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[RichardB]

Gav could you provide a translation for your post so we may compare the differences

thankyou

[GAVCARoCOM]

also on the corner with a english translition u can see




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[GAVCARoCOM]

Gav could you provide a translation for your post so we may compare the differences

thankyou

its too long . everything says there but if you watch this video u can have a clue. but in the video they forget to mention TMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIwBDP7WWrY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAP7KuAfvWY&feature=user

i try to explain certain things

at 1570 the ottomans took the island from venedicians

population of cyprus was 150.000 and mostly venedicians

venedicians was chatolic and the orthodox greeks in the island didnt have rights to open churches in cyprus. their population it was about 20.000, after ottomans took the island 30.000 from the soldiers and their families moved to cyprus. also 5720 families as well moved to cyprus with the order of the ottoman empire. after ottoman empire orthodox greeks had all rights to open churches and full rights how all countries people had. 1878-1923 ottomans rent the island for the uk by agreeing aginst russia if they have any problems uk will support ottoman empire.

in the world war because ottoman empire lost the uk refused to give the island back. but with the losan agreement no.23 madde turkey gave the rights to uk for his rekognition but in same 23 madde they still had rights if anything will change they have to right to decide. after 1923 many turks moved back to turkey when it goues under uk control

1923 -1960 is one of the worst days was for TCs. english goverment decided that parliment of cyprus will be 12 greek , 6 english and 3 turk but this wasnt really good for TCs because population of the cyprus half was TCs. 1931 GCs start actions about enosis and parliment was dismissed. after 1933 its changed to 4 greek and 1 turk in the parliment. after that greeks start to work hard for enosis

i will carryon

[GAVCARoCOM]

1950 greece applied to the un for enosis but legally un refused this. when they realise that politic way they could not win then they build EOKA 1955

[GAVCARoCOM]

when EOKA start their actions against English they were also killing turkish cypriots. TMT is opened to protect from EOKA actions at 1958. English goverment decide to give freedom by agreeing that turkey greece and england guarantor and uk will keep bases. 1960 republic of cyprus borned.

[GAVCARoCOM]

After 1960 EOKA B started actions against on turks because the RoC president again started to talk about ENOSIS. 1963 bloody christmas happen which its registered and all word knows. in this time TMT was trying to protect TCs from the GCs but also unwanted actions might happen but only against the geruillas. 1963 after bloody christmas 1964 most of the turkish villages burnt and they moved to north. green line drawn that time. and 1974 greece junta come to cyprus to kill makarios and TCs and turkey come for help us

[soyer]

Saurce : Wikepedia:

The first Turk to be killed by EOKA on 21 June 1955 was a Turkish policeman in the service of the British. EOKA also targeted Greek collaborators, such as policemen.

Attempts by Greek Cypriots to break free of British colonial rule and unite with Greece, so-called Enosis, triggered an attack against the Greek minority in Istanbul. On 6 and 7 September 1955, wide-scale violence against the Greek community of Istanbul, believed to have been engineered by the Turkish government of then Prime Minister Adnan Menderes, destroyed an estimated 3-4,000 shops and precipitated the exodus of thousands of ethnic Greeks from the city in 1955.

A year later, EOKA revived its attacks. In reply the TMT (Türk Mukavemet Teşkilatı, a Turkish Resistance Organization) declared war on the Greek Cypriots as well.[3] However, the TMT did not target only Greeks but also some Turkish Cypriots workers who were in favour of peace and independence of the island. After a joint mass demonstration by Greek and Turkish Cypriots, the TMT began murdering Turkish trade union members.

On 12 June 1958, eight innocent unarmed Greek Cypriot civilians from Kondemenos village were murdered by the TMT near the Turkish Cypriot populated village of Geunyeli in a totally unprovoked attack, after being dropped off there by the British authorities. After this the Turkish government ordered the TMT to blow up the offices of the Turkish press office in Nicosia in order to falsely put the blame of the Greek Cypriots and prevent independence negotiations from succeeding[4] It also began a string of assassinations and murders of prominent Turkish Cypriot supporters of independence[5][6] The following year, after the conclusion of the independence agreements on Cyprus, the Turkish Navy sent a ship to Cyprus fully loaded with arms for the TMT which was caught red-handed in the infamous "Deniz" incident.[7] British rule lasted until 1960, when the island was declared an independent state, under the London-Zurich agreements creating a foundation for the Republic of Cyprus by the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities.

Continued communal violence in Cyprus after independence in 1960 -- including massacres of members of the Turkish community in December 1963 -- led to the Turkish government’s cancellation of residence permits for 12,000 Greek citizens living in Istanbul as well as the confiscation of their property.

EOKA (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston)
EOKA [Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston - National Organization of Cypriot Fighters] started a guerrilla campaign against British colonial rule aimed at self-determination and union with Greece (Enosis)on 01 April 1955. The campaign, which started when the first EOKA bombs exploded at 00.30 hours on 1st of April 1955, lasted until 1959 and caused the death of more Greek Cypriot civilians than the total of British killed. It created civil strife and mistrust between the two Cypriot communities. Tension increased in early 1957, when EOKA attacked Turkish police and auxiliaries. EOKA received direct support from Greece in money, arms, organization and propaganda. Greek-speaking Cypriots were awed by EOKA terrorists and subject to bombardment by Athens radio. Under a 1959 compromise settlement known as Zurich-London agreements, Cyprus became an independent Republic in 1960. Since then, April 1 is a national holiday. It was celebrated in memorial services in Churches and gatherings in cities and villages in the free part of Cyprus.

EOKA-B emerged twice, in 1963 and 1974, in collaboration and cooperation with Greece, to attack the Turkish Cypriots, one of the two co-founding partners of the Republic of Cyprus, with the aim of uniting the Island with Greece.

Between 1969 and 1971, several groups embarked on a renewed terrorist campaign for enosis. Grivas returned clandestinely to Cyprus sometime in the late summer or early fall of 1971 and set up a new guerilla organization, the national Organizaiton of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agonistm B--EOKA B). Most members of the terrorist movement held regular jobs in the Greek Cypriot community; half were police officials and members of the National Guard.

There was also considerable evidence of support of EOKA B activities by the Greek junta, whose hostility to Makarios became increasingly apparent during the early 1970s. The junta was believed to be involved in several attempts on the life of President Makarios. In March 1970, Makarios narrowly escaped death when his helicopter was shot down. Makarios walked away from the crash, but his pilot was killed. Former minister of the interior Polykarpos Georkajis, in contact with local right-wing groups and the junta in Athens, was thought to be implicated, and was assassinated shortly afterward. A paramilitary presidential guard loyal to Makarios, called the Tactical Police Reserve, was organized in 1972. Consisting of fewer than 1,000 men, the Tactical Police Reserve succeeded in arresting large numbers of EOKA B guerrillas. In a further attempt to bring subversive forces under control, Makarios dismissed many National Guard and police officers suspected of EOKA B activity.

With the death of Grivas from a heart attack in January 1974, EOKA B came more directly under the control of the military junta in Athens, which, after a change of leadership, was even more hostile to Makarios. The archbishop, however, saw the Greekofficered National Guard as a more serious threat to his government than EOKA B. In a letter to the Greek president in early July, he accused the junta of attempting to subvert the government of Cyprus through the Greek officers of the National Guard, who in turn supported the terrorist activities of EOKA B. Makarion demanded immediate removal of the 650 Greek officers staffing the National Guard and their replacement by 100 instructors who would help reorganize the Greek Cypriot force.

The reply to the Makarios challenge came on 15 July 1974 in the form of a coup d'état led by Greek officers in the National Guard, under orders from Athens. The fierce fighting that broke out resulted in casualties estimated at over 500, but the lightly armed Tactical Police Reserve and irregular pro-Makarios units were no match for the heavily armed National Guardsmen and the EOKA B irregulars. Narrowly escaping capture when the presidential palace was bombarded, Makarios was flown to London from the Sovereyn Base Area at Akrotiri. Former EOKA gunman and convicted murderer Nicos Sampson, notorious for his brutality in the 1950s and 1960s, was proclaimed president. As Makarios had foreseen, but the Greek military leaders did not, Turkey reacted forcibly to the coup by landing a large number of troops on the northern coast of Cyprus. As a result, both the insurrectionary government in Cyprus and the military dictatorship in Greece fell from power.

May we have the source of your post , mine was from Wikepedia where is your from ?? Or may I have a guess judging by the spelling mistakes !!

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... a/eoka.htm


Reliable enough????????