the museum of barbarism in article c i ap eld acsu buffalo edu v saum ubvmsb cc buffalo edu varnavas a lambrou writes what about cyprus the majority of the population is christian but your fellow turkish friends did and still doing a good job for you by cleaning the area from christians all your article reflects is your abundant ignorance 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 following the greek cypriot attempt to annex the island to greece with the aid of the greek army turkiye intervened by using her legal right given by two international agreements turkiye did it for the frequently and conveniently forgotten people of the island turkish cypriots for those turkish cypriots whose grandparents have been living on the island since 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 the museum of barbarism irfan bey street kumsal area nicosia cyprus it is the house of dr nihat ilhan a major who was serving at the cyprus turkish army contingent during the attacks launched against the turks by the greeks on th december dr nihat ilhan s wife and three children were ruthlessly and brutally killed in the bathroom where they had tried to hide by savage greeks dr nihat ilhan happened to be on duty that night the th december pictures reflecting greek atrocities committed during and after are exhibited in this house which has been converted into a museum an eye witness account of how a turkish family was butchered by greek terrorists the date is the th of december the onslaught of the greeks against the turks which started three days ago has been going on with all its ferocity and defenseless women old men and children are being brutally killed by greeks and now kumsal area of nicosia witnesses the worst example of the greeks savage bloodshed the wife and the three infant children of dr nihat ilhan a major on duty at the camp of the cyprus turkish army contingent are mercilessly and dastardly shot dead while hiding in the bathroom of their house by maddened greeks who broke into their home a glaring example of greek barbarism let us now listen to the relating of the said incident told by mr hasan yusuf gudum an eye witness who himself was wounded during the same terrible event on the night of the th of december my wife feride hasan and i were paying a visit to the family of major dr nihat ilhan our neighbours mrs ayshe of mora her daughter ishin and mrs ayshe s sister novber were also with us we were all sitting having supper all of a sudden bullets from the pedieos river direction started to riddle the house sounding like heavy rain thinking that the dining room where we were sitting was dangerous we ran to the bathroom and toilet which we thought would be safer altogether we were nine persons we all hid in the bathroom except my wife who took refuge in the toilet we waited in fear mrs ilhan the wife of major doctor was standing in the bath with her three children murat kutsi and hakan in her arms suddenly with a great noise we heard the front door open greeks had come in and were combing every corner of the house with their machine gun bullets during these moments i heard voices saying in greek you want taksim eh and then bullets started flying in the bathroom mrs ilhan and her three children fell into the bath they were shot at this moment the greeks who broke into the bathroom emptied their guns on us again i heard one of the major s children moan then i fainted when i came to myself or hours later i saw mrs ilhan and her three children lying dead in the bath i and the rest of the neighbours in the bathroom were all seriously wounded but what had happened to my wife then i remembered and immediately ran to the toilet where in the doorway i saw her body she was brutally murdered in the street admist the sound of shots i heard voices crying help help is there no one to save us i became terrified i thought that if the greeks came again and found that i was not dead they would kill me so i ran to the bedroom and hid myself under the double bed an our passed by in the distance i could still hear shots my mouth was dry so i came out from under the bed and drank some water then i put some sweets in my pocket and went back to the bathroom which was exactly as i had left in an hour ago there i offered sweets to mrs ayshe her daughter and mrs novber who were all wounded we waited in the bathroom until o clock in the morning i thought morning would never come we were all wounded and needed to be taken to hospital finally as we could walk mrs novber and i went out into the street hoping to find help and walked as far as koshklu chiftlik there we met some people who took us to hospital where we were operated on when i regained my consciousness i said that there were more wounded in the house and they went and brought mrs ayshe and her daughter after staying three days in the hospital i was sent by plane to ankara for further treatment there i have had four months treatment but still i cannot use my arm on my return to cyprus greeks arrested me at the airport all i have related to you above i told the greeks during my detention they then released me on foot into cyprus s devastated turkish quarter we went tonight into the sealed off turkish quarter of nicosia in which to people have been slaughtered in the last five days we were the first western reporters there and we saw some terrible sights in the kumsal quarter at no irfan bey sokagi we made our way into a house whose floors were covered with broken glass a child s bicycle lay in a corner in the bathroom looking like a group of waxworks were three children piled on top of their murdered mother in a room next to it we glimpsed the body of a woman shot in the head this we were told was the home of a turkish army major whose family had been killed by the mob in the first violence today was five days later and still they lay there rene maccoll and daniel mcgeachie from the daily express i saw in a bathroom the bodies of a mother and three infant children murdered because their father was a turkish officer max clos le figaro january peter moorhead reporting from the village of skyloura cyprus date january il giarno italy they are turk hunting they want to exterminate them discussions start in london in cyprus terror continues right now we are witnessing the exodus of turks from the villages thousands of people abandoning homes land herds greek cypriot terrorism is relentless this time the rhetoric of the hellenes and the bust of plato do not suffice to cover up barbaric and ferocious behaviors article by giorgo bocca correspondent of il giorno date january daily herald london an appalling sight and when i came across the turkish homes they were an appalling sight apart from the walls they just did not exist i doubt if a napalm bomb attack could have created more devastation i counted blackened brick and concrete shells that had once been homes each house had been deliberately fired by petrol under red tile roofs which had caved in i found a twisted mass of bed springs children s conts and cribs and ankle deep grey ashes of what had once been chairs tables and wardrobes in the neighbouring village of ayios vassilios a mile away i counted wrecked and burned out homes they were all turkish cypriot homes from this village more than turkish cypriots had also vanished in neither village did i find a scrap of damage to any greek cypriot house daily telegraph london graves of shot turkish cypriots found in cyprus village silent crowds gathered tonight outside the red crescent hospital in the turkish sector of nicosia as the bodies of turkish cypriots found crudely buried outside the village of ayios vassilios miles away were brought to the hospital under the escort of the parachute regiment three more bodies including one of a woman were discovered nearby but could not be removed turkish cypriots guarded by paratroops are still trying to locate the bodies of more believed to have been buried on the same site 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
