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[Oceanside50]

[Zenon33]

Our country will be free.
Turkey go home!!.

[Oceanside50]

August 1,1974

ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΙΚΟ ΜΟΥ ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟ "ΖΗΣΕ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΚΑΙ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΕΜΑΣ " ΔΕΚΑΤΗ ΤΡΙΤΗ ΜΕΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ 1 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ 1974

Πρωτομηνιά σήμερα...ο Αύγουστος μπήκε κακοσήμαδος.Κόντευε να ξημερώσει όταν ακούστηκαν οι πρώτες ολμοβολές από την πλευρά του βουνού.
Γρήγορα επανδρώσαμε τα φυλάκια στο παρατηρητήριο στην ταρατσα του ξενοδοχείου ΤΣΙΑΜΟΥΡΟΣ.Τα μάτια όλων στρέφονται προς τον Πενταδάκτυλο.Οι Αττίλες εξαπολύουν πολυμέτωπη επίθεση.Τα στίφη των βαρβάρων κατεβαίνουν στην αυλή της Αγιάς Ειρήνης,προχωρούν προς το " βρυσί " και αποκόπτουν το δρόμο που οδηγεί προς του Τάκη Φυλακτού στα ανατολικά και προς Γιαννήταη βόρεια.
Απαίσιος ο βρυχηθμός των αρμάτων..Εκκινούν από το ΠΕΝΤΕ ΜΙΛΙ και ακολουθούν την πορεία Πλατάνια-Έξι μίλι-δίστρατο της Ελιάς..φτάνουν στου Τάκη Κτωρίδη και στου Σαββή του Φίλιππου.
Οι Αττίλες επιχειρούν να περικυκλώσουν την περιοχή....Άγριες οι μάχες.Οι ηρωΐκοί εθνοφρουροί,οι Ελλαδίτες,οι Έφεδροι επιτυγχάνουν μικρές νίκες.Άνισος όμως ο αγώνας...εμφανής η υπεροπλία του εχθρού.Οι φίλιες δυνάμεις αναγκάζονται να αναδιπλωθούν προς τα ακραία φυλάκια της Λαπήθου.
Η διαταγή που μας δίδεται από το αρχηγείο, μέσω ασυρμάτου,λιτή και έντονη "ΕΓΚΑΤΑΛΕΙΨΑΤΕ ΠΑΡΑΥΤΑ ΤΟ ΠΑΡΑΤΗΡΗΤΗΡΙΟ ..Ο ΕΧΘΡΟΣ ΒΡΙΣΚΕΤΑΙ ΕΝΤΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΠΥΛΩΝ ".Η διαταγή δεν επιδέχεται αμφισβητήσεις.
Κατεβαίνουμε στη Λουκή Ακρίτα...επικρατεί μικρός πανικός.Ανήσυχος ο Κοκής Χριστοδούλου Κούβακας,αναζητεί μέσο για να σώσει τη γυναίκα του Σωτήρα και τα δυό μικρά παιδιά τους.Βρίσκονται στο σπίτι τους κοντά στην Ευαγγελίστρια.Με ιδιωτικό αυτοκίνητο φτάνουμε στου Γιωρκατσή και στρίβουμε νότια προς τον Πάνω Καραβά.Παντού ερημιά...Αριστερά και δεξιά μας ερμητικά κλειστά τα σπίτια... Πλησιάζουμε το παλιό καφενείο του Κκόλα,μετέπειτα σιδηρουργείο του Αντρέα Τζιάμπου...φτάνουμε στου Γιώρκου και της Αθηνάς Πογιατζή.Κόλαση η οδός 28ης Οκτωβρίου...οι σφαίρες πέφτουν βροχή,οι Τούρκοι βαρούν στα τυφλά για να εκφοβίσουν.Με την όπισθεν μπαίνουμε στο χωματόδρομο, μετά το μικρό διόροφο του Θεορή του Σιοιριάρη - παλιά εδώ έμενε σε ένα μικρό σπιτάκι ο γέρος ο Σκόρτος-.Γαζωμένα από σφαίρες τα σπίτια και τα μαγαζιά από του Ατσίγγανου,του Κοκκινίδη μέχρι και του Κρεμμού.
Με κίνδυνο ο Κοκής αναλαμβάνει να διασώσει την οικογένεια του.Ξεχύνεται σαν σίφουνας μέσα στο περβόλι της Κωσταντινιάς...πότε έφυγε....πότε επέστρεψε.
Επιβιβαζόμαστε ,ακολουθούμε αντίστροφη πορεία και κατευθυνόμαστε προς Λάπηθο.Αλοίμονο έμελλε να είναι η τελευταία επαφή μας με τη λεμονανθούσα κωμόπολη του Καραβά.Ευτυχήσαμε να γεννηθούμε και να ζήσουμε σ' αυτό τον επίγειο παράδεισο.Σε τούτα τα χώματα μάθαμε τα πρώτα γράμματα,παίξαμε ποδόσφαιρο,αγαπήσαμε,παντρευτήκαμε,γεννήσαμε...Συμφόρηση στους δρόμους της Ιμερόεσσας,στο Βαβυλά,στα Πάναγρα... Εγκαταλείπουν όλοι τις πατρογονικές τους εστίες για να σωθούν.Φτάνουμε στου Μόρφου και η οικογένεια Κούβακα αποβιβάζεται σε φιλικό σπίτι.Τελικός προορισμός το φιλόξενο κεφαλοχώρι της Πιτσιλιάς,ο Αγρός.
Οι τίτλοι τέλους πέφτουν...Οι Αττίλες βρίσκονται εντός των πυλών.Κάποιοι ηλίθιοι -νέοι εφιάλτες- φρόντισαν και άφησαν αφύλακτες τις κερκόπορτες.. Άλλοι,εξ ίσου αφελείς,παρότρυναν τον εχθρό να τις παραβιάσει.Η ιστορία θα μας κρίνει όλους.
Ο ΑΠΟ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΑΤΩΝ ΧΡΟΝΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΑΡΑΒΑΣ ΕΓΚΑΤΑΛΕΙΠΕΤΑΙ ΣΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΒΑΡΒΑΡΩΝ....ΕΣΣΕΤΑΙ ΗΜΑΡ...

[Lordo]

very touching poem but the problem with it is it was written 11 years too late. get my drift.

[Oceanside50]

ΑΠΟΣΠΑΣΜΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΠΟΛΕΜΙΚΟ ΜΟΥ ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟ " ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ 1974 - ΜΕΡΕΣ ΟΡΓΗΣ "

ΕΠΙΛΟΓΟΣ
Η λεμονανθούσα κωμόπολη του Καραβά απέκτησε νέους κατοίκους. Πριν φύγει ο Αύγουστος καταφθάνουν οι πρώτοι Τουρκοκύπριοι...ακολουθούν άλλοι κατά δεκάδες.Έρχονται από χωριά της Πάφου,από τη Λεμεσό...Τριγυρνούν στους δρόμους,διαλέγουν σπίτια και εγκαθίστανται... πρώτα στα αρχοντόπιστα.Επιπλωμένα τα σπίτια , γεμάτα με όλα τα χρειαζούμενα.Ύστερα έρχονται οι κουβαλητοί..."οι έποικοι ", άλλος νεοφανής όρος στο λεξιλόγιο των Ελληνοκυπρίων. Μεταφέρονται με καράβια από τη Μερσίνα.
Η γη που για χρόνια πότισαν με τον τίμιο ιδρώτα τους δεκάδες γενιές Ελλήνων-νόμιμοι κάτοικοι του θαλασσοφίλητου Καραβά- δεν τους αναγνωρίζει...δυσκολεύεται να τους αποδεχτεί.Άγνωστη γι ' αυτούς η εσπεριδοκαλλιέργεια,τα περβόλια ξηραίνονται.Τα απίτια λεηλατούνται...τα λάφυρα μεταφέρονται αλλού...Τον πρώτο λόγο έχουν οι στρατιωτικοί και οι "αγωνιστές" της ΤΜΤ.Οι τέσσερεις ενοριακές εκκλησιές- Παναγία Ευαγγελίστρια,Αγιά Ειρήνη,Άης Γιώρκης,Παναγία Αχειροποιήτου - και τα δεκάδες ξωκκλήσια με τα οποία είναι κατάσπαρτος ο Καραβάς βεβηλώνονται.Τα ανεκτίμητης αξίας εκκλησιαστικά κειμήλια μεταφέρονται και πωλούνται σε χώρες της Ευρώπης και στην Αμερική.Οι αρχαιοκάπηλοι σπεύδουν να επωφεληθούν.
Ο από αρχαιοτάτων χρόνων Ελληνικός Καραβάς τουρκεύει.
Κόντρα στα σημεία των καιρών...παρά τις απειλές,τους εκφοβισμούς,τις πιέσεις και τους ξυλοδαρμούς μερικοί Καραβιώτες επιμένουν...παραμένουν -πολλές και ανυπέρβλητες οι αντιξοότητες - στη γενέθλια γη.Τους ονόμασαν " ΕΓΚΛΩΒΙΣΜΕΝΟΥΣ"... το λεξιλόγιο μας εμπλουτίζεται.

ΑΥΡΙΟ ΘΑ ΑΣΧΟΛΗΘΟΥΜΕ ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΑΡΝΗΤΙΚΕΣ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΚΥΠΡΙΩΝ ΤΙΣ ΜΕΡΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΥΡΚΙΚΗΣ ΕΙΣΒΟΛΗΣ

[kurupetos]

Our country will be free.
Turkey go home!!.

All the way to Ulanbator, matey!

[GreekIslandGirl]

July 20Th: Protest Turkish Embassy: Turkish murderers, rapists, thieves, invaders, occupiers OUT OF CYPRUS

“In 1974, a flotilla set sail from Turkey . No, it wasn’t destined for the Gaza coast carrying thugs and jihadists masquerading as human rights activists – as ill armed Israeli commandos discovered to their cost. No, this was a flotilla of naval ships sailing towards Cyprus as a fully-fledged invasion force, illegally employing U.S. arms and equipment. Later, after Greek Cypriot resistance had been crushed in the north of the island, Turkish forces began to ethnically cleanse almost half of the island from its Greek population, The Turkish military employed hundreds of U.S. tanks and airplanes and 35,000 ground troops, with the result being a land grab by Turkey of 37.3% of Cyprus. Turkey later sent additional flotillas to the island; ships containing 150,000 Turkish settlers who proceeded to colonize the land after some 200,000 Greeks had been driven out and made into refugees.”

... Greek-Cypriots suffer an ongoing HOLOCAUST of our culture, heritage and people. Turkey’s crimes include the rape of 800 Greek-Cypriot women, the murder of thousands of Greek-Cypriots, the theft of half of the Greek-Cypriot peoples homeland, the forcible displacement of hundreds of thousands, and the ongoing illegal occupation of a culture, a sovereign territory a homeland.

Over 100 United Nations resolutions have declared the ongoing Turkish-military-occupation of Cyprus illegal, and call for the speedy withdrawal of all Turkish troops from Cyprus . Turkey continues to mock international law and human rights and continues to exploit the theft of our land by spending millions to illegally convert it into luxury hotels and casinos. Turkey has brought over 150,000 illegal Turkish settlers into our stolen homes to commit cultural genocide by forcibly changing the demographic of Cyprus .

Turkey’s illegal occupation regime is an offshore base for the Turkish deep state, and uses Turkish-occupied-Cyprus to export illicit narcotics and international terrorism.

http://hellenicvanguard.blogspot.co.uk/ ... bassy.html

[GreekIslandGirl]

''Sun reporter Iain Walker sends a shock report from Cyprus on the Turkish invaders - BARBARIANS


NICOSIA, SUNDAY

'My fiance and six men were shot dead. The Turkish soldiers laughed at me and then I was raped.

GREEK CYPRIOT GIRL AGED 20

'The Turkish soldiers cut off my father's hands and legs. Then they shot him while I watched.

GREEK CYPRIOT WOMAN AGED 32

'They shot the men. My friend's wife said 'Why should I live without my husband?' A soldier shot her in the head.
GREEK CYPRIOT FARMER AGED 51

A HORRIFYING story of atrocities by the Turkish invaders of Cyprus emerged today.

It was told by weeping Greek Cypriot villagers rescued by United Nations soldiers.

THEY TOLD of barbaric rape at gunpoint ... and threats of instant execution if they struggled.

THEY TOLD of watching their loved ones tortured and shot.

The villagers are from Trimithi, Karmi and Ayios Georhios, three farming communities west of the holiday town of Kyrenia, directly in the path of the Turkish Army.

Sheltered
They had been trapped since the fighting began two weeks ago and were only evacuated to Nicosia by the UN on Saturday. And today at a Nicosia orphanage they told me their tales – simply and without any prompting.

A 20-year old girl in a pretty yellow and white dress sat under a painting of Jesus tending his flock as she described how she was raped.

She had been visiting her fiance who worked in a hotel near Kyrenia when the Turks attacked. For the first 24 hours she sheltered with other villagers in a stable until they were discovered by Turkish soldiers. She then watched as her fiance and six other men were shot dead in cold blood – only a few minutes after they had been promised that they would not be harmed.

She said: ''After the shooting, a Turkish soldier grabbed me and pulled me into a ditch. I struggled and tried to escape but he pushed me to the ground.

''He tore at my clothes and they were ripped up to my waist. Then he started undressing himself.

Baby
"Another Turkish soldier who was watching us had a nine-month-old baby in his arms and, trying to save myself, I shouted that the baby was mine.

''But they laughed at me and threw the baby to the ground. I was then raped and I fainted soon after.

''When I came to my senses I saw 15 other soldiers standing round watching. The first soldier was taking off my watch and engagement ring. Others were going to rape me - when one of them objected and told them not to be animals.

''I will never forget him for saving me. He was quite unlike the rest - more like an Englishman with blond hair and blue eyes. He spoke to me in English.

''He helped me to my feet and said, 'All is OK now.'

''The others tried to stop him, but he pulled out his gun and pushed his way through and gave me back to the other women.

''When I had recovered, after a few hours, I went to where the bushes had been burned by the shelling and rubbed charcoal over my face and hands, so I would be ugly and they would not do that to me again.''

The girl, too ashamed to reveal her name, added: ''I cannot put into words the horror I feel at what happened to me. I think I would have preferred it it they had shot me.''

Mrs Elena Mateidou, aged 28 was awakened by Turkish soldiers at Trimithi.

She said: ''My husband and father were told to take off all their clothes and they walked us down a dry river bed.

''Then the soldiers separated the women and children and ushered us behind some olive trees. I heard a burst of shooting and knew that they had been killed.

''Later they took us back to the village with our hands tied behind our backs. Two soldiers took me into a room in a deserted house where they raped me.

Bodies
"One of them held a gun to my head while it was happening and said if I struggled he would shoot.

''Afterwards, a soldier took off my wedding ring and wore it himself.''

Mrs Mateidou added: ''I saw another woman being pulled into a bathroom where she too was raped.

''Later I went back to the olive groves and found the bodies of my husband and father along with five other men. My father had been stabbed and my husband shot in the belly.''

Later, United Nations soldiers brought the villagers food. ''The Turks took it away and ate it themselves said Mrs Mateidou.

Another woman who had been an intended rape victim was Miss Phrosa Meitani, aged 32.

She said: ''When I saw what was happening, I ran as quickly as I could. I saw the soldiers pointing guns at me, but I was too frightened to care.

''I hid in the olive groves and tried to get back to where I had been separated from my father.

''I watched from the bushes as they cut off his hands and legs below the knee with a double-edged cutting knife.

''At first he screamed, and beat at them with his fists, but then he became quiet and did not utter a word. Then they shot him in the stomach while I watched.

Farmer Christos Savva Drakos, 51, saw his wife and two sons murdered.

''I was watering my orchard when the bombs started to explode,'' he said.

Shooting
''With the rest of the village we tried to run away through the groves and river beds but the Turks caught us and we surrendered.

''They searched us but no one had a gun.

''The the shooting started. It was one by one to start with and I heard my 16-year-old boy Georgios saying in a calm voice 'Daddy, they have shot me.'

''I pulled him down and we fell behind a rock, He died there in my arms. ''An officer had been attracted by the shooting and he ran up to see what was going on.

''He was furious with his men and ordered them to stop.

''My wife and my other boy Nicos, who was only 13, were dead.

''My friend's wife was terribly badly injured and she told the officer: 'Why should I live without my husband? Shoot me'.

''The officer shrugged his shoulders and walked off and a soldier shot her in the head.''

Face
If the Turkish authorities deny these allegations I will remember the drawn face of that old man cowering in a corner, his body racked with tears.

This elderly man was no actor, or a man ordered to lie for political propaganda.

He was a poor man who had lost everything he ever possessed or loved in the world.

Hotel manager Vassalious Efthimiou was the only survivor in a party of men seized by the Turks.

He said: ''They separated the men from the women and shot the 12 men.

''Those killed ranged from a 12-year-old boy to an old man in his 90's.''

His brother-in-law was shot dead while holding Efthimiou's four year-old daughter, Estella, in his arms.

Bullet
Today, Estella showed where a bullet had hit her thigh.

Efthimiou saved his own life by snatching his other daughter, Charian, aged two, and running.

He said:''I ran until my legs would carry me no longer, and I fell.

''I managed to make my way back later to a village where all the women were trembling with fear and shock.

''I handed my daughter to my wife and said I must save myself.

''I hid in a deep well in my sister's farm for seven days and nights, sitting on a little bar with my feet in the water.

''When I could not take any more I came up.''

Efthimiou and his 37-year-old wife, Helen, run the Mermaid Hotel at Six Mile Beach, Kyrenia, a popular hotel with British tourists.

PRESIDENT Glafkkos Clerides of Cyprus flew into Athens today and accused Turkish troops of mass murders and rape.

Denial
He also claimed about 20,000 Greeks had been forced out of their homes around Kyrenia.

THE TURKS issued a denial.

A spokesman said: ''The Turkish military authorities deny reports of killings and any other atrocities by Turkish troops in any area under Turkish occupation.''

THE SUN SAYS

Shame on them

AS THE POLITICIANS vie to take credit for bringing a ''ceasefire'' to Cyprus, reports of appalling atrocities are filtering through from that tragic island. For, while the peace talks went on, Turkish soldiers were killing and terrorising innocent civilians. The behaviour of these troops will shock the world. As they are in Cyprus in the name of Turkey, that nation must immediately take action against the animals that wear its uniform...''

'Barbarians' – Iain Walker sends a shock report from Cyprus on the Turkish invaders

[Lordo]

good old sun paper for the people who...................
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erm cannot read and write.

16 day old child was killed and attempted to burn her to destroy the evidence.

may all those who caused this chaos burn in hell. where every part of your body is not spared from the fires of hell.

[Paphitis]

good old sun paper for the people who...................
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erm cannot read and write.

16 day old child was killed and attempted to burn her to destroy the evidence.

may all those who caused this chaos burn in hell. where every part of your body is not spared from the fires of hell.

You're a disgusting little bug. Go crawl under a rock!