T-shirt worn by the Greek Cypriot soldiers sporting the slogan
"A GOOD TURK IS A DEAD TURK"
Greek Cypriot newspaper Haravgi reported on March 22, that these were words uttered by a high ranking Greek Cypriot army officer stationed in a military camp near the buffer zone outside Nicosia.
Haravgi also reported that it is common practice for the Greek Cypriot soldiers in all the military camps in south Cyprus to chant slogans such as "Turks, Turks you are all going to die", "You are going to die under the blue and white flag" and "We are going to drive all the Turks into the sea".
Haravgi gave the news under the banner headlines "Chauvinist Slogans in the National Guard" when a Greek Cypriot who resides in the close proximity of the camp phoned the newspaper to complain about the nature of the slogans emanating from the camp. He told the newspaper that he was disturbed by the slogans and that he had confronted the Greek Cypriot officer on duty to ask him why they were chanting such chauvinist slogans.
He claimed that the Greek Cypriot officer answered "What is disturbing you? We are going to kill all the Turks."
Questioned by Haravgi, A. Yorka, the spokesman for the Greek Cypriot Defence Ministry, said that the soldiers were allowed to chant some slogans but these were not chauvinist slogans and claimed that he would look into the allegations.
It is no secret that the Greek Cypriot soldiers are always hyped up with such racist and aggressive slogans and made to live in a dream that one day when the opportunity arises they will invade the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
A few years ago T-shirts sporting the slogan "A good Turk is a dead Turk" worn by the Greek Cypriot soldiers were also a source of argument in the Greek Cypriot media.
