Bananiot wrote:So you think the Greek Cypriot press at the time reported everything Makarios said and done? Does the fact that no murder of a Turkish Cypriot was reported in the press means that the murders did not happen?
I like the excuse used to describe Loucas Charalampous. His views are "opinionated" as opposed, I suppose, to the views of all the others, who are balanced and therefore correct. When Papadopoulos, for example, was quoted as saying that no Turkish Cypriot was killed between 1963 and 1974, his opinion was much appreciated and the politically correct did not raise an eyebrow.
a)Yes I believe such a statement would certainly make headlines. Panayia was his hometown and there was a widespread press coverage the 2 times he went there.
b1)The press covered all incidents of intercommunal violence giving estimated or known numbers of victims e.g Kokkina, Kofinou, Omorfita etc.
b2)Single persons killings were also reported when known. e.g.Mishaoulis kavazoglou,Ahmed Gurkan and Ayhan Hikmet as well as various other reports in newspapers of more general format like
15. Refer to Cyprus Mail, 2 January 1964, and the Special News Bulletin, issue number 8. The Cyprus Government alleged that two Greek-Cypriot monks and a novitiate were murdered by Turk-Cypriots from Kophinou.
16. Refer to the Cyprus Mail, 3 January 1964, and to the Special News Bulletin, issue number 26. These sources differ as to who started the fighting, but it is known that one Greek-Cypriot and one Turk-Cypriot were killed.
c)Yes Loucas Charalambous writes opinionated articles, would you like to see a sample?
d)Papadopoulos did NOT say no TC died from 1963. According to the reporter who took the interview he said the following:
"The intercommunal violence ended in 1968. How many TCs were killed from
1968 until 1974? Nobody was killed."
I think we discussed this matter in this forum already and we found that there were in fact a few killed. So Papadopoulos was not precise, but the argument that there was no intercommunal violence from 1968-1974 was factually correct.
e)Comparing opinionated articles with factuall truths is like comparing apples with oranges.