Piratis wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:The Fractures of a Struggle:
Remembering and Forgetting Erenköy
Rebecca Bryant
George Mason University
http://www.prio.no/upload/Rebecca%20Bryant.doc
Not a single mention of the word "napalm". Presenting the TMT as heroes. She even talks about how they were bringing weapons from Turkey to Cyprus in the 50s with no mention about how those weapons were used: To attack innocent Greek Cypriots and start the inter-communal conflict.
I read 3 pages of this document (and made a search for the word "napalm") and it was more than enough to understand what it was all about.
In many occasions in this forum I exposed PRIO as a pro-Turkish organization. This document is yet another confirmation.
From a highly reliable source, the events of Dillirga and the story of the napalm bombs thrown by Turkish war jets...
The Greeks who believed to get aid from some countries resumed their attack on a much bigger scale on 9th August.Fighting started in more fierce proportions. The Greeks still continued to believe thet they would force the Turks into the sea.Once more the sky was covered with the thunder of the Turkish planes. This time 64 planes joined the misssion and poured death on the Greeks.The Greek artillery was silenced by napalm bombs.
A Greek war ship attacking the Turkish positions from the sea, was also sunk.
The foreign reporters and UN soldiers who were there could not conceal their appreciation on the skill shown by the Turkish planes. The planes gave direct hits to all position destroying them completely.
The air attacks greatly reduced the Greek forces.The Greek attack was completely stopped.The Greeks conceded their failure. Makarios said he was ready to accept all Turkish conditions.
Wth the wipe out of the Greek forces placed around Dillirga, the fighing came to en end.”
It seems the target was not the civilians and there's no report that civilians were targeted..
EVALUATION
Both sides in this conflict try to induce the impression of their innocence stressing the pressure on them. As always the guilty side is the other one. Turkish Cypriots put forward Greek Cypriot attacks on Turkish Cypriots as the start of clashes while Greek Cypriots indicate Turkish division exploits of the island. Both communities endeavour to conceal the facts from their communities showing the other side as culprits in this affair. My reasearch did not dig out much information from textbooks followed in Greek schools. The Turkish Cypriots on the other hand exaggerated the facts to stress their justification in the developments.There was no hint whatsoever to alleviate the pain of the other side. Young students with only a few weeks of training joined the fighting in Dillirga. Some of them died in the fightings.During the Turkish air bombardment a lot of Greeks died as well.Neither Dr. Vehbi Zeki, nor the Greek writers dwelt on these facts.On the contrary the Greek Cypriots still argue that a fully equipped army invaded Dillirga. Both Cypriot Turks and Cypriot Greeks who lived for centuries in that region were forced to evacuate their houses and find safer refuge somewhere else. Hundreds of civilians were either killed or wounded during the Dillirga fighting. Both Greek and Turkish Cypriot press failed in their handling of the developments. The criticism and evaluation of the happenings was carried out by chauvunistic writers. Those who initiated the fightings were not criticisized and sufferings of both communities were side stepped.
If the events and developments that took place in Dillirga are rightly reflected and recorded in textbooks indicating mishaps I tried to stress above, the forthcoming generations will have a better chance to understand all that happened . They can thus try to avoid the recurrence of similar incidence in the future.
http://www.yenikibris.org/kitap/ulus/dillirga.htm
