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27 Nisan 2025 Pazar
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22 Ağustos 2024 Perşembe
Genocide of Turkish Cypriots
"Genocide - the extermination of the Turks of Cyrpus - had begun. The civilezed world, as the Western nations call themselves, does not like that word genocide!.."
(At the Bosnian war author) Sebastian reported what a United States official told him: At all costs they (the Western nations) had to stay away from the word 'genocide' - the g-word. So they called it 'ethnic cleansing' instead. You couldn't say genocide because that would have required them to act under the UN charter. They would have had to do something to prevent it. Genocide was the whole reason the UN was set up in the first place."
... word of the shooting had spread, and gangs of Greek civilians apparently decided it was an official "open season" day for shooting Turks...."
H.S.Gibbons, The Genocide Files, 1997
Harry Scott Gibbons is a journalist. He served in the Middle East, Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and the United States and is the author of the book "The Genocide Files", published by Charles Bravos, London, 1997.
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"What became known as the Christmas War or, in the Turkish version, Bloody Christmas, was actually the Akritas Plan for genocide. There was bloody slaughter of the Turks and the Greeks also paid a terrible penalty in deaths and injuries when
the Turkish fighters hit back, but the Greeks’ aim, enosis, was not realised."...
"the Akritas Plan for Genocide, was not known for years"...
"The Greeks of Cyprus had attempted genocide against their fellow citizens, the Turks, and had failed.
11 years later, they tried again."...
"The second genocide attempt, as it was later revealed, was due to begin some time after 10 July 1974, the actual date not specified. Athens was totally involved in this plan as documents captured later were to prove..."
"The bloodshed continued on the island for 11 years after that Christmas,
but the world had now lost interest.
Those 11 years were hell on earth for the Turkish Cypriots."
H.S.Gibbons, Genocide, 2001
Persections, Journal of Int.Affairs, V: VI/3 - link
Abstract
The Cyprus problem was solved in July 1974, when the Turkish Armed Forces intervened in the vicious civil war that followed a covert Greek invasion and an Athens inspired and led coup that deposed the president. This intervention - which was legal under the terms of the Treaty of Guarantee, which is firmly embedded in the Cyprus Constitution - brought the civil war to an end, overturned the coup and thus forestalled enosis union with Greece , which the coup leaders later said they intended to declare and which was another act specifically forbidden under the Constitution.
(...) "When Makarios, the spearhead of the terrorist organisation EOKA, which had for years murdered Britons, Turks and Greeks alike in its ambition to end Britain’s colonial occupation and unite the island with Greece, signed up to a constitution for the establishment of a new Cyprus republic, he agreed to give up for ever his single-minded quest for enosis." (...) - Gibbons
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Greek Terrorist EOKA' attacks on British citizens (1955/9),
besides Turkish Cypriots!
Harry Scott Gibbons: From "The Genocide Files"
... While Cyprus was ablaze, Britain had been quietly evacuating British civilians, tourists and residents, and any other tourists who wished to leave, from the 6-Mile-Beach on the east of Kyrenia, on the other side of the town from the Turkish landing force. The aircraft carrier Hermes and three other warships were running a shuttle launch and helicopter service between ships and shore while the fighting was going on a few miles away.
I imagine there was cooperation between Britain and Turkey to avoid the two sides getting tangled with each other. Especially when the helicopters moved west to Kyrenia to pick up 4.000 civilians stranded there.
The Paphos Turks had fought all night, but by Sunday morning they were surrounded. They surrendered and handed over their guns. The Greeks rounded up all the Turkish men, killing some of them in the process. The rest were taken to the soccer stadium, but after a few hours were released. They were rounded up again, herded to a square in the Turkish quarter and kept standing for hours. From them on, they were confined to the Turkish quarter and not allowed to leave, even to visit their wounded in the Greek hospital, without special permits issued by the Natioanl Guard. Heavily armed irregulars of EOKA-B patrolled the streets... (...)
... On monday, July 22, mobs bombarded the British embassy in Athens, saying Britain was aiding Turkey on Cyprus. 100 Athens police stood by and made no attempt to intervene as mobs smashed windows and threw paint on the embassy walls. They painted slogans, one of them "Pigs sons". They smashed cars outside, including the new Rolls Royce of ambassador Sir Robin Hooper. a Leaglet was distributed - "Englismen, if the Hermes (the British aircraft carrier which had evacuated Britons from the island) does not leave, this will be your grave. Death to the English!" ...
Bloody History / link : BBC, 23 November 2009 by Chris Summers
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- Supply from Greece to Terrorist EOKA,
- Grivas was a 'lunatic',
- Blonde Greek-Cypriots are a rare breed...
by Robert Holland
Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus 1954/59
20 July - 14 August 1974
It was Not an Invasion, it was a Rescue Mission, after the Civilian Massacres of Turkish Cypriots! (1963/64/67/74)
The Greek Cypriots claim that the Cyprus problem was caused by the landing of Turkish troops in 1974 and that if only they would withdraw the problem would be solved. This is a serious misconception, for modern Cyprus question began in 1960 and the landing of Turkish troops was the consequence, not the cause of the problem...
SB
Taşkent Katliamı
27 Şubat 2017 Pazartesi
Yes there is a Genocide; Turkish Genocide !..
7 Şubat 2017 Salı
Two Books: "Love and Death in Cyprus" and "Korean Rose"
'Love and Death in Cyprus' is a novel by Harry Blackley, about a Turkish Cypriot girl, Leyla Özkara and a Scottish pharmacist, Alexander Forbes, who meet and fall in love on Cyprus in 1957. Based on the real events...
* I was delighted when I learned that author Harry Blackley (Love & Death in Cyprus), told me that he was planning another novel, this time set in Australia and the Korean War, especially the contribution of the Turkish Brigade in that “forgotten war”. Like any good storyteller he has blended fiction with some little known facts.
Korean Rose is a great story that I found hard to put down. Call me sentimental but I found the story of Rose McDonald, the Australian nurse, and Kemal Hasol, the Turkish Lieutenant, really moving. The battle scenes and the conditions endured by medical people are brilliantly portrayed. I think this novel will make people sit up and realize how the Turks fought so bravely along side the Australia and New Zealand contingent in a war as bloody as any in history. In recognition of their courage under fire, I was instrumental in the formation of the Victorian Returned Services League Turkish Sub-Branch. It is with pleasure that I recommend people read Korean Rose. You won’t be disappointed.
Bruce Ruxton AM OBE
President of the Victorian Branch of the RSL 1978-2001
* Rose McDonald, a theatre nurse, joins the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps and volunteers to serve in Korea in October 1950. At the same time, Lieutenant Kemal Hasol arrives in Korea with the 1st Turkish Brigade to fight under the flag of the United Nations. Two people from far away countries and vastly different cultures, but there is an immediate attraction. Their love deepens. Will it survive the separation of war and distance?
A Peace Treaty has never been signed following the armistice in July 1953. Korean Rose will make you laugh and cry and wonder at man’s inhumanity to man. The Korean War was a bloody war with over one million South Korean civilians killed. Over two million UN, South Korean and Communist troops were killed, wounded or reported missing.
All wars end. The dead, wounded and mentally scarred are forgotten. The Generals write their memories. Korean Rose is for those story is never heard.../link
The Autor Harry Blackley PhC BA, born in 1934, Scotland, Blackley graduated as a Pharmacist in 1957. He worked in the National Service Royal Army Medical Corps in Cyprus between 1957-59. He then migrated to Australia in 1965.
I've read the "Kıbrıs'ta Aşk ve Ölüm (Love and Death in Cyprus)", haven't read the "Korean Rose", but I looked at the contents:
In the "Korean Rose" book, there is a General Yazici... a real person Tahsin Yazıcı (1892-1970), a soldier and politician. Thanks to the Turkish troops, the 8th USA army and other forces of the United Nations, are rescued in the Battle of Kunuri - Korea . Our losses was 734 ... It was not our fight... After the Korean War we became a member of the NATO! - SB
HERMES SABOTAGE
The destruction of Skyways' Hermes G-ALDW at Nicosia Airport on March 4th was later found to have been caused by a time-bomb placed in the luggage compartment. The explosion occurred 20 minutes before the aircraft was due to depart for the United Kingdom with 68 passengers, mostly Service personnel. The flight was one of twelve per month operated by Skyways between the United Kingdom and Cyprus under a Government trooping contract. The company also operates through Nicosia to the Far East, together with Airwork. These services are being re-routed via Beirut to avoid night stops in Cyprus, although services terminating there are continuing as usual. .../link / link
A memorial to the 371 British servicemen killed in Cyprus in the 1950s /2009 press link
The memorial, at the British Cemetery in Kyrenia, northern Cyprus, bears the names of every soldier, sailor and airman who died during the Cyprus Emergency, as it was known, which lasted from 1955 to 1959, and involved a series of terrorist attacks by EOKA (the Greek acronym for National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters).
Can Cyprus overcome its bloody history? / 2009 press link
Several civilians were also killed, including Catherine Cutliffe and her daughter Margaret who were shot while buying a wedding dress in Famagusta, although Eoka denied responsibility for that attack. (*)
(*) But, it was done by EOKA terrorists. - SB
"EOKA gets his supply from GREECE.... There were several explosions at Police installations in Nicosia and Kyrenia. On 21 June the front of the Divisional Police Headquarters in Ataturk Square was blown in, injuring five persons and killing one; this brought EOKA violence into the Turkish quarter of the city for the first time...
...Terror, ofcourse, never strikes quite when or where it is expected. Surprise is its biggest attribute. Grivas issued instructions for a staggered build-up of incidents towards 1 October, and only progressive acceleration thereafter. It was in line with EOKA's history as an organization essentially aimed at the British that Turks were explicitly ruled out as targets. Two soldiers were gravely wounded by one of the mines which EOKA was now adept at manufacturing. Then on 3 October there occured an inciednt which imprinted itself on expatriate minds more than any other in the whole course of the Emergency. That morning an english woman, Mrs Margaret Cutliffe and her daughter Catherine, went shopping in Famagusta for Catherine's wedding dress. Miss Cutliffe recalled at the inquest that as they entered Hermes Street from Edward VII Avenue (the names themselves convey the different worlds the island straddled), her mother had commented on the "peculiar atmosphere" in the town, and the number of people waiting on street corners. They had met a female friend (a German lady married to an English resident) before disappearing into a shop. After browsing Catherine led the way out, heard a commotion, and looked round to see the wto older women fall to the ground. Mrs Cutliffe died instantly from gunfire; the friend was scriously wounded. A man was nearby with a pistol on the recoil. After firing a single shot at the daughter, he ran off. Vatherine also had the recollection of a Greek passer-by observing, with a grin, the dreadful scene.
Amongst the victims of terror, truth is not the least significant. Was it a grin or a grimace that this unidentified witness wore on their face? Who could tell one from the other? Yet the remembrance fixed in most British eyes a general comlicity in the crime on the part of the Greeks of Famagusta. Similarly, the reference to a "peculiar atmosphere" in the town underpinned an assumption that on that Friday morning, in the words of the Times of Cyprus (10 Oct.1958), 'everyone knew something momentous was going to happen'. But as that newspaper also pointed out, the peculiar atmosphere really stemmed from the Macmillan Plan itself. Nor would ordinary citizens be milling about if they had known such a crime was imminent. The Mayor of Nicosia issued a statement taht 'nobody but a lunatic' might suppose EOKA would hand the British such a propaganda coup as the murder of a defenceless woman. Indeed, there is the further twist that Catherine Cutliffe remembered the killer as having blonde hair. Blonde Greek-Cypriots are a rare breed. This led to the supposition on the Greek side that Mrs Cutliffe had been killed bu some other nationality, as an agent provovateur, or as a crime of passion. Some months later Foreign Minister Averoff was to assure Selwyn Lloyd that his Government had solid evidence that the culprit had not, indeed, been Greek.This is hardly convincing on its own, though his persistence on the point is interesting. Grivas was a 'lunatic' for violence, and he had killed enough people not to draw the line at a middle-aged English lady. Yet the Cutliffe killing both symbolized and intensified the wedge driven between Greek and British feelings in Cyprus... " (page 286)
book: Robert Holland - Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus,1954-1959
EOKA killed his own "Greek Cypriot" citizens to! The terrorist organisation EOKA was headed by Georgios Grivas, but the orders were given by archbishop Makarios III.
Greek Cypriot researcher and filmmaker Antonis Angastiniotis (docu of Missing Bus-Cyprus) reported to the Greek Cypriot English-language daily Cyprus Mail on Nov. 4, 2004 that: “All Turkish Cypriots know what happened in the villages of Aloa (Atlılar),Maratha (Muratağa) and Sandalari (Sandallar). It is the Greek Cypriots who do not. ... The Greek Cypriots of the neighboring villages, along with army personnel, attacked these villages. They shot the children, the mothers and any old people left in the villages.… For me this became a nightmare because all these years I had been convinced that everything we had done was right.” / link
12 Nisan 2016 Salı
Terrorist Organisation PKK and Armenian-Greek Relations
Changing their tactics after the '80s as they encountered adverse reactions from the world. Now, it was time for the PKK to carry on the mission. Their first terrorist act started at Eruh and Semdimli in 1984 while the ASALA-Armenian terror receded to the background. Some of the tangible proofs of the ties between Armenians and PKK are the following:
The terrorist organisation PKK announced the period from 21 to 28 April 1980 as the "Red Week" and started to organise meetings on April 24 as the anniversary of the alleged genocide against Armenians.
The PKK and ASALA terror organisations held a joint press conference on 8 April 1980 at the City of Sidon in Lebanon where they issued a declaration. Since this drew a considerable reaction, they decided that their relations should be maintained on a clandestine basis. The responsibility of the attacks launched against the Turkish Consulate General in Strasbourg on 9 November 1980 and the Turkish Airline office in Rome on 19 November 1980 were undertaken jointly by the ASALA and PKK.
Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the separatist terror organisation, was elected to the honorary membership of the Armenian Authors' Association for "his contributions to the idea of Greater Armenia."
An agreement was concluded between the separatist terror organisation PKK and Armenians in 1987. Following are the highlights of this agreement:
1. Armenians will be involved in training activities within the PKK terror organisation.
2. Five thousand American Dollars per annum will be paid to the PKK terror organisation per capita by the Armenian side.
3. The Armenians will participate in the small-scale operations.
As the Armenian component began to acquire a significantly elevated position within the organisation as a result of this agreement, the following resolutions were adopted in a meeting held on 18 April 1990 with a person named Hermes Samurai, reported to be the official responsible for the
PKK-ASALA relations:
1. The PKK and ASALA terrorist organisations will be under a joint command from that date on.
2. The Armenians will undertake intelligence work on the Turkish security forces.
3. Territories gained through the expected revolution will be equally shared between the parties.
4. Seventy-five percent of training camp expenses will be borne by the Armenians.
5. Operations will be conducted at the metropolitan cities in Turkey.
The terrorist organisation PKK that moved its bases into Northern Iraq after because of very heavy blows dealt in the transborder operations and lost all possibilities of sheltering there is known to have entered into arrangements for shifting some of its cadres to Iran and Armenia where it started an active subversive operation toward Turkey.
Holdwater: Greece, too, was a supporter of the PKK... although she kept denying the fact in typical Greek fashion. (Until the embarrassing moment when Greece got caught with her pants down, in the last hours before Abdullah Öcalan was captured. Then the rampaging Kurds in Europe mainly targeted Greek embassies in the next few days, because they must have felt the Greeks let them down.
These anti-Turkish groups are all working in collusion. This is why, among arguments for the Armenian "Genocide," the argument for the "genocide" against the Kurds is never far behind. (Turkey's beef was not with the country's Kurds... but the terrorist group, PKK, which only pretended to speak for the Kurds.) Meanwhile, the lazy-thinking and prejudiced West buys these sob stories almost automatically, so perfectly cast has Turkey been in the role of the "villain." (Even the West had to belatedly recognize the PKK as a terror group, however... very belatedly.)
It's heartbreaking that the deaths of these innocents murdered by Armenian terrorists in the 1970s and 80s were generally dismissed in the press of the nations the murders took place. Most of the killers got away with their crimes... and as far as the few who got caught: While none of the assassins walked away scot free as did Soghoman Tehlirian (the Armenian gunman who assassinated Talat Pasha in 1921), it's shocking that some of them received lenient treatment and/or relatively light sentences.
In America, the elderly Armenian who murdered two Turkish diplomats was paroled (on the order of the then California governor, George Deukmejian... they sure stick together, the Armenians) after serving only eleven years in prison. Eleven years for the taking of not one, but TWO lives. In Switzerland, a Lebanese-Armenian got just fifteen years for the snuffing out of a person's whole life. Armenian butt-kissing France doled out an unbelievable seven year prison term to four Armenian terrorists who took hostage 56 Turkish officials, wounded the consul general, and killed the security guard.
Most Kurds are integrated into Turkish society. About one-third of the Turkish Parliament is of Kurdish origin. This illustrates the absence of discrimination.
...If any genocide or ethnic cleansing has taken place, this has always been carried out by the Greeks
As for Cyprus, if any genocide or ethnic cleansing has taken place, this has always been carried out by the Greeks. The abortive coup of 1974, organized by EOKA and Greek colonels, aimed at elimination of the Turkish Cypriots from the Island. Turkey intervened to protect them and prevent Enosis. Since that date, the island has been peaceful and free of bloodshed.
Turkey has consistently supported a fair and reasonable settlement on Cyprus, but one that gives the Turkish Cypriots a secure future and equal political and social status with the Greek Cypriots.
The real problem between Greece and Turkey is Greece's reluctance to give up its Megali idea, that is, the recovery of the territories occupied by the Byzantine Empire, which finally fell to the Turks in 1453. All the many conflicts between Greece and Turkey over the past two centuries have been initiated by Greece. Your correspondent's reference to bloodied Turkish history is therefore clearly wrong, except in the fact that in the past three Greek-initiated conflicts, the Turks gave the Greeks a severe hiding, which partly accounts for the large fall in numbers of Greeks in present-day Turkey.
Regarding persecution. the Ottomans had one of the most tolerant policies towards non-Turks of any empire of its day. The three communities of Jews, Greeks and Armenians were virtually autonomous within the empire.
Holdwater: Not long ago, seduced by what may or may not be European Union economic advantages, the Cypriot Turks voted for reunification. The Greek Cypriots, who evidently want to remain a community removed, voted against it. The Cypriot Turks were promised goodies if they went along with the plan, but once they dumbly went along — the new generation unaware that the Greeks would soon be up to their old violent tricks once gaining the upper hand— the anti-Turkish West reneged on their promises. North Cyprus remains as estranged as ever... - link
"Bizim toprağımız Ruslar tarafından işgal edildiğinde, birçok Kırım Türkü Osmanlı toprağına göç etmeye mecbur kaldı. Bir gemi insan İstanbul’a gelmiş, oradan da padişahın emriyle Kıbrıs’a gönderilmiş. O gemide 150 aile varmış. Onların nesilleri binlerce oldu. Türkiye'ye sarılın yoksa Kırım Tatarlarının akıbetine uğrarsınız " Abdülcemil Kırımoğlu/Kırım.... - link




















