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[paliometoxo]

A TURKISH covert unit carried out acts of sabotage on the island during the 1960s, including the torching of a mosque, in a bid to incite Turkish Cypriots against the government, a retired Turkish general has claimed.
General (ret.) Sabri Yirmibe?o?lu told a Turkish television channel yesterday that Turkey’s Special Warfare Department had prior to 1974 carried out acts of sabotage in Cyprus, which included targeting sites that were of ‘value’ to Turkish Cypriots so that it appeared “as if the enemy had done it.”
Yirmibe?o?lu, who had served as head of the Special Warfare Department, did not specify where or exactly when the alleged acts of provocation took place.
Created in 1953 as part of the Turkish secret service, the Special Warfare Department is believed by commentators in Turkey to be the executive branch of the so-called ‘deep state.’
“In order to increase the resistance of the people, you carry out sabotage against certain values, in order to create the impression that it is the enemy who did it. In Cyprus, we had torched a mosque,” Yirmibe?o?lu said in an interview while describing methods used in unconventional warfare.
Asked for a second time by the journalist whether the department had indeed torched a mosque, Yirmibe?o?lu paused and said “For argument’s sake,” according to the Greek translation broadcast by Greek media.
Later in the day, former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash issued a statement denying the claim, adding that the general’s comments had been misunderstood.
Yirmibe?o?lu has been in the news this week after Ahmet Özal, son of Turkey’s eighth president Turgut Özal, claimed that the general, who was secretary-general of the National Security Council at the time, was behind an assassination attempt on his father’s life in 1988.
Özal claimed also that a prosecutor conducting the investigation into the attempt was warned by the same general not to “dig too deep.”
Yirmibe?o?lu has denied the allegations, dismissing them as “complete nonsense.”

[B25]

Palio mate, you are too slow, already reported here;

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=31608

Keep looking

[paliometoxo]

i guess i am.. my mistake. ty