re die zeit the massacre of turkish cypriots in paphos and famagusta in article jtsilla may sparc a ccs northeastern edu jtsilla sparc a ccs northeastern edu james tsillas writes i got some e mail on this topic and decided to do some more reading i thought it would be nice to share my response with everyone how about the following scholarly source source pierre oberling the road to bellapais the turkish cypriot exodus to northern cyprus social science monographs boulder isbn well according to a book by c m woodhouse i ve read it looks like the situation was much more complicated than either of us suggest needless to say nationalism on both the greek and turkish side was strong and began in april of with confrontations over the agean as usual between the government in turkey and the ioannidis junta in july an assasination attempt against makarios then president of cyprus plotted by ioannidis ruling dictator in greece fails and makarios flees to england the journalist nicos sampson takes over in a coup led by the greek officers in the cyprus national guard turkish forces which had been mobilized in anticipation begin landing on the north shore of the island on th of july this caused the welcomed collapse of the dictatorship the th with mr karamanlis returning from well i am forced to disagree with you the greeks started massacring the turkish population on cyprus in in turkiye stepped into cyprus to preserve the lives of the turkish population there this is nothing but a simple historical fact unfortunately the intervention was too late at least for some of the victims mass graves containing numerous bodies of women and children already showed what fate had been planned for a peaceful minority the people of turkiye know quite well that greece and the greek cypriots will never abandon the idea of hellenizing cyprus and will remain eternally hopeful of uniting it with greece someday whatever the cost to the parties involved the history speaks for itself greece was the sole perpetrator of invasion on that island when it sent its troops on july in an attempt to topple the legitimate government of archibishop makarios the release of nikos sampson a member of eoka national organization of cypriot fighters and a convicted terrorist shows that the enosis mentality continues to survive in greece one should not forget that sampson dedicated his life to annihilating the turks in cyprus committed murder to achieve this goal and tried to destroy the island s independence by annexing it to greece of course the greek governments will have to bear the consequences for this irresponsible conduct turkish cypriots are simply seeking guarantees that will preclude a repeat performance by the fanatical cadres of the greeks eoka if such assurances are not perfectly implemented there is every reason to expect that the local greeks will be misguided enough to perpetrate their past mistakes on such an occasion the turkish side may not find it satisfactory to act with reluctance to go any further than before for it is unacceptable to remain always defensive against cyclical vicious attacks therefore it would be better to have a true federation of two separate sections living in obligatory peace rather than another armed confrontation that would be started by the greeks and obligatorily but decisively terminated by the turks the present greek government is trying to tyrannize the turkish population in western thrace by forbidding it its ethnic and religious rights which were established through international treaties one might be better advised to remember that misadventures against turkiye do not serve greece well an offer of membership in the european common market as bait for concessions that may doom the turks in cyprus to extinction is not a viable course for greece or her friends neither turkish lives nor turkish honor has been placed on the bidding block to be sold for commercial gain serdar argic we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the turks and then proceeded in the work of extermination ohanus appressian in soviet armenia today there no longer exists a single turkish soul sahak melkonian
