Famagusta call
NICOSIA – Mayor of Famagusta Alexis Galanos has called the occupied city Turkey’s 'Achilles’ heel', saying that by underlining the issue of Famagusta, Turkey will be forced to be faced with its severe responsibilities on Cyprus, especially the ones concerning UN Security Council resolutions 550 and 789.
Addressing Saturday evening an anti-occupation event, organised by the Famagusta Municipality to mark the 36th anniversary since the seizure of the town by the Turkish troops in the summer of 1974, Galanos said that the issue of Famagusta underlines the real dimension of the Cyprus problem, which is a problem of foreign military invasion and occupation.
He expressed concern over Turkey’s intransigent stance on the Cyprus issue, saying that this stance leads to a deadlock at the UN - led ongoing Cyprus talks, which aim at reunifying the country under a federal roof.
Galanos also expressed disappointment with the unwillingness and indifference of the international community as regards the Cyprus problem.
“We are concerned with the unwillingness of foreigners to listen to us and realise Ankara’s actual role and responsibilities in Cyprus”, he stressed.
“Today, we denounce once more the inhuman behavior of Turkey against our town”, he said, adding that at the same time the people of Famagusta denounce the ''criminal indifference of the civilized world towards the problem of Cyprus''.
He said that Cyprus should consider changing its position on Turkey’s EU accession and only support it when Ankara complies with international law and ends the occupation of Cyprus, which is a member of the EU since May 2004.
He continued by saying, “today, we renew our commitment and determination for freedom and return to our beloved town”.
“Our thoughts” he said, “go back to those tragic days of the summer of 1974'' when the inhabitants of Famagusta, in their majority Greek Cypriots, were forced to evacuate the town during the second phase of the Turkish invasion, which bombed Famagusta.
''We were fleeing away, thinking we would return in just a few days'', he went on to say.
Galanos added that “our memory goes even further beyond time, when Famagusta was the commercial and tourist pearl of Cyprus”.
Famagusta was captured by the advancing Turkish troops during the second phase of the Turkish invasion, in mid August 1974. Famagusta remains under Turkish occupation with its Varosha area, still sealed off by the Turkish army, being called ‘ghost town’.
UN Security Council resolution 550 (1984), which is one of the strongest secured by Cyprus to date, condemns all secessionist actions, including the purported exchange of ambassadors between Turkey and the pseudo-state, declares them illegal and invalid and calls for their immediate withdrawal.
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The other 5000 that GR is now forced to quote as opposed to the 8000 you guys were claiming a while back and still your propaganda books are quoting would have been those fighting the liberation forces of the Turkish army.....Sounds about right to all right thinking minds!!!! 
