Tim Drayton wrote:There was an article by the respected Turkish Cypriot researcher Ahmet An in the BKP's weekly newspaper <i>Birleşik Kıbrıs</i> (United Cyprus) dated 19 April of this year which presents an account of the murder of Mishaulis and Kavazoglu. An cites a book entitled <i>Nevzat ve Ben</i> (Nevzat and I) by Özker Yaşın published in 2004. The events as described by An were as follow:
- Mishaulis and Kavaoglu were killed by the TMT, even though the TMT's own radio station blamed the Greek Cypriot right
- This organisation set a trap for the two AKEL members
- Kavazoglu had earlier made contact with some left-wingers in the village of Louroujina and pursuaded them to distribute AKEL Turkish-language leaflets to people they trusted in the village
- One of the recipients of these leaflets went to the TMT command in the village and reported what was going on
- Two of the left-wingers who were distributing these leaflets were arrested and sentenced to death for treason
- The TMT leadership in Nicosia, realising that they could catch a much bigger fish, intervened and postponed their execution
- An important person from TMT headquarters came to the village to interview these left-wingers. They were offered a deal. Either face the firing squad for committing treason, or else assist in setting a trap for Kavazoglu, in which case they would not only be spared, but would also be resettled in the UK with enough money to start their own businesses. They accepted this offer, and the rest is history.
I am only conveying the story as it is told by Ahmet An. However, if it is true, then some important questions come to my mind. At a time when the whole of Cyprus was supposedly under the control of the RoC government, was it not a political error of the greatest magnitude to permit enclaves to appear in which the TMT could set up an alternative regime? Such that distributing leaflets for a legal political party in the RoC could be considered an act of treason. Is this not how the seeds were sown for the separatist regime that was created after 1974? If the Turkish Cypriots could have been brought back into the fold of mainstream political life at that time, then would the entity that calls itself the "TRNC" exist now?
Tim...It would have been very difficult to bring the TCs back into fold,not only because the TMT was actively opposing it,but also Makarios lacked the political will and military capability to do so... I believe he was under the impression that if he kept the political and economic pressure on the TCs they would simply leave Cyprus in droves,which was what was happening till SAMPSON came and spoiled it all...The only enclave which was really truly defendable by the TCs was the Nicosia enclave...Makarios or Grivas would have had the Mother of all Battles on their hands trying to extend his military control over that enclave...If I am not wrong TMT was better prepared and equiped than the GC Government forces for a few years after 1963...The battle of Kofunye-Aytotro was such an attempt to stop further enclaves,and ended in disaster for the ROC government...After that Makarios simply put his "ignore them,squeeze them, and they will go away" policy which largely succeeded,till the Colonels and the USA hatched other plans...
We will give you a week's notice to get ready... 
