Greek Lies vs Reality

Submitted by Kuvayi Milliye (Turkey), Oct 18, 2014 at 05:19

Your barbarism in Cyprus is well documented.

* Right now we are witnessing the exodus of Turkish Cypriots from the villages. Thousands of people abandoning their 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.

(IL Giorno, January 14, 1964)

* The central interest of Makarios 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.

(George Ball, American Undersecretary of State, Memoirs)

* If any genocide or ethnic cleansing has taken place in Cyprus, this has always been carried out by the Greeks. The abortive coup of 1974, organized by EOKA and Greek military junta in Athens, 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.

( P. F. Peters, Former Ambassador of Australia to Ankara, 1994)

* The Greeks burned Turkish mosques and set fire to Turkish homes in the villages around Famagusta. Defenseless Turkish villagers who have weapons live in an atmosphere of terror and they evacuate their homes and go and live in tents in the forest. The Greeks actions are a shame to humanity.

(French Soir, July 24, 1974)

* The massacre of Turkish Cypriots in Paphos and Famagusta is the proof of how justified the

Turks were to undertake their intervention.

(Die Zeit, German Newspaper)

* 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, House of Lords December 17, 1986)

* Greek Cypriot fanatics appear bent on a policy of ethnic genocide.

(The Washington Post, February 17th, 1964)

* The massacre committed by Greeks in Atlilar village. I have never seen such a tragedy and such barbarism in my life.

(Lars Harkanson, UN Peace Force, Cyprus, october 1974)

* In Atlilar village, corpses of Turks killed by Greeks were found in a mass grave.

(Bernard Nicolas, AFP Agency, France, 11/02/1974)

* What happened in Cyprus during the Coup D'etat, can not be named, it

can only be called as dirty and inhuman

(The Sun, 03/09/1974)

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