iceman wrote:Piratis wrote:Here you can find links to a BBC documentary. Go to second video at about 12min 30sec to see how the first inter communal started.
http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... 777#186777And here is about the start of the 63 conflict:
On 21 December 1963, an angry Turkish-Cypriot crowd surrounded an armed and nervous Greek-Cypriot police patrol in Nicosia. Accounts of the confrontation differ between the Cypriot communities. On one point, however, they agree; two Turk-Cypriot civilians and one Greek-Cypriot policeman were shot dead. This incident marked a major crisis in the Cypriot inter-communal conflict. The struggle developed into one of overt violence. The initiative fell from the hands of the politicians and was taken up by the communal paramilitary forces.
http://www.cyprus-conflict.net/www.cypr ... p%203.htmlSo, TCs with
guns surrounded and attacked policemen of Republic of Cyprus. So who started it?
You are distorting history once more piratis....
To be more precise,it all began in Tahtakale (Tahtakallas) on 21 Dec 1963...Greek Cypriot police patrol opened fire on the angry Turkish Cypriot crowd and killed two TC's (a man & a woman)...The GC policeman was killed afterwards by the angry crowd as a consequence of this violent act..
"an angry Turkish-Cypriot crowd surrounded an armed and nervous Greek-Cypriot police patrol"
So why did an angry (and apparently armed) TC crowd surrounded the police? It is not that the "angry GC police surrounded the TCs" It is the opposite. So why do you blame it on the GCs?
Sorry iceman, but I think you are the one who is trying to distort history here.
You have asked from us to watch the Angastiniotis movies and accept that we have committed crimes against TCs. And
we did.
I think it is time for you to do the same and realize the two big lies of the Turkish propaganda.
Big Lie Number 1: The GCs started the intercomunal conflict in 63 and it was just one way killing of GCs against TCs.
No. GCs and TCs were equally responsible for that conflict. Some GCs continued trying for enosis, and some TCs continued to try for partition. The way the conflict "sparked" as it is written above is again not the fault of just one side, but both. Also
both sides had a few 100s of casualties during that period. So nobody denied that you suffered, but you have to recognize that you committed crimes as well and you were equally responsible for those events and not just the "innocent victims" you are trying to present yourselves.
Big Lie number 2: Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974 to save the TCs that were being killed.
No. Turkey invaded Cyprus to take part of it, just as it was her plan for decades. The coup was just an excuse. No TC was harmed in 1974 until
after the Turkish troops had started their invasion killing 1000s of people. In fact GC resistance fighters were fighting against the coupists, and Makarios had already appealed to the UN condemning the coup and asking for help from the UN.
I hope one day you will realize the lies you had been fed all these years, although apparently it doesn't suit you to realize them, since accepting such facts would go against your aim of partition.
Honestly I think we did our steps toward reconciliation and it is time for TCs to reciprocate if reconciliation is what they want. If they don't want reconciliation because it doesn't suit their partition aim, then I don't think it worths making any reconciliation steps just by ourselves, since they are apparently only being used to help the Turkish propaganda and nothing more.