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The Communist Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias, selfconfessed

follower of super - Enosist Makarios, has publicly owned that

he gets his inspiration from the Eoka terror organization (which

murdered more Greek Cypriots than the Turkish Cypriots and British put

together for the sake of Enosis).

But he has declared that he is obliged to talk about a bizonal

federation with the Turkish Cypriot side because, he says, he has no

other option in light of the treason of the coup in 1974 and its results:

the separation of the two sides and the loss of 37 per cent of the

territory of the Republic of Cyprus.

Earlier, he had declared that he had to talk a federal settlement

with the Turkish Cypriot side because a federal settlement was the only

way to get rid of the Turkish Army in the island and thus achieve the

unity of the country and its people.

He continues to believe that he is the President of the whole island

and that the problem to be solved started in 1974 as a result of the

treacherous Greek coup and the subsequent Turkish "invasion". So, the

only way to save the country from this calamity caused by the "invasion"

and regain the unity of the state and its people is through the talks in

which he expects the Turkish Cypriot side to agree with him:

(a) that the problem arose in 1974;

(b) that the 1960 partnership state was a unitary state; and that

(c) the way to solve it is to amend the 1960 Constitution (which

Makarios had declared to be dead and buried in 1963 and has not been

implemented since then) in order to change the unitary state into a twoprovince

federal structure;

(d) and that subject to UN Security Council Resolutions (85 per

cent of which have not been accepted by the Turkish side) and EU

norms entitling all EU members (meaning all Greek Cypriots and

newcomers from Greece) to settle anywhere in the island, thus making

nonsense even of the two-province so called "concession" by the Greek

Cypriot side;

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(e) that the Turkish Cypriot side is not, has not been, and shall not

be one of the two peoples in the island and cannot claim to have the

right of self-determination as one of the two peoples;

(f) that Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, Armenians, Maronites and

the Latins jointly compose "the people of Cyprus" who are all equals

before the law;

(g) that the result of the settlement should be to get rid of the

guarantees and to push Turkey out of Cyprus, rending Turkish Cypriots'

ties with Turkey.

Anyone who has a minimal knowledge of what is called "the Cyprus

Problem" since 1954-55 should know that this summary of the Greek

Cypriot view of the problem is utterly contrary to the history and

realities of the island and to the Turkish Cypriot view of it. This view is

shared by guarantor Turkey, but there is no harm in summarising the

Turkish Cypriot point of view. That:

(a) the 1960 Agreements had established a bi-national state

between the two politically equal sides; Britain ceding her sovereignty to

this bi-national state for its constituent peoples to use it jointly as

equals; one side having no right to exercise sovereignty over the other;

(b) in legal terms this set-up was described as a functional

federation

(c) it was closed to Enosis (union with Greece) and partition

between Turkey and Greece by the guarantee system.

Like Christofias, the then leader Makarios saw no alternative (other

than agreeing to partition) to signing this Agreement which was contrary

to his sense of justice and his national objective-Enosis.

So, he signed the Agreements of 1960 with his tongue in his

cheek, having decided from the earliest moment not to enter a new

election in 1965 under the terms of this "unjust, unworkable agreement"

which he projected to the non-aligned world as an imposition upon the

people of Cyprus (the Cypriot nation) by the evil Imperialists.

As all other leaders after him, including Christofias, Makarios

refused to accept that there could be political partnership between a

minority and 'the majority".

He set up his armed gangs under the leadership of the Minister of

Interior and destroyed the partnership by the end of 1963, throwing

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Turkish Cypriots out of the state while telling the world that the Turkish

Cypriots could only come back as a minority community because the

Constitution which had given them partnership rights was dead and

buried and he no longer recognised Dr. Fazıl Küçük as the Vice President

of Cyprus.

Greek troops clandestinely brought to the island assured security

for this illegal coupist regime which defied all humanitarian principles and

resorted to terrorism while the Security Council sent in the Unficyp "in

order to help the Government of Cyprus bring law and order to the

island". I don't believe there is any better example in the books of the

Security Council to prove that there can be no justice done in any

problem unless there is a proper diagnosis of that problem by impartial

parties, and that failure to treat the parties to any problem as equals

means injustice to one of the parties - and that a just solution cannot be

found with the scales weighed against one of the parties from the

beginning. Big power interests played their ugly part, and now in the 47th

year of the problem Mr. Christofias is able to act and talk as the lawful

President of a bi-national state, and the UN and the EU do not care a

damn about the injustice that has been done to the Turkish Cypriots for

nearly half a century by the facts and the rule of law applying to the

long-destroyed Republic of Cyprus being ignored.

The 1960 partnership Republic had no chance of surviving as such

because the Greek Cypriot side had decided that it was unworkable.

That the Constitution was drafted under the leadership of a Swiss

professor did not matter.

Neither did it matter that the German president of the

Constitutional Court, Prof Forstoff, had publicly declared to UPI on

December 30, 1963, that "all this happened because Makarios wanted

to remove all constitutional rights from the Turkish Cypriots.

From the moment Makarios started openly to deprive Turkish

Cypriots of their rights, the present events were inevitable". Later, in an

interview with the Associated Press on January 5, 1964, he again stated:

"If there is goodwill a Constitution can be implemented and this

Constitution is capable of being implemented."

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But to Makarios and his militant aides the Constitution and the

agreements which underpinned it had to be done away with.

Today the Greek-elected Greek Cypriot leader, who is not

embarrassed at all by sailing under the false title of "the President of

Cyprus", has come out with a wonderful statement which I know the Big

Powers, the Secretary-General and his representative on the island

Alexander Downer will all prefer to ignore. Because if they take notice of

it they will all see the futility of trying to solve the Cyprus problem on the

basis of a federal partnership between two equals.

Like Makarios, Christofias says that he has no alternative but to

talk about a federal solution because of the treachery of the 1974 coup

by Greece and the resulting occupation of his island.

"I know a two-zoned federation is unworkable but it is a must," he

has declared. It may also be remembered that he had earlier said that

he has to talk about such a solution because it is the only way to get rid

of the occupier and the guarantee system!

The Americans (with their Acheson-Enosis Plan) and the British

(fearing for their basis), the Russians (in support of Orthodoxy) and the

rest of the world just looking at Cyprus and seeing a so-called

government complaining about invasion and occupation - unaware or not

interested in the history of Cyprus nor in the 1960 Agreements and their

reason - may not get the message which Mr. Christofias has just

repeated, probably for the benefit of his opposition, but Turkish Cypriots

who have lived and worked with Makarios and the rest of the Greek

Cypriot leaders understand Mr. Christofias only too well.

I also believe that a new attempt to put together 80 per cent

Greek Cypriots with 20 per cent Turkish Cypriots as equal partners , as in

the 1960 set-up, this time adding to it geographically (one side saying it

is a state, the other one saying it is a province) and taking away the

guarantee system which saved the Turkish Cypriot side from

elimination, will not work again because there is no such goodwill to

work it from the outset. The Greek Cypriot leader wants a solution for

ulterior motives, namely to get rid of the Turkish army along with the

guarantees, and not for a permanent, workable partnership.

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Once the Greek Cypriots get what they want, the agitation for the

unworkability of the solution will become the problem of the day,

probably this time ending with a Greco-Turkish war, a devastated Cyprus

looking on.

Wasting time and money on a bizonal solution which the same

party that destroyed the 1960 set-up – on the false premise that it was

unworkable – and has already declared unworkable is utterly futile. This

is what the Greek Cypriot side has always wanted and got thanks to the

policy of the big powers.

Are we expected to play this "no-end-game" for the sake of the

spectators? When will the UN understand that the Greek Cypriot side is

not, cannot be, and will not be the "government of Cyprus"? And that

the EU membership of Cyprus is a baseless lie? And that all those who

voted for that membership should really feel ashamed at having ignored

the basic principles of justice and fair play?

[Bananiot]

I think the GC nationalists agree with the final conclusion of Denktash's article. They are no different really.

[Get Real!]

UNWORKABLE SOLUTION - Rauf R. Denktas

That's exactly why he should paddle back to Turkey and go join a WeightWatchers!

[Nikitas]

Makarios the arch enosist, according to Denktash, or Makarios the traitor to the cause of enosis according to dictator Ioannides?
Both opinions are posted on this forum, recently (see Insan's posts from US documents). Who is the more reliable source? Denktash the Turk or Ioannides the Greek?

[zan]

Makarios the arch enosist, according to Denktash, or Makarios the traitor to the cause of enosis according to dictator Ioannides?
Both opinions are posted on this forum, recently (see Insan's posts from US documents). Who is the more reliable source? Denktash the Turk or Ioannides the Greek?

When you have two faces then both is possible...Unfortunately for him he got both slapped

[Get Real!]

Makarios the arch enosist, according to Denktash, or Makarios the traitor...

Makarios, is doing pretty well in the popularity ratings game lately!

I remember a time when he was called…

“The mass murderer!”

“The baby killer!”

“The hand grenade blesser!”

…and many others!

[zan]

Makarios the arch enosist, according to Denktash, or Makarios the traitor...

Makarios, is doing pretty well in the popularity ratings game lately!

I remember a time when he was called…

“The mass murderer!”

“The baby killer!”

“The hand grenade blesser!”

…and many others!

They go without saying GR!!!

[Nikitas]

If Makarios had two faces, then Denktkash and Ioannides shared the same one, the face of hysterical fascism.

[zan]

If Makarios had two faces, then Denktkash and Ioannides shared the same one, the face of hysterical fascism.

You remember the famous quote OF THE TIME in which his mouth drips with blood