Viewpoint wrote:bill cobbett wrote:Viewpoint wrote:bill cobbett wrote:Viewpoint wrote:Nikitas wrote:"What I am surprised is that GCs blame Turks but they never accept any single pressure that had happened to TCs."
You obviously do not follow the GC or Greek press. There are many reports of GC perpetrated killings against TCs, as there are op-ed articles about the blame that must be apportioned to the GCs.
President Christofias, both before and after his election stated many times that the treatment, as well as the attitude of GCs towards TCs were wrong. Christofias did not use the easy way and try to lay the blame on the Greek dictators, EOKA B etc. He squrely said "we".
Apart from Mehmet Ali Birad, who is not an official, I have never heard any high ranking Turk or TC accept that there were crimes in 1974. Even when Ecevit says "if the Greeks had accepted our ultimatum of August 13 we would not have had to proceed with Attila II and kill 4500 people" there are bloody minded cynics in here who argue that all GC casualties were caused by fighting among GCs between July 15 and July 20 of 1974.
The killing was not carried out by militias. It was the work of a Nato trained army. It was part of a plan. The fact that no prosecutions followed the crimes shows that they were part of delibarate campaign. Dont look far, just think of how the situation would have panned out if there had been no military reaction to the invading army. Is anyone in his right mind suggesting that the GC population would have been allowed to remain in the north? When the Turkish FORMALLY stated demand of August 13 was the surrender of 30 per cent of the island?
The behavior of the Turks during the last 35 years proves that the goal of the invasion was never the welfare of the TCs. The aim was and is a de facto annexation and Turkification of the north. As long as the TCs do not react to this there is no point in negotiating.
Feel free to walk away when ever you wish...
Neah, we'll be around for a very long time, in fact I think we'll be here for donkey's years.
Not in your life time anyway.
Predictions, predictions. No one had the foresight to see the Collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire until a few minutes before it happened.
How did your "celebrations" go yesterday by the way? Nice party? Good BBQ? Dancing and Singing on the graves of thousands of CYs of both communities?
Was great national holiday as you know, eating drinking and making merry all in the name of saving our lives, which is millions times better than it was when we "lived together"...the blood stains are clearly on the GCs hands who started this troubles in 1963.
VP lets get something straight you started the troubles not us. Your the ones that planted the bomb in Nicosia that killed the TC's just so you could blame on the GC's and also you sided with the Brits in the 50's instead of your country men.
Its a shame you didnt choke on your barbecue.
