Paphitis is displaying total ignorance of the events of 1964. Instead of relying on the briefings of his mother and other relatives he should do some reading and perhaps he can begin to uncover the truth.
Let's see if you know what the truth is, and compare it to some factual readings.
In August 1964 the Turkish war ships were a mere 100 metres off the shores of Cyprus.
Can you please post some evidence to back up this ridiculous and unrealistic belief?
I need to know which Turkish Naval vessels got to within 100m of Cypriot shores and where.
Turkish warships did steam towards Cyprus in 1964 but they then halted on advice from Washington, and they did
not enter Cypriot Waters.
At one point during the frantic diplomatic activity, Turkish warships steamed towards the island, But when they neared Cypriot waters they suddenly halted, mysteriously echoing the first stage of the Washington plan, in which they were to be asked to delay entering Cypriot territorial waters while the British troops were sent to Cyprus. However, the arrival of the British troops and the UN initiative proved enough to persuade the Turks not just to delay but to abandon their invasion for the time being. Troops on those ships reported later that they were told this was the real thing. "Then just as we approached Cyprus we were told to return to Turkey". The Cyprus Conspiracy by Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig
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The national guard was in disarray after the bombing of Kokkina by the Turkish airforce and the inability of Greece to come to our rescue.
Once again, please post evidence that the CNG was in disarray, after the Kokkina bombing?
Just because an area of Cyprus was bombed by TAF Sabre aircraft, does not mean that the CNG was in disarray. Aerial bombardment can only destroy infrastructure and unleash extreme terror on the island, but it cannot destroy an army. A total of 94 sorties were flown by the TAF during 8 and 9 Aug 64.
The National Guard at this stage numbered some 24,000 regulars and was later under the command of Grivas, along with the 950 ELDYK contingent.
and the inability of Greece to come to our rescue.
Another Bananiot lie exposed:
The Greek representative at the UN said that if Turkey's attacks (air strikes) continued, Greek fighters would come to the aid of Cyprus. A squadron of Greek Airforce jet fighters flew over southern Cyprus and Nicosia at low level in a show of force. The Cyprus Conspiracy by Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig
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The first leader of the national guard, General Karayiannis had to resign after only two months in the job having come across the total ignorance of Grivas and Yiorgadjis.
This is no reason to come up with an ill conceived conclusion that the CNG was in disarray, especially when there is no evidence to prove it.
Grivas returned in late 1964 to take command of the CNG and ELDYK brigade. If General Karayiannis was at odds with Grivas, then he did the honourable thing and resigned, otherwise you make a mockery of the chain of command.
Makarios resorted to threats of the type "we will attack the Turkish villages" and Papadopoulos asked for 75 minutes to "clean the Turkish Cypriots if the ships approached to within 12 miles of the coast"!
Makarios resorted to threats ONLY after the airstrikes around Kokkina and due to the fact that the TCs were smuggling weapons from Turkey and into Kokkina. He did not threaten any TC village for the hell of it, like you portray. Why don't you include all information and not just the part which makes Makarios look like a vindictive warlord, whilst conveniently ignoring the air strikes and TMT weapons smuggling which forced the attacks upon Kokkina due to security concerns to the island’s sovereignty?
Once again there is no evidence whatsoever that Turkish warships came within 12 NMS of the coast. It was on the second day of air strikes when Makarios warned Ankara that if the airstrikes did not cease, then all Turkish Cypriot villages would become potential potential targets of Greek Cypriot attacks. Further indication that the CNG was NOT in disarray.
Perhaps you are referring to this:
There were reports from Athens that Turkish warships had entered Cypriot territorial waters and rumours that Turkish troops were actually landing in the North West of the island. The Cyprus Conspiracy by Brendan O'Malley and Ian Craig
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So what evidence do you have that proves your posts to be factual?
Such was the situation then and Paphitis says that in this environment, if our objective was enosis, Makarios would have declared union with Greece there and then. Thus, in this masterly way he claims that our aim was never enosis in the 60's.
Wrong again Bananiot.
This is what I said:
There were many opportunities for ENOSIS to be declared. In 1964, Greece had some 10,000-12000 troops on the island and Makarios could have declared ENOSIS at this point in time if he desired.
So why was ENOSIS not declared when the balance was clearly favourable to Greece and the US was not going to allow any Turkish intervention at the time?
But then you deliberately miss my most important point of all:
Furthermore, since Turkey was "official aware" that ENOSIS was not the objective at this point and that the Greek Cypriots did not intend any bloody action against the TCs, why did Turkey proceed with the planned invasion?
Can you please answer the above question?
Why did Turkey invade, when ENOSIS was abandoned well before 1974 and as they were informed that ENOSIS was not the objective of the coup and that the matter was a purely GC issue?
My point proves one thing:
The answer to this question proves the FACT that whilst the GCs abandoned ENOSIS long ago, shortly after independence, the TMT continued its terror campaign against both GCs and TCs, in order to keep the TCs enclaved for the purposes of achieving TAKSIM, which was their dream from 1957.
