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[yialousa1971]

Partition or Death




Above is a Pathe News clip showing a Turkish Cypriot demonstration in London in 1958 demanding the partition of Cyprus. The crowd of Turks is motivated by slogans such as ‘Cyprus is Turkish and will remain so’; ‘Partition Now’; ‘We don’t mind all or half but no less’; ‘If forced, Turkey will step in’; ‘Partition or Death’; ‘Partition our last sacrifice’; ‘We want what we like’; ‘26 million Turks are backing us’; ‘Give the Turks their due’; and ‘Cyprus has never been Greek’.

It’s worth drawing attention to this film because it exposes the myth that the Turkish minority in Cyprus was a passive community, with no political will or agenda of its own, which was targeted by Greek Cypriots and their obsessive push to unite the island with Greece. In fact, as previously demonstrated, the depredations Cyprus has endured are not rooted in Greek Cypriot nationalism but in Turkey’s long-term policy of partition, fervently and violently pursued by Turkish Cypriots. In this scenario, the invasion of Cyprus in 1974 was not a reaction to urgent circumstances – the coup to overthrow Makarios or any peril the Turkish Cypriots were in – but the predetermined means by which Turkey had decided it was going to fulfil its steadfast aim of dividing Cyprus. ‘If forced, Turkey will step in’, the demonstrators assert, two years before Cypriot independence, five years before the Turkish Cypriots claim they were forced out of the Republic of Cyprus and 16 years before Turkey did, finally, feel itself ready and found the opportunity, to step in.

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[repulsewarrior]

great blog, added to my favorites, thanks.

[B25]

I think you have just blown Erolz thesis out of the window. Shame, it was a well preprepared piece that he likes to spout over and over. Seems the Partition agenda was well on the table long before even independence not to mention the false flags Denktash ops in '63.

OK, so back to the motherland now boys for your next preprepared propaganda pieces.

[Flying Horse]

I've often read of this, and often thought of offering it into discussion recently, but didn't have linked evidence to back up my posts.

So now its here in black and white, in its own thread, I don't have to!

[DT.]

I loved one of the signs there..."Either ALL of Cyprus of HALF of it!"

[erolz66]

I really do understand why you are all so surprised at this ? Taksim was an inevitable reaction to enosis ? Without enosis there could have been no way to achieve taksim even if the desire for it amongst TC was the same (and without enosis it would not have been).

[kurupetos]

:lol: I loved one of the signs there..."Either ALL of Cyprus of HALF of it!"

Was young Zan holding it?

[repulsewarrior]

I really do understand why you are all so surprised at this ? Taksim was an inevitable reaction to enosis ? Without enosis there could have been no way to achieve taksim even if the desire for it amongst TC was the same (and without enosis it would not have been).

history shows us that all the interlocutors were prepared to cut Cyprus up when Makarios decided that it remain whole. what blood is on his hands has passed, as a Cypriot he died, and for that, he is a hero. in the battle that was Humanity's during the Modern Age, Cyprus too has lessons learned, and to be learned, to stop "it", to change ourselves, more importantly to better living. (Lest we Forget)

...but what is relevant here is the Treaty of Lausanne, the result of a Lease gone wrong, theft, in a sense, of Property.

...and what of "the Greeks", the dwellers of this island, no longer like chattel, (History changed), Freedom they asked (continue to ask), and their Liberty, constructs those for and against make bloody war as a fair price to pay, i say if Turkey, (the State which first promoted a BBF (to which the Republic is a party to)) ignores the need for a Greek Constituency in Cyprus to exist, so that "Greeks" are equal to "Turks", as well as a Republic, it is because in Turkey, where in effect there are the same divisions (and need for reform), so too in Turkey, a Turkish Constituency at some point must represent itself as an equal to other Constituencies distinctly different, but Turkish; having the same partition offered to "them" ((the "Greeks") in Cyprus), seems to imply that those "Turkish" (in Turkey) would settle for a Turkey divided in parts, at war, forever.

[Jerry]

I really do understand why you are all so surprised at this ? Taksim was an inevitable reaction to enosis ? Without enosis there could have been no way to achieve taksim even if the desire for it amongst TC was the same (and without enosis it would not have been).

And Enosis was driven by the need for security within a greater Greece to counter the Turkification of Greek inhabited lands as happened (contrary to the Treaty of Lausanne) in Imvros and Tenedos and of course Smyrna.

[Viewpoint]

I really do understand why you are all so surprised at this ? Taksim was an inevitable reaction to enosis ? Without enosis there could have been no way to achieve taksim even if the desire for it amongst TC was the same (and without enosis it would not have been).

Cant believe this thread, you are so right erol about enosis the gifting of the whole island to Greece being the cause of all our troubles, we had to fight back and we did with whatever means we had and taksim even the ideology is a form of sharing not giving away the whole island and forcing a large portion of your population to live under Greek administration.