by Nikitas » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:08 pm
For those that like to brandish the flag carrying photo of Sampson here is a sobering thought. That scene is in Omorfita. Here is what happened in Omorfita in 1958:
"The principle of partition was not based on the realities of Cypriot society at the time, but on Turkey’s perceived security requirements alone. In the Summer of 1958, in the mixed suburb of Omorphita in Nicosia, TMT evicted 700 Greeks from their homes. By the end of July 1958 a much clearer line had been drawn between the Greek and Turkish quarters. The reluctance of British authorities to deal even-handedly with the violence became clearer when the partisan decisions made by the Courts at the time is taken into account. Whereas Turks arrested for participating in the riots were released, Greeks received custodial sentences for minor offences
Sixteen Turks were, for example, arrested by the British authorities for complicity in the Nicosia riots, but they were released on condition that they stayed in at night. A Turkish policeman, sergeant Tuna, was charged with possessing a bomb and ammunition for which the mandatory penalty was clearly the death penalty. He was released and left immediately for Turkey. The only official piece of evidence that Turkish policeman were involved in bomb attacks had conveniently `disappeared’. By contrast, two Greeks who pulled down a Union Jack were each given 18 months prison sentences, whilst those subsequently involved with the possession of fire arms were hanged"
Want some more, here are more worth deeds of TMT, the peoples' protector:
"Ayhan Hikmet and Ahmet Gurkhan were killed in 1962 by TMT. Both Hikmet and Gurkhan were publishers who advocated closer association and co-operation
The most widely known such murders were those of Fazil Ondur, the chief editor of the weekly newspaper Inkilapci, who was killed on 29 May 1959; and Ahmet Yahaya, a committee member of the Turkish Cypriot Athletic and Culture centre, who was killed on 5 June 1958. An attempt was also made on the life of Arif Barudi on 3 July 1958, and another one on Ahmet Sadi, the director of the Turkish office of the Pancypriot Labour Federation who, soon after the attempt against his life, left Cyprus to settle in England. The same policy continues today with the assassination in July 1996 of Kutlu Adali, the Turkish Cypriot journalist, who had the courage to condemn the partitionist project ...."
Notice the dates in the above. Between 1960 and 1963 TMT was busy terrorising the TCs and forcing on them a policy of separation and exclusion. EOKA could not have done it alone, TMT had to be helping out.
So leave this Sampson is responsible for everything and GCs wanted to dominate us stuff. The facts say otherwise.
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