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[RAFAELLA]

Another article/masterpiece from a real Cypriot, Mr Sener Levent.
I wanted to share it with you.
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Under the title “Since when have you become wall breakers”? Turkish Cypriot Afrika newspaper (07/12/05) publishes the following commentary in the column Aci (Angle) by Sener Levent:

“You occupy half of a country after a fighting war……. Then you create a state there……..
You transfer thousands of persons from your country to the territories you conquer…….. You distribute, and issue title deeds, to these persons (illegal settlers) the properties of the people (Greek Cypriots) you force under armed violence to abandon.

And you settle for good there 40,000 of your armed forces. You plant a “restricted military area” sign post everywhere…… You set up military camps and headquarters in the forests and mountains ….. You leave no place without barbed wires…… You force the local population to live behind an iron curtain for thirty years after closing tightly the borders of the country divided into two with the territories under your conquest ……. You allow no bird fly from the borders….. You do not even give permission to the sick persons begging you to cross for treatment ……….

Suddenly after thirty years, after others died and others were left behind, you came to reason and open partly the walls you erected …….

'Go ahead, pass, you say, with your passports' ……. Because you partly open the walls you erected you boast and consider this to be a great favour to the people whose land you occupy ….. Although their land is under your occupation you call them “occupiers” and declare yourselves “freedom lovers…..”

'I want peace while you do not', you say ………. 'Our offer for peace was in vain', you say complaining …..

With the support of 40,000 troops behind you accuse the other side that it does not accept your conditions for peace…….

At Ledra Street there was a festival yesterday …..Soyer ……….Serdar ……... And the commanders …….

They gathered at the area where they created a work of art …. They delivered speeches ….

They provoked looking at the Greek Cypriot wall across the road.

'That wall, that wall of yours, is annoying us', they shouted in rage….

They treated with disrespect a poem of Nazim (Hikmet)! As if Nazim wrote this famous poem for such a wall.

Since when do they consider the shouting of the proletarians against the wall of bourgeoisie to be the shouting of the Turks against the Greeks? Since when have those who divided the country into two pieces like a water melon, those who decorated the half of it with forty thousand soldiers, military camps and headquarters, those who forced us to live for thirty years behind bars, become ‘wall breakers’? Since when do they have the desire to demolish walls?

Is this enthusiasm due to the fact that we were not able to make ourselves accepted to the other side with the territories we have been occupying for 31 years and the state we have established? Since when this monstrosity, this bridge you have built in a narrow street, has become a bridge of peace? Will the civilians go over the bridge because the army will be patrolling there? Why has it not been necessary to build bridges at other crossing points and it has been necessary there? Is it very pleasant for you if we live under the psychosis of a continuous war?

The festival at Lokmaci is a festival of helplessness. It is a sign of having submitted to the army, of the obedience of the civilians to the army. Come on, gather in the moldy dry dock of the fourty year old ruins. Light a fire. Dance. Distribute sweet pastry and meat balls. In any case, people are in trouble. It does not matter if they eat some sweets. Those who care about how to open a passage for the army to patrol instead of looking for ways to get rid of the army, what kind of peace could they sign? Many men have been shot at the sentry posts until now. Will they be shot on the bridge from now on”?

http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/A ... enDocument
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Sometimes I wonder how he "escaped" from having Mr Kutlu Adali's fate....

[zan]

There was no any more time to be wasted. The Turkish Cypriot people were also surrounded by the Greek National Guard and both the declaration of enosis and yet another massacre of the Turks were imminent. Turkey could not afford to risk these eventualities. Therefore, Ecevit ordered on 19 July, the Turkish Army to launch a `peace Operation' and exercise the right of intervention, according to Article IV(2) of the Treaty of Guarantee. The aim of this operation was to maintain the independence of Cyprus and to protect the Turkish Cypriot people. The Turkish Peace Operation started at early hours of 20 July 1974. It was a difficult amphibious action involving air, sea and land forces. Three brigades of Turkish troops arrived by sea and landed, at a beach, 5 miles west of Kyrenia, together with 40 tanks and light weapons. Paratroopers were dropped a few miles north of Nicosia between Gonyeli and Hamitkoy. A bridgehead was established and Turkish forces had a link up with Turkish Cypriot fighters in St. Hilarion area and in Kyrenia Boghaz. Heavy fighting took place between the Turkish Contingent and the Greek Contingent, which were in Cyprus in accordance with the Treaty of Alliance of 1960. The Times Correspondent observed that "thousands

of Turkish Cypriots were taken hostage after the Turkish forces landed. Turkish women were raped, children were shot in the street and the Turkish quarter of Limassol was burnt out by the (Greek) National Guard." The Times, 23 July 1974. The brutality of the Greek National Guard in Limassol and other Turkish areas they surrounded was widely reported in the world press. For instance, a German tourist described the atrocities of the Greek soldiers saying that "the human mind cannot comprehend the Greeks' butchery" and added: "In the villages around Famagusta, the Greek National Guard have displayed unsurpassed examples of savagery. Entering Turkish homes, they ruthlessly rained bullets on women and children. They cut the throats of many Turks. Rounding up Turkish women, they raped them all. Broadcast from `The Voice of Germany' July 30, 1974. The New York Times Correspondent witnessed that, 15 of the Turkish Cypriot men, were trying to defend themselves, were lined up after they surrendered and were shot by EOKA gunmen in the mixed village of Alaminos, of the Larnaca District. The New York Times, 29 July 1974


You come and you save us from certain death and annihilation.
You look after us because no body else cares.
You give us money every year so we may buy medicines for our children.
You risked your lives for us.
You carry on providing for us when others tried to starve us.
You still keep us safe.
How can we ever repay you?
Thank you.

[Agios Amvrosios]

Zan cut the propaganda

[zan]

I was in Cyprus two weeks before the intervention happened. It was me that was putting my fingers through the machine gun holes in my cousins’ Toyota van that happened when a Greek terrorist jumped out from behind a bush and opened fire. I don’t know how old you are but your propaganda is my living history. History my friend, history. The answer to all the questions that ask why the Turks are there is always “because EOKA tried to kill us”, history. If you don’t want to hear it then realise the reasons why we are here today and then we can all move on…

[RAFAELLA]

Zan cut the propaganda

Let them express themselves, Ag. Amvrosios.
These are the opportunities they are desperately seeking for taking their propaganda out for a walk.
Their propaganda cannot, and does not, deceive anyone. It simply helps them to deceive themselves.

[zan]

Thank you sweatheart, I feel much better now that I have your permission.

[Main_Source]

There was no any more time to be wasted. The Turkish Cypriot people were also surrounded by the Greek National Guard and both the declaration of enosis and yet another massacre of the Turks were imminent. Turkey could not afford to risk these eventualities

There was no massacre of Turkish Cypriot before the invasion.

One massacre which I admit happend in August of 1974, against Turkish Cypriots in the vilage of Tohni. This was not carried out by the Cypriot National Guard but by the EOKA B irregulers IN RESPONSE TO THE GREEK CYPRIOT MASSACRES WHICH WERE CARRIED OUT BY THE TURKISH ARMY BEFORE HAND. A hell a of a lot more Greek Cypriots were murdered at the hands of Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish army than vice versa, from the years between 1960 and 1974.

[zan]

There was no any more time to be wasted. The Turkish Cypriot people were also surrounded by the Greek National Guard and both the declaration of enosis and yet another massacre of the Turks were imminent. Turkey could not afford to risk these eventualities

The New York Times, 29 July 1974

There was no massacre of Turkish Cypriot before the invasion.

One massacre which I admit happend in August of 1974, against Turkish Cypriots in the vilage of Tohni. This was not carried out by the Cypriot National Guard but by the EOKA B irregulers IN RESPONSE TO THE GREEK CYPRIOT MASSACRES WHICH WERE CARRIED OUT BY THE TURKISH ARMY BEFORE HAND. A hell a of a lot more Greek Cypriots were murdered at the hands of Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish army than vice versa, from the years between 1960 and 1974.

Main_Source 9 Dec 2005

[Main_Source]

so what does that prove? because it was in the NY Times, it is the gospel truth? There are no dates in that peice of writing and we dont even know who the writer was.

Do you beleive everything the American media tells you? or is that a selection process? Have you seen how full of shit CNN is?

[zan]

so what does that prove? because it was in the NY Times, it is the gospel truth? There are no dates in that peice of writing and we dont even know who the writer was.

Do you beleive everything the American media tells you? or is that a selection process? Have you seen how full of shit CNN is?

You do have trouble seeing things as they are Source. The date of the news paper article is written in bright red ink just below it.

The New York Times, 29 July 1974 The actual date not a rethink

Entering Turkish homes, they ruthlessly rained bullets on women and children. They cut the throats of many Turks. Rounding up Turkish women, they raped them all. Broadcast from `The Voice of Germany' July 30, 1974. The New York Times Correspondent witnessed that, 15 of the Turkish Cypriot men, were trying to defend themselves, were lined up after they surrendered and were shot by EOKA gunmen in the mixed village of Alaminos, of the Larnaca District. The New York Times, 29 July 1974