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Who started the inter-communal conflict

Postby Piratis » Fri May 21, 2010 9:24 pm

The inter-communal conflict was initiated by the Turkish minority in June of 1958. They did this by massacring GCs and by burning the homes and shops of innocent people.



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The rioting shown in the video was on the 7th of June 1958. The massacre of the GCs on the 12th of June 1958.

This Report is of a Commission of Inquiry conducted by the Chief Justice into an incident on 12th June, when eight Greek Cypriots met their deaths at the hands of Turkish Cypriots

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/comm ... /10/cyprus


In the event, it was Turkey that took the first practical steps. In June 1958, repeating the operation in Salonica, its intelligence agents set off an explosion in the Turkish Information Office in Nicosia. Once again, a fabricated outrage – no one was actually hurt – was the signal for orchestrated mob violence against Greeks. Security forces stood by as houses were set on fire and people killed, in the first major communal clashes since the Emergency was declared. The upshot, clearly planned in advance, was the eviction of Greeks from Turkish areas in Nicosia and other cities, and the seizure of municipal facilities, to create self-contained Turkish enclaves: piecemeal partition, on the ground. Its organisers could be sure of British complaisance. The day before the rampage – Harding was now out of it – the new governor, Labour’s future Lord Caradon, had assured its leaders that the Turkish community would enjoy ‘a specially favoured and specially protected state’ under future British arrangements. A few months later, the colonial secretary was publicly referring to Cyprus as ‘an offshore Turkish island’.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n08/perry-ande ... -of-cyprus


The murders of innocents and the destruction of GC properties were organized in Turkey who incited the Turkish minority in Cyprus with broadcasts calling them to murder GCs and start a civil war.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/comm ... 617_HOC_12

Soon after initiating the conflict the Turkish minority started to pretend to be the victim, with their leader lying and claiming that 1000s of TCs have been supposedly killed during the clashes.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/comm ... 24_HOC_223

It is a fact that it is the Turkish minority who initiated the conflict under the directions and the support of Turkey. They did this just months after they formed their plan for the partition of Cyprus. The inter-communal conflict was part of the partition plan of Turkey and its aim was to show that the TC minority could not live peacefully along with the rest of Cypriots and that therefore separation was required.

100s of innocent people from both communities died during this conflict, but obviously the ones who have the most responsibility for it are those who planned and initiated this conflict because they believed that such conflict would serve their aim of partitioning Cyprus.
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Postby larnacaman » Fri May 21, 2010 10:25 pm

It always seems the other side's fault on these threads, the Authors side is always the innocent and down beaten side!!! ....and of course the rightous side!!!

Why are we continuely going back in the past??? ....Do you think the answers for the future lay in the past, ...GOD I Hope Not!!!!!
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Postby Get Real! » Fri May 21, 2010 10:35 pm

And just 5 days later on the 12th June 1958, eight innocent and unarmed Greek Cypriot civilians from the village of “Kondemenos” were murdered by the T.M.T near the Turkish populated village of Geunyeli.

At the request of the British Governor, a 23-page report was later published titled…

”Findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the incidents at Geunyeli Cyprus on 12th June 1958”

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…which clearly described the tragic events in great detail and aftermath, although some sections are not very legible due to poor photo copying, and can be found here in PDF format…

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/h ... onyeli.pdf
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Postby denizaksulu » Fri May 21, 2010 10:42 pm

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Postby Oracle » Fri May 21, 2010 10:48 pm

Excellent thread.

Enough of this nonsense of "both sides are equally to blame". It serves the Turks to keep reciting this mantra because they want everyone to forget they started all this and instead make themselves sound "sympathetic" to both sides.

Sometimes the fault can be planted fair and square where it deserves to be, through facts. And Piratis serves facts!
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Postby YFred » Fri May 21, 2010 11:10 pm

if you are looking for the cause, here I found it. Year 1955 April Fool day. They sure made a fool out of lot of you boys and girls.

Long Live Decuntis and all his followers.


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Postby Bananiot » Fri May 21, 2010 11:17 pm

GR

And just 5 days later on the 12th June 1958, eight innocent and unarmed Greek Cypriot civilians from the village of “Kondemenos” were murdered by the T.M.T near the Turkish populated village of Geunyeli.


How did they happen to be near Geunyeli?
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Postby Piratis » Fri May 21, 2010 11:20 pm

Bananiot wrote:GR

And just 5 days later on the 12th June 1958, eight innocent and unarmed Greek Cypriot civilians from the village of “Kondemenos” were murdered by the T.M.T near the Turkish populated village of Geunyeli.


How did they happen to be near Geunyeli?


They were taken there by the British. Certainly no coincidence.
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Postby Piratis » Fri May 21, 2010 11:24 pm

if you are looking for the cause, here I found it. Year 1955 April Fool day. They sure made a fool out of lot of you boys and girls.


The revolution of the Cypriot people against the Colonialists was a 100% legitimate struggle seeking 100% legitimate rights.

Neither your neither any other minority was targeted by the struggle of the Cypriot people against the colonialists. On the contrary it is you who sided with the Colonialists and later attacked innocent GCs starting the inter-communal conflict.

Neither the British nor the Ottomans had any right to keep Cyprus under their rule against the will of the Cypriot people.
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Postby Piratis » Fri May 21, 2010 11:28 pm

larnacaman wrote:It always seems the other side's fault on these threads, the Authors side is always the innocent and down beaten side!!! ....and of course the rightous side!!!

Why are we continuely going back in the past??? ....Do you think the answers for the future lay in the past, ...GOD I Hope Not!!!!!


It is clear who is the aggressor in the case of Cyprus. We didn't leave our island to invade nobody. On the contrary it is the Turks who invaded our island several times in their effort to force Cyprus under their control and forcefully change the demographics of our island by transferring their settlers here.

I agree with you that there is no much point in concentrating in the past. Unfortunately the Turks are trying to distort our history in their effort to excuse yet more crimes against us (just like the have been doing for the last 400+ years) and we are not going to allow that.
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