Sener Levent writes about missing persons remains which were thrown in the sea by a special Turkish team
Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (15.11.13) published a commentary by Sener Levent under the title "Missing persons that were thrown in the sea and the Apostolos Varnavas Secret".
Levent, who notes that he got his information by a witness of the facts he reports about, writes that panic and uneasiness were created in Turkey after the establishment of the Missing Persons Committe in Cyprus; therefore a decision was made by Turkey to destroy the mass graves of 1974. They sent a special team for this reason in order to find and destroy the mass graves, he notes.
Levent also writes that there is a connection between these incidents and the murder of the Turkish Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adali in 1996.
"The team that came from Turkey started working immediately in order to find and to destroy the mass graves of the Greek Cypriots. First of all they started looking for people who knew about the places that these graves existed. This operation took place secretly. Massive Greek Cypriot slaughters took place in the village Maratha, Aloa and Sandalari. Murdering of Greek Cypriot prisoners of war, children or eldest, were made by angry Turkish soldiers and by some Turkish Cypriots. Everyone that knew about the issue indicated the place the mass graves were located to the special team that came from Turkey, in Afania, Tzaos, Assia, Bekoy and everywhere else that these mass graves were located. They even went to Varosha which is fenced for years. It is said that the remains of some persons which were murder, were in Varosha and these persons were buried in some water pools [?]. The remains of these persons were exhumed from the mass graves and were loaded up to trucks. And after, they were thrown to the sea. Here, they whisper it in our ears after years. If all these are true, then those who are looking for them (the missing persons) they are looking in vain. They will never find them", Levent writes.
He goes on and writes about the events related to Apostolos Varvavas and notes that everybody thinks that in the church yard there was a treasure, therefore the yard was excavated for this reason. Levent writes that this is not true:
"A mass grave was located there, the witness says. And they went there with the special team that came from Turkey. Actually, the persons buried were not killed there, but were transferred to that area. So what about Kutlu Adali? It is said that Adali knew about the decision taken in Turley and about the operations undertaken. That is why he started to dig up in the Apostolos Varnavas story. He wrote about this issue in his newspaper articles. It is also said that the military command invited him to its headquarters and warned him on this issue. Kutlu did not pay attention to these threads. He was not the kind of man to be afraid of these threads. Therefore they took the final decision for him as well and they murdered him in front of his house. They did not give him the chance to reveal the secret of Apostolos Varnavas [?] It was not a treasure there were seeking in Apostolos Varnavas, they were seeking for mass graves. There is no way to know the remains of how many missing persons were thrown in the sea. We only know that they will be not found ever. In order to remember them we can build an "unknown victim" monument. And we can look at this and feel ashamed. Because even this is not enough to offer forgiveness".
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