Piratis wrote:. You gave Turkey the ultimate reason (or excuse if you like) to come to Cyprus by organizing the coup. It's like leaving your car running with the windows rolled down and doors open and then when somebody jumps in your car and drives away with it, you go and complain that they stole your car...Well, duh!
The excuse was given by a small minority of Cypriots and the illegal Junta of Greece. So yes, the excuse was there and Turkey took advantage of it.
But it was an excuse, not her main reason, otherwise Turkey would have restored order and leave and we would all be grateful and we would all call it "intervention". However is was an invasion that had as an aim to partition Cyprus, and the excuses are not enough to legalize this illegal action and its results.
What about Makarios and Makariosites who were exertin every effort to degrade TCs to a minority status? It's not only Grivasite Enosists which was provoking turkey to intervene. It was obvious that majority of GCs didn't like the 1960 constitution. Even Grivasites hadn't done the coup Makarios and Makariosites would have kept insisting on making TCs a minority in a GC state like all his successors insisted post-74. It would have been a waste of time for both Turkey and TCs reestablishing the state of affairs on 1960's constitution. do you remember that "small minority" which gave support to the coup? They were active until early 1978 and the security forces of so-called RoC couldn't stop them threatening President Makarios. That small minority of extremists, terrorists forced Makarios to declare amnesty for all of them. And majority of GCs gave consent to this amnesty.
From 1940s until 1974 both TCs and Turkey got sufficient experience to understand whether it was possible to reestablish the state of affairs according to 1960's constitution or not. Turkey and TCs did the best possible to stop the stupid, neverending bloodshed.
It is chrystal clear that GC ruling elite will never genuinely accept the political equality of TC community. They will always look ways to oppress, frustarte TCs in order to make them a minority. The real reason of they want to nullify the treaty of guarantee and treaty of alliance is this.
Keep struggling for what you believe. The mentality you have which takes its roots from global interests of Hellenism and retrospective animosity against Turks will again cause a big catastrophe in Cyprus. We will repeat the same story until Jesus comes.
Hope I'm wrong and we see a happy end in Cyprus.
