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Omer Kose - "18 ears in a bren bag"

Postby RAFAELLA » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:05 pm

Another article of Mr Sener Levent that was published today in Politis.

Δεκαοκτώ αφτιά μέσα στην τσάντα του μπρεν

Την ιστορία πρέπει να την ακούμε από άτομα που την έζησαν, όχι από τους επισήμους. Αν πρόκειται για περιγραφή ενός πολέμου, πρέπει να την ακούμε από έναν στρατιώτη που έλαβε μέρος σε αυτό τον πόλεμο, έτρεξε από το ένα μέτωπο στο άλλο, πυροβολήθηκε και πυροβόλησε. Πόσο μπορεί να μας περιγράψει το Βατερλό, το Μποροντίνο ή το Στάλινγκραντ ένας ιστορικός που δεν βρέθηκε καθόλου εκεί και δεν πολέμησε καθόλου σε εκείνα τα μέρη; Υπάρχουν πολλά γεγονότα, πολλές βαρβαρότητες που συνέβησαν σε αυτό το νησί, αλλά ακόμη δεν γράφτηκαν και δεν βγήκαν σε βιβλίο. Παρόμοιες βαρβαρότητες συνέβησαν και σε άλλες χώρες. Εκεί γράφτηκαν πολλά γι' αυτές και γυρίστηκαν ταινίες. Τις βαρβαρότητες που διέπραξαν οι ναζί στα στρατόπεδα συγκεντρώσεως τις μάθαμε από αυτούς. Αναστατωθήκαμε. Μάτωσε η ψυχή μας. Πονέσαμε. Διαβάσαμε από δικές τους παραδοχές το πώς οι αμερικανοί στρατιώτες έκοβαν αφτιά στο Βιετνάμ και ρώσοι στρατιώτες έκαναν το ίδιο στο Αφγανιστάν, τα έβαζαν στις τσάντες τους και τα έπαιρναν στις χώρες τους σαν "στολίδια". Μείναμε στήλη άλατος όταν μάθαμε ότι στα στρατόπεδα συγκεντρώσεως των ναζί έφτιαχναν γάντια από ανθρώπινο δέρμα. Μας φάνηκαν ως βαρβαρότητες που διαπράχθηκαν αιώνες πριν και πολύ μακριά από εμάς. Όμως, το τελευταίο τέταρτο του 20ου αιώνα τα ζήσαμε και εμείς αυτά στην ίδια τη χώρα μας. Δεν είναι συνήθεια των απλών στρατιωτών να γράφουν βιβλία. Άλλωστε δεν είναι συγγραφείς. Αυτά που γνωρίζουν, είτε τα διηγούνται σε άλλους για να τα γράψουν, είτε σωπαίνουν μια ολόκληρη ζωή. Αυτό το πέπλο άρχισε πρόσφατα να ξεσκεπάζεται στη χώρα μας. Σπάει το καβούκι και γράφονται αυτά που ήταν άγνωστα μέχρι τώρα. Ιστορίες που τις λέει ο λαός σαν θρύλους. Θέλει θάρρος να τις γράψει κανείς και να τις εκδώσει σε βιβλίο. Αυτό το κατάφερε ο συμπολίτης μας Ομέρ Κοσέ. Μάζεψε σε ένα βιβλίο αυτά που έζησε και αυτά στα οποία ήταν μάρτυρας. Το όνομα του βιβλίου είναι "18 αφτιά στην τσάντα του μπρεν". Μπορεί ο άνθρωπος να μην ανατριχιάζει άμα αντικρίσει έναν τέτοιο τίτλο βιβλίου; Πάρτε το να το διαβάσετε και εσείς και μάθετε από πρώτο χέρι τι συνέβη σε αυτά τα χώματα. Δείτε για ακόμη μια φορά για τι πράγματα ήταν "ικανοί" οι στρατιώτες που καυχιόνται για τον ηρωισμό τους. Ο Ομέρ Κοσέ δεν ξέχασε καθόλου, λέει, αυτά που έζησε κατά τη δεύτερη μέρα της στρατιωτικής επιχείρησης το 1974. Είναι ακόμα νωπά στη μνήμη του. Ζει ξανά τη μέρα εκείνη διηγούμενός την σε εμάς. Έφυγε, λέει, από το φυλάκιό του το απόγευμα και πήγε στο λόχο για μια σύντομη αποστολή. Καθώς περίμενε εκεί ήρθε και σταμάτησε ένα λεωφορείο. Το λεωφορείο ήταν γεμάτο με ελληνοκύπριους αιχμαλώτους, ημίγυμνους και με δεμένα τα μάτια. Επικεφαλής τους βρίσκονται δύο Τούρκοι στρατιώτες με μπλε μπερέ. Ένας από τους στρατιώτες του φώναξε: "Έχετε κρύο νερό;" "Περίμενε και θα σου φέρω αμέσως", είπε στον στρατιώτη. Έτρεξε και έφερε από το ψυγείο ένα παγούρι. Ο στρατιώτης το έχυσε στο κεφάλι του. Ένας Ελληνοκύπριος που βρισκόταν στο λεωφορείο και άκουσε τον ήχο του νερού του είπε: "Θέλω και εγώ νερό". "Τι λέει αυτός ο γ....", ρώτησε ο στρατιώτης. "Θέλει νερό, διψά", τους εξήγησε ο δικός μας. Ο στρατιώτης έβγαλε την ξιφολόγχη που κρεμόταν στη μέση του φωνάζοντας "τώρα θα του τη βάλω στον κ...". Και κάρφωσε την ξιφολόγχη στο γόνατο του καημένου του Ελληνοκύπριου. Έβγαλαν έξω τον τραυματία Ελληνοκύπριο, από το γόνατο του οποίου τα αίματα έφτασαν μέχρι την οροφή του λεωφορείου. Τον πήραν στο λόχο και του πρόσφεραν τις πρώτες βοήθειες. Του τύλιξαν τις πληγές. Όμως, ο Τουρκοκύπριος αγωνιστής Ομέρ, που δεν άντεξε σε αυτή την κατάσταση, υπέβαλε την εξής ερώτηση στον στρατιώτη: "Τι ήταν αυτό που έκανες; Ο καημένος ο άνθρωπος δεν σου έκανε τίποτα. Ζήτησε απλά λίγο νερό". Μέσα στο λεωφορείο, λέει, υπήρχε μια πολύ άσχημη μυρωδιά. Και ύστερα έγινε αντιληπτό το μυστικό γι' αυτό. Ο στρατιώτης άνοιξε την τσάντα του μπρεν που βρισκόταν στη μέση του και είπε στον Ομέρ: "Κοίτα. Αν δεν πάρω αυτά στη μάνα μου, δεν πρόκειται να μου χαλαλίσει το γάλα που ήπια". Μέσα στην τσάντα του στρατιώτη υπήρχαν ανθρώπινα αφτιά, το αίμα των οποίων είχε στεγνώσει και ήταν αλατισμένα και μαυρισμένα.

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TRANSLATION

18 ears in a bren bag

The history it should be heart from individuals that lived it, no from officials. If it is description of war, it should him we hear from soldier that took part in the war, ran from a battle in the other, was shot and shot. How many can to us describe Vaterlo', the Mporontj'no or the Sta'ljngkrant a historian that wasn't found by no means there and it fought by no means in those parts? Exist a lot of makes, a lot of savageries that happened in this island, but still were not written and did not come out in book. Similar savageries happened also in other countries. There were written many for them and were turned films. The savageries that committed the nazis in the camps of concentration we learned from them. We were upset. We ached. We read from their own admissions how the American soldiers cut ears in the Vietnam and Russian soldiers did the same in the Afghanistan, him they put in their bags and him they took in their countries as "souvenirs". We remained column of salt when we learned that in the camps of concentration of nazis they made gloves from human skin. To us they appearred as savageries that were committed centuries before and very far from us. However, the last fourth 20th century we lived also these in our country. It is not habit of simple soldiers to write books. They are not writers. What knows, or him narrate in other in order for him to write, or keep silent a entire life. This veil began recently to reveal in our country. They are written what were unknowingly up to now. Histories that him says the population as legends. Wants courage for one to write and to publish a book. This accomplished our fellow-citizen Omer Kose'. It gathered in a book what he lived and what he was witness. The name of book is "18 ears in the bag brenYou read and you learn from first hand what happened in this land. See for still a time for which things were "capable" the soldiers that boast about their heroism. The Omer Kose' did not forget by no means, says, what he lived at the second day of military invasion 1974. Is still fresh in his memory. It again lives that day narrating in us. Left, says, from his outpost the afternoon and went to the company for a short mission. Kacw's it waited for there it came and it stopped a bus. The bus was full with Greekcypriot captives, half-naked and with tied up the eyes. Head their were two Turkish soldiers with blue beret. One of his soldiers shouted: "You have cold water?" "It waited for and I will bring immediately", it said in the soldier. It ran and brought from the refrigerator. The soldier poured water on his head. One Greekcypriot that was found in the bus and heard the sound of his water said: "I want also water". "What it says this g....", asked the soldier. "Wants water, is thirsty. The soldier removed the bayonet that was in his middle shouting "now his him I will put in the k...". And he nailed bayonet in the knee of poor Greekcypriot. They outside removed the wounded Greekcypriot, from the knee which the blood of reached up to the roof of bus. They took him in the company and gave the first aids. They wrapped the wounds. However, the Turkish Cypriot fighter Omer, that did not bear in this situation, submitted the following question in the soldier: "What was what it made? The poor person you did not do nothing. He simply asked little water ". In the bus, says, existed a very ugly smell. And later became perceptible secret for this. The soldier opened the bren bag that was found in his middle and it said in the Omer: "You look at. If I do not take these to my mum, she will not halal the milk she gave me". In the bag of soldier they existed human ears, the blood of that had dried and they were salted and blackened.


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Postby Nikitas » Sun Feb 10, 2008 1:00 pm

The massacre of prisoners taken during the invasion is something that has been repeatedly documented and strenuously denied by the partitionists in this forum. There are reports of a big massacre of several hundred prisoners in the Famagusta district which the Turkish government is desperately trying to keep secret.

Massacres happen in all wars, or so we are told by the cynics. What is shocking about Cyprus is that the killing of prisoners who had surrendered and laid down their arms, and were held in custody, was OFFICIAL Turkish army policy. This is what they want to keep secret.
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Postby zan » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:36 pm

Nikitas wrote:The massacre of prisoners taken during the invasion is something that has been repeatedly documented and strenuously denied by the partitionists in this forum. There are reports of a big massacre of several hundred prisoners in the Famagusta district which the Turkish government is desperately trying to keep secret.

Massacres happen in all wars, or so we are told by the cynics. What is shocking about Cyprus is that the killing of prisoners who had surrendered and laid down their arms, and were held in custody, was OFFICIAL Turkish army policy. This is what they want to keep secret.


Who has denied these events then Nikitas...Want to name names...?

What some of us have taken you to account on is the numbers you use to put all the blame on us when white washing over the fact that many, if not half were killed by Greeks...Paints a whole different picture when these numbers are added to the story....
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Postby Nikitas » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:28 am

Ok, let us take a third party report. During the 5 days prior to the invasion an Israeli radio team reported that in the Famagusta district there were 65 people killed in inter GC fighting. I will double that to 130 for the sake of argument. It still has a ways to go to match the figure of 4500 dead stated by Bulent Ecevit as the GC casualties of the second phase of the Attila operation. The GC figures are 6500 dead. To indulge in some gruesome artithmetic, the 1500 or so missing and the 4500 given by Ecevit adds up close to 6500.

The people killed before the invasion are known and accounted for. None are in the missing lists. The cases uncovered by Sevgul Uludag say a lot about who and how they were killed.

We will never get to the mass graves around Lefkoniko, most likely on the pretext that the area is "sensitive military installations" etc. That is where hundreds are lying. And that is the key to the this issue. Because the people who either allowed or ordered these killings are now brigadier and up, all the way to general. It is hard to say that some of the top brass are mass killers. So it will not be said at all.
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Postby zan » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:27 am

Nikitas wrote:Ok, let us take a third party report. During the 5 days prior to the invasion an Israeli radio team reported that in the Famagusta district there were 65 people killed in inter GC fighting. I will double that to 130 for the sake of argument. It still has a ways to go to match the figure of 4500 dead stated by Bulent Ecevit as the GC casualties of the second phase of the Attila operation. The GC figures are 6500 dead. To indulge in some gruesome artithmetic, the 1500 or so missing and the 4500 given by Ecevit adds up close to 6500.

The people killed before the invasion are known and accounted for. None are in the missing lists. The cases uncovered by Sevgul Uludag say a lot about who and how they were killed.

We will never get to the mass graves around Lefkoniko, most likely on the pretext that the area is "sensitive military installations" etc. That is where hundreds are lying. And that is the key to the this issue. Because the people who either allowed or ordered these killings are now brigadier and up, all the way to general. It is hard to say that some of the top brass are mass killers. So it will not be said at all.


Was there only fighting in Famagusta then??????? :roll:

In Makarios speech to the guarantor powers to stop the coup he said that the death toll was very high...How do you account for that???
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Postby BirKibrisli » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:47 am

I take it that the translation was done by computer,is that right Rafaella???

I was going to translate the Sener Levent article myself,but you beat me to it...Even with the funny translation the chilling story touches you where it hurts most,in the conscience...I had heard this story before...That some mothers,sending their sons to war in Cyprus,demanded Greek/GC ears from them,as a sort of trophy..And some sons no doubt obliged...

No doubt this is a barbaric act...No doubt this should be condemned in the strongest terms...But it should not be an open invitation to brand all Turks "barbaric"...That is very easy to do and it is always counter-productive...Those mothers and those sons proved that as human beings they left a lot to be desired.As mothers and soldiers they were rotten to the core...If there is a hell,as they no doubt believe so,they have guaranteed their place there. What we must do now is to expose all these hideous crimes against humanity,from both sides, take a good look at them,and vow that we as human beings will never let that happen again...

We must be prepared to face the consequences of their actions,and wipe this dirt form our conscience by sincerely apologising to our compatriots
and by vowing that we will do everything humanely possible to make sure such acts of barbarity never takes place in our homeland again... :cry: :cry:
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Postby repulsewarrior » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:49 am

Writing on these forums has been a liberating experience for me because I can exchange, and I have come to realise how important this Information Age is for all Humanity. My heart like so many others on this forum bled without a voice for decades, and in the millenia which have passed it has always been the same. But now with the advent of the internet it is possible to add expression to this important aspect of my life, writing, recounting, and learning, with others, having a desire to effect a betterment to the condition of all people, so that from my pain enjoined with all this other pain, a result of greater value is obtained.

Through the noise of many, here and elsewhere, who write as I do but who curse and whose selfishness leaves them the center of the entire world, my reward is having found some who have chosen to serve. (Yet in essence, caring enough to write is service itself.)

We are horrified with this story, if all of us have compassion, none of us are left unaffected by its impact and we wish to address it by a change...

but the thinking which is the cause of this ignorance never changes unless we can see in ourselves the lineage of its past. It is not really a story of a Greek or a Turk whose ears are in a bag, it is a story that takes place anywhere on this planet, yesterday and today. Thank goodness nothing, anymore can stay the same, that this horrible event can be made to face the scrutiny of a public which goes beyond the agressor and the agressed. Most importantly, we ourselves are put under scrutiny, and it is we who will have to judge ourselves with our own acts, exposed as they are for the world to see, in this Age beyond the Modern.
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Postby Nikitas » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:27 am

"Was there only fighting in Famagusta then??????? " asks Zan.


Here we have reliable sources like the BBC and ITN, look them up. The fighting against the junta forces was in Nicosia, Limassol and Famagusta. By all accounts Kyrenia, Paphos and Larnaca had no fighting. Nor were there any clashes in the countryside. The major scenes of clashes were the police stations in the above three cities, the radio station, the Tactical Reserve Force base, the Presidential Mansion and Nicosia airport (where a relative was wounded so I know the events fairly well). Paphos radio station was not attacked, that is where Makarios spoke the day after the coup and the city was still quiet. It is no accident that Paphos and Larnaca were out of the fighting. The junta people could not move tanks there because they would not be allowed to go through the SBAs.

The casualties were comensurate to the forces involved. You cannot have hundreds of dead when dozens are fighting. So let us leave this slogan that most casualties were caused by GC fighting GC. Those citing such excuses are making fools of themselves. Look where the graves are being discovered and read the witness accounts. They tell the story prett accurately. TC missing are found in the south and GCs in the north.
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Postby kafenes » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:54 am

Nikitas wrote:"Was there only fighting in Famagusta then??????? " asks Zan.


Here we have reliable sources like the BBC and ITN, look them up. The fighting against the junta forces was in Nicosia, Limassol and Famagusta. By all accounts Kyrenia, Paphos and Larnaca had no fighting. Nor were there any clashes in the countryside. The major scenes of clashes were the police stations in the above three cities, the radio station, the Tactical Reserve Force base, the Presidential Mansion and Nicosia airport (where a relative was wounded so I know the events fairly well). Paphos radio station was not attacked, that is where Makarios spoke the day after the coup and the city was still quiet. It is no accident that Paphos and Larnaca were out of the fighting. The junta people could not move tanks there because they would not be allowed to go through the SBAs.

The casualties were comensurate to the forces involved. You cannot have hundreds of dead when dozens are fighting. So let us leave this slogan that most casualties were caused by GC fighting GC. Those citing such excuses are making fools of themselves. Look where the graves are being discovered and read the witness accounts. They tell the story prett accurately. TC missing are found in the south and GCs in the north.


Nikitas, there was definitely fighting in Larnaca as I witnessed it myself and even got shot at (fortunately by a bad shooter). The patched up bullet holes on the walls of the police station are still there. There is no SBA crossing point between Nicosia. Limassol and Larnaca. I don't know about Paphos though.
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Postby Nikitas » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:30 am

NO crossing point from Nicosia to Larnaca but there is from Famagusta to Larnaca where reinforcing armor could not cross.

How long did the fighting in Larnaca last? I clearly remember the BBC and ITN reports that Larnaca was quiet and that people were moving and going about their business freely. We could not call from London those few days because the phone lines were down so we relied on those reports. All of Harringey was in the street with people grouped around transistor radios on July 15.
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