From: DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON) 15.02.1964 EDITORIAL From: LE FIGARO (PARIS) 15-16.02.1964 REPORT BY MAX CLOS From: National Review, 12.06.1995, by Brian Cozier "In my view, the Turkish intervention of 1974 was not an invasion, as widely accepted, but a morally justified rescue operation." ..... "I regret the Greek rejection of a federal solution, which alone makes sense to me." ..... "Greek Cypriots are trying to make life uncomfortable for Northern Cyprus by cutting of gas and electricity daily." ..... "There are warning signs today in the Greek Cypriot Republic..." ...for months past, a Russian Mafia and ex-KGB presence has been building up there. There is a massive arms build-up as well... There are also reliable reports on a still more sinister development, with the training of anti-Turkish, leninist terrorists of the PKK in the South (Greek Cypriot)..." From: PERIODIKA, 6.2.1994 (Greek Cypriot weekly magazine) From an
interview with Mr. Ayionatitis, the leader of the Greek Political Party "Ergatikei Demokratika Association" "Greek Cypriot leadership says that the Cyprus problem began in 1974; but it began long before this and even before the independence (1960)...Power-holders on our side were oppressing Turkish Cypriots before 1974..." "...We should not forget that before 1974 Turkish Cypriots had been treated like Negroes...Turks were doing the worst work but receiving the least money. Turks had not had any control over the island's economy." "Reverting to the state of affairs before 1974 would not be a justified move at all. Turks will never agree to this. And we have to admit one more thing: If Turkey arrived in 1974 to save the Turkish Cypriots, the latter were really in need of being saved. No one could know what the coupists would do if they took over. Turkish Cypriots were concerned about their fate in case Cyprus was united with Greece and they were justified with their concern. It is because of this concern that Turkish Cypriots have been fighting against Enosis since 1945. Under this climate, there remains to be no justification for refugees to return to their homes." From: THE WIND BLOWS MEMOIRS OF SIR ALEC DOUGLAS-HUME,
FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF THE UK From: VOICE OF GERMANY, 30.07.1974 From: THE UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, 20.08.1974 From: NBC, NATIONAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 29.07.1974
JOHN PALMER REPORTING: From: THE WASHINGTON POST, 23.07.1974 From: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (upi), USA, 23.07.1974 From: THE LONDON TIMES, 22.07.1974 From: EVENING STANDARD, 19.07.1974 "...At the main police station, one witness saw people tied to each other....they were later executed.." From: IL GIORNO, 14.1.1964 REPORTED BY GIORGIO BOCCO From: A STATEMENT BY MAKARIOS AS QUOTED IN THE GREEK CYPRIOT PRESS OF 17 MARCH 1965 From: WASHINGTON POST, 16.02.1964 ARTICLE BY ROBERT H. ESTABROOK From; EVENING POST, 15.1.1964 REPORTED BY JOHN WHITE FROM NICOSIA, CYPRUS "This week 2,000 miles from that dusty Cypriot road, men are meeting round a table in london to try to sort out the tragedy of Cyprus. Their aim will be to find a solution to a problem which has produced wide-spread murder, arson, looting and kidnapping. It is profoundly to be hoped they discover such a solution. But very few people I met in Cyprus last week have much faith in this painfully arranged Conference. As the Greek Cypriot taxi man who drove me around Nicosia said: "The conference will solve nothing. It is just words." When I asked him for his solution he said "If the Turks want to stay - O.K. But they can't have any rights. they should not have the good jobs. They are the minority and must do what we say." "Some Greeks are more extremist than the taxi man. They don't merely wish to deprive the Turks of all rights. They want to deprive them of the right to live. I have heard men say all Turks should die and these were men with nervous trigger fingers." " Many Greek and Turkish Cypriots are embittered - understandably - and some are apparently resigned to everlasting conflict. 'I would like to live peaceably with the Greeks' said one Turk, 'But I do not see how it can be done.' Possibly he spoke for many others." "The British Army in Cyprus have been playing a most difficult role. One of their jobs has been to try and build confidence between Greeks and Turks." "Last Thursday hundreds of soldiers were drafted into a suburb of Nicosia to safeguard Turkish families coming back to their homes and 'restore confidence'. I saw more Turks going than coming back. As one of them said 'My four your old daughter was shot by my next door neighbor. I don't want to return and be killed.'.." From: THE GUARDIAN, 02.04.1988 (FROM THE 'SECRET" REPORT OF COMMANDER PACKARD, WHO WAS A HIGH RANKING BRITISH OFFICER IN CYPRUS DURING 1963-64) |