Jerry wrote:supporttheunderdog wrote:what people like Sotos forget was that it was CYPRIOTS both Kypreos and Kibrisi who in the early years of the Republic fought for its destruction, seeking either Enosis or Takism , who were thus the first to violate the treaties. This resulting in (a) the events of 1963 and the first really evil A Plan, the Acritas Plan, (probably written by Papa dope), with the first de facto partition og the Island. There was then inexorable progress to the events of 1974, when certain Cypriots, backed by another of the guarantor powers, Greece, really sh*tted it up with the Coup, and (as was described by big Mak to the UN), Invasion by Greece. as it gave the Turks the excuse they had been looking for since 1955 to invade.
(Probably from 1955 onwards Enosis was a non starter).
Or would you have preferred that in 1974 Britain took on the coupists and the Greeks, alongside Turkey?
The natives may have fought for the island's destruction Stud but they were poked with big sticks by other interested parties.
PS When I saw you had posted I thought/hoped that you were going to report that you had sent dozens of messages to those mentioned in my first post.
If they were poked with a big stick it was because Big Mac had delusions about his adequacy as an international statesmen and at the height of the Cold war was (rightly or wrongly) seen as being a tad too ready to climb into bed with the communist block. However the principal external players were probably Greece and Turkey, both of whom had their own geopolitical agenda, in particular Turkey who were never going to allow Greek domination of their southern coast from Cyprus, hence the tragic events of '64 and '74 .