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[Oracle]

Byron asks:

"You cannot blame the citizens of Greece for that."

How many citizens in Greece actively resisted the junta? Remember Pattakos, a junta general, commenting on a recent interview: "it they had blown on us we would have fallen" but no one resisted, not one single police officer upheld his oath to the constitution.

But in Cyprus Byron the people resisted the junta, there was fighting from Monday July 15 1974 till Friday night when the Turks came. Cypriots apparently were more faithful to the molon lave motto than the mainlanders.

After the fall of the junta Greece is full of "resistance fighters", many of whom rose to the level of minister and even prime minister. And you wonder why Cypriots are pissed off!

Why did the GCs not help the Greeks in their hour of need? After all Cyprus had its greatest stability between those years...

[DT.]

Greece did come to the aid of Cyprus in 1974, I fought with the special greek forces side by side, first in Kyrenia where 250 of us held off the Turks for 3 days -this is a fact, secondly at Nicosia airport to hold the airport, where we succeded. I can honestly tell you that no one fights light a Greek, we should be proud of our motto " molon lave " .

Ok Lord Byron I've waited for your response to name your battalion long enough which you're obviously unable to because it never happened...

Nobody held the Turks for three days and in fact by the end of the 2nd day (22nd of July) the Turks had already reached bloody Geunyeli! The only resistance worthy of mention was pretty much at the Nicosia airport and Mia Millia on the NE of Nicosia.

I'm not surprised you're so full of shit having studied and lived in Greece...

Pendadaktylos. Uncle was up there with 2 platoons (one of infantry which was his and one commandos which where Greek) Every night they'd take the same post on the peak from the Turks and every day the Turks would launch an offensive outnumbering them and push them down again. This was repeated 3 times over 3 days.

The entire Greek platoon were exterminated when napalm was fired on them while retreating. (they took the fields while the cypriot infantrymen took the dirt track.) Turkish planes chose to dump the napalm in the fields.

[DT.]

Byron asks:

"You cannot blame the citizens of Greece for that."

How many citizens in Greece actively resisted the junta? Remember Pattakos, a junta general, commenting on a recent interview: "it they had blown on us we would have fallen" but no one resisted, not one single police officer upheld his oath to the constitution.

But in Cyprus Byron the people resisted the junta, there was fighting from Monday July 15 1974 till Friday night when the Turks came. Cypriots apparently were more faithful to the molon lave motto than the mainlanders.

After the fall of the junta Greece is full of "resistance fighters", many of whom rose to the level of minister and even prime minister. And you wonder why Cypriots are pissed off!

Why did the GCs not help the Greeks in their hour of need? After all Cyprus had its greatest stability between those years...

The number of GC students in the Polytechnio during the uprising will surprise you.

[Get Real!]

Greece did come to the aid of Cyprus in 1974, I fought with the special greek forces side by side, first in Kyrenia where 250 of us held off the Turks for 3 days -this is a fact, secondly at Nicosia airport to hold the airport, where we succeded. I can honestly tell you that no one fights light a Greek, we should be proud of our motto " molon lave " .

Ok Lord Byron I've waited for your response to name your battalion long enough which you're obviously unable to because it never happened...

Nobody held the Turks for three days and in fact by the end of the 2nd day (22nd of July) the Turks had already reached bloody Geunyeli! The only resistance worthy of mention was pretty much at the Nicosia airport and Mia Millia on the NE of Nicosia.

I'm not surprised you're so full of shit having studied and lived in Greece...

Pendadaktylos. Uncle was up there with 2 platoons (one of infantry which was his and one commandos which where Greek) Every night they'd take the same post on the peak from the Turks and every day the Turks would launch an offensive outnumbering them and push them down again. This was repeated 3 times over 3 days.

The entire Greek platoon were exterminated when napalm was fired on them while retreating. (they took the fields while the cypriot infantrymen took the dirt track.) Turkish planes chose to dump the napalm in the fields.

Ok, in a nutshell a specific hilltop there basically swapped hands 2-3 times.

[Oracle]

All this talk of Greece puzzles me slightly. I have lived in Greece and experienced what the Greeks think of Cypriots. At best they are patronising towards them and at worst they regard Cypriots as country bumpkins.
Those I have spoken to have no real regard for Cyprus and just see it as an irritating little area in the Med whose people insist on hanging onto their coat tails.
Unpalatable for Cypriots I know but maybe I didn't talk to enough people over there. I became interested enough to ask as many as I could their thoughts on Cyprus and though I admit some were Cyprus friendly they were in the minority. The rest were indifferent or downright rude about Cyprus, its people and its problems and the supposed heritage between Greece and Cyprus meant absolutely nothing to them.
I am not saying this to be insulting to my Cypriot friends I suppose I am just saying that the emotions and feelings felt here in Cyprus towards the Greeks are not reciprocated generally in Greece. In my experience of course.

Thanks for telling it like it is...

What? Without CREDIBLE EVIDENCE?

Still enjoying playing tavli with Michalis GR! ? .... Perhaps sweetie pie can make the coffees whilst you discuss whether the credit crunch will adversely affect your Choirokitian house prices

[DT.]

Greece did come to the aid of Cyprus in 1974, I fought with the special greek forces side by side, first in Kyrenia where 250 of us held off the Turks for 3 days -this is a fact, secondly at Nicosia airport to hold the airport, where we succeded. I can honestly tell you that no one fights light a Greek, we should be proud of our motto " molon lave " .

Ok Lord Byron I've waited for your response to name your battalion long enough which you're obviously unable to because it never happened...

Nobody held the Turks for three days and in fact by the end of the 2nd day (22nd of July) the Turks had already reached bloody Geunyeli! The only resistance worthy of mention was pretty much at the Nicosia airport and Mia Millia on the NE of Nicosia.

I'm not surprised you're so full of shit having studied and lived in Greece...

Pendadaktylos. Uncle was up there with 2 platoons (one of infantry which was his and one commandos which where Greek) Every night they'd take the same post on the peak from the Turks and every day the Turks would launch an offensive outnumbering them and push them down again. This was repeated 3 times over 3 days.

The entire Greek platoon were exterminated when napalm was fired on them while retreating. (they took the fields while the cypriot infantrymen took the dirt track.) Turkish planes chose to dump the napalm in the fields.

Ok, in a nutshell a specific hilltop there basically swapped hands 2-3 times.

The Titanic sank in the end. Makes you wonder why people went to watch the movie

[DT.]

Greece did come to the aid of Cyprus in 1974, I fought with the special greek forces side by side, first in Kyrenia where 250 of us held off the Turks for 3 days -this is a fact, secondly at Nicosia airport to hold the airport, where we succeded. I can honestly tell you that no one fights light a Greek, we should be proud of our motto " molon lave " .

Ok Lord Byron I've waited for your response to name your battalion long enough which you're obviously unable to because it never happened...

Nobody held the Turks for three days and in fact by the end of the 2nd day (22nd of July) the Turks had already reached bloody Geunyeli! The only resistance worthy of mention was pretty much at the Nicosia airport and Mia Millia on the NE of Nicosia.

I'm not surprised you're so full of shit having studied and lived in Greece...

Pendadaktylos. Uncle was up there with 2 platoons (one of infantry which was his and one commandos which where Greek) Every night they'd take the same post on the peak from the Turks and every day the Turks would launch an offensive outnumbering them and push them down again. This was repeated 3 times over 3 days.

The entire Greek platoon were exterminated when napalm was fired on them while retreating. (they took the fields while the cypriot infantrymen took the dirt track.) Turkish planes chose to dump the napalm in the fields.

Ok, in a nutshell a specific hilltop there basically swapped hands 2-3 times.

The Titanic sank in the end. Makes you wonder why people went to watch the movie

BTW thats holding the turks for 3 days in pendadaktylos.

[Oracle]

Byron asks:

"You cannot blame the citizens of Greece for that."

How many citizens in Greece actively resisted the junta? Remember Pattakos, a junta general, commenting on a recent interview: "it they had blown on us we would have fallen" but no one resisted, not one single police officer upheld his oath to the constitution.

But in Cyprus Byron the people resisted the junta, there was fighting from Monday July 15 1974 till Friday night when the Turks came. Cypriots apparently were more faithful to the molon lave motto than the mainlanders.

After the fall of the junta Greece is full of "resistance fighters", many of whom rose to the level of minister and even prime minister. And you wonder why Cypriots are pissed off!

Why did the GCs not help the Greeks in their hour of need? After all Cyprus had its greatest stability between those years...

The number of GC students in the Polytechnio during the uprising will surprise you.

I meant either militarily or some political representation via Makarios ....

But it was a knee-jerk reaction to Nikitas' unwarranted criticism because it is inordinately difficult to stage a revolution simply from within. Hope and help usually coming from an outside ally.

[Get Real!]

Greece did come to the aid of Cyprus in 1974, I fought with the special greek forces side by side, first in Kyrenia where 250 of us held off the Turks for 3 days -this is a fact, secondly at Nicosia airport to hold the airport, where we succeded. I can honestly tell you that no one fights light a Greek, we should be proud of our motto " molon lave " .

Ok Lord Byron I've waited for your response to name your battalion long enough which you're obviously unable to because it never happened...

Nobody held the Turks for three days and in fact by the end of the 2nd day (22nd of July) the Turks had already reached bloody Geunyeli! The only resistance worthy of mention was pretty much at the Nicosia airport and Mia Millia on the NE of Nicosia.

I'm not surprised you're so full of shit having studied and lived in Greece...

Pendadaktylos. Uncle was up there with 2 platoons (one of infantry which was his and one commandos which where Greek) Every night they'd take the same post on the peak from the Turks and every day the Turks would launch an offensive outnumbering them and push them down again. This was repeated 3 times over 3 days.

The entire Greek platoon were exterminated when napalm was fired on them while retreating. (they took the fields while the cypriot infantrymen took the dirt track.) Turkish planes chose to dump the napalm in the fields.

Ok, in a nutshell a specific hilltop there basically swapped hands 2-3 times.

The Titanic sank in the end. Makes you wonder why people went to watch the movie

Still though, there's not a doubt in my mind that Byron is full of shit...

[Get Real!]

BTW thats holding the turks for 3 days in pendadaktylos.

The details from the 20th to the 23rd are well documented and I've read them on 2-3 occasions in the past and nowhere did I read about anyone pinning anyone down for 3 days. In three days the Turks reached Nicosia. I also know from personal experience how fast we the refugees were moving southward with each day passing.