In 1974 the Turkish army invaded Cyprus and with the help of certain TCs started killing innocent people by the 1000s, raping under age girls, and performing ethnic cleansing against 100s of thousands of people. In 1974 until the invasion started (20th of July) not a single TC was killed. After the invasion and all the above atrocities of the Turkish army and TC extremists, a couple of 100s of innocent TCs were also murdered by certain GC extremists.
These are the facts which have been documented many times. If you dispute any of these facts please provide credible sources and say where you disagree.
The excuse that the Turkish propaganda gives is that Turkey invaded Cyprus to save the innocent TCs who were massacred. As the facts show this is nothing but a big fat lie. But lets imagine that it was true.
Does this mean is that if TCs were massacred by certain GCs, that Turkey was justified to invade, kill 1000s and ethnically cleanse 100s of thousands of innocent people? Please answer this question with a "YES" or "NO" before reading the rest of the thread. My answer is NO
Most TCs accept this logic to be fine. i.e. if some GCs were indeed killing TCs, then this means it was fine for Turkey to invade and indiscriminately kill and ethnically cleanse innocent GCs because in some weird way, killing and ethnically cleansing innocent unarmed people, raping under age girls and committing such kind of atrocities constitutes a "peace operation", a "protection" and "saving" of the TCs.
Now lets go back to the real facts. In 1974 before the invasion no TC was actually killed. So the excuse that the Turkish propaganda gives is based on lies. Based on the true facts the argument can be made only in reverse: "The Turkish Army and certain TC extremists were massacring Greek Cypriots by the 1000s, and therefore in order to "protect" and "save" GCs it was necessary to kill some other innocent Turkish Cypriots." How many agree with this logic? I don't. How many of you that answered "YES" in the previous question, answer "NO" to this one? If you are one such person you are a racist hypocrite.
Unfortunately racists hypocrites are the ones who rule Turkey and the pseudo state. Today they told us that the killing and ethnic cleansing of innocent people, the rapes of under age girls and all the other atrocities the Turkish army and the TC extremists committed in 1974 (and continue until today), were justified and these actions constitute the "saving" of TCs.
Of course they didn't think the same for their own casualties in the war Turkey started. The TC casualties during the war were all unjustified, and those TCs who died were all "martyrs".
Even more unfortunate is how some people are so brainwashed that can not see the racism and the hypocrisy in what they were taught to support.
While the Turkish side celebrates the atrocities against innocent people trying to present them as a "peace operation" and as the "saving" of TCs, our side never tried to excuse the murders of any innocent TCs, even thought the war (and the previous conflict) were in fact initiated by Turks and TCs.
The Turkish invasion, the killings and ethnic cleansing of innocents, the rapes, the occupation, the declaration of the pseudo state and the Settlers are all inexcusable crimes and illegalities, and no amount of lies and racist hypocritical arguments can change this fact.