Akritas Plan,the"Mein Kampf" & Iphestos Files,the"Nazi Final Solution" for Cyp.Turks

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The truth about Cyprus
By Rachel Salomon December 31, 2006
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In the article (http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/10103.htm) "What the world can learn from Cyprus," published on December 19, 2006 in the Israel Insider, Joel Bainerman did an extreme disservice to the Israeli people by only portraying one side of the Cyprus conflict. Israelis are intelligent people. They deserve to hear the whole truth, not one-sided partial truths. Therefore, I feel that it is my duty to share with Israelis the other side of the story.

The conflict in Cyprus did not begin in the 1950's with the British Colonial Office favoring Turks. The conflict in Cyprus began with an idea called Enosis, which is the unification of Cyprus with Greece. This idea was beginning to take root as early as 1879, when the British allowed Greeks to settle on the island in "patriotic communities." As early as 1895, Greek Cypriots were organizing their children to march through the Turkish Quarter of Nicosia, singing songs about the slaughter of their Turkish Muslim neighbors.

These kinds of songs are taught to Greek Cypriot children to this day and they have a profound negative effect upon Greek Cypriot youth of today, as demonstrated by a recent violent attack upon Turkish Cypriot students in the English School in South Nicosia. Thus, the root of Cyprus's problems are not colonial favoritism of Turks nor a Turkish "invasion" in 1974, as Bainerman would have Israelis believe, but rather a lack of tolerance by Greek Cypriots for the very existence of Turkish Cypriots living on the island and a disdain for granting them any kind of fundamental human rights.

From the very beginning, the Greeks were opposed to the idea of coexistence. The British provided Cyprus with a constitution that was not only agreed upon by both parties, but also provided for the existence of a Republic where each community would have equal rights and a say over their own population. The President would be Greek Cypriot; the Vice President would be Turkish Cypriot. Agreement must exist for decisions to be made. The Turkish Cypriots did not have total sovereignty over part of the island under the constitution, as Bainerman would have the Israeli people falsely think.

Bainerman goes on and on about Greek Cypriot suffering as a result of the coup that overthrew Makarios and from Turkey's intervention, but he fails to mention that whatever suffering the Greek Cypriots went through pails in comparison to what Turkish Cypriots went through. It totally neglects to show that prior to the 1974 intervention the Greek Cypriots were orchestrating genocidal policies against Turkish Cypriots over a period of eleven years.103 Turkish Cypriot villages were completely destroyed and hundreds of Turkish Cypriots massacred and buried in mass graves by the Greek Cypriots.

Under the Akritas Plan, the Greek Cypriots sought to annihilate the entire Turkish Cypriot population on Cyprus. Greek Cypriots started this campaign of annihilation of the Turkish Cypriot people on December 20, 1963. This atrocious night is known as Bloody Christmas. Bloody Christmas is to Turkish Cypriots what Kristallnacht is to the Jewish people.

On Bloody Christmas, over 600 innocent Turkish Cypriot men, women, and children were ruthlessly slaughtered in one night. Journalists Rene MacColl and Daniel McGeachie described Bloody Christmas and the events that followed it as "too frightful to be described" and referred to the suffering of the Turkish Cypriots as "horrors so extreme that the people seemed stunned beyond tears." The Washington Post reported on February 17, 1964, that the "Greek Cypriot fanatics appear bent on a policy of genocide."

As a result of such grave human rights abuses, the Turkish Cypriots were forced to withdraw into small enclaves, where their fundamental human rights were severely restricted and they lived out their lives as refugees within their own country. They did not have access to most of life's basic necessities, had no political representation, and were exposed to constant violence and harassment orchestrated by the Greek Cypriot leadership.

The goal of the Greek Cypriot leadership under Makarios was to force all Turkish Cypriots off of the island. However, the pace at which Makarios was going to rid Cyprus of Turkish Cypriots was not fast enough for some. This led to the Greek Cypriot National Guard overthrowing Makarios in a coup d'יtat on July 15, 1974. From this point on, things would go from bad to worse. Under the leadership of Nicos Sampson, the speed of the genocide would get accelerated. By the end of the month, the Wash Star was reporting that "bodies littered the streets and that there were mass burials."

In the early 1970's, the Greek Cypriot leadership produced the Iphestos Files, which outlines the elaborate details on how the Greek Cypriots planned to annihilate the Turkish Cypriots and put the Akritas Plan into concrete premeditated action, step by step. The Akritas Plan had an uncanny resemblance to Mein Kampf for Turkish Cypriots, while the Iphestos Files were like the blueprints for the Nazi Final Solution that the Greek Cypriots would almost succeed in implementing against the Turkish Cypriots. It is a historic fact that the only thing that prevented the full implementation of the Iphestos Plan was the arrival of Turkish peace-keeping troops on the island.

Instead of relying on Brian O'Malley and Ian Craig for information, Bainerman should have read "The Genocide Files" by Harry Scott Gibbons or read "The Cyprus Question" by Michael Stephen, who wrote for the British Northern Cyprus Parliamentary Group. These two authors give a far more accurate account of what happened than O'Malley and Craig, both of whom were accused by Daniel Pipes of giving journalists a bad name in the Middle East Quarterly in March 2000.

It was also incorrect of Bainerman to state that 650,000 Greek Cypriots were displaced as a direct result of the Turkish intervention, when in reality there are only 650,000 people in all of South Cyprus. Not all Greek Cypriots were displaced during this time period and it is not like many Turkish Cypriots weren't displaced as well. According to a report from the United States Senate, 20,000 Greek Cypriots were forced to move from Northern to Southern Cyprus, while 34,000 Turkish Cypriots were forced to move from Southern Cyprus to Northern Cyprus. Although it is true that there were 194,400 Greek Cypriot refugees in Southern Cyprus, this was the result of the Greek coup d'יtat and not the Turkish intervention.
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von Rachel Solomon


Eine sehr interresante Diskussion, die ich im Netz gefunden habe und euch nicht vorenthalten möchte.

Rachel Salomon (http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Views&enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enInfolet=authorArchive.jsp&enDispWhat=Zone&enZone=Views&authorId=1003) is an intern at the Representative Office of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, USA.
Rachel Salomons blog: http://trncsupporters.blogspot.com

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"The truth about Cyprus" is a lie
By Argyros George Argyrou January 1, 2007

The article (http://web.israelinsider.com/views/10184.htm) "The truth about Cyprus" by Rachel Salomon is a complete pack of unsubstantiated lies and Turkish hate-filled propaganda that the gullible Salomon who, as she has admitted, is working for the Turkish government, has fallen for hook, line and sinker.

In paragraph two Salomon falsely claims that the British allowed Greeks to settle in Cyprus in 1879. This is a lie since Cyprus has been a Greek island for over 3,500 since Mycenaean times and Greeks have always lived on the island continuously until the present day. Up until 1879 only 5% of the population of the island was Turkish speaking and the rest were Greeks. This Turkish speaking population was mainly the result of forced conversions of the island's Latin communities to Islam. From the time when they took control of the island in 1879, the British, in order to implement a policy of divide and conquer, imported thousands of mainland Turks to work for them and this brought the Turkish speaking population up to 18%. There was never a Turkish quarter of Nicosia for any Greeks to march through. What is now the Turkish quarter of Nicosia is what was originally the Armenian quarter until Turkish terrorists ethnically cleansed the Armenians and occupied their homes in the early 1960's.

Greek patriotic songs were not about slaughter but about freedom from brutal Turkish oppression. Christians in the Ottoman empire were treated as second class citizens and had to pay extortionate taxes including a Child Tax where their children -- boys and girls -- were taken as slaves to be converted to Islam and forced to serve out the rest of their lives in the Sultan's army or harem. In 1923 Turkey was forced to renounce all claim to Cyprus by the Lausanne Treaty and all Turks in Cyprus were supposed to have been repatriated to Turkey.

The constitution that the British imposed on Cyprus in 1960 violated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by giving the 18% Muslim minority unjustifiable privileges and through institutional discriminations against the Greek Cypriot Christian majority and treating them as second class citizens. The Muslim minority was effectively treated as if it made up 50% of the population and given de facto rule of Cyprus through an undemocratic blanket right of veto which they used to paralyze the government.

After President Makarios announced his decision to make 13 amendments to this unviable and undemocratic constitution to bring it in line with Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Muslim minority pulled out of the government and began a violent armed rebellion and campaign of terror with Turkish weapons and explosives secretly smuggled into Cyprus by Turkey with the help of members of the British army and the Americans, their NATO allies. They immediately began attacking police officers and police stations and taking people hostage in December of 1963.

Contrary to Rachel Salomon's lies in paragraph six, the Akritas Plan was not about annihilating the Turkish Cypriots but was about how to reform the racist constitution while preserving peace on the island, in a civilized manner, which was being threatened by the recent discovery that arms and explosives had been supplied by Turkey and Britain to Muslim extremists who were members of the TMT terrorist organization founded by Rauf Denktash in the 1950's which attacked both Greek and Turkish Cypriots alike in order to drive them apart.

This violence, which the United Nations Security Council attributed to illegal Turkish aggression in violation of Article 2 Paragraph 4 of the UN Charter, resulted in the death of 350 Turkish Muslim terrorists and 200 Greek policemen and civilians, not 600 innocent Turkish Cypriot men, women, and children as Salomon falsely claims.

In 1965 the UN Secretary General Galo Plaza noted in the Galo Plaza report on the violence that the Turks wished to ethnically cleanse the Greek Cypriot majority which made up 82% of the population and owned 90% of the land and property on the island from their homes in the north and turn it into a purely Turkish state. To this end they began withdrawing into Turkish-only enclaves under TMT intimidation and seized and fortified the Armenian quarter of Nicosia from which they burst out and captured the Nicosia-to-Kyriania main highway to use as a bridgehead for a Turkish invasion, which was prevented by intervention from US president Lyndon Johnson.

Paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 are complete and utter hate-filled lies. The objective of coup against Makarios in 1974 planned by the American CIA who Nicos Sampson was working for and its objective was to partition Cyprus between Greece and Turkey by giving the Turks a base in the north, something which Makarios would not allow.

Paragraphs 12 is another total fabrication. Over 200,000 Greek Cypriots who made up over 82% of the populations were brutally ethnically cleansed from their homes in the north through barbaric acts committed by invading Turkish forces as is shown by the first two reports of the European Commission of Human Rights, "Turkey's invasion in Cyprus and aftermath (20 July 1974 - 18 May 1976)" and "Turkey's invasion in Cyprus and aftermath (19 May 1976 - 10 February 1983)".

Rachel Salomon's comments likening the Greek Cypriots to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampt and The Nazi Final Solution are truly disgusting and downright lies. Mustafa Kemal's genocide over 1.5 million Armenians, 2 million Greeks and 500,000 indigenous Assyrians in Asia-Minor was the inspiration of Hitler's decision to exterminate the Jews and this genocide has been continued
against the Greek Cypriots in Cyprus since, unlike Germany, Turkey has never recognized or been made to pay the price for its crimes against humanity.

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Argyros George Argyrou (http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Views&enPage=ViewsPage&enDisplay=view&enInfolet=authorArchive.jsp&enDispWhat=Zone&enZone=Views&authorId=1004) is a Greek Cypriot refugee from the district of Famagusta in the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus and is a presenter of the Greek Show on Inspiration FM, Northamptonshire's multicultural community radio station in the United Kingdom.

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"The truth about Cyprus" is the truth!
By Rachel Salomon January 7, 2007

I would like to start out by saying that Mr. Argyrou in his article "'The truth about Cyprus' is a lie (http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/10193.htm)," published on January 1, 2007, was very mistaken regarding my views on Greek Cypriots and Greeks. My statements were not hate-filled propaganda. I never said any thing derogatory about the Greek Cypriot people or Greeks in general. I only criticized their general policy and their treatment of the Turkish Cypriot people.

My article, "The truth about Cyprus (http://web.israelinsider.com/views/10184.htm)," was not a lie, as Mr. Argyrou would like readers to believe. Cyprus is over 600 miles away from Greece. It has never been under Greek rule through out history. Before the Ottomans arrived, it belonged to the Venetians. Turkish Cypriots are not foreigners in Cyprus, as Mr. Argyrou would like people to falsely believe. Turks have been on the island for over 500 years. There has been a Turkish quarter of Nicosia for quite some time. Otherwise, Harry Scott Gibbons would not have been able to describe the Greek Cypriot massacre of Turkish Cypriots in the 1960's in his book, "The Genocide Files." Actually, it was in the Turkish Quarter of Nicosia where the genocide against Turkish Cypriots began. In no period of history was the Turkish Quarter of Nicosia an Armenian Quarter.

Mr. Argyrou is extremely misinformed about Greek Cypriot patriotic songs that are taught in Greek Cypriot schools. Their primary slogans are very similar to the recent graphite's that were written on the top of the highest building near the Ledra Street border gate in Nicosia. The graphite's stated, "Death to the Turks" and "Axe and fire to the Turkish dogs." The Turkish Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that, "Having failed to adopt any measures to prevent incidents such as the inhumane treatment of our citizens and foreigners at the border gates, the extensive damage inflicted on the cars carrying TRNC license plates and the beating-up of the Turkish Cypriot students studying at the British School in the South, the Greek Cypriot leadership has opted for a policy of lending support to such incidents." I would hardly call slogans advocating mass murder of an entire group of people songs "about freedom from brutal Turkish oppression," as Mr. Argyrou claims.

The Ottoman Empire was not as bad as Mr. Argyrou would like Israelis to believe. In 1492, Sultan Bayezid II was one of the few rulers of his day who accepted the expelled Jews of Spain with open arms. Jews held prominent positions in the Ottoman System, as did Christians. There were no pogroms in the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Turks did not force people to convert or die by the sword. The Ottoman Empire was one of the most tolerant empires in human history. Everyone was treated according to their laws: Jews and Christians had their own laws that were applied only to their societies, whereas Muslims had their own laws that were only applied to them. The allegation that minorities were treated badly in the Ottoman Empire is inaccurate. Anyone who seriously studies Ottoman history is astonished by the level of freedom for minorities in the Ottoman Empire compared to any of the other empires that existed during that exact same time period. Minorities were never second class citizens. In fact, minorities were favored over Turkish people. Most of the Famous Pashas, high ranked government officials and army commanders were of non-Muslim origin. Minorities were exempted from being soldiers. This gave them many opportunities to pursue business, a privilege that the Greeks benefited from. The Phanariots became so rich they became the monetary bank of the entire empire. In return, they were charged a small extra wealth tax. I am sure that the Greek Cypriots were more than willing to pay to be exempted from Turkish army work!

The Treaty of Guarantee, written in 1960 after the British departed from Cyprus, did not violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as Mr. Argyrou claimed. To the contrary, it was a treaty that reaffirmed the human rights of every body on the island. This treaty stated that Turkey, Greece, the United Kingdom, the Greek Cypriots, and the Turkish Cypriots would all guarantee the independence of Cyprus. Cyprus was to be a republic. According to a report written by the British Parliament, "From its very inception, the Republic of Cyprus was never a unitary state in which there is only one electorate with a majority and minority. The two communities were political equals and each existed as a political entity, just as both large and small states exist within the structure of the European Union." The President would be Greek Cypriot; the Vice President would be Turkish Cypriot. Power rested in the legislative branch, which was 70% Greek Cypriot and 30% Turkish Cypriot. The Treaty of Guarantee is democratic in the sense that it respected every body's rights, like all liberal democratic systems should. Also, it is important to remember that this treaty was not imposed by the British. The Turks, Greeks, British, Turkish Cypriots, and Greek Cypriots are all on record of consenting to this treaty with their own free will. Their signatures are all on the Treaty of Guarantee, one of the founding treaties of the 1960's Republic of Cyprus. For this reason, it is ridiculous that the Greek Cypriots signed this treaty with their own free will and then say that it was imposed on them, thus justifying their persecution of the Turkish Cypriots.

Mr. Argyrou is wrong to state that the Turks pulled out of the government in the 1960's. They were forced out of the government by the Greek Cypriots, who high jacked the constitution and started a campaign of genocide against the Turkish Cypriots. As Makarios stated himself in a sermon at Panayia village on September 4, 1962, "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 can never be considered as terminated." Contrary to the myths made by Mr. Argyrou, the Turks were unarmed and without support. Even the Turkish Cypriot police were unarmed, thus leading them to be taken hostage by the Greek Cypriot police, who were armed, as documented by Harry Scott Gibbons in the "Genocide Files." Thus, for eleven years, the Turkish Cypriots would suffer unspeakable tragedies. The UK Commons Select Committee found that "There is little doubt that much of the violence which the Turkish Cypriots claim led to the total or partial destruction of 103 Turkish villages and the displacement of about a quarter of the total Turkish Cypriot population, was either directly inspired by, or certainly connived at, by the Greek Cypriot leadership."

It is absolutely mind-boggling how Mr. Argyrou distorts history. The Akritas Plan was not a reform of the constitution that the Greek Cypriots consented to. Even Greek Cypriot Lt. General George Karayiannis admitted this, when he stated that "When the Turkish Cypriots objected to the amendment of the constitution Makarios put his plan into effect, and the Greek Cypriot attack began in December 1963." In other words, the Akritas Plan was the Greek Cypriot plan on how to deceive the world about their true intentions, which was the mass murder of the Turkish Cypriots since they refused to accept changes that would make them third class citizens. As the Akritas Plan states, "we must be ready to proceed immediately through actions, including the immediate declaration of Enosis." According to a statement that Makarios made to Bunte Illustrierte in 1972, "The union of Cyprus with Greece (Enosis) required the extermination of the Turkish Cypriot community." Whether Mr. Argyrou likes it or not, Makarios is the terrorist, not Denkta÷. In fact, Professor Ernst Forsthoff, the neutral President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus, told Die Welt on December 27, 1963, that "Makarios bears on his shoulders the sole responsibility of the recent tragic events." Makarios was the leader of EOKA, a Greek Cypriot terrorist organization that is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Turkish and Greek Cypriots.

One cannot help but be amazed at how Mr. Argyrou perverts the history of Bloody Christmas. Bloody Christmas is a historic fact. As Harry Scott Gibbons, author of the "Genocide Files," explains, "During the night of December 20-21, 1963, the Greeks launched a series of attacks on Turks throughout the Nicosia area. The combined forces of uniformed Greek Cypriot police and civilian EOKA gunmen began systematically to murder Turks and arrest and disarm Turkish policemen. At the same time, the Greek Cypriots took complete control of the Cyprus government information organization and announced the legal authorities were putting down a Turkish uprising. Within days, Turkish civil servants through out the island had been ousted from their positions and Greeks now ran the entire governmental administration. Armed EOKA thugs physically prevented the Vice President, a Turk, Dr. Fazol K�ח�k; from entering his office." These statements are confirmed by the Guardian, which reported on December 31, 1963, that "it is nonsense to claim, as the Greek Cypriots do, that all causalities were caused by fighting between armed men of both sides. On Christmas Eve many Turkish Cypriot people were brutally attacked and murdered in their suburban homes." To deny the gravity of the suffering of the Turkish Cypriots on Bloody Christmas is absolutely despicable and historically inaccurate.

It is mind-boggling how Mr. Argyrou claims that an unarmed Turkish Cypriot population had the power to ethnically cleanse the heavily armed Greek Cypriot population. Such statements go contrary to historical fact. His perversion of numbers is a discredit to academic scholarship. Mr. Argyrou's numbers totally contradict those given by the United States Senate, which claimed that 20,000 Greek Cypriots were forced to move from Northern to Southern Cyprus, while 34,000 Turkish Cypriots were forced to move from Southern to Northern Cyprus. The 194,000 Greek Cypriot refugees in Southern Cyprus are the result of the Greek coup, where Simpson overthrew Makarios in a coup because he did not want to complete the genocide against Turkish Cypriots fast enough for his liking. Upon gaining power, he would slaughter many Greek Cypriot Makarios supporters, in addition to the Turkish Cypriots. As the Washington Star reported on July 22, 1974, "Bodies littered the streets and there were mass burials. People who were told by Makarios to lay down their guns were shot by the National Guard." Sampson was even more fanatical in his extermination plans than Makarios. Sampson wanted the Turkish Cypriots to be annihilated with all possible speed. These facts are confirmed by Nicos Sampson himself, who stated in the Greek newspaper Eleftherotipia on February 26, 1981 that "Had Turkey not intervened I would not only have proclaimed Enosis but I would have annihilated the Turks in Cyprus." Given these facts, who are the true victims of genocide?

I would also like to clarify that I did not compare the Greek Cypriot people to Adolph Hitler. I compared the Akritas Plan to Mein Kampt and the Iphetos Files to the Nazi Final Solution, because there is an important comparison to be made. The Akritas Plan states the general plan for the implementation of Enosis, the unification of Cyprus with Greece, which Makarios even stated required the extermination of the Turkish Cypriot people. Mein Kampt states the general idea of cleansing the Jews from Europe because they are viewed as racially inferior to Aryans. The Akritas Plan would lead to the more lethal Iphestos Plan, where according to Harry Scott Gibbons, author of the "Genocide Files," "these files show clearly that Greeks and the Greeks of Cyprus intended to wipe out the Turks of Cyprus." The Final Solution sought to exterminate all of the Jews. Given these facts, I think that there is a decent argument to be made in favor of these comparisons. Indeed, it is a mockery of the Jewish people to deny true genocides, like that of the Turkish Cypriots, while to fabricate others.

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