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by **CBBB** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:18 am

Turkish Cypriots remember slain lawyers

Published on April 24, 2012

TURKISH CYPRIOT civil society will tomorrow mark the death of two lawyers killed in 1962 during a period of heightened tension.

The Turkish Cypriot lawyers, Ahmet Muzaffer Gurkan and Ayhan Hikmet, owners of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, were killed between April 23 and 24, 1962, allegedly by the Turkish Cypriot paramilitary organisation TMT.

The event to mark a half century since their murders will be held at the headquarters of Turkish Cypriot teachers’ union KTOS in northern Nicosia.

Writer-researcher Ahmet Cavit An and Aydin Hikmet, the brother of one of the victims, will address the meeting, which is being organised by the New Cyprus Party (YKP) and trade unions KTOS, KTOEOS, Basin-Sen, Dev-Is, KTAMS and Cag-Sen.

Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika yesterday wrote that their murders may officially be considered “unsolved” but everyone in the north knows who their killers are.

Another daily Kibrisli reported that the two lawyers were killed after publishing many articles on a bomb placed at the Omeriye Mosque in Nicosia between March 24 and 25, 1962.

According to the paper, the bomb was an attempt to deteriorate relations between the two communities on the island by placing blame for the attack on Greek Cypriots. Before the assassination of the two lawyers, Cumhuriyet had published an article saying it would soon reveal the names of those who attacked the mosque.

A columnist for the more hardline daily Volkan yesterday described the two lawyers as “spies of the Greek Cypriots” and not “victims of democracy”.

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/ktos/turkish ... s/20120424

by **Bananiot** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:43 am

May their memory live for ever. I will be there to pay homage to these true Cypriots along with my TC teacher comrades, who in their vast majority, unlike their GC counterparts, have the good of Cyprus in their hearts.

by **B25** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:51 am

Bananiot wrote:May their memory live for ever. I will be there to pay homage to these true Cypriots along with my TC teacher comrades, who in their vast majority, unlike their GC counterparts, have the good of Cyprus in their hearts.

Bravo Bananiot, your true colours have really been shown now, not that we didn't know before.

You shit on the EOKA freedom fighters, to pay homage to 'true' cypiots of the dark side. What a waste of skin re.

by **Bananiot** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:34 pm

You must be really thick if you have just now discovered my "true colours".

by **B25** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:50 pm

No, we always knew, but it's different when you here it straight from the horses mouth.
So there you have it, my CF compariots, Bananiot is a TC who hates GCs, beware, this person is dangerous and he walks amongst us. Becareful never turn you back on him!

by **Lordo** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:03 pm

B25 wrote:No, we always knew, but it's different when you here it straight from the horses mouth.
So there you have it, my CF compariots, Bananiot is a TC who hates GCs, beware, this person is dangerous and he walks amongst us. Becareful never turn you back on him!

The Lawyers were fighting for Cyprus where as EOKA was fighting for Greece. There were lots of GCs like the two lawyers who were killed by EOKA.

Each day I thank God for only giving you two brain cells. What ever you do, do not use them both at the same time otherwise the world could come to an end.

by **B25** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:15 pm

Lordo wrote:
B25 wrote:No, we always knew, but it's different when you here it straight from the horses mouth.
So there you have it, my CF compariots, Bananiot is a TC who hates GCs, beware, this person is dangerous and he walks amongst us. Becareful never turn you back on him!

The Lawyers were fighting for Cyprus where as EOKA was fighting for Greece. There were lots of GCs like the two lawyers who were killed by EOKA.

Each day I thank God for only giving you two brain cells. What ever you do, do not use them both at the same time otherwise the world could come to an end.

BS, EOKA was NOT fight for Greece but for Cyprus and True Cypriots. It is the traitor TCs and some GCs (I can think of at least one) whom turned against them. If it were not for the actions of EOKA, Cyprus would not be independent as it is today, but under some British/Turkish/US yoke.
We can see living proof today in the north what it would be like if Turkey had all of Cyprus. The GCs who don't like it here can FO to the otherside as far as I am concerned if they love you so much.
As for braincells, I have enough to know who is my friend and who is my foe, and I thank god everyday for the EOKAs heros.

by **Hermes** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:33 pm

Bananiot wrote:May their memory live for ever. I will be there to pay homage to these true Cypriots along with my TC teacher comrades, who in their vast majority, unlike their GC counterparts, have the good of Cyprus in their hearts.

What an inappropriate post. At a time when Cypriots would wish to remember all the innocent victims of the Turkish campaign against Cypriot co-existence, the only thing you can think of is to make a ridiculous and outrageous slur against the Greek Cypriots who have been the main victims of Turkey’s violent and segregationist policies on the island.

Instead of this occasion being one of unity against Turkish terrorism, you seek to turn it into one of division and recrimination. You are truly the heir and spokesman of the partitionists and all those who seek to sew division on the island. It is your raison d'être and you do an injustice to the very men whose deaths you claim you wish to commemorate. Shameful.