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[DT.]

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.

just because a couple of guys were pinning the Turks down here and there doesn't mean they slowed down the advance. You did have these pockets of fighting that continued well into the week.

[EPSILON]

Those that deny our Hellenistic heritage or wish to deny us the right of expressing our views without being labelled everything under the sun, need to cease at once this Spiritual Terrorism committed against Cypriots.

If you MUST sell your soul and country to another country then at least have the intelligence to choose one that is willing & able to come to your aid in time of need because otherwise you will have accomplished nothing less than suicide...

This not something which you can choose.

[Byron]

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...

Again foul language on your part. Stop sending out verbal abuse. All your comments are silly and provactive.

[Byron]

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...

So you agree that we put up heavy resistence at the airport ?

[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...

So you agree that we put up heavy resistence at the airport ?

What heavy resistance… if the enemy had pretty much wrapped it up in 3 days you call that resistance? Cyprus was mostly defenseless and most of the damage done to Turks was friendly fire!

[Paphitis]

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...

So you agree that we put up heavy resistence at the airport ?

Could you please write about your experiences in Kyrenia and at Nicosia Airport?

[Get Real!]

Could you please write about your experiences in Kyrenia and at Nicosia Airport?

Re, if the guy can't even name his battalion what's the chances of getting a battle story?

[Kifeas]

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...

So you agree that we put up heavy resistence at the airport ?

What heavy resistance… if the enemy had pretty much wrapped it up in 3 days you call that resistance? Cyprus was mostly defenseless and most of the damage done to Turks was friendly fire!

Do you mean a dual operation that started on the 20th of July and ended up on the 17th of August 74, was only 3 days in your calendar, or do you mean that it lasted 3 days (20-22 July) until the fall of Kyrenia?

[Paphitis]

Could you please write about your experiences in Kyrenia and at Nicosia Airport?

Re, if the guy can't even name his battalion what's the chances of getting a battle story?

I don't think there is much chance at all.

[Kifeas]

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 " .

Byron, let me refresh your memories. Unlike what the Turks claim that in 1974, when Turkey was invading, there were 20,000 Greek Soldiers in Cyprus (if such would have been the case, not only Turkish troops would have never been able to land even one soldier on Cyprus, but would instead might still be swimming their way back to Turkey,) the only Greek forces that fought in Cyprus was the 1960 treaty “Eldyk” contingent of 950 soldiers and an air-transferred company of 250 commandos that came on the night of the 21 July 74; thirty of which were lost on the accidental friendly shooting of 2 of their 15 Nord-Atlas small plains. That was all!