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CYPRUS: Bitter Breakdown
Monday, Nov. 10, 1958

GREECE REJECTS CYPRUS TALKS, Said the headlines. All of NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak's tireless efforts (TIME, Nov. 3) to gather a conference to settle the three-year-old Cyprus dispute between Britain, Greece and Turkey fell apart last week. The Greek government, which dares not show itself more conciliatory than Cyprus' bearded Archbishop Makarios, said no.



The British, delighted to put the blame squarely on Athens, leaked a blizzard of inspired "inside information" to prove that all the NATO powers, and Spaak himself, were fed up with the Greeks.

But the other half of the matter was that though the British had made some procedural concessions, they were plainly not going to budge on anything basic. "We came to the conclusion," announced Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis, "that the conference as conceived by Britain and Turkey would not lead to any positive results."

The British had always complained that they could not negotiate with the exiled Makarios, "because he kept upping his demands." But when Makarios finally dropped his biggest demand, enosis (union with Greece), the British decided that they had Makarios and the Greeks "on the run," and seemed contented to leave things on Cyprus as they are.

The Day's Temperature. To leave things as they are is to leave Cyprus stalked by terror, rent by hatred, and engulfed by fear. In the past month six British civilians, nine British soldiers, 13 Greek Cypriots and three Turk Cypriot policemen have been killed—one a day since Britain, over Greek objections, began enforcing its "partnership" plan, dividing Greek and Turkish Cypriots in separate legislatures.

Arms are so much a part of the scenery, violence so much an accepted condition, that the news is chronicled in Nicosia's newspapers like the day's temperature readings: the British sergeant's 17-year-old son shot in the back of the head by Greek Cypriot EOKA terrorists; the trusting, 62-year-old British importer killed by gunfire as he stepped into his car; the three terrorists blown up by their own crude bomb; the pencil bomb that went off last week in a British airman's kit bag just before it was to be put aboard an R.A.F. jet Comet bound for Britain. The British have stationed 37,000 troops on Cyprus, which is smaller than Los Angeles County. In the eternal check against sabotage they go so far as to unscrew the caps of toothpaste tubes and sniff face powder.

Across the unhappy island, barbed-wire barricades cocoon key buildings, seal Greek and Turkish Cypriots into separate quarters. British Tommies man machine guns on the minarets of Turkish mosques. Cyprus' nightly lullaby is the baying of search dogs. When the sirens signal curfew, the island's economy is paralyzed (loss per day: about $120,000 of Cyprus' gross daily income of $290,000). Factories are closed for lack of labor and materials. But no sooner does the curfew lift than terrorists kill another victim.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 23,00.html

[Piratis]

The British have absolutely no rights over our land, neither Turkey. The only thing that matters is what the Cypriot people wanted for their own island.

The Cyprus Problem was created by these foreign Imperialists, who instead of letting Cyprus free, they instead did everything they could, including using the TC minority, in order to maintain troops and control over parts of our island.

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The British have absolutely no rights over our land, neither Turkey. The only thing that matters is what the Cypriot people wanted for their own island.

The Cyprus Problem was created by these foreign Imperialists, who instead of letting Cyprus free, they instead did everything they could, including using the TC minority, in order to maintain troops and control over parts of our island.

Damn the things you have to put up with. Time you understood we have just as much rights as you do.

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Time for you to understand that each one of you has as much rights as each one of us. Today is the 21st century. We are not living in the middle ages any more were Muslims (Turks) could have more rights than every other Cypriot. Time for you to stop the oppression against us and let Cyprus to be free and ruled in a democratic way by its own people.

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Time for you to understand that each one of you has as much rights as each one of us. Today is the 21st century. We are not living in the middle ages any more were Muslims (Turks) could have more rights than every other Cypriot. Time for you to stop the oppression against us and let Cyprus to be free and ruled in a democratic way by its own people.

BBF with political equality take it or leave it.

[Piratis]

Time for you to understand that each one of you has as much rights as each one of us. Today is the 21st century. We are not living in the middle ages any more were Muslims (Turks) could have more rights than every other Cypriot. Time for you to stop the oppression against us and let Cyprus to be free and ruled in a democratic way by its own people.

BBF with political equality take it or leave it.

Political equality means equality of citizens, and I have no problem with that. And I also have no problem with BBF as long as it is a true federation and the land distribution is right. Take it or leave it. And "leave it" means you continue to live with the consequences of your illegalities while the whole Cyprus continues to belong to Republic of Cyprus in which you have no representation.

[Viewpoint]

Time for you to understand that each one of you has as much rights as each one of us. Today is the 21st century. We are not living in the middle ages any more were Muslims (Turks) could have more rights than every other Cypriot. Time for you to stop the oppression against us and let Cyprus to be free and ruled in a democratic way by its own people.

BBF with political equality take it or leave it.

Political equality means equality of citizens, and I have no problem with that. And I also have no problem with BBF as long as it is a true federation and the land distribution is right. Take it or leave it. And "leave it" means you continue to live with the consequences of your illegalities while the whole Cyprus continues to belong to Republic of Cyprus in which you have no representation.

29% 71% split with equal political balance of both states on specific issues with safeguards and guarantees built into the constitution.

[Piratis]

Time for you to understand that each one of you has as much rights as each one of us. Today is the 21st century. We are not living in the middle ages any more were Muslims (Turks) could have more rights than every other Cypriot. Time for you to stop the oppression against us and let Cyprus to be free and ruled in a democratic way by its own people.

BBF with political equality take it or leave it.

Political equality means equality of citizens, and I have no problem with that. And I also have no problem with BBF as long as it is a true federation and the land distribution is right. Take it or leave it. And "leave it" means you continue to live with the consequences of your illegalities while the whole Cyprus continues to belong to Republic of Cyprus in which you have no representation.

29% 71% split with equal political balance of both states on specific issues with safeguards and guarantees built into the constitution.

In your dreams only.

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Time for you to understand that each one of you has as much rights as each one of us. Today is the 21st century. We are not living in the middle ages any more were Muslims (Turks) could have more rights than every other Cypriot. Time for you to stop the oppression against us and let Cyprus to be free and ruled in a democratic way by its own people.

BBF with political equality take it or leave it.

Political equality means equality of citizens, and I have no problem with that. And I also have no problem with BBF as long as it is a true federation and the land distribution is right. Take it or leave it. And "leave it" means you continue to live with the consequences of your illegalities while the whole Cyprus continues to belong to Republic of Cyprus in which you have no representation.

29% 71% split with equal political balance of both states on specific issues with safeguards and guarantees built into the constitution.

In your dreams only.

No deal viva la TRNC.

[Piratis]

Time for you to understand that each one of you has as much rights as each one of us. Today is the 21st century. We are not living in the middle ages any more were Muslims (Turks) could have more rights than every other Cypriot. Time for you to stop the oppression against us and let Cyprus to be free and ruled in a democratic way by its own people.

BBF with political equality take it or leave it.

Political equality means equality of citizens, and I have no problem with that. And I also have no problem with BBF as long as it is a true federation and the land distribution is right. Take it or leave it. And "leave it" means you continue to live with the consequences of your illegalities while the whole Cyprus continues to belong to Republic of Cyprus in which you have no representation.

29% 71% split with equal political balance of both states on specific issues with safeguards and guarantees built into the constitution.

In your dreams only.

No deal viva la TRNC.

"trnc" is just another dream. This is why TCs make lines to take Republic of Cyprus passports. Because dreams can not be of much help in the real world.