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The Scandalous History of Cyprus.

Postby Oracle » Wed Mar 03, 2010 5:19 pm

Excellent article: :D

After decades of botched interferences, the EU should practise what it preaches and ensure that Turkey withdraws its troops

Robert Ellis

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 March 2010 14.00 GMT


Last week at a House of Commons event on Cyprus, Europe minister Chris Bryant called the fact that within the EU we have a divided capital and a divided island "a scandal and a tragedy". It is difficult to disagree.

But as Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias has pointed out, Britain bears much of the blame. When Britain refused to grant self-determination to Cyprus in the 1950s, the Greek Cypriot demand for enosis (union with Greece) led to the campaign and threatened British control of this strategically important island.

The British countermove was to invite both Greece and Turkey to a conference in London in 1955, ostensibly to discuss political and defence matters affecting the eastern Mediterranean. However, as defence minister Selwyn Lloyd explained to the cabinet before the conference: "Throughout the negotiations our aim would be to bring the Greeks up against the Turkish refusal to accept enosis and so condition them to accept a solution which would leave sovereignty in our hands."

According to the 1923 treaty of Lausanne Turkey had renounced all claim to Cyprus, so it had to manufacture a series of arguments – historical, geographical and above all strategic – to justify its interest in the island. In 1956 Nihat Erim submitted a report to prime minister Adnan Menderes, which can be considered the blueprint for Turkey's strategy over the last 50 years. The Erim report clearly states that the only solution for Cyprus consists of partition under Turkish control and mentions population exchange and settlement by mainland Turks as means to this end. The following year the Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr Fazil Küçük, proposed a division of the island that corresponds to the final line of the Turkish advance, the Atilla Line, in 1974.

The 1960 constitution, underpinned by a treaty of guarantee between Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and the UK, was regarded as provisional by both the Greek and Turkish Cypriots. According to the secret Akritas plan, which was first revealed in 1966, the Greek Cypriots under archbishop Makarios intended to amend the constitution in their favour, suppress Turkish Cypriot resistance "immediately and forcefully" and finally declare enosis.

When the first stage of the plan was put into operation at the end of 1963, fighting broke out, but the Turkish Cypriots had prepared for this. Already in 1955, Turkish Cypriots were ordered by their leaders to cut social and financial ties with their Greek Cypriot neighbours. Nine years later they were forced into enclaves all over the island – all with the aim to demonstrate that peaceful coexistence was impossible and that partition was the only solution.

The tragedy consists not only of the thousands of lives that have been lost because of intercommunal strife and Turkey's invasion but also, among others, the lawyers, journalists and trade unionists who have been murdered because of their opposition to enosis and partition. The consequences can also be seen at a laboratory established by the CMP (Committee on Missing Persons) in the buffer zone, where a dedicated team of Greek and Turkish Cypriots work to establish the identity of victims of the conflict.

The US ranks high among the villains. After fighting broke out in 1964 the Acheson plan proposed partition as a solution, but this was not achieved until the Greek junta's coup against Makarios and Turkey's intervention in 1974 – both with the covert support of Henry Kissinger.

The Annan plan of 2004 was, in fact, a British and American plan to secure the reunification of Cyprus and the strategic goal of Turkey's membership of the EU, but the final version was rejected by the Greek Cypriots because it was heavily weighted in Turkey's favour.

Three weeks ago the European parliament passed a resolution on Turkey, calling on Turkey to immediately start withdrawing its troops from Cyprus, address the issue of Turkish settlers on the island and enable the return of the sealed-off section of Famagusta to its lawful inhabitants. The Turkish response was predictable. Prime Minister Erdogan called the resolution "baseless and unacceptable" and his chief EU negotiator, Egemen Bagis, said Turkey shouldn't take it seriously.

However, Britain sits on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, it is committed to support the US's strategic objective of Turkey's EU membership. But on the other hand, it cannot ignore the continued occupation of 37% of an EU member state.

At the EU general affairs council meeting in Brussels in December, Britain tried to dodge the issue, supporting the Swedish proposal to reduce the Cyprus question to the level of the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia. When this failed, it issued a counter declaration a fortnight later, stating that it was in the EU's strategic interest not to let "bilateral issues" hold up the accession process.

The court of appeal's judgment in Apostolides v Orams has also put a spanner in the works. It confirmed last year's landmark legal decision by the European court of justice that, although the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control in the occupied areas, the judgment of its courts can still be enforced. In this case, it concerned property purchased in northern Cyprus, which belonged to a dispossessed Greek Cypriot owner.

As the court of appeal noted: "Quite apart from security council resolutions, the United Kingdom has an obligation under the Treaty of Guarantee to recognise and guarantee the independence, territorial integrity and security of the Republic of Cyprus." It is paradoxical that Turkey invokes this same treaty to justify its continued presence on the island.

Talks between the two Cypriot leaders, Demetris Christofias and Mehmet Ali Talat, are sluggish, and the fear is that Turkey will use a breakdown to reinforce its claim that the recognition of an independent Turkish state in northern Cyprus is the only viable solution. If Chris Bryant would like to break the deadlock, he could urge Turkey to abide by the European parliament's resolution and withdraw its troops.
Source: The Guardian
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Re: The Scandalous History of Cyprus.

Postby EPSILON » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:25 pm

Oracle wrote:Excellent article: :D

After decades of botched interferences, the EU should practise what it preaches and ensure that Turkey withdraws its troops

Robert Ellis

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 March 2010 14.00 GMT


Last week at a House of Commons event on Cyprus, Europe minister Chris Bryant called the fact that within the EU we have a divided capital and a divided island "a scandal and a tragedy". It is difficult to disagree.

But as Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias has pointed out, Britain bears much of the blame. When Britain refused to grant self-determination to Cyprus in the 1950s, the Greek Cypriot demand for enosis (union with Greece) led to the campaign and threatened British control of this strategically important island.

The British countermove was to invite both Greece and Turkey to a conference in London in 1955, ostensibly to discuss political and defence matters affecting the eastern Mediterranean. However, as defence minister Selwyn Lloyd explained to the cabinet before the conference: "Throughout the negotiations our aim would be to bring the Greeks up against the Turkish refusal to accept enosis and so condition them to accept a solution which would leave sovereignty in our hands."

According to the 1923 treaty of Lausanne Turkey had renounced all claim to Cyprus, so it had to manufacture a series of arguments – historical, geographical and above all strategic – to justify its interest in the island. In 1956 Nihat Erim submitted a report to prime minister Adnan Menderes, which can be considered the blueprint for Turkey's strategy over the last 50 years. The Erim report clearly states that the only solution for Cyprus consists of partition under Turkish control and mentions population exchange and settlement by mainland Turks as means to this end. The following year the Turkish Cypriot leader, Dr Fazil Küçük, proposed a division of the island that corresponds to the final line of the Turkish advance, the Atilla Line, in 1974.

The 1960 constitution, underpinned by a treaty of guarantee between Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and the UK, was regarded as provisional by both the Greek and Turkish Cypriots. According to the secret Akritas plan, which was first revealed in 1966, the Greek Cypriots under archbishop Makarios intended to amend the constitution in their favour, suppress Turkish Cypriot resistance "immediately and forcefully" and finally declare enosis.

When the first stage of the plan was put into operation at the end of 1963, fighting broke out, but the Turkish Cypriots had prepared for this. Already in 1955, Turkish Cypriots were ordered by their leaders to cut social and financial ties with their Greek Cypriot neighbours. Nine years later they were forced into enclaves all over the island – all with the aim to demonstrate that peaceful coexistence was impossible and that partition was the only solution.

The tragedy consists not only of the thousands of lives that have been lost because of intercommunal strife and Turkey's invasion but also, among others, the lawyers, journalists and trade unionists who have been murdered because of their opposition to enosis and partition. The consequences can also be seen at a laboratory established by the CMP (Committee on Missing Persons) in the buffer zone, where a dedicated team of Greek and Turkish Cypriots work to establish the identity of victims of the conflict.

The US ranks high among the villains. After fighting broke out in 1964 the Acheson plan proposed partition as a solution, but this was not achieved until the Greek junta's coup against Makarios and Turkey's intervention in 1974 – both with the covert support of Henry Kissinger.

The Annan plan of 2004 was, in fact, a British and American plan to secure the reunification of Cyprus and the strategic goal of Turkey's membership of the EU, but the final version was rejected by the Greek Cypriots because it was heavily weighted in Turkey's favour.

Three weeks ago the European parliament passed a resolution on Turkey, calling on Turkey to immediately start withdrawing its troops from Cyprus, address the issue of Turkish settlers on the island and enable the return of the sealed-off section of Famagusta to its lawful inhabitants. The Turkish response was predictable. Prime Minister Erdogan called the resolution "baseless and unacceptable" and his chief EU negotiator, Egemen Bagis, said Turkey shouldn't take it seriously.

However, Britain sits on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, it is committed to support the US's strategic objective of Turkey's EU membership. But on the other hand, it cannot ignore the continued occupation of 37% of an EU member state.

At the EU general affairs council meeting in Brussels in December, Britain tried to dodge the issue, supporting the Swedish proposal to reduce the Cyprus question to the level of the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia. When this failed, it issued a counter declaration a fortnight later, stating that it was in the EU's strategic interest not to let "bilateral issues" hold up the accession process.

The court of appeal's judgment in Apostolides v Orams has also put a spanner in the works. It confirmed last year's landmark legal decision by the European court of justice that, although the Republic of Cyprus does not exercise effective control in the occupied areas, the judgment of its courts can still be enforced. In this case, it concerned property purchased in northern Cyprus, which belonged to a dispossessed Greek Cypriot owner.

As the court of appeal noted: "Quite apart from security council resolutions, the United Kingdom has an obligation under the Treaty of Guarantee to recognise and guarantee the independence, territorial integrity and security of the Republic of Cyprus." It is paradoxical that Turkey invokes this same treaty to justify its continued presence on the island.

Talks between the two Cypriot leaders, Demetris Christofias and Mehmet Ali Talat, are sluggish, and the fear is that Turkey will use a breakdown to reinforce its claim that the recognition of an independent Turkish state in northern Cyprus is the only viable solution. If Chris Bryant would like to break the deadlock, he could urge Turkey to abide by the European parliament's resolution and withdraw its troops.
Source: The Guardian


Oracle stop to have anchoes- Turks will dissapear from Cyprus he day Greeks of mainland Greece discover again their Ethicity which has been lost in the money ways.
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Postby wyoming cowboy » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:33 pm

A very good post, one thing that i would like to add, When Makarios began courting the non aligned and East bloc during the cold war, which actually it states in the ROC constitution he should pursue as president, The more problems began to flare up with the Tc minority...The more Makarios dined with Mao, Nasser and praised Castro, the more the Tc were pushed to cause trouble in Cyprus. Kissinger was even known to refer to Makarios as the Castro of the Mediterranean.
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Postby Oracle » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:07 pm

Yes, I am not surprised the Turk-TCs would choose to ignore this (I predict) vanguard article coming from the, normally, pro-Turkish British press.

The Turks think they can continue fooling everyone about history. But, the Turkish lies don't rest comfortably with the truth and reality which we see around us today.

Particularly, how they scorn at suggestions to set past atrocities right.
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Postby YFred » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:13 pm

So comforting to know that the Gruaniad newspaper cares so much for the well being of the Turkish Cypriots as the rest of the EU.
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Postby halil » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:23 pm

The Greek Cypriot demand for enosis (union with Greece) led ..................
According to the secret Akritas plan, which was first revealed in 1966, the Greek Cypriots under archbishop Makarios intended to amend the
constitution in their favour, suppress Turkish Cypriot resistance "immediately and forcefully" and finally declare enosis.
When the first stage of the plan was put into operation at the end of 1963, fighting broke out, but the Turkish Cypriots had prepared for this.
...................... they were forced into enclaves all over the island – all with the aim to demonstrate that peaceful coexistence was impossible and that partition was the only solution.
The tragedy consists not only of the thousands of lives that have been lost because of intercommunal strife........................... but also, among others, the lawyers, journalists and trade unionists who have been murdered because of their opposition to enosis and partition.
..................... in 1964 the Acheson plan proposed partition as a solution, but this was not achieved until the Greek junta's coup against Makarios and Turkey's intervention in 1974.
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Postby Oracle » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:30 pm

halil wrote:The Greek Cypriot demand for enosis (union with Greece) led ..................
According to the secret Akritas plan, which was first revealed in 1966, the Greek Cypriots under archbishop Makarios intended to amend the
constitution in their favour, suppress Turkish Cypriot resistance "immediately and forcefully" and finally declare enosis.
When the first stage of the plan was put into operation at the end of 1963, fighting broke out, but the Turkish Cypriots had prepared for this.
...................... they were forced into enclaves all over the island – all with the aim to demonstrate that peaceful coexistence was impossible and that partition was the only solution.
The tragedy consists not only of the thousands of lives that have been lost because of intercommunal strife........................... but also, among others, the lawyers, journalists and trade unionists who have been murdered because of their opposition to enosis and partition.
..................... in 1964 the Acheson plan proposed partition as a solution, but this was not achieved until the Greek junta's coup against Makarios and Turkey's intervention in 1974.


I think you'll find halil, Ellis is disparaging the "Akritas " plan which came out 11 - 15 years after he has already pointed out Turkey's earlier partition plans. He is also pointing out (to thinking people) the lunacy of what the TCs did in 1963 -- when this "Akritas" plan did not surface until 1966. And what is more, he is categorically stating that the TCs were forced by their leaders to go in to enclaves in order to facilitate the much older plan of Taksim.

Get someone with a better command of English to spell it out for you! :D
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Postby halil » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:44 pm

Oracle wrote:
halil wrote:The Greek Cypriot demand for enosis (union with Greece) led ..................
According to the secret Akritas plan, which was first revealed in 1966, the Greek Cypriots under archbishop Makarios intended to amend the
constitution in their favour, suppress Turkish Cypriot resistance "immediately and forcefully" and finally declare enosis.
When the first stage of the plan was put into operation at the end of 1963, fighting broke out, but the Turkish Cypriots had prepared for this.
...................... they were forced into enclaves all over the island – all with the aim to demonstrate that peaceful coexistence was impossible and that partition was the only solution.
The tragedy consists not only of the thousands of lives that have been lost because of intercommunal strife........................... but also, among others, the lawyers, journalists and trade unionists who have been murdered because of their opposition to enosis and partition.
..................... in 1964 the Acheson plan proposed partition as a solution, but this was not achieved until the Greek junta's coup against Makarios and Turkey's intervention in 1974.


I think you'll find halil, Ellis is disparaging the "Akritas " plan which came out 11 - 15 years after he has already pointed out Turkey's earlier partition plans. He is also pointing out (to thinking people) the lunacy of what the TCs did in 1963 -- when this "Akritas" plan did not surface until 1966. And what is more, he is categorically stating that the TCs were forced by their leaders to go in to enclaves in order to facilitate the much older plan of Taksim.

Get someone with a better command of English to spell it out for you! :D


Under Need of everything first comes ENOSIS....... ENOSIS idea of some idiots ............... are the result of the today tragedy in Cyprus. Some idiots intended to amend the constitution in their favour............. to achive megalo-idea ........ but they never calculated TC's resistance......... with this resistance of the TC's there will be no way for .............
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Postby halil » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:57 pm

The Scandalous History of Cyprus.

Cengiz Ratip - was an MP in the Republic of Cyprus. In 1963, he put his own life at risk and went all the way from Polis to Kokkina (Erenköy) in order to save a busload of Greek Cypriot kids from Polis that had been kidnapped in retaliation for the disappearance of two Turkish Cypriots. Cengiz Ratip has been “missing” from Polis since 14th of February 1964, together with Turgut Sıtkı.


Stavros Poyrazis - He was the muhtar of Strongylos (Turunchlu) and he saved the lives of Turkish Cypriots from his village back in 1963 and then twice in 1974 when some Greek Cypriot from other villages came to Strongylos (Turunchlu) in order to kill some Turkish Cypriots. Stavros Poyrazis stopped them and said, `Go back to your villages! You can’t touch the Turkish Cypriots of Strongylos!` Stavros Poyrazis is “missing” since 1974 together with four persons from his family, three from his village and eight from other villages.

Alpay Topuz from Ebiho (Abohor – Cihangir) – he was in charge of Voni prisoners camp in 1974 where around 600 Greek Cypriot prisoners of war were kept. He stopped and prevented rapes and gave help to women with children, bringing them milk and finding them toys to play... He treated prisoners with humanity.

Ertan Akıncıoğlu - a shepherd from Lapathos (Bogaziçi). He saved 8-9 Greek Cypriots mainly from Gypsou from being killed back in 1974. He also saved some other Greek Cypriots from villages around his own…

Christofis Poseidias from the village Dali, together with the help of some of his Greek Cypriot neighbours, saved the lives of Turkish Cypriot women and children from Dali from being attacked and raped by EOKA-B in 1974, hiding them in his house.

Panagiotis Kosti Patsalou (old muhtar of Kiti - Çite) and Yorgis Mouzouros (the former muhtar of Dromolaxia - Mormenekşe) saved Turkish Cypriot men of Dromolaxia (Mormenekşe) from being executed by EOKA-B in 1974. EOKA-B had arrested all the Turkish Cypriot men of Dromolaxia (Mormenekşe) and put them on a bus and brought them to Kiti (Çite) to be executed. It was the priest and the muhtar Panayi Costi and the muhtar Mouzouros who ran to save them. 2. Mrs. Nourten Ostur gives the honorary plates to the son of Papa Kleanthis Giorgos and to the son-in-law of Yorgis Mouzouros Philippos.


Christos Kiprianou from Lefkonico saved Ahmet Yorgancı from Çatoz (Caoz – Serdarlı) during the coup in 1974, hiding him at a friend’s house in Nicosia and during the war in 1974, Ahmet Yorgancı saved Christos Kiprianou from being killed in Çatoz (Caoz – Serdarlı).


Yaaa Matmazel Oracle....................

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Postby Malapapa » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:10 pm

YFred wrote:So comforting to know that the Gruaniad newspaper cares so much for the well being of the Turkish Cypriots as the rest of the EU.
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Aside from those benefiting from its illegalities, why should anyone, in the EU or anywhere else in the world, care for the outlaw regime in the north? Cypriot citizens, of whatever background, have the same rights as any other EU citizen - and the same responsibilities.
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