The New York Times

"Since then the Turkish side has been pursuing total separation of the communities. Last year all ethnic Turks were allowed to go north in exchange for promises that the ethnic Greeks in the Turkish area would be given free movement, better schools and more medical care. In addition, the Turkish side promised to allow the United Nations to set up posts in the north and provide the Greeks with moral and material support.

The Turkish side, keeping few of its promises, persisted in putiing pressure on the remaining ethnic Greeks to leave. As a result a steady trickle of departures has become a flood. Abouy 30 Greeks go south every day".

Steven V. Roberts, "The New York Times", 1.11.1976.


The Times

"Further expulsions belie Turkish claims of a voluntary exodus"

"Then we had a visit from two Turkish Cypriots on November 8. The were originally from Kokkina (a Turkish Cypriot village still under control of the Cypriot Government) and they said we had 15 days to leave. They said they had been told that they could have our house and that the authorities had send them roud to us.

"I did not believe this was true and said:'You cannot tell us to leave. What authority have you got?' So the taller man held up a piece of paper with a Turkish stamp on it, which gave his name as Hasun Mehmet and listed our house as 'F55'. In Yaloussa, the village was so small that we never had street numbers but this was the Turkish designation for our home. I told the men to leave and they did.

"But next day a Turkish girl who lived two houses away and who was a friend of mine came to our home. She said that Turks were going to burn my husbands' lorry unless we agreed to leave immediately.

"On the same day, Mr. Mehmet came back. He said he could bring some boxes for us if we nedded extra packing cases when we moved. Then he asked my husband to show him how the water-heater worked in our bathroom".

Robert Fisk, "The Times" 9.12.1976.

"Identical reports appear throughout the documents which also refer to acts of violence against Greek Cypriots. On October 9 this year, summary 4040, again dealt with Sector Six and stated: 'During night time 3/10 to 4/1076 five Tk Cyp (Turkish Cypriot) men entered the house of Gk Cyp Lysandros Foka in the vilaage of Ayias Trias, beat him up, robbed money in the value of 581 Cyprus pounds (#830) and raped his 14-years-old daughter. Another Tk Cyp was guarding outside while te five committed te crimes. The Tk Cyps were carrying a shotgun and fired at least one shot in the air".

"The Times", 13.2.1976.


The Guardian

"Death of a village of peace"
" the old countryman's eyes were heavy with tears he had not yet shed. What did he think would happen to Bellapais when the last of its people had left? His previously firm voice broke at the thought and the tears began to flow. 'Erimia', he said, 'Desolation'.

Bellapais has been dying by degrees since the beginning of the year when the Turks began movong out in small groups the 700 inhabidants of this hauntingly beautiful village, made world famous by Lawrence Durrell's 1955 bestseller Bitter Lemons.

There are now fewer than 20 people left in the village and they will all be gone by the weekend".

John Bierman, "The Guardian", 5.7.1976.


The Economist

"Cyprus-A Bitter Lemon Squeezed Dry"

"Bellapais, the Greek Cypriot village made famous by Lawrence Durrell's "Bitter Lemons", is no longer Greek: two weeks ago its last seven Greek inhabidants gave up struggle against the Turkish squeeze. With their departure the number of Greek Cypriots in the entire Kyrenia District of northern Cyprus is now fewer than 30. Because of this, the Turkish authorities say that the United Nations force in Cyprus no longer needs a post in that area".

"The Economist" 4.9.1976.

Dear Administrator

These are fantastic press releases. I have noticed the dates of them are only short after the invasion. The content of them clearly illustrates the horror of the 1974 invasion and the disgusting illegal and violating acts that came with it.. These articles show some examples of the common turkish terror during the invasion such as invading and evicting people from thier homes and villages/towns, threats and abuse, rape and killings!! If you haven't read these articles then make sure you do . . We will never forget!

Best
Rousias

The following excerpts from the world press attest to the cold blooded massacres by the Greek Cypriots in anti-Turkish hysteria:
 
"We went tonight into the sealed-off Turkish quarter of Nicosia in which 200 to 300 people had been slaughtered in the last five days. We are the first Western reporters there and we have seen sights too frightful to be described in print and horrors so extreme that people seemed stunned beyond tears and    reduced to a hysterical and mirthless giggle that is more terrible than tears."
 
(DAILY EXPRESS of 28 December 1963 -                Report by Rene Maccoll and Daniel McGeaohie)
 
"….. A few days ago, 1,000 people lived here, in their solid, stone built homes which hug the coast road to Kyrenia, 13 miles from Nicosia. Then in a night of terror 350 villagers - men, women and children - vanished. They were all Turks".
 
                (DAILY HERALD (London) of 31 December 1963)
 
The deep-rooted and intense racial enmity felt by the Greek Cypriots against the Turkish Cypriots - an enmity which is fed by the Orthodox Church and the nationalists led by gymnasia - has been transformed into a political objective, as was revealed by the late Archbishop Makarios, in a sermon at Panayia village, on 4 September 1962, when he said:
 
“Unless this small Turkish community forming a part of the Turkish race, which has been the terrible enemy of Hellenism, is expelled, the duty of the heroes of EOKA can never be considered as terminated”
 
Ten years later in an interview with Karin Kaemmereit, of the German weekly, “BUNTE ILLUSTRIERTE”, Makarios said:
 
“The union of Cyprus with Greece requires the extermination of the Turkish Cypriot community”.
 
Between 1963 – 1974, the Turkish Cypriots lost 103 villages and lived in small enclaves corresponding to only 3% of the territory of Cyprus, which they had been forced into by the armed assaults of the Greek Cypriots. For eleven years they had to live under “open-air prison” conditions.
 
"... thousands of Turkish Cypriots fled from their homes, taking with them only what they could drive or carry and sought refuge in what they considered to be safer Turkish Cypriot villages and areas."
 
                                                            (Report of the UN Secretary-General S/8286
              of 8 December 1967)
 
"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 Hellenes and the busts of Plato do not suffice to cover-up their barbaric and ferocious behaviour".
 
                   (IL GIORNO of 14 January 1964 -
         Report by Giorgio Bocca)
 
 
The Greek engineered coup d’etat of 15 July 1974 constituted the culmination of Greek Cypriot efforts to unite the island with Greece and represented the final phase of a genocidal campaign of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Greek Cypriots. The Turkish Cypriots were relieved from this agony only by the ensuing Turkish intervention, carried out in accordance with Turkey’s rights and obligations vested in the Treaty of Guarantee signed in 1960. However, until the Turkish troops were able to consolidate their positions and provide security for the Turkish Cypriots, the Greek Cypriots in anti-Turkish frenzy massacred Turkish Cypriots. Mass graves were later discovered at Ayvasil (Ayios Vasilios), Murataga (Maratha), Sandallar (Sandallaris) and Atlilar (Aloa).
 
The then US Under-Secretary of State, Mr. George W. Ball, in his memoirs ‘The Past Has Another Pattern’ had this to say, from his personal experiences, concerning events in Cyprus during that period:
 
“Makarios’ central interest was to block off Turkish intervention so that he and his Greek Cypriots could go on happily butchering Turkish Cypriots.”
 
“… the  Greek Cypriots… do not want a peace keeping force; they just want to be left alone to kill Turkish Cypriots.”
 
Turkey’s timely and lawful intervention, which prevented the illegal annexation of Cyprus by Greece,  put an end to the bloodshed and prevented the total extermination of the Turkish Cypriot people. 


http://www.trncpio.org/ingilizce/DOSYALAR/Introduction.htm

More to follow so the hypocrites here may learn a thing or two.

brother, these posts are unacceptable on this forum. i highly recommend you post this back on talk cyprus dot org.


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Administrator wrote:

brother, these posts are unacceptable on this forum. i highly recommend you post this back on talk cyprus dot org.

Admin, are you scared of confronting the truth, are you to be the blind leading the blind while you ignorantly avoid the facts.

All the best

Administrator wrote:

brother, these posts are unacceptable on this forum. i highly recommend you post this back on talk cyprus dot org.

Your comment only proves that you are a propaganda forum and not a discussion forum.

Dear Brother

You have provided an array of news and media releases from arounnd 1963 to 1974...

Some of these are completely untrue and are wicked twists from tyhe media

Especially the US media!

This is Turkish Propoganda and you have been TRICKED!!!!

This is all rubish and is propoganda that gavbe Turkey the excuse to illegally invade!

I must point out that the US had some corrupt involvement around this time prior and during the Turkish invasion..

US warcrafts were found to be fighting in alliance with Turkish forces in the 1974 Turkish invasion

Alot of this media has been MADE UP AND EXAGGERATED!

Dont you DARE call us extremists!!! Take a look in the mirror and put things in perspective!

Even if some of this was true - Turkey DID NOT have any rights to ILLEGALLY INVADE AND COMMIT COUNTLESS WAR CRIMES

If they entered for a Peace Keeping Effort then why are they STILL THERE 32 YEARS LATER??

Best
Rousias

Dear All

None of the press cuttings at the beginning of this thread are from 1974. They all seem to be from 1976.. In 1974 the world and his dog supported Turkey's right to intervene in Cyprus and brother's posting helps to show why.

rousias wrote:

Dear Brother

You have provided an array of news and media releases from arounnd 1963 to 1974...

Some of these are completely untrue and are wicked twists from tyhe media

Especially the US media!

This is Turkish Propoganda and you have been TRICKED!!!!

This is all rubish and is propoganda that gavbe Turkey the excuse to illegally invade!

I must point out that the US had some corrupt involvement around this time prior and during the Turkish invasion..

US warcrafts were found to be fighting in alliance with Turkish forces in the 1974 Turkish invasion

Alot of this media has been MADE UP AND EXAGGERATED!

Dont you DARE call us extremists!!! Take a look in the mirror and put things in perspective!

Even if some of this was true - Turkey DID NOT have any rights to ILLEGALLY INVADE AND COMMIT COUNTLESS WAR CRIMES

If they entered for a Peace Keeping Effort then why are they STILL THERE 32 YEARS LATER??

Best
Rousias

YOU ARE TRUELY A PIECE OF WORK.

When it suits your agenda US articles are fine as shown on the first post but when it airs the truths of what you have done its all a conspiracy.

I LAUGH AT YOUR PETTY AND NARROW MINDED APPROACH.