Piratis
Please tell me Bananiot, what happened in 1956 that will somehow cancel the fact that we have been invaded by Turks who murdered 10s of thousands of Cypriots, oppressed us for centuries and just 80 years after the end of their oppressive rule they collaborated with foreign imperialists, attacked us (again), and helped the foreign Imperialists to deny to us our freedom (again) so they could have (yet again) Ottoman style privileges on the expense of the human and democratic rights of the majority of Cypriots?
A change of tune by Piratis. So far he wanted us to believe that the intercommunal problems started in 1958. Now, when it is pointed out that the events started much earlier, when we burned the ten only TC houses in Ashia in 1956 and at the same time declared war on innocent people in Afania, he relates everything to the Turkish invasion of 1974. We misjudged everything before 1974, thinking that we were invincible. We gambled and we lost. In 1974 we paid the bill, so to speak.
By searching the Internet you cannot find the truth. The truth lies in the research of serious historians and if you (and GR) do not sit down and do some serious reading you do not stand a chance at discovering the truth. Of course, this suits you quite well, since you can go on living in your false world, Piratis.
In 1963, law and order broke down, as a direct consequence of Makarios's efforts to enforce the 13 changes to the Constitution. Makarios (and all the reactionaries of this forum) claimed that the changes were needed to make the fledgling democracy workable. Was this really the aim of makarios? Let us see:
In early 1964, Makarios sent a letter to George Papandreou, then Prime Minister of Greece. Nikos Kranidiotis in "Anohiroti Politia" page 135, vol. A, unearthed the letter, which says:
"I WAS THE PERSON WHO SIGNED THE AGREEMENTS ON BEHALF OF THE GREEK CYPRIOTS. I NEVER, FOR A SINGLE MOMENT, BELIEVED THAT THESE AGREEMENTS WOULD CONSTITUTE A LONG LASTING REGIME. I SIGNED THESE AGREEMENTS ONLY IN ORDER TO ANULL THEM, AS THE LEGITIMATE LEADER OF A COUNTRY. OUR OBJECTIVE, MR PRIME MINISTER, IS TO ABOLISH THE AGREEMENTS".
After the withdrawal of the TC's from the RoC, Makarios implemented a plan to change the bicommunal nature of the RoC, to a pure Greek state and made enosis his official policy.
In 1964 and 1967, Greece and Turkey came to the brink of war. However, in 1968 intercommunal talks started in Lebanon, between Klerides and Denktash. The talks continued in Nicosia on the basis of establishing an independent Cyprus. Makarios moved from the desired to the feasible, after the fiasco of 1967. We like of course to blame Turkey and the rest of the world for our predicament. Of course Turkey could never abandoned the TC's and we should have known this. Turkey had a well worked out policy on the Cyprus issue back then. It contained two unmovable terms:
1. The maintenance of the bicommunal nature of Cyprus so that the TC's would not be relegated from a politically equal community to a minority community.
2. The continuing presence of the treaty of guarantee which was an integral part of the Constitution.
Klerides, in his "My Deposition" page 89, vol.3, states that the Turkish side showed a willingness to accept the changes to the Constitution as proposed by Makarios on the condition that we accept the principle of self governance for the TC's.
Makarios rejected this because his main aim was to move away from the bicommunal nature of the state.
Of course, all the above make no sense to people like Piratis, B25 and GR who were blinkers all the time and all they see, when they run out of arguments, is the conquest of Cyprus by the Ottomans.
P.S. B25 thinks that I am a Turk. I say that he is the proponent of the Turksih militarist circles for if ever we behave as he says we should, the job of the Turkish military circles will become extremely easy.
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