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General admits torching mosque in Cyprus

http://famagusta-gazette.com/general-ad ... 843-69.htm

Retired Turkish General Sabri Yirmibesoglu has claimed that he set fire to a mosque in Cyprus during the 1970s to stir up problems between the two communities.
Yirmibesoglu, who led the Special War Department in 1971 and also worked to mobilize civilian resistance during Turkey's military invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
Yirmibesoglu, who has recently been accused of having conducted an assassination attempt on the life of Turkey's eighth president, Turgut Ozal, confessed that he ordered the burning of a mosque as part of psychological warfare operations in 1974.
He said: “In special war, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy in order to increase public resistance. We did this in Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.”
The retired General is also believed to have information concerning many alleged crimes and activities of clandestine organizations such as JİTEM. He was also implicated in the Sept. 6-7, 1955 pogrom in Istanbul against minorities, which today is widely believed to have been part of a manipulative plan conducted by Ergenekon-like structures.
Yirmibesoglu has admitted that the Sept. 6-7 events were organized by the Special War Department, documented by journalist Fatih Gullapoglu in his book “Operation with no tanks or arms.”
In the book, Yirmibesoglu is quoted as saying, “Sept. 6-7 is the work of Special War [department], and it is a spectacular organization.”
In the interview with Haber Turk, Yirmibesoglu also attempted to clarify this point. He partially denied what was in the book saying, “In 1971 I was assigned as the head of the Special War Department. At the time, there was actually no department called the Special War Department, there was only the Mobility Investigation Board that was set up for Cyprus. It was a new organization for sending weapons against EOKA in Cyprus.”
The paper also reports that more than 100 mosques and mausoleums were destroyed during the years 1963-74, and 16 during the years 1955-58, allegedly by the Greek Cypriot side. The mosque Cami-i Cedit in Pafos was burnt in 1964. The mosques of Omeriye and Bayraktar were bombed several times.
Commenting on the issue, former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash denied these statements, adding that they are wrongly interpreted. Reiterating that the Turkish Press Office was bombed in 1958 by Turks, Denktash explained that two Turkish Cypriots put the bomb in order to blame the Greek Cypriots, but this act was not committed by the Turkish Cypriot community.
“It was an act of two hot-blooded young Turkish Cypriots,” Denktash said and added that discovered this seven years later.
Ferdi Sabit Soyer, leader of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP), said that unfortunately this is the reality in Cyprus. Noting that the provocative acts in those times aimed to keep the people of Cyprus apart, Soyer also said that these acts served the interests of foreign powers.
Mehmet Cakici, leader of the Social Democracy Party (TDP), said: “They bombed mosques on the island in order to escalate tension among the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish deep state did it. The Greek Cypriot deep state also bombed churches in order to blame the Turkish Cypriots. This is what happens during wars.”
Retired commander of TMT, Hasan Keskin, said that “if this is what General Yirmibesoglu says, then it is so. I don’t have any information which mosque he is referring to.”

[bill cobbett]

General admits torching mosque in Cyprus

http://famagusta-gazette.com/general-ad ... 843-69.htm

Retired Turkish General Sabri Yirmibesoglu has claimed that he set fire to a mosque in Cyprus during the 1970s to stir up problems between the two communities.
Yirmibesoglu, who led the Special War Department in 1971 and also worked to mobilize civilian resistance during Turkey's military invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
Yirmibesoglu, who has recently been accused of having conducted an assassination attempt on the life of Turkey's eighth president, Turgut Ozal, confessed that he ordered the burning of a mosque as part of psychological warfare operations in 1974.
He said: “In special war, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy in order to increase public resistance. We did this in Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque.”
The retired General is also believed to have information concerning many alleged crimes and activities of clandestine organizations such as JİTEM. He was also implicated in the Sept. 6-7, 1955 pogrom in Istanbul against minorities, which today is widely believed to have been part of a manipulative plan conducted by Ergenekon-like structures.
Yirmibesoglu has admitted that the Sept. 6-7 events were organized by the Special War Department, documented by journalist Fatih Gullapoglu in his book “Operation with no tanks or arms.”
In the book, Yirmibesoglu is quoted as saying, “Sept. 6-7 is the work of Special War [department], and it is a spectacular organization.”
In the interview with Haber Turk, Yirmibesoglu also attempted to clarify this point. He partially denied what was in the book saying, “In 1971 I was assigned as the head of the Special War Department. At the time, there was actually no department called the Special War Department, there was only the Mobility Investigation Board that was set up for Cyprus. It was a new organization for sending weapons against EOKA in Cyprus.”
The paper also reports that more than 100 mosques and mausoleums were destroyed during the years 1963-74, and 16 during the years 1955-58, allegedly by the Greek Cypriot side. The mosque Cami-i Cedit in Pafos was burnt in 1964. The mosques of Omeriye and Bayraktar were bombed several times.
Commenting on the issue, former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash denied these statements, adding that they are wrongly interpreted. Reiterating that the Turkish Press Office was bombed in 1958 by Turks, Denktash explained that two Turkish Cypriots put the bomb in order to blame the Greek Cypriots, but this act was not committed by the Turkish Cypriot community.
“It was an act of two hot-blooded young Turkish Cypriots,” Denktash said and added that discovered this seven years later.
Ferdi Sabit Soyer, leader of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP), said that unfortunately this is the reality in Cyprus. Noting that the provocative acts in those times aimed to keep the people of Cyprus apart, Soyer also said that these acts served the interests of foreign powers.
Mehmet Cakici, leader of the Social Democracy Party (TDP), said: “They bombed mosques on the island in order to escalate tension among the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish deep state did it. The Greek Cypriot deep state also bombed churches in order to blame the Turkish Cypriots. This is what happens during wars.”
Retired commander of TMT, Hasan Keskin, said that “if this is what General Yirmibesoglu says, then it is so. I don’t have any information which mosque he is referring to.”

Gosh. So we're not talking about just one mosque burned down in '74 by provocative false flag black ops but more than one hundred, and from 1955 through to 1974!

[yialousa1971]

Friday, 24 September 2010

Turkish general admits campaign of provocations in Cyprus

Turks have always sought to justify the invasion of Cyprus by suggesting it was designed to save the Turkish minority on the island, which they say had been under attack since 1955 – but particularly since 1963 – from Cypriot Greeks hell bent on uniting Cyprus with Greece. Of course, this is typical Turkish falsification; but so unwaveringly have Turks been pushing this line that not only do they believe it, but many Greeks, both in Cyprus and Greece, have also come to accept that our side mistreated the island’s Turks and, as such, that we share the blame for Cyprus’ tragedy and must take punishment for our ‘crimes’ in the form of submitting to Annan-type plans.

The truth of the intercommunal clashes in Cyprus is, of course, not one of Greek persecutors and Turkish victims; but of provocations by Turkey aimed at setting Cyprus’ communities at each other’s throats and promoting Turkey’s goal of ethnic and geographical separation on the island.

And just to prove that the intercommunal violence in Cyprus in 1958, 1963 and 1967 were not attempts by Greek Cypriots to wipe out the Turkish minority and achieve unhindered their dream of Enosis, but provocations by Turkey designed to pave the way for partition, we have had this week

http://infognomonpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post_7562.html#ixzz10OJO7Cje

retired Turk General Sabri Yirmimbesoglou, who served in Cyprus in the 1950s and 1960s in his country’s Special Warfare Department, admitting to Turkish TV that ‘to stir up the Turkish Cypriots, we carried out sabotage, such as the burning of mosques, and then blamed this on the Greek Cypriots. This was the modus operandi of the Special Warfare Department. In Cyprus, we burned mosques.’

It should be noted that outbreaks of intercommunal violence in Cyprus often started with bombs going off against Turkish ‘targets’, mosques, newspaper offices, etc, which were blamed on Greek Cypriots. Turkish Cypriots would then riot, attack homes and businesses belonging to Greeks, who retaliated. The Greeks, being better armed and more numerous, would often overwhelm Turkish Cypriots, who cried ‘massacre’ and then demanded Turkey’s protection, i.e. Turkey pursued a deliberate policy of exposing Turkish Cypriots to danger so that they could then use their (exaggerated) plight as proof that Cyprus’ communities could not live together, that Turkish Cypriots were being subjected to ‘genocide’ and that Cyprus had to be partitioned.

Also noteworthy is the fact that Yirmimbesoglou cut his teeth in the Turkish security services helping organise the Constantinople pogrom

http://greekodyssey.typepad.com/my_greek_odyssey/2006/07/turkeys_pogrom_.html

in 1955, which began with Turkish agents bombing Mustafa Kemal’s childhood home in Thessaloniki, blaming this on Greeks, and false claims that Greeks were massacring Turks in Cyprus, and culminated in a two-day orgy of violence and destruction targeting Constantinople’s Greek community, an event Yirmimbesoglou boasts ‘was a Special Warfare [Department] job. It was a magnificent operation. And it achieved its aim.’
Posted by John Akritas at Friday, September 24, 2010

http://hellenicantidote.blogspot.com/2010/09/turkish-general-admits-campaign-of.html

[Oracle]

The tradition continues ...


Turkey has suspended two generals and an admiral linked to an alleged plot to stage a military coup, according to reports.


Conspirators are accused of planning attacks on mosques and to provoke tension with neighbour Greece, hoping to trigger instability and setting the stage for the ousting of the government.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -plot.html