Acikgoz wrote:Makarios "The (Greek mainland) coup caused much bloodshed and took a great toll of human lives." How often have I heard Greek Cypriots castigate Greece for their missing?
Note from same comments "For some time talks were going on between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots in search of a peaceful solution to the Cyprus problem, which on many occasions has occupied the time of the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations." How many times do you see that Turkey was the cause of the issues between the Turkish and Greek Cypriots.
Please, I ask humbly, as your harsh criticism only feels like excuses not to focus on the single point - any admission of Greek Cypriot wrong doing?
Several coups happened in Turkey as well. Should Greece or Russia used that as an excuse to invade Turkey in order to protect the Greek, Kurdish, Armenian etc minorities every time a coup was happening in Turkey?
The fact is that in 1974 no TC was killed until 20th of July when Turkey invaded. Therefore the coup is not an excuse for your crimes.
Several GCs died during the coup, but nowhere as many as the ones that were killed during the invasion. The general of the Junta who were responsible for the coup were jailed and punished for their crime.
The Cypriot people never invaded Turkey or any other country for that matter. You want to put blame on the Cypriots because some foreigners invade Cyprus to serve their own interests?
The Cypriots might not be perfect, nobody is, but we never did anything more than fight for our freedom from foreign invaders. Even thought we were given a crippled independence, we still managed to run Cyprus better than the Turks run Turkey.
Turkey is the reason the Cyprus Problem exists, since it is Turkey which keeps her troops on our island, violating the sovereignty of Republic of Cyprus and ignores the UN resolutions.