One of the major standard Turkish propaganda claims (lies) and of the nationalist historical TC leadership under the master of manipulation and lies, Mr. Denktash, is the one referring to the size of the TC enclaves during the period of 1964-1968, during which they exploited the intercommunal violence which they (TMT, the TC leadership and mainland Turkish secret services) equally provoked and invited (according all serious foreign researchers and authors,) in order to set up the foundations of invasion and partition. They claim that the Greek Cypriots “squeezed” them to an area of less than 3% of Cyprus, a lie they continue trying to pass around up until this day, and they even post maps in their propaganda web-sites, in order to “prove” their propaganda allegations.
One such map with the relevant false comments /allegations appears in one of the “TRNC” websites, in the following link.
http://www.trncinfo.com/TANITMADAIRESI/ ... NTS/24.htm
Based on the scale of the same map in which they claim that the areas painted in red, represent the 3% of Cyprus, I have calculated the size of the area that would truly represent the 3% of Cyprus, which I embedded as a green box at the upper right part of the same map appearing below.
The size of Cyprus is equal to 9,251 sq. kms. The 3% of the island is consequently equal to 277.5 sq. kms. The square root of 277.5 is equal to 16.66. Therefore, an area equal to 277.5 sq. kms (3% of Cyprus) corresponds to a rectangular box with dimensions of 16.66 kms times 16.66 kms (16.66 x 16.66,) which is exactly the size of the green box I drew in the above map, based on the scale of the map.
Compare the green box with the entire areas painted in red in the above map, and you will obviously realize that they constitute a much bigger area.
I spend over 1 hour using another software package that I downloaded from the internet, Global Mapper 7, which has the power to calculate marked areas of a map, based on a scale, and tell you the size of an area in units of square meters or kms. The total area in the above map that is painted with a red color (TC enclaves,) came out to be 1561 sq. kms, close to 17% (16.874%) of Cyprus.
