Bananiot wrote:Today I attended the funeral service in Larnaca for a man from my village (Gypsos - Acova) called Kkitros who was a neighbour of mine and went to school with his eldest son. He was missing since September 1974 and recently his bones were identified in a mass grave in Tziaos, a Turkish Cypriot village half way between Gypsos and Nicosia. Sevgul Uludag was there too and Kkitos's grandson, who spoke at the funeral, expressed the gratitude of the family to Sevgul for her hard work in pinpointing the mass grave.
The grandson of the diseased, who I learned later is a practicing lawyer, explained to those that attended in a packed church that his grandfather was alive after the Turkish army took over the village. There were many people that were left behind when the Turkish army moved in and these people were initially treated fairly well. Then, the mass graves at Aloa and Sandalaris were found, containing the mutilated bodies of about 100 Turkish Cypriots (mainly women and children) murdered by Greek Cypriots and this enraged the Turkish Cypriots, many of whom called for revenge. While many people were released, Kkitros, along with 6 other people were taken off the car that was taking them to Nicosia and executed in Tziaos.
The family of murdered Kkitros, found the strength to point an accusing finger, not at the Turks in general, in the way nationalist Greek Cypriots do, but at the real enemy of Cyprus as a whole, that is, the racist/chauvinists of both sides, who even today are plotting for the downfall of our country that will most certainly be achieved if their nationalist agendas are not blocked by the healthy thinking people of Cyprus, like the family of Kkitros.
You think is bazar. More Greek Cypriot bodies of the missing were found now, are you also going to blame the Greek Cypriots for this. Your thinking is backward and for you info. Turks themselves killed a lot of Turkish Cypriots
Turkey has been found guilty on:
VIOLATIONS AGAINST TURKISH CYPRIOTS
Relevant Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights:
'Inhuman or degrading treatmentt (Article 3);
'The right to liberty and security off persons (Article 5);
'Fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal established by law (Article 6);
'The right to respect for his private and family life, his home.... (Article
;
'Peaceful enjoyment of his possessions; (Article 1 to Protocol No. 1). Although direct evidence was difficult to obtain because Greek Cypriots and the Government of the Republic were (and are) denied all access to the occupied area, it was apparent from statements by Turkish Cypriots who had escaped to the free area, from the Turkish Cypriot opposition press, from reports by members of the international press and by members of international organisations that Turkish Cypriots were suffering continuous violation of their rights at the hands of Turkey. These violations fall into two categories:
Oppressive acts by Anatolian settlers from Turkey, encouraged and or countenanced by the presence of the Turkish Armed Forces; and
prevention of any return by Turkish Cypriots (who were transferred at Turkey's demand from the Government-controlled area in 1974-1975 to the occupied area) to their homes and properties in the Government-controlled area and denial of any exercise of their rights in respect of such property. In respect of both categories of violations no effective remedy exists. Turkey's defence: At the admissibility stage, Turkey put forward jurisdictional objections, alleging that Cyprus' application was an abuse of the Convention's procedure in that it complained about Turkey's treatment of Turkish Cypriots purely for propaganda purposes and expressed 'false and mock concern for their well-being. The Commission rejected this contention. Regarding the merits stage it should be borne in mind that Turkey's attitude, manifested in the first two applications, was to refuse to participate in Commission proceedings - in default of her procedural obligations under the Convention once her jurisdictional objections were overruled. Tukey did not appear at the oral hearing in March 1983. Commission‹s verdict:
'The Commission, having regard to the material before it, finds that it does not have sufficient available evidence enabling it to come to any conclusion regarding this complaints.
