Do you have anything to say about the events concerning EOKA and their aspirations for ENOSIS during the 1950s that was a direct threat to the survival of the TCs?
The aspirations of Cyprus and all the other Greek islands and territories to be free from their foreign rulers is not something that appeared in 1950s, but it was a struggle that started since the Greek Revolution of 1821:
During the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Ottoman authorities feared that Greek Cypriots would rebel again. Archbishop Kyprianos, a powerful leader who worked to improve the education of Greek Cypriot children, was accused of plotting against the government. Kyprianos, his bishops, and hundreds of priests and important laymen were arrested and summarily hanged or decapitated on July 9, 1821.
You really can't blame the Cypriots or the Greeks in general for revolting against their foreign rulers seeking their freedom and self-determination.
In 1950 what we asked for was for a referendum, so the Cypriot people can choose in a peaceful and democratic way one of the legitimate options for decolonizing our island, one such legitimate option was union with Greece. This was denied to us and having no other option we were forced to an armed struggle
against the colonialists.
I emphasize the "against the colonialists", because the sole aim of EOKA was the British
not TCs.
TCs were not attacked and they were not threatened by EOKA.
However in 1958, the TCs with the help of Turkey and Britain, formed TMT and they attacked Greek Cypriots, and the also started to demand that Greek Cypriots should be exterminated from half of their island. EOKA was forced to retaliate, and some 100s of people from each side, many of them innocent, died in the conflict.
Some other Greek territories which were occupied by the Turks had to fight directly against the Turks in order to liberate themselves and therefore there were Turkish casualties as well. However in Cyprus the foreign ruler were the British, not the Turks. Therefore the enemy which was targeted by our liberation struggle were the British, and not the TCs. If the TCs (with the encouragment of the British) had not attacked the GCs, there would be no kind of conflict between GCs and TCs.
The last islands to be liberated from foreign colonialists (Italians in their case) and unite with the rest of Greece was Rhodes and the Dodecanese, which were united (=enosis) with the rest of Greece in 1948. Rhodes like Cyprus has a Turkish minority on it, and absolutely nothing happened to it.
So stop trying to present the 100% just struggle of Cypriots for liberation and self-determination as something "evil" and stop blaming the GCs for the inter-communal conflict when it is in fact the TCs who started it in 1958.
