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Reader’s Mail….
From A A Wisley….

“Turkish troops fired on our hotel, the invasion had begun”

On 14th July 2024, a date of extremely symbolic importance in Cyprus, the Guardian Newspaper published an article by Colin Smith with the headline “Turkish troops fired on our hotel, the invasion had begun”. Mr Smith, a former journalist who was present in Nicosia during the events of July 1974, wrote of his recollection of the events of that month.

He outlines the 14th July 1974 assassination attempt on the President Makarios, by the partisan group EOKA- B, engineered and funded by the government of Greece. Makarios was able to escape and later to go on to address the UN on 19th July.

Whilst this speech, in English, was broadcast to the world on TV directly from the UN, the Guardian found itself unable to print a single word of that speech. It did not mention Makarios’ strident condemnation, in front of the Assembly, of the GREEK military government’s acts, calling them a callous violation of Cypriot independence … a GREEK INVASION in flagrant violation of the independence of the Republic of Cyprus.

Please read Makarios’s speech to the UN here

It hardly needs saying that Greece as a guarantor of the Constitution of Cyprus and its independence had committed the grossest of breaches of its sacred treaty obligations.

Mr Smith also outlined the attempts by Turkey (and others) to persuade Greece to withdraw and restore the, by then toppled, government of Cyprus. The refusal of Greece to do so took the two countries to the brink of war. Britain and Turkey discussed a possible joint intervention in Cyprus, pursuant to their Treaty obligations. Britain, the Perfidious Albion, left it to Turkey to intervene which it did so, with Operation Attila. Mr Smith did not anywhere describe Turkey’s Operation Attila as an “invasion”.

The 1974 contemporary reporting of events by Guardian journalists gives a clearer picture of the Guardian’s knowledge, including a report of 23rd July 1974 that recorded that Turkey was eager to stop its intervention if Athens saw sense (which it did not) and observing that Turkey had no desire to annex any territory. As any Guardian wordsmith will know, “invasion” means a hostile armed intrusion into another country with the objective of seizing territory. An example: Ukraine. Both the Greek Court of Appeal and the Council of Europe declared the Turkish intervention, under the 1960 Guarantee Treaties, as entirely lawful and, ergo, not an invasion.

How is it that the Guardian can ignore the facts in its own archives and excuse the armed invasion of Cyprus by Greece, in breach of its treaty obligations, the objective of which was to annex its territory to Greece. Instead, it deliberately blackens Turkey with the false accusation that it was the invader and aggressor.

In his article Mr Smith also describes the 18th July 1974 press conference given by Nicos Sampson the interim Cypriot President appointed by Athens. Here it was declared that Cyprus was henceforth a wholly Greek island. Much merriment was had over his (Sampson’s) antics with a dildo. The reference to a “wholly Greek island”, however, carried with it an horrific truth, something which the Guardian did fairly fully report in 1974 but today suppresses almost entirely.

Video of Nicos Samson on 15th July 1974 before he became interim Cypriot President appointed by Athens.

On 4th September 1962, at Panayia in Cyprus, President Makarios said: “Until this Turkish community, forming part of the Turkish race which has been the terrible enemy of Hellenism, is expelled, the duty of the heroes of EOKA {a terrorist organisation} can never be considered terminated.” Not long afterwards, the secret “Akritas” plan was drawn up by his government with the aim of liquidating the Turkish Cypriot population of Cyprus.

This plan aimed at goading the Turkish Cypriots into insurrection by a campaign of bloody assassinations which would then “justify”, with hoped for international approval, the liquidation of the problem by the governing regime. The plan was launched in December 1963 but the Turks did not react as required by the script. After a multitude of Turkish Cypriot murders and the destruction of hundreds of Turkish properties the UN intervened and together with displays of military muscle by Turkey the situation quietened. However ethnic cleansing continued throughout the following 11 years, until the Greek invasion of 1974, with further massacres of Turkish Cypriots in 1964, 1967 as well as 1974 itself.

Please read what the EOKA killers said of their Turkish Cypriot victims.

The 1974 Greek invasion had, as its objective, the creation of a purely Hellenic island which would be annexed to Greece. This required the annihilation of all Turkish Cypriots. The Akritas plan was revived and enhanced and became known as the Iphestos plan. Greek and Greek Cypriot soldiers and militia were supplied and armed by Greece. They were given their detailed dispositions to deploy, island wide, to surround and to totally liquidate all the remaining Turkish Cypriot enclaves. This ethnic cleansing began shortly after the Sampson coup.

The reason Turkey intervened was to stop this genocide from continuing. 14 years of experience of dealing with the duplicitous Greek Cypriots convinced them of impending Armageddon. Sampson, the Greek stooge President, echoing the earlier President’s call, declared that had he had just a few more days, before Turkey intervened, he would have wiped out every Turkish Cypriot.

It is impressive that the Guardian, today, does not consider it worth mentioning, these two attempts to destroy an entire ethnicity of a nation in Europe. Instead it libels Turkey for preventing them.

Whilst this piece is directly aimed at the Guardian much the same can be said of many news organisations (of which the BBC must surely come close to the top of the list).

Newspapers are entitled to their varied opinions. It is only if their opinions are based on facts and truths will they have any respect or value.

July 20th should be celebrated worldwide as a day of selfless heroism, and sacrifice by the Turkish people for the salvation of both the Turkish Cypriots and those willing to live in peace with them .

A. A. Wisley

Editors Note:

There is so much documented proof of the attempts to ethnicly cleanse the Turkish Cypriots from Cyprus and critiscim by A A Wisley of the Guardian for continuing to claim that Turkey invaded Cyprus as do others in the world press, governments and others is countered here by those who wish for the Truth of the Cyprus Issue to be told.

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