They taught as it had been the situation since 1964 that they gained legitimacy for so-called RoC; again, with a fait-acompli they would have achieved Enosis with an excuse they had dfeated the leftist led Makarios government. By accomplishing this great mission, supposedly given to them by US; they would have been gifted whole of Cyprus. There was one more thing they trusted; a leftist, Ecevit was in power in Turkey, so that US administration would have stood on side of US puppets Hellenic far right instead leftist Ecevit.
10. At this point Ioannides summed up as follows:
A) He stressed that he too had a God; he was definitely not anti-American; “even a jackass needed a post to be tied to” and in his case it was the U.S.
B) His hasty decision on 13 July might have been stupid. Instead of abandoning Cyprus and letting U.S. worry about its fate and pour money down another rathole, he had allowed love of country, a moral obligation to the Greek Cypriot nationalists and his “philotimo” to overrule logic and to assist Greek Cypriots.
http://history.state.gov/historicaldocu ... 30/d88#fn2
http://kostasmavroskoufis.blogspot.com/ ... pmt-4.html
It is clearly seen that on 13th of July 1974, Ionnides was ordered to "abandon" Cyprus... However, on 15th of July; Ionnides ordered the ring leaders of his National Guard in Cyprus to overthrow Makarios... Why?
According to his idiotic opinion he would have rescued U.S. worry about its fate and pour money down another rathole, he had allowed love of country, a moral obligation to the Greek Cypriot nationalists and his “philotimo” to overrule logic and to assist Greek Cypriots.
So when did Kissinger assure Ionnides that he could overthrow Makarios and Turkey wouldn't intervene?
Was his aim double Enosis? Apparantly, no. Greek Junta rejected Turkey's double Enosis proposal back in 1967.
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It is clearly seen that the main responsible of events of 1974 and it's consequences is Ionnides and his backers; mainly Hellenic national front and besides almost all right winged Greek and GC political parties.
Nevertheless, his policy of Enosis and/or making Cyprus a Greek/GC right winged controlled island was supported by almost all right winged political parties of Greeks and GCs; not only in 1974 but backwards and afterwards... and still...
Those who accuse TCs and Turkey with so-called invasion and occupation of Cyprus actually accuse Turkey with not letting Greeks and GCs take over whole of Cyprus. Why should TCs and Turkey let them do this?
Tell me just a single rational reason why TCs and Turkey let them be the sole rulers of Cyprus?
Neither being the outnumbering ethnic group nor inhabitting in Cyprus longer than TCs r rational reasons for them to ask TCs and Turkey let the take over whole of Cyprus...
After decades lasted political turbulents Turkey faced now there is a stable government in Turkey and the poltical circumstances of international politics r very suitable to solve the Cyprus problem...
In this new age of Cyprus politics, it is obvious to me that Greeks and GCs still pursueing their well known solution thesis; will bring the permenant partition of Cyprus. After the failure of current talks, they will have only the partition issue to talk about.
As for Ionnides... had he achieved his goal, he would have been among the Greek heroes of Greek and GC right wing. There's no doubt... Just like Grivas and Sampson. They r heroes of EOKA struggle but stupid idiot; traitors in EOKA-B struggle? How come?
