bakala wrote:The whole purpose of my posts is to suggest that the Turkish landings were a predictable result of the Greek refusal to stop the atrocities
The Turkish landings were justified under the terms of the 1960 agreement
The evidence of one eye witness is not proof enough, but the evidence of so many cannot be ignored,
Which atrocities are you talking about Bakala? In 1974 there were no atrocities that were being carried out against T/Cs before or at the time the Turkish invasion had started, on the 20th of July. There was only a military coup perpetrated by the Junta in Greece against Makarios, the G/C elected president of the RoC, and the only fighting or killings that took place were between the pro-government forces and the coupists, i.e. only between G/Cs from both sides.
As for the Turkish invasion in 1974, it was clearly illegal according to the UN Charter, which predominates and overrules any other international treaty, including the 1960 treaty. The UN charter, which is the pinnacle and the ultimate of international law in the entire planet, stipulates clearly that no country has the right to invade or intervene in the internal affairs or territory of another UN member country, without prior UN Security Council approval, and irrespective of any other side agreements that may exist. Turkey, by invading or if you like it better "intervening" in 1974, it clearly violated international law as per the UN Charter, but it also violated the very treaty itself which she referred to, in order to justify her invasion, and which says that the only purpose for a guarantor power’s intervention is to re-establish the constitutional order. Turkey, by ethnically cleansing the G/C population from the north, dividing and occupying Cyprus for 32 years, did everything else but the re-establishment of the constitutional order in Cyprus.
