Nikitas wrote:The narrative was built up long before 1963. The plan was hatched since the 40s when the war settlements left turkey out as a non combattant. The 50s were the time of the first implementation with the setting up of TMT and its command by Turkish mainland army people. The attacks in Omorfita and central Nicosia in 1958 show organization and planning that defy any claim of spontaneous rioting. The Turk to Turk campaign started back then too, long before 1963.
Since the founding of the Republic the separation lines were firmly drawn and no go areas established. In Famagusta we were firmly kept out of the old city by armed TMT men as early as 1960. You could skirt the old city by going along the port wharves or on the Salamis road, going into the old city was impossible.
Before that, when we lived in Nicosia near Lokmaci, we had daily attacks by armed and organized bands of TCs, while we were curfewed by the British and Turkish auxiliaries. Those were harrowing times, I can't forget them.Our house in Alxandrou street in Nicosia still has the bullet holes from 1958.
As for the events of December 1963, it is conveniently forgotten that there were GC casualties at that "demonstration" in Nicosia. We also tend to forget the speed with which the separation was implemented by TMT. They rounded up the Armenians in Nicosia and kicked them out of their homes in a matter of hours. That shows the level of preplanning that was in place by late 1963.
They do play the victim well though! The skill level is truly Shakesperian in scope.
...in any case Lordo, you can't escape the gravestones. If your words are true, it is the "Turks" that are betraying us (i assume of course you are Cypriot), yet your words are only apologies, for them.