From: DAILY TELEGRAPH (LONDON) 15.02.1964 EDITORIAL
"...If the Turkish Army has not already landed reinforcements to its Treaty Force in Cyprus, that is simply proof of the patience of Turkey. Its right to do so cannot be denied. If international treaties mean anything, Turkey can protect the Turkish Cypriot minority from further massacre. It is radical discrimination in its most bestial form. Although there have been efforts to cloud the issue by suggesting that both Cypriot communities are to blame, by far the heaviest guilt is that of the Greek Cypriot force known as EOKA or EDMA..."

From: LE FIGARO (PARIS) 15-16.02.1964 REPORT BY MAX CLOS
"...It is a military operation that the Greeks launched against the six thousand inhabitants of the Turkish quarter yesterday morning. A spokesman of the Greek Cypriot Government has recognized this officially... It is hard to conceive, how Greeks and Turks may seriously contemplate working together after all that has happened.."

From: National Review, 12.06.1995, by Brian Cozier
"Greek Cypriot terrorist movement led by political bandit called George Grivas had one simple aim: Enosis or union with Greece." ....

"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
"...I was early convinced that if Archbishop Makarios could not bring himself to treat the Turkish Cypriots as human beings, he was inviting the invasion and partition of the island."

From: VOICE OF GERMANY, 30.07.1974
(FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH MS INGRID HEBIL, A GERMAN TOURIST IN CYPRUS) "...the human mind cannot comprehend the Greeks butchery. Greek National Guard ... entering the Turkish homes, ruthlessly rained bullets on women and children, they cut the throats of many Turks; rounding up the Turkish women, they ... raped them all ..."

From: THE UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, 20.08.1974
"...Every hour new ditches and numerous corpses are being discovered. It is very difficult to endure the job..."

From: NBC, NATIONAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 29.07.1974 JOHN PALMER REPORTING:
"...In the Turkish village of Aleminio, the Turks were collected in front of a wall and the Greek national army shot them all and killed them indiscriminately..."

From: THE WASHINGTON POST, 23.07.1974
"...In a Greek raid on a small village near Limassol, 36 people out of the population of 200 were killed. The Greeks said they had been given orders to kill the inhabitants before the Turkish forces arrived.."

From: UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (upi), USA, 23.07.1974
"...the Greeks killed many women and children in Limassol. I have seen the bodies of 20 children lying on the road...some were wounded and crying...the Greek soldiers are waiting for their turn to enter in the Turkish homes and kill the women..."

From: THE LONDON TIMES, 22.07.1974
"In the island, thousands of Turks were held as hostages. turkish women were raped and Turkish children killed on the streets. The Turkish Quarter in Limassol was burnt down. The incidents have been confirmed by Greek Cypriots."

From: EVENING STANDARD, 19.07.1974
"...today, early in the morning Greek ships boarded on Famagusta (the main seaport of Cyprus) port and discharged Greek soldiers fully furnished with modern arms...soon after the discharge, atrocities started to take place ... Cyprus is not a soverign state anymore...Widespread massacre is taking place all over the island..."

"...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
"In Cyprus the terror continues. Right now we are witnessing the exodus of Turks from villages. Thousands of people are abandoning their homes, lands, herds: Greek terrorism is relentless. This time, the rhetoric of the Hellens and the busts of Plato do not suffice to cover up their barbaric and ferocious behavior. At four o'clock in the afternoon curfew is imposed on the Turkish villages. Threats, shootings, and attempts of arson start as soon as it becomes dark. After the massacre during the past Christmas that spared neither women, nor children, it is difficult to put up any resistance..."

From: A STATEMENT BY MAKARIOS AS QUOTED IN THE GREEK CYPRIOT PRESS OF 17 MARCH 1965
"...We shall keep the Cyprus question open and will never close it under any circumstances or conditions....until we close it through union with Greece, a genuine ENOSIS without exchanges."

From: WASHINGTON POST, 16.02.1964 ARTICLE BY ROBERT H. ESTABROOK
"...Archbishop Makarios, robed adn bearded cleric who serves as President of Cyprus, has a Byzantine talent for equitation....his Government deliberately provoked the clashes and is bent upon the extermination of the Turkish population..."

From; EVENING POST, 15.1.1964 REPORTED BY JOHN WHITE FROM NICOSIA, CYPRUS
Background to the London Conference

"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.'.."