humanist wrote:About turkish cypriots stealling or looting well I think we can safely say that some greeks speaking cypriot scum had done the same to turish speaking cypriot properties in the south. Though my understanding that turkish speaking cypriots did not leave like greek cyp's did from the north.
They very much did Humanist...my aunt had to flee her home from EOKA. The thing is not many TCs have spoken out about what happened to them so its almost been sweeped under the carpet
turkish_cypriot (Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:57 pm) wrote:I went to visit my 'Yenge' (Aunt of some sort) today and she was telling me how they lost their home in Limassol.
It was in 74 and her mum was in hospital, she said Makarios and EOKA ''birbirlerine girdiler'' (they basically clashed) and they was told to go pick her up from hospital because the GCs didnt want them there and were threatening to throw the TC patients out the windows. They went, got her and returned home.
A few days later as they were picking grapes in their village (Aleftora or something like that) they got a message from Lefkoşa telling them to 'RUN' because the GCs were getting ready to raid their village. They left absolutely everything and ran towards the enclaves where a van with British soldiers picked them up and took them to the enclave. She said that they didn't even have a tent at first and had to sleep under trees. They listened to the radio and heard how their village was taken over by the GCs. A few people had refused to leave and were beaten and left for dead by the GCs that attacked. Everything was looted, all their money and jewellery stolen...
Anyways they spent 7 months in the enclave untill they were sent to Adana in Turkey and back to Cyprus after 2 weeks.
Her husband (her fiance at the time) was one of the people who was fighting in Kyrenia before Turkey came. She still keeps all the letters she sent him through the red cross. Reading those letters really touched me cos she didnt know if she was ever going to see him again and she wrote each letter as if it were her last
Almost every single one of his friends died and he ''survived'' by hiding in trees. He is now a broken man and has been since those events...
They lost their lovely home to the EOKA f****ts and are now living in poverty. At the same time some Turkish c***s are abusing what should be HER country which should be catering for HER needs and living it large while she can barely afford to pay the rent for some crusty run down house...
Still..they went back to their house when the gates opened and a Greek Cypriot man is renting her house and she said hes been taking really good care of it. ''Helal olsun'' is what she said...I dont know what upset me more, her story or the ''helal olsun''.
This is them talking with the GC man.
Their old house.
