Annex
II
20. "At present no mail is being delivered to areas under Turkish
Cypriot control..."
From: A statement by Makarios as quoted in the Greek Cypriot Press of
17 March 1965
"...We shall keep the Cyprus question open and will never close it
under any circumstances or conditions...until we close it through union
with Greece, a genuine ENOSIS without exchanges."
From: CYPRUS MAIL - Statement of Makarios on 28 March 1966
"No Greek who knows me can ever believe that I would wish to work for
the creation of a Cypriot national awareness. The Agreements (Referring
to Zurich-Longon Agreements which led for the Creation of the Republic
of Cyprus) have created a State but not a Nation."
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From: DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON) 15.02.1964 EDITORIAL
"...If the Turkish Army has not already landed reinforcements to its
Treaty Force in Cyprus, that is simply proof of the patience of Turkey.
Its right to do so cannot be denied. If international treaties mean
anything, Turkey can protect the Turkish Cypriot minority from further
massacre. It is radical discrimination in its most bestial form.
Although there have been efforts to cloud the issue by suggesting that
both Cypriot communities are to blame, by far the heaviest guilt is
that of the Greek Cypriot force known as EOKA or EDMA..."
From: LE FIGARO (PARIS) 15-16.02.1964 REPORT BY MAX CLOS
"...It is a military operation that the Greeks launched against the six
thousand inhabitants of the Turkish quarter yesterday morning. A
spokesman of the Greek Cypriot Government has recognized this
officially... It is hard to conceive, how Greeks and Turks may
seriously contemplate working together after all that has happened.."
From: National Review, 12.06.1995, by Brian Cozier
"Greek Cypriot terrorist movement led by political bandit called George
Grivas had one simple aim: Enosis or union with Greece." ....
"In my view, the Turkish intervention of 1974 was not an invasion, as
widely accepted, but a morally justified rescue operation." .....
"I regret the Greek rejection of a federal solution, which alone makes
sense to me." .....
"Greek Cypriots are trying to make life uncomfortable for Northern
Cyprus by cutting of gas and electricity daily." .....
"There are warning signs today in the Greek Cypriot Republic..."
...for months past, a Russian Mafia and ex-KGB presence has been
building up there. There is a massive arms build-up as well... There
are also reliable reports on a still more sinister development, with
the training of anti-Turkish, leninist terrorists of the PKK in the
South (Greek Cypriot)..."
From: PERIODIKA, 6.2.1994 (Greek Cypriot weekly magazine) From an
interview with Mr. Ayionatitis, the leader of the Greek Political Party
"Ergatikei Demokratika Association"
"Greek Cypriot leadership says that the Cyprus problem began in 1974;
but it began long before this and even before the independence
(1960)...Power-holders on our side were oppressing Turkish Cypriots
before 1974..."
"...We should not forget that before 1974 Turkish Cypriots had been
treated like Negroes...Turks were doing the worst work but receiving
the least money. Turks had not had any control over the island's
economy."
"Reverting to the state of affairs before 1974 would not be a justified
move at all. Turks will never agree to this. And we have to admit one
more thing: If Turkey arrived in 1974 to save the Turkish Cypriots, the
latter were really in need of being saved. No one could know what the
coupists would do if they took over. Turkish Cypriots were concerned
about their fate in case Cyprus was united with Greece and they were
justified with their concern. It is because of this concern that
Turkish Cypriots have been fighting against Enosis since 1945. Under
this climate, there remains to be no justification for refugees to
return to their homes."
From: THE WIND BLOWS MEMOIRS OF SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HUME, FORMER PRIME
MINISTER OF THE UK
"...I was early convinced that if Archbishop Makarios could not bring
himself to treat the Turkish Cypriots as human beings, he was inviting
the invasion and partition of the island."
From: VOICE OF GERMANY, 30.07.1974
(FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH MS INGRID HEBIL, A GERMAN TOURIST IN CYPRUS)
"...the human mind cannot comprehend the Greeks butchery. Greek
National Guard ... entering the Turkish homes, ruthlessly rained
bullets on women and children, they cut the throats of many Turks;
rounding up the Turkish women, they ... raped them all ..."
From: THE UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, 20.08.1974
"...Every hour new ditches and numerous corpses are being discovered.
It is very difficult to endure the job..."
From: NBC, NATIONAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 29.07.1974 JOHN PALMER
REPORTING:
"...In the Turkish village of Aleminio, the Turks were collected in
front of a wall and the Greek national army shot them all and killed
them indiscriminately..."
From: THE WASHINGTON POST, 23.07.1974
"...In a Greek raid on a small village near Limassol, 36 people out of
the population of 200 were killed. The Greeks said they had been given
orders to kill the inhabitants before the Turkish forces arrived.."
From: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (upi), USA, 23.07.1974
"...the Greeks killed many women and children in Limassol. I have seen
the bodies of 20 children lying on the road...some were wounded and
crying...the Greek soldiers are waiting for their turn to enter in the
Turkish homes and kill the women..."
From: THE LONDON TIMES, 22.07.1974
"In the island, thousands of Turks were held as hostages. turkish women
were raped and Turkish children killed on the streets. The Turkish
Quarter in Limassol was burnt down. The incidents have been confirmed
by Greek Cypriots."
From: EVENING STANDARD, 19.07.1974
"...today, early in the morning Greek ships boarded on Famagusta (the
main seaport of Cyprus) port and discharged Greek soldiers fully
furnished with modern arms...soon after the discharge, atrocities
started to take place ... Cyprus is not a soverign state
anymore...Widespread massacre is taking place all over the island..."
"...At the main police station, one witness saw people tied to each
other....they were later executed.."
From: IL GIORNO, 14.1.1964 REPORTED BY GIORGIO BOCCO
"In Cyprus the terror continues. Right now we are witnessing the exodus
of Turks from villages. Thousands of people are abandoning their homes,
lands, herds: Greek terrorism is relentless. This time, the rhetoric of
the Hellens and the busts of Plato do not suffice to cover up their
barbaric and ferocious behavior. At four o'clock in the afternoon
curfew is imposed on the Turkish villages. Threats, shootings, and
attempts of arson start as soon as it becomes dark. After the massacre
during the past Christmas that spared neither women, nor children, it
is difficult to put up any resistance..."
From: A STATEMENT BY MAKARIOS AS QUOTED IN THE GREEK CYPRIOT PRESS OF
17 MARCH 1965
"...We shall keep the Cyprus question open and will never close it
under any circumstances or conditions....until we close it through
union with Greece, a genuine ENOSIS without exchanges."
From: WASHINGTON POST, 16.02.1964 ARTICLE BY ROBERT H. ESTABROOK
"...Archbishop Makarios, robed adn bearded cleric who serves as
President of Cyprus, has a Byzantine talent for equitation....his
Government deliberately provoked the clashes and is bent upon the
extermination of the Turkish population..."
From; EVENING POST, 15.1.1964 REPORTED BY JOHN WHITE FROM NICOSIA,
CYPRUS
Background to the London Conference
"This week 2,000 miles from that dusty Cypriot road, men are meeting
round a table in london to try to sort out the tragedy of Cyprus. Their
aim will be to find a solution to a problem which has produced
wide-spread murder, arson, looting and kidnapping. It is profoundly to
be hoped they discover such a solution. But very few people I met in
Cyprus last week have much faith in this painfully arranged Conference.
As the Greek Cypriot taxi man who drove me around Nicosia said: "The
conference will solve nothing. It is just words."
When I asked him for his solution he said "If the Turks want to stay -
O.K. But they can't have any rights. they should not have the good
jobs. They are the minority and must do what we say."
"Some Greeks are more extremist than the taxi man. They don't merely
wish to deprive the Turks of all rights. They want to deprive them of
the right to live. I have heard men say all Turks should die and these
were men with nervous trigger fingers."
" Many Greek and Turkish Cypriots are embittered - understandably - and
some are apparently resigned to everlasting conflict. 'I would like to
live peaceably with the Greeks' said one Turk, 'But I do not see how it
can be done.' Possibly he spoke for many others."
"The British Army in Cyprus have been playing a most difficult role.
One of their jobs has been to try and build confidence between Greeks
and Turks."
"Last Thursday hundreds of soldiers were drafted into a suburb of
Nicosia to safeguard Turkish families coming back to their homes and
'restore confidence'. I saw more Turks going than coming back. As one
of them said 'My four your old daughter was shot by my next door
neighbor. I don't want to return and be killed.'.."
From: THE GUARDIAN, 02.04.1988 (FROM THE 'SECRET" REPORT OF COMMANDER
PACKARD, WHO WAS A HIGH RANKING BRITISH OFFICER IN CYPRUS DURING
1963-64)
" One of Packard's first tasks was to try to find out what had happened
to the Turkish hospital patients. Secret discussions took place with a
Greek Minister in the collapsed government. After a brief
investigation, he was able to confirm local rumors. it appeared that
greek medical staff had slit the Turkish patients' throats as they lay
in their beds. Their bodies were loaded onto a truck and driven to a
farm north of the city where they were fed into mechanical choppers and
ground into the earth."
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The following is a list of Greek Cypriot Organizations which promoted
ENOSIS -union of Cyprus with Greece- through armed assaults,
killings, and terrorism all over the island.
(Source: The Cyprus Revolt by Nancy Crawshaw)
AKEL Anorthotikon Komma Ergazomenou Laou
Reform Party of the Working People
ANE Alkimos Neolaia Tis EOKA
Valiant Youth of EOKA
AON Anorthotiki Organismos Neolaias
Reform Youth Organisation
EAM Ethnikon Apeleftheritikon Metopon
National Liberation Front
EAS Ethnikos Apeleftherotikos Synaspimos
National Leberation Coalition
EDMA Eniaion Dimokratikon Metopon Anadimiurgias
United Democratic Reconstruction Front
ELAS Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos
People's National Liberation Army
EMAK Ethnikon Metopon Apeleftheroseos Kyprou
Cyprus National Liberation Front
EOKA Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston
National Organization of Cypriot Fighters
KEM Kypriakon Enotikon Metapon
Cyprus Enosis Front
OAE Organosis Aristeron Ethnikophronon
Left-wing Nationalists' Organisation
OAP Organosis Aristeron Patrioton
Left-wing Patriots' Organisation
OHEN Orthodoxos Christianiki Enosis Neon
Orthodox Christian Union of Youth
PEAEK Panellinikos Epiropi Agonos Enoseos Kyprou
Panhellenic Committee for the Struggle for the Union of Cyprus
PEK Panagrotiki Enosis Kyprou
Panagrarian Union of Cyprus
PEKA Politiki Epiropi Kypriakou Agonos
Political Committee of the Cyprus Struggle
PEO Pankyprios Ergatiki Omospondia
Pancyprian Federation of Labour
PEOM Pankyprios Ethniki Organosis Mathiton
Pancyprian National Organisation of Pupils
PEON Pankyprios Ethniki Organosis Neolaisas
Pancyprian National Organisation of Youth
SEK Synomospondia Ergaton Kyprou
Confederation of Cypriot Workers
SEKA Syndonistiki Epitropi Kypriakos Agonos
Coordination Committee of the Cyprus Struggle
AKEL, ANE, AON, EAM, EAS, EDMA,ELAS, EMAK, EOKA, KEM, OAE, OAP, OHEN,
PEAEK, PEK, PEKA, PEO, PEOM, PEON, SEK, SEKA
ANE's wide range of duties included surveillance and intimidation...
Later, on demonstrating proficiency as gunmen, they were promoted to
full membership of EOKA. [p. 255]
AON ... the communist youth organisation... [p. 54]
EAS immediately offered to support the Church plebiscite on condition
that it was a 'genuine' plebiscite for Enosis [p. 47]
EDMA ..., the potential successor to EOKA was formed out of ex-fighters
in support of Makarios [p. 352]
ELAS ... the overwhelmingly superior forces of ELAS... [p.92]
EMAK ... a secret revolutionary organisation, well organised and fully
armed, which aimed at Enosis... [p.111]
KEM... a plot by KEM to assasinate Makarios and start civil war in the
island... [p. 353]
OAE & OAP ... The two new organisations,..., sought to capture the
loyalties of the moderate leftists and claimed to represent
Akelists...[p.306]
OHEN ... had exercised a pernicious influence over Cypriot youth
through OHEN
and had frequently preached sedition in recent years [p. 169]
PEAEK ... This organisation, according to its own accord, had issued
over 3
million anti-British pamphlets printed by departments of the Greek Army
and
Government [p. 219]
PEK ... its subversive activities were in any case notorious and its
links
with Greece essentially political. [p. 128]
PEKA ... [EOKA]'s political wing... [p. 242]
PEON ...since its prescription in 1953, had functioned underground...
[p. 101]
SEKA... pledged to self-determination and Enosis.. [p. 384]
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GREEK CYPRIOTS HAVE ALWAYS HARBOURED PKK AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL
TERROR GROUPS
Greek Cypriot support given to the PKK terrorist organisation, known as
one of the most dangerous international terror groups in the world, has
once been proven, when a Cypriot passport issued by the Greek Cypriot
Administration in South Cyprus was found in the possession of PKK
leader Abdullah OCALAN who was recently captured and arrested by the
Turkish security officers.
The Turkish Government has stated that the passport found in OCALAN's
possession bore the name of LAZAROS MAVROS, the current President of
the Committee for Solidarity with Kurdistan, operating in south Cyprus
with the purpose of securing all sorts of support to PKK in this part
of the island.
Despite the Greek Cypriot sides desperate denials of its role in this
passport issue, its link with PKK in particular and international
terrorism in general has been proven with various reports, press
articles and other official documents.
Indeed, not only the Greek Cypriot officials but also other non- or
semi-official figures or organisations have, at times, been reported to
have been supporting and harbouring morally and materially, PKK and
other terror groups, such as ASALA. The prevailing mentality has always
been The enemy of my enemy is my friend, that has finally backfired, as
seen in the recent Kurdish violence against the Greeks in connection
with the arrest of CALAN and his subsequent bringing to Turkey.
SAMPSON
An ex-EOKA militant and the man installed for a few days as the Greek
Cypriot President in July 1974 by the Greek coupists who toppled over
Makarios Nicos SAMPSON is one of the Greek Cypriot figures who has been
linked to many acts of terrorism after 1974.
During those days when he was in the jail in South Cyprus, he planned a
series of terrorist acts against Turkey. The most striking aspects of
these acts were that their origin was Europe and that third parties
were employed.
Year 1976 was one when the Armenian and Arab terrorists chose France as
a base for their acts. French intelligence agency permitted PLOs
terrorist groups to be settled in France with the condition of not
giving any harm to the French interests both in and outside the
country.
In the years after 1975, during which international terrorism and
terror acts against Turkey were escalating, a report from Cyprus did
not draw much attention. Greek Cypriot President gave partial amnesty
to Nicos Sampson, a cancer patient, to go to France for treatment.
Sampson flew to Paris for treatment.
About four years after Sampsons arrival in Paris, ie. in 1980 when
terror turned Europe into a blood-lake, certain information reached
INTERPOL. The information was about a bomb blast on 3 October 1980 at a
synagogue in Copernicus Street in Paris that caused the death of many
people. Explosives were implanted in a Suzuki 125 model car and was
exploded with an electronic device. The car had been bought from a
used-car gallery for 1000 dollars at Grand Arme Avenue on 23 September.
In his deposition to the police, the gallery owner said that the car
was bought by a short, thin man with a moustache wearing blue jeans and
a leather jacket. For the preparation of the cars documents a Greek
Cypriot passport issued in South Cyprus was used. The passport was
issued under the name of Alexanders Panariou. Embassy of the Greek
Cypriot Administration in South Cyprus in Paris claimed that the
passport was fake.
According to the police Spanish terrorist Ernesto Mila Rodriguez was
behind this incident. Rodriguez had been caught, shortly before this
incident, while trying to smuggle Ingram sub-machine guns.
Names of four other Spanish terrorists were also mentioned in
connection with the synagogue explosion. While the investigation into
the issue was under way, the perpetrators had relations with Nicos
Sampson and some other Greek Cypriots living in Paris and frequently
visited South Cyprus. The passports of these Spanish terrorists caught
by the police contained many entry-exit visa stamps to and from South
Cyprus and Beirut. Also an address reading, Rue de la Pane, 100 was
found in the terrorists possession. This was Nicos Sampsons home
address in Paris.
French police found out that Sampson had occasional meetings with
suspected Greek Cypriots, Greek diplomats, Armenian businessmen and
Arabs. The most striking activity of Sampson was to rent houses and
provide cars for certain Arabs known as terrorists, using Greek Cypriot
names. He especially had very close relations with Syrians and Libyans.
He was supplying them with Greek Cypriot passports to use for their
acts and helping them to leave the country with planes of South Cyprus.
LYSSARIDES
Besides Sampson Dr Vassos Lyssarides, the leader of the Socialist EDEK
Party in South Cyprus, has been actively and seriously involved in
anti-Turkish terrorism both before and after 1974.
Lyssarides is the founder of the the Committee for Solidarity with
Kurdistan, established with the aim of supporting and harbouring PKK in
South Cyprus. His name is also linked with ASALA and other Arab terror
groups. He has constantly worked to bring such terrorist groups to the
island, give them all sorts of support and assistance and unleash them
on to the Turkish targets from their Southern Cyprus base.
In his speeches delivered during anti-Turkish rallies in Athens and
Paris in 1976, Lyssarides openly declared that they were preparing for
a second Vietnam War in order to expel the Turks from the island.
For 40 years, Vassos Lyssarides has been playing the same game over the
island of Cyprus. His relations with certain persons have drawn the
attention of foreign intelligence agencies. He has also served as an
adviser to the Palestinian, Libyan and Syrian terrorists.
Being well aware of the hostile feelings of Greek Cypriots against the
Turks and wishing to exploit this for its own ends, the Syrian
intelligence agency Mukhaberat has managed to turn the island into a
base for international terrorism, by using Lyssarides as a tool. By the
end of 1970s, in more than 30 camps in South Cyprus, Greek, Greek
Cypriot, Armenian, Kurdish, Turkish (Communist militant) terrorists, as
well as terrorists from various other countries were under the training
of Cuban, Libyan, Palestinian and Greek army officers.
That Greece transported arms and ammunition to PKK and ASALA terrorists
through South Cyprus was revealed by the Israeli intelligence agency,
Mossad. Moreover, Israeli patrol ships, at times, searched South Cyprus
and Greece registered ships off the Lebanon to find large quantities of
Kalashnikov guns. In the meantime, it was found out that Lyssarides and
his men often went to Lebanon and Syria and met Majeed Sharar, known as
the coordinator of terrorist acts against Turkey, terrorist leaders
Abou Nidal, and George Habbash.
By 1983, acts by the Greek-Greek Cypriot trio against Turkeys security
have been noticeably intensified. In the meantime, Turkish intelligence
units obtained information to the effect that Greek and Greek Cypriot
agents established contacts with Kurdish and Turkish terrorists who
fled to West Germany, Switzerland and Sweden after committing crimes in
Turkey.
News arriving from South Cyprus also confirmed these reports. It was
also reported that about 50 terrorists who fled Turkey on 20 September
1980 agreed to collaborate with Greece and South Cyprus.
All the contacts and links were forged by Lyssarides and his men.
Lyssarides has a dark past. In his book entitled, AKEL: The Communist
Party of Cyprus (A Stanford University publication), researcher T.W.
Adams gives the following information about Lyssarides:
Lyssarides. He established the Cyprus Representation of Asian-African
Peoples Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO). It was Makarios who wanted
most the establishment of ties with this organisation. He thought
differently from Lyssarides who wished to make Cyprus Communist. His
aim was to infiltrate into the third-world countries in order to gain
strength. Lyssarides who was elected MP and Parliament Speaker in 1981
is so merciless that he had his men kill AAPSOs Secretary General,
during a General Assembly meeting of the organisation in Nicosia, just
because the latter prevented his appointment to a high-level post
within the organisation as he knew his (Lyssaridess) true personality.
Lyssarides has a private armed group that has links with terror groups.
Greek Cypriot press gave, in mid-1980s, introduced Lyssarides as Libyan
leader Qaddafis man and gave interesting information about him. For
instance, it was written that the Cypro-Libya company operating in
South Nicosia was a cover-up firm that laundered the money he was given
to feed terrorist groups. The firm was also used as a base of Libya and
Syria for their acts in Western Europe and the U.S. One of the most
important activities of Cypro-Libya was drugs and arms-smuggling.
Lyssarides still nurtures international and anti-Turkish terrorism and
pursues an adamant and militant policy against Turkey. He has recently
pulled out from a coalition Government under Clerides, because the
latter has agreed not to deploy the S-300 missiles in South Cyprus.
Lyssarides is reported to have lent support to pro-PKK demonstrators in
South Cyprus who carried out a number of frenzied demos in protest of
Abdullah calans capture.
ROLANDIS
Nicos Rolandis, a former Foreign Minister of the Greek Cypriot
Administration in South Cyprus, is among the Greek Cypriot high-ranking
officials who are linked with support to international terrorism.
INTERPOL has found out that business partners of Rolandis, namely
Moassil from Kuwait and Joseph Sambi from Lebanon were involved in arms
and heroin smuggling and supplied arms to separatist terrorist
organisations in South Cyprus. Rolandis, Moassil and Joseph were known,
between 1981-84, as linkages of drug-trafficking to the Middle and
Western Europe via South Cyprus. While drugs were sent to the West
through Cyprus and smuggled arms arriving from the West, to the East.
Rolandis and his partners were loading arms aboard Cyprus-registered
ships at Varna Port in Bulgaria, storing them at Larnaca port in south
Cyprus and there, in return for the drugs they took over, they were
smuggling to the East, through Cyprus, the arms arriving from the West.
The drugs, on the other hand, were being sent to Europe in diplomatic
courier sacks aboard the planes of the national flag carrier Cyprus
Airways.
Concerned about the whole affair, the Greek Cypriot press in the South
occasionally raised the issue and informed the public opinion about the
situation in a way that confirmed the INTERPOL findings. The papers
frequently reported that the then Foreign Minister Nicos Rolandis,
using his diplomatic immunity, sent heroin in diplomatic courier sacks,
in collaboration with his Arab partners. No-one attempted to deny all
this.
BENJAMIN
Christodulos Benjamin is known as an organiser, coordinator and patron
of terror in South Cyprus too. For many years he has served as the
Minister of Interior or Defence and he is known for his close relations
with all the terror groups in the world. Benjamin has never taken the
pains of covering up or denying these dark relations. He was known for
his fanaticism against the Turks before 1974 as well. During the era of
Makarios, he is known to have been securing contacts between KGB and
the Syrian Mukhaberat and South Cyprus.
An incident between Deputy Police Chief Paulos Stokkos and then
Interior Minister Christodulos Benjamin is an example of the latters
role in terrorism.
During those days when ASALA terrorist organisation was assassinating
the Turkish diplomats one after the other, it was Benjamin who
harboured the ASALA terrorists in South Cyprus and kept them away from
sights. There were rational persons who did not welcome Benjamins
turning the island of Cyprus into a base for terrorism and who were
concerned about this. One of these people was Paulos Stokkos, Deputy
Police Chief of the Greek Cypriot Administration in South Cyprus.
Stokkos thought that state protection granted to ASALA that committed
murders in Europe could create serious problems for South Cyprus and
did not want to allow the Armenians to stay in South Cyprus.
Thats why the two men were at loggerheads. He opposed to Benjamins
orders on the issue and resisted the stationing of the Armenian
terrorists in the South.
In order to weaken Stokkos and dismiss him from his post, Benjamin
slandered that he was a spy working for Israel and using his men as
false witnesses accused Stokkos and had him arrested. He was charged of
high treason.
When foreign diplomats in South Cyprus showed considerable interest in
the trial and Stokkos revealed Benjamins entire relations with
international relations, Interior Ministry, headed by Benjamin,
demanded the trial to be held in closed session, on the grounds of
national security. But things revealed with all the legal evidence and
documentation during the open session of the trial revealed that South
Cyprus was a base for international terrorism.
Moreover, in July 1990, it was discovered that a firm named Orbit,
belonging to an Armenian from Limassol, supplied arms to PKK, that the
then Interior Minister Benjamin organised these activities and that
arms and ammunition coming from third countries were packed in Greece
and brought to Limassol in containers belonging to Orbit company.
COMMITTEE ON SOLIDARITY FOR KURDISTAN
It is known by all that ever since 1990, Greek Cypriot administration
in South Cyprus, has been openly harbouring, abetting and accommodating
the PKK terrorist organisation, besides its previous support to other
terror groups. It is especially noteworthy that through certain
associations and organisations that it has established under the cover
of respect and advancement of human rights, the Greek Cypriot
administration has been granting logistic support to PKK.
In order to organise and manipulate these activities the Greek Cypriot
Press and Information Office and EDEK Socialist Party under Vassos
Lyssarides formed the Committee on Solidarity with Kurdistan in 1989.
In a press conference held on 4 February 1990, the then Chairman of the
Committee Theophilos Georghiades, an agent from the Greek national
intelligence agency wearing the mask of a Press and Information
Officer, revealed that the committee also had members from among the
members of parliament from various political parties in South Cyprus.
In yet another meeting organised by the Committee on 19 March 1990,
Georghiades delivered a speech on the Kurdish movement, stating that
they would support the struggle of the Kurdish people on every occasion
and by all means.
Following the Committees formation and the launch of its activities,
financial support to the Kurds has been extended in various ways.
On 12 November 1990, according to a report broadcast by the Greek
Cypriot state TV RIK-1, a group consisting of four MPs from DIKO, AKEL,
EDEK and ADISOK, as well as members of the Committee on Solidarity for
Kurdistan, as well as journalists went to the Beqaa Valley and met
Abdullah calan. RIK-1 also showed scenes filmed from the Beqaa Valley,
headquarters of PKK. Those scenes showing the Greek Cypriot MPs
embracing and kissing the PKK murderers were especially striking.
On 30 November 1990, RIK-1 held an open panel discussion on PKK. The
participants of the programme were the MPs who visited PKKs camp at
Beqaa Valley and the members of the Committee on Solidarity for
Kurdistan. The programme was concluded in the following remarks: PKK
has become a well-organised army and that it was imperative for the
Greek Cypriot administration in South Cyprus to give support to this
struggle if the Turks were to be expelled from Cyprus.
In the meantime, PKK supporters, Greek Cypriots and Armenians, bearing
flags of Kurdistan, Armenia and Greece, began to demonstrate in the
streets.
Yet in another demo, organised in south Nicosia by the Committee on
Solidarity with Kurdistan on 21 February 1991, placards were carried
and slogans were shouted to the effect that Turkey violates the rights
of the Kurdish people.
On 2 March 1991, a club was opened for the PKK militants based in South
Cyprus. Funds necessary for the building the premises of the club were
provided by the National Liberation Front of Kurdistan.
Activities aimed at nurturing PKK in South Cyprus were continued with
the establishment of an Association on the Support for the Kurdish
People by the Committee on Solidarity with Kurdistan and EDEK party.
The fact that EDEK leader Vassos Lyssarides chairs the frequently held
meetings of the Association clearly reveals the identity of the circles
who nurture the subversive activities aimed at Turkey.
One regularly observes that the Greek Cypriot community, bombarded by
the Committees pro-PKK propaganda, is sent to the streets for protests
against Turkey, bearing flags of PKK and Greece and burning the Turkish
national flag.
PKK members based in South Cyprus do not hesitate either in exploiting
the sentiments of the Greek Cypriot people in order to win their
sympathy. Between 21-26 April 1992, ten PKK militants staged a hunger
strike at Eleftheria Square in south Nicosia. This show was organised
by the Committee on Solidarity with Kurdistan. Greek Cypriot
politicians and associations also attended this event that amounted to
a festival. During this show, financial assistance was raised for PKK
and the magazine named the Voice of Kurdistan, published in Greece in
the Greek language as a propaganda material against Turkey and released
free of charge, was sold for money to the passers-by through
compulsion.
A folk-dance troupe from South Cyprus participated in the Kurdistan
Festival held by PKK in Bochum in Germany in August 1992. The troupe
was taken to Germany by Theophilos Georghiades.
Using the events in rnak as a pretext, the Committee had the Kurds in
the island organise a demo against Turkey in South Nicosia in August
1992. This demo was again a stage for collecting funds for PKK, under
the cover of humanitarian assistance. Leaflets were distributed, in
which the Greek Cypriot people were invited to deposit funds at bank
accounts at the Banks of Cyprus and Laiki, to be transferred to PKK.
Meanwhile, a representative of ARGK, the military wing of PKK, took
part in a meeting that was also participated in by Vassos Lyssarides
and Theophilos Georghiades. During the meeting, formation of sabotage
and assassination teams that would operate against the targets in
Turkey and their training and manipulation in South Cyprus were
discussed and decided upon. Georghiades was appointed as the
coordinator of this operation.
GEORGHIADES
Theophilos Georghiades was the founder and first chairman of the
Committee on Solidarity with Kurdistan. He formed a special terrorist
group, consisting of the Kurds chosen from among pro-PKK fugitives
based in Greece and Syria, that would carry out terrorist acts in
Turkey, for South Cyprus.
Eight PKK militants were caught in Turkey a few years ago, who
explained in detail how they had been trained in South Cyprus by the
officers of the Greek Cypriot National Guard to carry out terrorist
acts in Turkey.
Theophilos Georghiades were shot dead in 1994. In contrary to the
claims put forward by the Greek Cypriot administration that he had been
killed by the Turks, the truth into Georghiadess murder finally came to
surface. The truth was much more different than the Greek Cypriot
allegations.
In order for the PKK, an essentially Marxist-Leninist group, to
survive, and thus buy arms, it deals with drug-smuggling and
trafficking. This is a fact known by all.
South Cyprus is a centre from where PKK distributes its narcotics since
1988. It is in the reports of INTERPOL that Greek Mafia, the majority
of whom are ship-owners, carry PKKs drugs to Europe and America and
market them there. The ex-Chairman of the Committee on Solidarity with
Kurdistan Georghiades had established a link between the Greek Cypriot
Mafia and Abdullah calans men for the formers transporting and selling
of PKKs drugs.
In this manner, drugs transported from Syria to South Cyprus were
distributed to the rest of the world from this point. But the amount of
drugs deposited by PKK in South Cyprus rose considerably, requiring the
drop of prices proportionately. Naturally, this angered other Greek
Cypriot drug-smugglers who were dealing with the same business through
different channels. When they began to oppose PKK, Georghiades caused
the Greek and Greek Cypriot intelligence agencies, of whom he was a
member, and the police to confront these traffickers who aimed at
blocking PKKs drug-trafficking. This was a declaration war by
Georghiades on others. But this challenge cost him his life.
Indeed, one year after Georghiadess death, Greek Cypriot leader Glafkos
Clerides himself declared that the Former had been killed by three
Greek Cypriot drug-smugglers who were executed. But for one year,
Turkey was blamed falsely by the Greek Cypriot administration and the
issue was even taken to international platforms and Turkey was tried to
be unjustly cornered.
It was Lyssarides who reacted most strongly to Georghiadess murder. He
asked the Ministry of Interior to pay compensation to his family on the
grounds that he was killed while he was on duty and called on the
parliament to use the issue as a propaganda material against Turkey on
the international arena.
After a few months after Georghiadess death, that was followed by
statements and slogans of revenge on the Turks, a Turkish diplomat
named mer Sipahiolu was killed in Athens. Greek Cypriot press used
headlines reading, the Turkish diplomat was assassinated in retaliation
to Theophiloss murder.
GEORGHIDESS PRESS INTERVIEWS SHEDS AMPLE LIGHT TO GREEK CYPRIOT SUPPORT
TO PKK TERROR
Before his assassination, Theophilos Georghiades was quite active in
promoting the cause of PKK terror group. He has been interviewed by a
number of newspapers and given a considerable idea about the Greek
Cypriot support to PKK.
The Greek Cypriot daily Agon, for instance, published an interview on 2
February 1994 on the issue.
Among other things, Georghiades said: "We have a joint enemy with the
Kurds: the Turks".
The Kurds will not only be able to form their own state but also will
contribute to the solution of the Cyprus problem. Following the defeat
of the Turkish state, the Hellenes can also capitalize on the new
opportunities that would emerge from the readjustment of the
territories in the Asia Minor.
The Kurds are helping enough (South) Cyprus. Turkish armys fight with
the Kurds with 350 thousand troops is an enough help to us (Greek
Cypriots). The Turkish army fully fights the Kurds. This shows that it
cannot dare to start a second war on Greece.
As we (Greek Cypriots) cannot fight (Turkey), we should, at least, help
those who fight for us. If Turkeys problems multiply and the number of
wars she fights increases and thus she extends her battleground, the
Turkish army will either be isolated in Cyprus or will be forced to
withdraw.
The Kurds will continue to strike the Turkish tourism so as to dry up
the economic sources of the country. As far as I see and know, the
Turkish tourism will be razed to the ground in 1994.
OTHER GREEK CYPRIOT ADMIRERS OF PKK AND OCALAN
Retired Greek Army General Matafias has been known so far as PKK leader
Abdullah Ocalan in Greece. Matafias has repeatedly gone to Beqaa Valley
where he has met Ocalan and made joint plans for acts of terrorism and
murders to be committed in Turkey. He has constantly taken part in
meeting and demos held by and for the Kurds in Athens and South Cyprus.
General Matafias is known as an ardent admirer of calan, as the latter
has done to the Turks that Greece has never dared to do: ie killing the
Turks in cold-blood. Meanwhile, a recent report published in the Greek
Cypriot press has written that Retired Greek General Matafias has
become an adviser to Vassos Lyssarides. As their common denominator is
PKK, no-one has been taken surprise by the news. Matafias was among the
participants of Georghiadess funeral.
Greek Navy Retired Admiral Andonis Naksakis is known as Abdullah
Ocalans representative in Greece and his linkage to the Greek
Government. Taking part in Georghiadess funeral, as Abdullah calan,
Naksakis made a speech, saying, Until the Turkish state gives its final
breath and until Cyprus and Kurdistan gains their independence, our
struggle will continue and we will take our revenge on Georghiades.
After the death of Theophilos Georghiades, the Committee on Solidarity
with Kurdistan has been taken over by Lazaros Mavros, a journalist.
Mavros, whose name was found in the passport found in Abdullah calans
possession, is very well-known by its articles praising PKK and
Abdullah calan. While Mavros keeps silent over the passport issue,
another leading member of the Committee Lakis Pigguras are indignant
towards Greece relating to the arrest of calan. In a recent TV
programme, Pigguras accused the Greek Government of treachery for
handing over calan to the Turkish officials for trial.
Vassos Lyssaridess wife Barbara Lyssarides, Communist AKEL party MP
Andreas Philippou, EDEK MP Dimitris Eliades, EDEK official Takis
Christodoulou, former MPs Andreas Panaiotou, Christos Betas and
Georghios Savvides are the main leading figures who have devoted
themselves to the support of the PKK cause and all sorts of assistance
to the PKK terrorists and militants in South Cyprus.
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GREEKS THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE NOT
Prepared by: K.N. Raif
page 5, Introduction
[...]
During my childhood, our Greek neighbors used to love me as if I was
their own child; and I remember their children playing happily in our
backyard.During my boyhood, I played football with my Greek friends and
at flirting age we ran together after the most alluring girls of our
town.
I remember taking our special dish of "Kadayif" to our Greek neighbors
during our "Bayram" festivities and receiving in reciprocation their
special "Pilavuna" during their "Easter" festivities.
When we grew up we enjoyed many feasts around the same tables and
frequented the same night-clubs. We attended to each other's funerals
and wedding ceremonies so many times that we knew exactly how to behave
on those occasions. And at maturity, we worked together at the same
government offices and jointly attended the same international seminars
and meetings of technical nature. What I mean is, I know Greeks as good
as I know Turks. They are great company, especially when it comes to
enjoy life together.
Then, what makes Greeks the way they are: so unfair, so cruel, so
unjust, so one-sighted and so undemocrat when it comes to politics,
religion and ideologies?
It seems to me that this is in their blood. However, there is no doubt
that the Greek educational structure and the Greek political parties
are highly influential in this regard.
Another factor I know for sure that is responsible for this phenomenon
is the Greek Orthodox Church. I will give an example for this from my
life experience.
One Sunday morning, my Greek friends collected me from my home for a
picnic. We were teenagers then. They said we had to pass by the church
because their parents would not allow them to go for picnic if they did
not attend the morning prayers. So, we went together to the church
which was also within our neighborhood.
The priest was preaching. the final words of the priest are still in my
ears:"...a good Greek is the one who is fortunate enough to kill a Turk
and bring his head to our church-yard. When the time comes you will all
be asked to do so. We will now pray for this time to come...soon..."
"This time" came during the Noel of 1963.
During this Noel, the Turkish community witnessed with great pain and
bewilderement that all their good Greek friends suddenly became
professional fighters running after their heads. Where and when these
people were mentally prepared and physically trained for such a cruel
and inhuman mission? Who were behind this hatred?
One final note for the reader: It is a historical fact that before the
Island entered under the Ottoman rule in 1571, there existed no
influential Greek community in the Island. The Island was then under
the Venecian rule and the Catholic leadership kept under severe
suppression the Greek population which was sparsely scattered on the
Island. After 1571, the Ottomans allowed the construction of new
Orthodox Churches at every settlement and granted autonomy to the Greek
Archbishopship. It is extremely sad that this very Archbishop, in years
to come, professed to its followers the genocide of the Island's Turks.
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20 July 1974 Turkish Happy Peace Operation
As the 24th anniversary of the Greek Coup d'Etat of 15 July, 1974 and
Turkey's legitimate intervention five days later on 20 July, 1974
approaches, it is important to recall several fundamental points which
reflect the true nature of the Cyprus question.
The enmity and mistrust between the two peoples; Turkish and Greek
Cypriots are rooted in history and are mainly the result of the ethnic
cleansing which the Greek and Greek Cypriots staged against the Turkish
Cypriots between 1963 and 1974 for achieving Enosis (the union of
Cyprus with Greece). These attempts to bring Cyprus under Greek
domination and particularly the coup staged by the Athens Junta on 15
July 1974 compelled Turkey as one of the Guarantor Powers of the Cyprus
settlement under the Treaty of Guarantee to intervene on 20 July 1974
in order to stop the ethnic cleansing of our community.
The Turkish Cypriot people are grateful to Turkey for the effective
security guarantees whiich are vital for the preservation of peace and
stability on the island. The practical consequences of the events of
1963-1974 have been the emergence of parallel administrative, judicial
and legislative organs for each of the two peoples. The institutional
organisation of the Turkish Cypriot people developed through various
stages and culminated in 1983 in the setting up of the Turkish Republic
of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). The Turkish Cypriot people in the meantime,
are leading their own life under their own flag, in peace and security
within the territories of the TRNC. In spite of this, in the
international field the Turkish Cypriots are denied the full exercise
of their basic rights and freedoms.
The Greek Cypriot administration has embarked on a massive propaganda
effort in misleading world public opinion on all aspects pertaining to
the Cyprus issue. By perpetuating the fallacy of treating the illegal
Greek Cypriot regime as the legitimate government under the false
pretence of "Republic of Cyprus", the Greek Cypriot side reaps the
benefits of satehood, engage in inhuman practices of embargoes against
the Turkish Cypriots and benefit from practically all international aid
originally given for both peoples of the island. Naturally they have
shown no real interest in any kind of settlement which should be based
on two sovereign states.
Most recently the efforts to deploy the S-300 missiles, putting into
effect a joint military doctrine, the construction of air and naval
bases for use by the Greek armed forces are the latest examples of
their aggressive move. Despite the warnings of the Turkish Cypriot side
and other countries and the UN, they went ahead and purchased the S-300
missile system from the Russian Federation. The S-300 missiles which
would alter the military balance in the region dramatically, are a
direct threat to the security of the Turkish Cypriot people and to that
of Turkey. Naturally, Turkey as a Guarantor Power and the TRNC will
take all the necessary measures to preserve the military balance.
Consequently, I can say that we as Turkish Cypriot people, are
determined to defend our rights of equality, sovereignty, our
independent state, the TRNC and Turkey's guarantorship no matter what
trick the Greek Cypriots play.
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The Secrets in the Cypriot Graves
When Turkish Peace Force landed on the island not only Cypriot Turks
were being killed. There was a slaughter between Greek Cypriots who are
for a coup supported by Greece and who are for a Cyprus cleansed from
its Turkish population.
Turkish Peace Force brought peace to the whole of the island and to all
groups living there. This peace has been lasting for 25 years.
Southern Cypriot Greek Administration had hastily done away with the
corpses remaining from the war between Cypriot Greeks and for 25 years
he said to the relatives of the victims, who are its own people, that
"they were killed or abducted by Turks".
There were some who knew the reality. But for wearing the common enemy
down they kept themselves silent by burying their sorrow inside. There
was a law of nature which they forgot : Truth certainly comes to light
sooner or later.
For learning the truth please read the below text. If you want to
confirm it, please look at the news article of June, 12, 1999 on The
Guardian's internet site :
(http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,57601,00.htm)
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Cypriot graves reveal secrets
Wives of the 'missing' from the 1974 war have won the right at last to
know what really happened
Helena Smith in Nicosia
Saturday June 12, 1999
The Guardian
The war cemetery of Lakatamia seems to be respectable. For 25 years
Greek Cypriots have visited its precisely aligned rows of graves to
honour those who died fighting to defend their island from the invasion
by Turkish forces in the summer of 1974.
But the well-tended surface of the cemetery conceals a very different
story, as the wives of those missing or dead discovered officially this
week when the graves were exhumed to reveal piles of bodies
unceremoniously buried together.
"If those bones could speak, their stories would send shivers down the
spines of those who live," said Maroulla Siamisi, who lost her husband
Andreas that summer.
She discovered the truth about the cemetery, which is close to the
capital Nicosia, one hot morning in August 1974, 17 days after Andreas
went missing behind enemy lines.
"I got a bulldozer to dig up the graves, and couldn't believe what I
saw. Bodies stacked one on top of another. I went through all of them -
limbs, I'll never forget, dropping off in my hands. I was determined to
find Andreas. I felt I owed it to our children."
She did not find him. Nearly a quarter of a century later she is still
waiting to hear the truth about the 2,000-plus Greek and Turkish
Cypriots who have not been seen since the war.
Although there have been repeated rumours of Greek Cypriot PoWs being
held in Turkish jails and Anatolian salt mines, none has ever been
found.
Mrs Siamisi said: "There were faces there.They could easily have been
identified. Why deny there were lots of bodies in there? Why mock us
for 25 years?"
Mrs Siamisi, 33 when Andreas disappeared, is not alone: an estimated
1,619 Greek Cypriot civilians and soldiers vanished in 1974.
The wives and fiancees left behind are known as Penelopes by a society
that has expected them to remain faithful to their hero-husbands.
But unlike Homer's heroine, who waited for more than 20 years for
Odysseus to return from the Trojan war, these Penelopes have run out of
patience.
"We've lost our womanhood, we've lost our looks, we've lost our years
but my God are we going to get to the bottom of the truth," said
58-year-old Androulla Palma.
She last heard her husband's voice on August 8 1974.
They are angry that since the invasion, which partitioned the island on
religious and ethnic lines, successive Cypriot governments have used
them at huge rallies to denounce the Turks for concealing the fate of
the missing.
They now believe that their own government may have been involved in
the hurried disposal of bodies in the chaotic aftermath of the war.
Last summer Mrs Palma and Mrs Siamisi took pickaxes to one of the
graves. In six hours they dug knee-deep into the tomb.
"We did it in desperation, to put pressure on the government to close
this painful chapter," said Mrs Palma. "We are sure our husbands are
somewhere in there. I was told mine was dead in 1993. If that is the
case I want to see bones."
At last, it seems, that moment may have come. For the first time
President Glafkos Clerides's government seems determined to crack the
mystery of Cyprus's missing.
This week Physicians for Human Rights, a non-governmental organisation
with experience in Rwanda, Somalia, Croatia and Bosnia, began exhuming
bodies from the cemetery's pits. Forensic scientists hope to be able to
identify the remains by DNA testing.
"It's still unclear how many bodies are there but what is sure is that
they were buried very hastily," said William Haglund, who is leading
the team of 20.
"Some bodies were buried very close together and some on top of each
other. None were in coffins or boxes."
Laid out on wooden desks in a laboratory in Nicosia are the skeletal
remains of seven people. Professor Haglund says the relatives will be
brought in to see the remains.
"After 25 years," he said, "it will be a privileged glimpse of the
dead."
The exhumation process is expected to be long and drawn out and it will
not be possible to identify all the bodies.
But it may be embarrassing to the Greek Cypriot government. Many of the
bodies could turn out to be those of men listed as missing. The list
has long been used by the Greek Cypriots to raise sympathy for their
plight.
Greek Cypriot officials hope that by putting their own house in order
the Turkish Cypriots - who claim that 803 of their community
disappeared during the inter-communal strife - will be encouraged to
follow suit.
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ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING IN CYPRUS
This article is written for a daily newspaper by former British
Parliamentarian (1992-1997) Michael STEPHEN
Former British Parliamentarian Michael STEPHEN reminds Mr. Michael B.
Christides, The Charge D'affaires of the Greek Embassy in Ankara, and
many others who appear to have forgotten what indeed the case in Cyprus
from 1963 to 1974.
The assertion by Mr. Christides (May 10, 1999) that there was no ethnic
cleansing or attempted genocide of Turkish Cypriots by Greek Cypriots
is ridiculous. Until influential Greek Cypriots come to terms with the
appalling behavior of their community toward the smaller Turkish
Cypriot community and stop trying to persuade themselves and world that
each side was as much to blame as the other, there will be no
reconciliation in Cyprus.
In his memoirs, American Undersecretary of State George Ball said:
"Makarios's central interest was to block off Turkish intervention
so that he and his Greek Cypriots could go on happily massacring
Turkish Cypriots. Obviously we would never permit that." The fact is,
however, that neither the United States, the United Kingdom, nor the
United Nations, nor anyone, other than Turkey ever took effective
action to prevent it. On Feb. 17, 1964 the Washington Post reported
that "Greek Cypriot fanatics appear bent on a policy of genocide."
Former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home said, "I was
convinced that if Archbishop Makarios could not bring himself to treat
the Turkish Cypriots as human beings he was inviting the invasion and
partition of the island." On July 28, 1960 Makarios, the Greek
Cypriot president, said: "The independence agreements do not form the
goal - they are the present and not the future. The Greek Cypriot
people will continue their national cause and shape their future in
accordance with THEIR will."
In a speech on Sept. 4, 1962 at Panayia Makarios said, "Until this
Turkish community forming part of the Turkish race that has been the
terrible enemy of Hellenism is expelled, the duty of the heroes of EOKA
can never be considered terminated."
In November 1963 the Greek Cypriots demanded the abolition of no less
than eight of the basic articles that had been included in the 1960
agreement for the protection of the Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish
Cypriots, naturally, refused to agree. The aim of the Greek Cypriots,
was to reduce the Turkish Cypriots people to the status of a mere
minority, wholly subject to the control of the Greek Cypriots, pending
ultimate destruction or expulsion of the Turkish Cypriots from the
island.
When the Turkish Cypriots objected to the ammendment of the
Constitution, Makarios put his plan into effect, and the Greek Cypriots
attack began in December 1963," wrote Lt. Gen. George Karayiannis of
the Greek Cypriot militia ("Ethnikos Kiryx" 15.6.65). The general
was referring to the notorious "Akritas" plan, which was the
blueprint for the annihilation of the Turkish Cypriots and the
annexation of the island to Greece.
On Christmas Eve 1963 the Greek Cypriot militia attacked Turkish
Cypriots communities across the island. Large numbers of men, women,
and children were killed and 270 mosques, shrines and other places of
worship were desecrated.
On Dec. 28, 1963, the Daily Express carried the following report from
Cyprus: "We went tonight into the sealed-off Turkish Cypriot quarter
of Nicosia in which 200 to 300 people had been slaughtered in the last
five days. We were the first Western reporters there, and we have seen
sights too frigthful to be described in print. Horror so extreme that
the people seemed stunned beyond tears."
On Dec. 31, 1963, The Guardian reported: "It is nonsense to claim, as
the Greek Cypriots do, that all casualties were caused by fighting
between armed men of both sides. On Christmas Eve many Turkish Cypriot
people were brutally attacked and murdered in their suburban homes,
including the wife and children of a doctor - allegedly by a group of
40 men, many in army boots and greatcoats." Although the Turkish
Cypriots fought back as best they could and killed some militia, there
were no massacres of Greek Cypriot civilians.
On Jan.1, 1964, the Daily Herald reported: "When I came across the
Turkish Cypriot homes they were an appalling sight. Apart from the
walls they just did not exist. I doubt if a napalm attack could have
created more devastation. Under roofs which had caved in I found a
twisted mass of bed springs, children's cots, and grey ashes of what
had once been tables, chairs and wardrobes. In the neighboring village
of Ayios Vassilios I counted 16 wrecked and burned out homes. They were
all Turkish Cypriot. In neither village did I find a scrap of damage to
any Greek Cypriot house."
On Jan. 2, 1964, the Daily Telegraph wrote: "The Greek Cypriot
community should not assume that the British military presence can or
should secure them against Turkish intervention if they persecute the
Turkish Cypriots. We must not be a shelter for double-crossers."
On Jan. 12, 1964, the British High Commission in Nicosia wrote in a
telegram to London: "The Greek (Cypriot) police are led by extremists
who provoked the fighting and deliberately engaged in atrocities. They
have recruited into their ranks as 'special constables' gun-happy
young thugs. They threaten to try and punish any Turkish Cypriot police
who wishes to return to the Cyprus Government... Makarios assured Sir
Arthur Clark that there will be no attack. His assurance is as
worthless as previous assurance have proved.
On Jan. 14, 1964, the Daily Telegraph reported that the Turkish Cypriot
inhabitants of Ayios Vassilios had been massacred on Dec. 26, 1963 and
reported their exhumation from a mass grave in the presence of the Red
Cross. A further massacre of Turkish Cypriots, at Limasol, was reported
by the Observer on Feb. 16, 1964; and there were many more.
On Feb. 6, 1964, a British patrol found armed Greek Cypriot police
attacking the Turkish Cypriots of Ayios Sozomenos. They were unable to
stop the attack.
On Feb. 13,1964, the Greeks and Greek Cypriots attacked the Turkish
Cypriot quarter of Limassol with tanks, killing 16 and injuring 35. On
Feb. 15, 1964, the Daily Telegraph reported: "It is a real military
operation which the Greek Cypriots launched against the 6,000
inhabitants of the Turkish Cypriot quarter yesterday morning. A
spokesman for the Greek Cypriot government has recognized this
officially. It is hard to conceive how Greek and Turkish Cypriots may
seriously contemplate working together after all that has happened."
On Sep. 10, 1964, the U.N. Secretary-General that, "UNFICYP carried
out a detailed survey of all damage to properties throughout the island
during the disturbances. ...it shows that in 109 villages, most of them
Turkish-Cypriot or mixed villages, 527 houses have been destroyed while
2,000 others have suffered damage from looting. In Ktima 38 houses and
shops have been destroyed totally and 122 partially. In the Orphomita
suburb of Nicosia, 50 houses have been totally destroyed while a
further 240 have been partially destroyed there and in adjacent
suburbs."
The U.K. House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs reviewed
the Cyprus question in 1987,and reported unanimously on July 2 of that
year that "although the Cyprus Government now claims to have been
merely seeking to 'operate the 1960 Constitution modified to the
extent dictated by the necessities of the situation,' this claims
ignores the fact that both before and after the events of December 1963
the Makarios Government continued to advocate the cause of enosis and
actively pursued the amendment of the Constitution and related treaties
to facilitate this ultimate objective."
The committee continued: "Moreover, in June 1967 the Greek Cypriot
legislature unanimously passed a resolution in favor of enosis, in
blatant contravention of the 1960 Treaties and Constitution." (Art. 1
of the Treaty of Guarantee prohibited any action likely to directly or
indirectly promote union with any other state partition of the island,
and Art. 185 (2) of the Constitution is to similar effect.)
Prof. Ernst Forsthoff, the neutral president of the Supreme
Constitutional Court of Cyprus, told Die Welt on Dec. 27, 1963:
"Makarios bears on his shoulders the sole responsibility for the
recent tragic events. His aim is to deprive the Turkish community of
their rights." In an interview with the UPI press agency on Dec. 30,
1963 he said, "All this happened because Makarios wanted to take away
all constitutional rights from the Turkish Cypriots."
The United Nations not only failed to condemn the forceable usurpation
of the legal order in Cyprus, but actually rewarded it by treating the
by then wholly Greek Cypriot administration as if it were the
government of Cyprus (Security Council Res. 186 of 1964). This
acceptance has continued to the present day, and reflects no credit to
upon the United Nations, nor upon Britain, nor the other countries who
have acquiesced.
On Aug. 12, 1964, the U.K. representative to the United Nations wrote
to his government in London as follows:
"What is our policy and true feelings about the future of Cyprus and
about Makarios? Judging from the English newspapers and many others,
the feeling is very strong indeed against Makarios and his so-called
government, and nothing would please the British people more than to
see him toppled and the Cyprus problem solved by the direct dealings
between the Turks and the Greeks. We are of course supporting the
latter course, but I have never seen any expression of the official
disapproval in public against Makarios and his evil doings. Is there an
official view about this, and what do we think we should do in the long
run? Sometimes it seems that the obsession of some people with 'the
Commonwealth' blinds us to everything else and it would be high
treason to take a more active line against Makarios and his henchmen.
At other times the dominant feature seems to be concern lest active
opposition against Makarios should lead to direct conflict with the
Cypriots and end up with our losing our bases."
Thereafter Turkish Cypriot MPs, judges, and other officials were
intimidated or prevented by force from carrying out their duties.
According to the Select Committee, "The effect of the crisis of
December 1963 was to deliver control of the formal organs of government
into the hands of the Greek Cypriots alone. Claiming to be acting in
accordance with 'the doctrine of necessity,' the Greek Cypriot
members of the House of Representatives enacted a series of laws which
provided for the operation of the organs of governments without Turkish
Cypriot participation."
The report of the Select Committee contiued: "Equally damaging from
the Turkish Cypriot point of view was what they concidered to be their
effective exclusion from representation at and participation in the
international fora where their case could have been deployed... An
official Turkish Cypriot presence in the international political scene
virtually disappeared overnight." It is not therefore surprising that
the world has been persuaded to the Greek Cypriot point of view.
More than 300 Turkish Cypriots are still missing without trace from
these massacres of 1963/64. These dreadful events were not the
resposibility of "the Greek Colonels" of 1974 or an
unrepresentative handful of Greek Cypriot extremists. The persecution
of the Turkish Cypriots was an act of policy on the part of the Greek
Cypriot political and religious leadership, which has to this day made
no serious attempt to bring the murderers to justice.
The U.K. Commons Select Committee found that "there is little doubt
that much of the violence which the Turkish Cypriots claim led to the
total or partial destruction of 103 Turkish villages and the
displacement of about a quarter of the total Turkish Cypriot population
was either directly inspired by, or certainly connived at, by the Greek
Cypriot leadership."
The U.N. secretary-general reported to the Security Council: "When
the disturbances broke out in December 1963 and continued during the
first part of 1964, thousands of Turkish Cypriots fled their homes,
taking with them only what they could drive or carry, and sought refuge
in safer villages and areas."On Jan. 14, 1964, "Il Giorno" of
Italy reported: "Right now we are witnessing the exodus of Turkish
Cypriots from the villages. Thousands of people abandoning homes, land,
herds. Greek Cypriot terrorism is relentless. This time the rhetoric of
the Hellenes and the statues of Plato do not cover up their barbaric
and ferocious behavior."
The Greek Cypriots sometimes allege that it was they who were attacked,
by the Turkish Cypriots, who were determined to wreck the 1960
agreements. However, the Turkish Cypriots were not only outnumbered by
nearly four to one; they were also surrounded in their villages by
armed Greek Cypriots; they had no way of protecting their women and
children, and Turkey was 40 miles away across the sea. The very idea
that in those circumstances the Turkish Cypriots were the aggressors is
absurd.
There were further attacks on the Turkish Cypriots in 1967. In 1971,
General Grivas returned to Cyprus to form EOKA-B, which was again
commited to making Cyprus a wholly Greek island and annexing it to
Greece. In a speech to the Greek Cypriot armed forces at the time
(quoted in "New Cyprus", May 1987) Grivas said: "The Greek forces
from Greece have come to Cyprus in order to impose the will of the
Greeks of Cyprus upon the Turks. We want ENOSIS, but the Turks are
aginst it. We shall impose our will. We are strong, and we shall do
so."
By July 15, 1974, a powerful force of mainland Greek troops had
assembled in Cyprus and with their backing, the Greek Cypriot National
Guard owerthrew Makarios and installed one Nicos Sampson as
"president." On July 22, the Washington Star News reported:
"Bodies littered the streets and there were mass burials... People
told by Makarios to lay down their guns were shot by the National
Guard."
On April 17, 1991, Ambassador Nelson Ledsky testified before the U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "most of the 'missing
persons'disappeared in the first days of July 1974, before the
Turkish intervention on the 20th. Many killed on the Greek side were
killed by Greek Cypriots in fighting between supporters of Makarios and
Sampson."
On Nov. 6, 1974, Ta Nea reported that dates from the graves of Greek
Cypriots killed in the five days between July 15-20 were erased in
order to blame these deaths on the subsequent Turkish military action.
On March 3, 1996, the Greek Cypriot Cyprus Mail wrote: "(Greek)
Cypriot governments have found it convenient to conceal the scale of
atrocities during the July 15 coup in an attempt to downplay its
contribution to the tragedy of the summer of 1974 and instead blame the
Turkish invasion for all casualties. There can be no justification for
any government that failed to investigate this sensitive humanitarian
issue. The shocking admission by the Clerides government that there are
people buried in Nicosia cemetery who are still included in the list
of the 'missing' is the last episode of a human drama which has been
turned into a propaganda tool."
On Oct. 19, 1996, Mr Georgios Lanitis wrote: "I was serving with the
foreign Information Service of the Republic of Cyprus in London... I
deeply apologize to all those I told that there are 1,619 missing
persons. I misled them. I was made a liar, deliberately, by the
government of Cyprus... today it seems that the credibility of Cyprus
is nil."
Turkish Cypriots appealed to the guarartor powers for help, but only
Turkey was willing to make any effective response. On July 20, 1974
Turkey intervened under Article IV of the Treaty of Guarantee. The
Greek newspaper Eleftherotipia published an interview with Nicos
Sampson on Feb. 26,1981 in which he said, "Had Turkey not intervened
I would not only have proclaimed enosis, I would have annihilated the
Turks in Cyprus."
The Times and The Guardian reported on Aug. 21, 1974 that in the
village of Tokhni on Aug. 14, 1974 all the Turkish Cypriot men between
the ages of 13 and 74, except for eighteen who managed to escape, were
taken away and shot.
There were also reports that in Zyyi on the same day all the
Turkish-Cypriot men aged between 19 and 38 were taken away and were
never seen again and that Greek-Cypriots opened fire on the
Turkish-Cypriot neighborhood of Paphos killing men, women and children
indiscriminately.
On July 23, 1974, the Washington Post reported that "in Greek raid on
a small Turkish village near Limassol 36 people out of a population of
200 were killed. The Greeks said that they had been given orders to
kill the inhabitants of the Turkish villages before the Turkish forces
arrived." The Times and The Guardian also reported on the killings.
"The Greeks began to shell the Turkish quarter on Saturday, refugees
said. Kazan Dervis, a Turkish Cypriot girl aged 15, said she had been
staying with her uncle. The (Greek Cypriot) National Guard came into
the Turkish sector and shooting began. She saw her uncle and other
relatives taken away as prisoners, and later heard her uncle had been
shot." (Times 23.7.1974)
On July 28, 1974 the New York Times reported that 14 Turkish-Cypriot
men had been shot in Alaminos. On July 24, 1974 France Soir reported
that "the Greeks burned Turkish mosques and set fire to Turkish homes
in the villages around Famagusta. Defensless Turkish villagers who have
no weapons live in an atmosphere of terror and they evacuate their
homes and go and live in tents in the forests. The Greeks' actions
are a shame to humanity."
On July 22, Turkish Prime Minister Ecevit called upon the United
Nations to "stop the genocide of Turkish-Cypriots" and declared,
"Turkey has accepted a ceace-fire, but will not allow
Turkish-Cypriots to be massacred."
The German newspaper Die Zeit wrote on Aug. 30, "The massacre of
Turkish Cypriots in Paphos and Famagusta is the proof of how justified
the Turks were to undertake their intervention." "Turkish Cypriots,
who had suffered from physical attacks since 1963, called on the
guarantor powers to prevent a Greek conquest of the island. When
Britain did nothing Turkey invaded Cyprus and occupied its northern
part. Turkish Cypriots have constitutional right on their side and
understandably fear a renewal of persecution if the Turkish army
withdraws." the Daily Telegraph wrote on Aug. 15, 1996.
Turkey intervened to protect the lives and property of the
Turkish-Cypriots, and to its credit it has done just that. In the 12
years since, there have been no killings and no massacres" Lord
Willis (Labor) told the House of Lords on Dec. 17, 1986. On March 12,
1977, Makarios declared, "It is in the name of enosis that Cyprus has
been destroyed."
The United Nations, the Commonwealth and the rest of the world have put
political expediency before principle and failed to condemn this
appalling behavior.Greek Cypriots are guilty of attempted genocide but
no action has ever been taken against them. Instead they have been
rewarded by recognition as the government of all Cyprus. The Turkish
Cypriots by contrast were frozen out of the United Nations, the
Commonwealth and the almost every other international organization.
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OFFICIAL GREEK CYPRIOT REPORT ON EDUCATION:
SCHOOLS IN SOUTH CYPRUS AIM TO SPUR MILITANCY
Students in South Cyprus are systematically encouraged by Greek Cypriot
authorities to take part in demonstrations against the TRNC along the
borders. Schools officially close in order to allow children to
participate and teachers along with officials typically make speeches
which incite children to acts of violence and hatred. On many occasions
teenager students have clashed with UNFICYP personnel inside the
buffer-zone. They have chanted anti-Turkish slogans and thrown rocks
etc. towards the North.
A recently published report on education in 1997 has revealed that: The
primary aim of education in South Cyprus is to teach children not to
forget the "occupation". One educational programme is entitled "I get
to know, I do not forget, I struggle against the occupation".
The Greek Cypriot government's programme to remember the "invasion" is
the primary objective in schools. The report states that: "The
programme formed the spine of militancy in schools and the route of the
people of Cyprus for achieving its visions."
"The main target is to keep alive the memory of our land still under
occupation, to foster and strengthen optimism, confidence and militancy
for freedom and return to our fatherland."
Greek Cypriot authorities described the aim of the programme as
educating children to "wake up and see Pentadactylos (mountain-range in
Northern Cyprus) and not to forget about their villages in the occupied
areas."
Some examples of text books used in Junior High Schools in South Cyprus
which contain elements inciting enmity are given below:
"Cyprus Geography", Nicosia, 1991, Min. of Education Portrays Cyprus as
an Hellenic island. Urges struggle to liberate the "occupied
territories." There is no mention of the Turkish population on the
island. One photograph depicts "enslaved youth" in 1974. Underneath it
says "the population of Greeks has dropped following the Turkish
occupation resulting in 5000 dead and 1619 missing." (p.24)
Pentadactylos is portrayed as a symbol of the "struggle to return
home."
"It is our primary responsibility to struggle with determination and
vigour in order to remove the danger threatening our Pentadactylos and
other territories under occupation. Only then Pentadactylos will
breathe freely and embrace its own folk." (p.42)
"Byzantine Period-Cyprus History", Nicosia, 1991, Min. of Education
Designed to portray Cyprus as an Hellenistic island populated by
Cypriots of Christian origin.
"Middle Ages-Cyprus History", Nicosia, 1992, Min. of Education Depicts
Turks as Christians who were forced to adopt Islam under pressure. The
book claims that in 1881 an insignificant part of the population spoke
Turkish. EOKA activities are described in detail.
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GREEK CYPRIOT MP DISCLOSES LARGE SCALE ARMS TRANSFERS FROM GREECE TO
SOUTH CYPRUS
It has been reported in the Greek Cypriot press that following a
meeting of the Greek Cypriot House of Representatives Defence
Committee, its Vice- Chairman Mr. Andonis Karas disclosed that lately
Greece has been sending sophisticated weaponry valued at hundreds of
millions of dollars to South Cyprus, including tanks operated by Greek
personnel (Greek Cypriot dailies, Fileleftheros and Simerinidated 8
January, 1999).
The Cyprus Weekly of 8 January 1999 establishes a linkage between the
aforesaid development and the recent decision of the Greek Cypriot
administration regarding the S-300 missiles. The Cyprus Weekly reports
that "in return for taking over the Russian missiles, Greece is said to
have sent ?arge amounts' of modern weapons to the island, worth
millions of pounds".
Meanwhile, the Greek Cypriot Foreign Minister, Mr. Yannakis
Cassoulides, who appeared on Greek Cypriot TV on 7 January made the
following remarks in the light of the systematic implementation of the
Joint Military Doctrine between Greece and the Greek Cypriot
administration, which includes the construction of air and naval bases
in South Cyprus for use by the Greek Armed Forces: "The Greek- Greek
Cypriot Joint Military Doctrine is not confined to the S-300 missiles
alone. Greece has a formidable military presence on the island".
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Greek Cypriot Administration Approves New Arms Purchases
It has been reported in the Greek Cypriot press of 18 December 1998
that the Greek Cypriot Council of Ministers has approved the release of
178 million Greek Cypriot pounds (approximately 350 million U.S
dollars) for a new round of military procurement within the context of
the Joint Military Doctrine between the Greek Cypriot administration
and Greece.
The Greek Cypriot newspaper Mahi (18 December 1998) reports that this
new round of military procurement will include the purchase of at least
a squadron of warplanes, possibly Mirage fighters, and CSH-2 Roovihalk
assault helicopters from South Africa. The Greek Cypriot administration
will also reportedly consult with the Greek naval construction company
Skaramanga', with a view to ordering two warships capable of delivering
Exocet missiles.
This further military build-up comes at a time when tensions are
already high due to the construction of air and naval bases in South
Cyprus for use by Greece and the imminent deployment of the S-300
missile system. Moreover, this decision to expand the Joint Military
Doctrine comes in the wake of the call made upon the two sides by the
UN Secretary-General "to avoid any actions which might increase
tension, including by further expansion of military forces and
armaments"
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LARGE-SCALE ICON THEFT IN SOUTH CYPRUS UNCOVERS GREEK CYPRIOT
HYPOCRISY
The recent discovery of many stolen icons in South Cyprus in the
possession of Greek Cypriot persons has uncovered the true state of
affairs with regard to the protection of cultural heritage in the
island. The Greek Cypriot administration who has made a habit of
falsely accusing the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus of plundering
historical monuments, is now fully answerable for these large-scale
illegal acts taking place in South Cyprus.
According to Greek Cypriot daily Fileleftheros of 23 September 1998,
two Greek Cypriots were taken into custody in connection with the theft
of icons from churches in the Limassol area in South Cyprus. Greek
Cypriot police found 32 icons in a house belonging to one of the
suspects. Cyprus Mail of 24 September reported that a third Greek
Cypriot involved in the same case was arrested by the Greek Cypriot
police. In Paphos, three other Greek Cypriots were remanded in
connection with theft of icons from churches in that area. Police in
South Cyprus will reportedly conduct a further investigation in an
attempt to recover large number of historic icons believed to be in the
possession of certain Greek Cypriots residing in Nicosia and
Peristerona.
The Greek Cypriot side would be well advised to stop exploiting the
issue of preservation of cultural property but rather concentrate its
efforts towards the prevention of theft and smuggling of objects of
archaeological value from its territory. The Turkish Cypriot side
within its limited budget effectively administers measures to control
and preserve the cultural wealth of the island.
(Cyprus Mail 24 Dec 1980) STOLEN MOSAIC RECOVERED IN LONDON;
Cyprus Weekly, 24-30 January 1986 ARREST MADE OVER ICONS -
ANDREAS COSTA KYRIAKOU OF PAPTHOS WAS ARRESTED, AND IS
HELD IN CONNECTION WITH A BREAK IN INTO THE CHAPEL OF ST
GEORGE TERATSIOLIS NEAR AVGOROU.
CYPRUS PLEA TO INTERPOL - INTERPOL IS ASKED TO APPREHEND
YIANGOS SOLOMOU, A GREEK CYPRIOT RESIDENT OF BRITAIN,
RECENTLY LIVING IN AVGTHOROU, IN CONNECTION WITH THE
THEFT OF A NUMBER OF ICONS AND GOLD PLATED OIL CANDLE
HOLDERS FROM A CHAPEL
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They are trying to change the ethnic composition of Cyprus
>From the articles appearing on the Southern Cyprus press, it has been
learned that the Greek Cypriot administration is applying all kinds of
methods for changing the ethnic composition in Cyprus and has settled
Russians, who are claimed to be of Greek origin, to Cyprus by bringing
them from Russia and Ukraine.
The number of the Russians, who have brought to Cyprus in this way and
who have been accommodated in the Island after being baptized by the
Greek Cypriot Church, has exceeded 10.000. At present, more than 4.000
Russians are living only in Baf.
On the other hand, the number of those, who came from Greece for not
fulfilling their military service there and who were accepted to the
Greek Cypriot citizenship, has also reached thousands.
At a discussion program, which has been broadcasted by the television
station ANT-1 on October 20, 1999, it has been stated that there are
major problems between the Greek Cypriots living in Baf and the
Russians, who have been settled in the island since 1983, and that
there did not exist safety of life and property anymore.
Again from the Southern Cyprus press it has been learned that a letter
has been left to the Baf television station by an organization called
"Golden Dawn", and on this letter it has been required that "all the
Greek Cypriots, who are living in the same building with the Russians,
should leave all the places they are staying until the year 2000", and
it is added that "otherwise, they will be burnt alive together with the
Russians".
The conclusion which is to be drawn from these news is as follows :
The Southern Cypriot Greek Administration is accepting everyone, who
claims being from Greek descend, to the southern Cypriot citizenship
for altering the ethnic composition in Cyprus in favor of the Greek
Cypriots and for using this as a means to obtain some rights.
If those people, who are brought from Ukraine and Russia, are of Greek
origin, then the organized and illegal activities in Baf should be a
shame for others of Greek origin.
The Island is being made a shelter for those Greeks, who are escaping
the laws in Greece, for the sake of changing the population ratios in
their favor.
The letter, which is left to the Baf television station, is proving
Greek Cypriots' extreme nationalism, racism and intolerance towards
other people who are not from their own ethnic origin; and is
constituting a good example for exposing how Cyprus problem have been
led to the current circumstances. The Turkish inhabitants of the
island, who were living quietly and without any illegal tendencies
unlike the Russian immigrants, were slaughtered by the Greek Cypriot
bands between the years 1960 and 1974, by the same methods which have
been described on the above-mentioned threatening letter.
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Keeping on Enosis
For quarter of a century, Greek Cypriot Representatives have opposed
to every kind of division forming as either a separate state or a
federation or confederation in the international meetings arranged to
solve the Cyprus problem. Have Greek Cypriots opposed to the condition
of being divided of Island with humane sense or by believing that they
can live with Turkish Cypriots together? Of course not. They just
consider running after Enosis (Annexation of Cyprus to Greece as a
whole). They are also under strict control in order to prevent the
divison of Island by Greeks who have the idea of Enosis. Because Enosis
with just Southern Cyprus is not sufficent for Greece. To be reached
the idea of Enosis all at once, Greeks want that Cyprus should
absolutely be stay as a whole.
The below news about the remembrance ceremony of the 26th anniversary
of colonel Grivas's death in which Klerides, the leader of Greek
Cypriot Community, and who charge Mr. Denktas, The President of TRNC,
with stubbornness, also attended proves the evil desire of Greece and
Greek Administration of Southern Cyprus.
The Oath of "Keeping on Enosis"
Lefkose (A.A) - In the ceremony of the 26th anniversary of the death of
Yorgos Grivas Digenis, the founder leader of terror organization-EOKA,
it was taken the oath of "Keeping on Enosis".
In the ceremony arranged in Aya Nikolau Church in Limasol yesterday,
where Glafkos Klerides who is the leader of Greek Cypriot, Archbishop
Hrisostomos, Lieutenent-General Dimitrios Dimu who is the commander of
Greek Cypriot Army, Kiriakos Rodusakis who is the ambassador of Greece
to Southern Cyprus and politicians attended, the oath so-called
"Keeping on struggling to reach of the ideal of Enosis (Annexing Cyprus
to Greece)" was taken.
Avgerinos Papares, secretary general of the "Limasol Eoka Strugglers
Association", pointed out in the ceremony that Grivas's constant ideal
is to annex Cyprus to Greece, and also said "Grivas did not struggle
for the solution suggesting a confederacy or a Turk President. Grivas
struggled to save Cyprus and to become fact the ideal of annexing it to
homeland Greece." Nikos Samson, the leader of the 1974 coup and the
military service friend of Grivas, said that he himself prevented the
corpse of Grivas from taken away to and buried in Greece.
After the ceremony in the church, by going to the shelter where the
tomb of Grivas placed, a ceremony was also arranged in there. Klerides
and other officials placed a wreath on the tomb of Grivas.
Date: 24/01/00
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AKRITAS PLAN
TOP SECRET
HEADQUARTERS
Recent public statements by Archbishop Makarios have shown
the course which our national problem will take in near future.
As we have stressed in the past, national struggles cannot be
concluded overnight; nor is it possible to fix definite
chronological
limits for the conclusion of the various stages of development
in
national causes. Our national problem must be viewed in the
light of
developments which take place and conditions that arise from
time to
time, and measures to be taken, as well as their implementation
and
timing, must be in keeping with the internal and external
political
conditions. The whole process is difficult and must go through
various stages because factors which will affect the final
conclusion
are numerous and different. It is sufficient for everyone to
know,
however, that every step taken constitutes the result of a
study and
that at the same time it forms the basis of future measures.
Also,
it is sufficient to know that every measure now contemplated is
a
first step and only constitutes a stage towards the final and
unalterable national objective which is the full and
unconditional
application of the right of self-determination.
As the final objective remains unchanged, what must be
dwelt
upon is the method to be employed towards attaining that
objective.
This must, of necessity, be divided into internal and external
(international) tactics because the methods of the presentation
and
handling of our cause within and outside the country are
different.
A. METHOD TO BE USED OUTSIDE
In the closing stages of the (EOKA) struggle, the Cyprus
problem
had been presented to the world public opinion and to
diplomatic
circles as a demand of the people of Cyprus to exercise the
right of
self-determination. But the question of Turkish minority had
been
introduced in circumstances that are known, inter-communal
clashes
had taken place and it had been tried to make it accepted that
it
was impossible for the two communities to live together under a
united administration. Finally the problem was solved, in the
eyes
of many international circles, by the London and Zurich
Agreements,
which were shown as solving the problem following negotiations
and
agreements between the contending parties.
(a) Consequently our first aim has been to create the
impression
in the international field that the Cyprus problem has not
been solved and that it has to be reviewed.
(b) The creation of the following impressions has been
accepted
as the primary objective:
(i) that the solution which has been found is not
satisfactory
and just
(ii) that the agreement which has been reached is not the
result of the free will of the contending parties.
(iii)that the demand for the revision for the agreements
is not
because of any desire on the part of the Greeks to
dishonor
their signature, but an imperative necessity of
survival
of them.
(iv) that the co-existence of the two communities is
possible, and
(v) that the Greek majority, and not the Turks,
constitute the
strong elements on which foreigners must rely.
(c) Although it was most difficult to attain the above
objectives,
satisfactory results have been achieved. Many diplomatic
missions have already come to believe strongly that the
Agreements
are neither just nor satisfactory, that they were signed
as a
result of pressures and intimidations without real
negotiations,
and that they were imposed after many threats. It has been
an
important trump in our hands that the solution brought by
the
Agreements was not submitted to the approval of the
people; acting
wisely in this respect, our leadership avoided holding a
referandum. Otherwise, the people would have definitely
approved
the Agreements in the atmosphere that prevailed in 1959.
Generally speaking, it has been shown that so far the
adminis-
tration of Cyprus has been carried out by the Greeks and
that the
Turks played only a negative part acting as a brake.
(d) Having completed the first stage of our activities and
objectives
we must materialize the second stage on an international
level.
Our objective in this second stage is to show:
(i) that the aim of the Greeks is not to oppress the
Turks but
only to remove unreasonable and unjust provisions of
the
administrative mechanism;
(ii) that it is necessary to remove these provisions right
away
because tomorrow may be too late;
(iii)Omitted
(iv) that this question of revision is a domestic issue
for
Cypriots and does not therefore give the right of
intervention to anyone by force or otherwise;
(v) that the proposed amendments are reasonable and just
and
safeguard the reasonable rights of the minority.
(e) Generally speaking, it is obvious that today the
international
opinion is against any form of oppression, and especially
against
oppresion of minorities. The Turks have so far been able
to
convince world public opinion that the union of Cyprus
with
Greece will amount to their enslavement. Under these
circumstances
we stand a good chance of success in influencing world
public
opinion if we base our struggle not on ENOSIS but on self-
determination. But in order to be able to exercise the
right
of self-determination fully and without hindrance, we must
first
get rid of the Agreements (e.g. the Treaty of Gurantee,
the
Treaty of Alliance etc) and of those provisions in the
Constitution which will inhibit the free and unbridled
expression
of the will of people and which they carry dangers of
external
intervention. For this reason, our first target has been
the
Treaty of Guarantee, which is the first Agreement to be
cited
as not being recognized by the Greek Cypriots.
When the Treaty of Guarantee is removed no legal or moral
force
will remain to obstruct us in determining our future through a
plebiscite.
It will be understood from the above explanations that it
is
necessary to follow a chain of efforts and developments in
order
to ensure the success of our Plan. If these efforts and
developments failed to materialize, our future actions would
be legally unjustified and politically unattainable and we
would
be exposing Cyprus and its people to grave consequences.
Actions
to be taken are as follows:
(a) The amendment of the negative elements of the Agreements
and
the consequent de facto nullification of the Treaties of
Guarantee and Alliance. This step is essential because the
necessity of amending the negative aspects of any
Agreement is
generally acceptable internationally and is considered
reasonable
(passage omitted) whereas an external intervention to
prevent
the amendment of such negative provisions is held
unjustified
and inapplicable.
(b) Once this is achieved the Treaty of Guarantee (the right
of
intervention) will become legally and substantially
inapplicable.
(c) Once those provisions of the Treaties of Guarantee and
Alliance
which restrict the exercise of the right of
self-determination
are removed, the people of Cyprus will be able, freely, to
express
and apply its will.
(d) It will be possible for the Force of the State (the Police
Force)
and in addition, friendly military Forces, to resist
legitimately
any intervention internally or from outside, because we
will then
be completely independent.
It will be seen that it is necessary for actions from (a)
to (d)
to be carried out in the order indicated.
It is consequently evident that if we ever hope to have
any chance
of success in the international field, we cannot and should not
reveal
or proclaim any stage of the struggle before the previous stage
is
completed. For instance, it is accepted that the above four
stages
constitute the necessary course to be taken, then it is obvious
that
it would be senseless for us to speak of amendment (a) if stage
(d)
is revealed, because it would then be rediculous for us to seek
the
amendment of the negative points with the excuse that these
amendments
are necessary for the functioning of the State and of the
Agreements.
The above are the points regarding our targets and aims,
and the
procedure to be followed in the international field.
B. THE INTERNAL ASPECT
Our activities in the internal field will be regulated
according
to their repercussions and to interpretations to be given to
them in
the world and according to the effect of our actions on our
national
cause.
1- The only danger that can be described as insurmountable is the
possibility of a forceful intervention. This danger, which
could be
met partly or wholly by our forces is important because of the
political damage that it could do rather than the material
losses
that it could entail. If intervention took place before stage
(c),
then such intervention would be legally tenable at least, if
not
entirely justifiable. This would be very much against us both
internationally and at the United Nations. The history of many
similar
incidents in recent times shows us that in no case of
intervention,
even if legally excusable, has the attacker been removed by
either
the United Nations or the other powers without significant
concessions
to the detriment of the attacked party. Even in the case of the
attack
on Suez Canal by Israel, which was condemned by almost all
members of
the United Nations and for which Russia threatened
intervention, the
Israelis were removed but, as a concession, they continued to
keep
the port of Eliat in the Red Sea. There are, however, more
serious
dangers in the case of Cyprus.
If we do our work well and justify the attempt we shall
make
under stage (a) above, we will see, on the one hand, that
intervention
will not be justified and, on the other hand, we will have
every
support since, by the Treaty of Guarantee, intervention cannot
take
place before negotiations take place between the Guarantor
Powers, that
is, Britain, Greece, and Turkey. It is at this stage, i.e. at
the stage
of contacts (before intervention) that we shall need
international
support. We shall obtain this support if the amendments
proposed by us
seem reasonable and justified. Therefore, we have to be
extremely
careful in selecting the amendments that we shall propose.
The first step, therefore, would be to get rid of
intervention
by proposing amendments in the first stage. Tactic to be
followed:
(Omitted)
2- It is evident that for intervention to be justified there
must
be a more serious reason and a more immediate danger than
simple
Constitutional amendments. Such reasons can be:
(a) The declaration of ENOSIS before actions (a) to (c)
(b) Serious intercommunal unrest which may be shown as a
massacre
of Turks.
The first reason is removed as a result of the Plan drawn
up for
the first stage and consequently what remains, is the danger of
intercommunal strife. We do not intend to engage, without
provocation,
in massacre or attack against the Turks. Therefore, (section
omitted)
the Turks can react strongly and incite incidents and strife,
or falsely
stage massacres, clashes or bomb explosions in order to create
the
impression that the Greeks attacked the Turks and that
intervention
is imperative for their protection. Tactic to be employed: Our
actions
for amending the Constitution will not be secret; we would
always appear
to be ready for peaceful talks and our actions would not take
any
provocative and violent form. Any incidents that may take place
will be
met, at the beginning, in a legal fashion by the legal Security
Forces,
according to a plan. Our actions will have a legal form.
3- (Omitted)
4- It is, however, naive to believe that it is impossible
for us to
proceed to substantial actions for amending the Constitution,
as a first
step towards our more general Plan as described above, without
expecting
the Turks to create or stage incidents and clashes. For this
reason,
the existence and the strengthening of our Organization is
imperative
because: (a) if, in case of spontaneous resistance by the
Turks, our
counter attack is not immediate, we run the risk of having a
panic
created among the Greeks, in towns particular. We will then be
in
danger of losing vast areas of vital importance to the Turks,
while
if we show our strength to the Turks immediately and
forcefully, then
they will probably be brought to their senses and restrict
their
activities to insignificant, isolated incidents. (b) In case of
a
planned or unplanned attack by the Turks, whether this be
staged or not
it is necessary to suppress this forcefully in the shortest
possible
time, since, if we manage to become masters of the situation
within
a day or two, outside intervention would not be possible,
probable or
justifiable. (c) The forceful and decisive suppressing of any
Turkish
effort will greatly facilitate our subsequent actions for
further
Constitutional amendments, and it should then be possible to
apply
these without the Turks being able to show any reaction.
Because they
will learn that it is impossible for them to show any reaction
without
serious consequences for their Community. (d) In case of the
clashes
becoming widespread, we must be ready to proceed immediately
through
actions (a) to (d), including the immediate declaration of
ENOSIS,
because, then, there will be no need to wait or to engage in
diplomatic
activity.
5- In all these stages we must not overlook the factor of
enlightening, and of facing the propaganda of those who do not
know or
cannot be expected to know our plans, as well as of the
reactionary
elements. It has been shown that our struggle must go through
at least
four stages and that we are obliged not to reveal our plans and
intentions prematurely. It is therefore more than a national
duty for
everyone to observe full secrecy in the matter. Secrecy is
vitally
essential for our success and survival. This, however, does not
prevent
the reactionaries and irresponsible demagogues from indulging
in false
patriotic manifestations and provocations. Our Plan would
provide them
with the possibility of putting forward accusations to the
effect that
the aims of our leadership are not national and that only the
amendment
of the Constitution is envisaged. The need for carrying out
Constitutional amendments in stages and in accordance with the
prevailing conditions, makes our job even more difficult. All
this must
not, however, be allowed to drag us to irresponsible demagogy,
street
politics and a race of nationalism. Our deeds will be our
undeniable
justification. In any case owing to the fact that, for
well-known
reasons, the above Plan must have been carried out and borne
fruit long
before the next elections, we must distinguish ourselves with
self-restraint and moderation in the short time that we have.
Parallel
with this, we should not only maintain but reinforce the
present unity
and discipline of our patriotic forces. We can succeed in this
only by
properly enlightening our members so that they in turn
enlighten the
public.
Before anything else we must expose the true identity of
the
reactionaries. These are petty and irresponsible demagogues and
opportunists. Their recent history shows this. They are
unsuccessful,
negative and antiprogressive elements who attack our leadership
like
mad dogs but who are unable to put forward any substantive and
practical solution of their own. In order to succeed in all our
activities we need a strong and stable government, up to the
last
minute. They are known as clamorous slogan-creators who are
good for
nothing but speech-making. When it comes to taking definite
actions
or making sacrifices they are soon shown to be unwilling
weaklings. A
typical example of this is that even at the present stage they
have no
better proposal to make than to suggest that we should have
recourse
to the United Nations. It is therefore necessary that they
should be
isolated and kept at a distance.
We must enlighten our members about our plans and
objectives ONLY
VERBALLY. Meetings must be held at the sub-headquarters of the
Organization to enlighten leaders and members so that they are
properly
equipped to enlighten others. NO WRITTEN EXPLANATION OF ANY
SORT IS
ALLOWED. LOSS OR LEAKAGE OF ANY DOCUMENT PERTAINING TO THE
ABOVE IS
EQUIVALENT TO HIGH TREASON. There can be no action that would
inflict
a heavier blow to our struggle than any revealing of the
contents of
the present document or the publication of this by the
opposition.
Outside the verbal enlightenment of our members, all our
activities, and our publications in the press in particular,
must be
most restrained and must not divulge any of the above. Only
responsible
persons will be allowed to make public speeches and statements
and will
refer to this Plan only generally under their personal
responsibility
and under the personal responsibilty of the Chief of
sub-headquarters
concerned. Also, any reference to the written Plan should be
done only
after the formal approval of the Chief of the sub-headquarters
who will
control the speech or statement. But in any case such speech or
statement MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO APPEAR IN THE PRESS OR ANY
OTHER
PUBLICATION.
The tactic to be followed: Great effort must be made to
enlighten
our members and the public VERBALLY. Every effort must be made
to show
ourselves as moderates. Any reference to our plans in writing,
or
any reference in the press or in any document is strictly
prohibited.
Responsible officials and other responsible persons will
continue
to enlighten the public and to increase its morale and fighting
spirit
without ever divulging any of our plans through the press or
otherwise.
NOTE: The present document should be destroyed by burning under
the
personal responsibilities of the Chief of the sub-headquarters
and in
the presence of all members of the staff within 10 days of its
being
received. It is strictly prohibited to make copies of the whole
or any
part of this document. Staff members of sub-headquarters may
have it in
their possession only under the personal responsibility of the
Chief
of sub-headquarters, but in no case is anyone allowed to take
it out
of the office of sub-headquarters.
The Chief
AKRITAS
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TOPIC: Whining about Debra LeFave "double standard"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/75a648f72ed7c92
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 11:52 pm
From: KenPisano
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:32:22 GMT, "Bo Raxo"
<forensics@earthcorp.removethistoreply.com> wrote:
>
>"nimue" <cup_o_cakes@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:9f7Yf.12806$cY3.6029@news-wrt-01.rdc-nyc.rr.com...
>> EGB wrote:
>> > On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:33:25 GMT, "nimue" <cup_o_cakes@yahoo.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Of course, only the woman would have real physical stuff to deal
>> >> with.
>> >
>> > No, the woman could fly to California and have an abortion.
>>
>> Not if, as I said, abortion becomes illegal in the U.S. AND even if it
>> doesn't, not all women can afford to pay to fly to another state, pay for
>a
>> place to stay, pay for an abortion, and miss work for those days.
>>
>
>Welcome to 21st century America: you can have all the rights you can
>afford.
>
>Clean water? No problem, as long as you can afford to buy bottled. Clean
>air? No problem, as long as you can afford to live outside certain major
>metropolitan areas.
>
>A public education for your kids that isn't a joke? No problem, as long as
>you can afford a nice neighborhoods. Safe streets? Same answer.
>
>Right to choice? As long as you can afford to run off to a state (or a
>country) that allows it.
>
>A fair trial? Sure, as long as you can afford a good attorney.
>
>Pick an amendment, any amendment. There's a price tag attached.
>
>Well, except the 14th: that whole "equal protection clause" is just
>forgotten, trampled in the rush behind gated communities, private schools, a
>whole parallel society by and for those that can afford it.
>
>
>Bo Raxo
>
>
>
Hey . . . that was pretty good.
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TOPIC: The New Protocols
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/b4ee8675ec938f47
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 3 2006 9:11 pm
From: "Jim E"
"serwad" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:jqlYf.36496$g6.23805@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
>
> "DoD" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote in message
> news:l%kYf.40094$ty4.3638@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...
>>
>> "serwad" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> news:oRkYf.36480$g6.26886@bignews8.bellsouth.net...
>>> > Hey Moishe, do you really think you anyone falls for 'I am a Jew'
>>> pretense?
>>>>
>>> As if it makes any diff to anyone who the fuck he is, so long as he
>>> tells the truth, not lies like you always blubber!
>>
>> I have never seen Tilly say Islam is the religion of peace.
>
> It matters not what either one of you say. Islam is a religion of peace.
> Islam has not started wars which killed many millions of people!
>
What do you pay an ounce for the shit you are smoking?
It must be damn expensive.
How many times have the rags attacked Israel, only to have their asses
kicked thoroughly?
Jim E
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