Piratis wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:Piratis wrote:74LB wrote:Piratis wrote:While the brutal Ottoman rule had ended just a couple of decades earlier, the Greek Cypriots did not seek any revenge against the TCs, but on the contrary they cooperated more and more with them (although the British did not exactly encourage this).
The hostilities between the two communities restarted only when the TCs started to cooperate again with the foreign Imperialists (UK/Turkey) in order to regain Ottoman style privileges for themselves on the expense of all other Cypriots.
The historical facts show that the Cypriot people are forgiving people and do not seek revenge for things that happened in the past, but are also people who appreciate democracy and human rights and are always willing to fight against those who are trying to deprive them from these rights.
Try telling that to the remainder of my relatives of Sandallar village. And Murataga. And Attlilar as well.
Are you talking about the approximately 200 people who were killed during the war you started and while you were killing 1000s and ethnically cleansing 100s of thousands of Greek Cypriots?
I said Greek Cypriots will not seek revenge for things that happened in the past. I didn't say that they will not fight back while they are attacked. On the contrary I said: "are also people who appreciate democracy and human rights and are always willing to fight against those who are trying to deprive them from these rights".
One of the victims of these massacres was a 16 day old baby. How can a 16 day old baby attack anybody?
Ask the Turks why they invaded Cyprus and killed 1000s of innocent people (including children) and ethnically cleansed 100s of thousands of innocent people (including children) and raped women and under age girls.
Funny how the aggressors are trying to present themselves as the victims because they also had a few losses in the war they started. The Germans had millions of casualties during WWII (including children), should they now pretend to be the victims of that war?
If for the Turks a coup that was made by the Athens Junta and a tiny minority of Cypriots can be an excuse to invade Cyprus and collectively punish all Greek Cypriots, then surely all TCs should also be collectively responsible for the crimes their community and Turkey commits, right?
Those who support that the Turkish invasion was in any way justified, should also accept that the reaction of those GCs was also justified.
My position is that the Turkish invasion was not justified and that if the Turks had not invaded killing 1000s of GCs, then those 200 or so TCs wouldn't have died either.
So 74LB, was the Turkish invasion justified, yes or no? You can't justify the killing of 1000s and the ethnic cleansing of 100s of thousands of innocent people just because they are GCs, and not also justify the killing of 200 people just because they are TCs.
If you don't justify the Turkish invasion and the mentality of collective punishment then I challenge you to say it clearly, and blame Turkey for acting wrongly and starting a war which resulted in the death of innocent people.
Yes, the invasion was justified. What took place afterwards was crazy.
