“Unless 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.”
–Makarios,
4 September 1963
The Struggles of the Turkish People of Cyprus
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«How does one even begin to inject reality into the Cyprus situation
where, for example, the Greek Cypriot President Christofias, in his most
recent verbal aberration, declared that if he could meet President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan,“the Cyprus issue could be solved over dinner in a fish restaurant on the
Bosphorus”?
Forget the pretension, ignore the insult, because Christofias obviously
has little regard for either truth or reality. His mind is so conditioned by
his own propaganda that he can easily overlook the Greek Cypriot
repudiation of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee, their rejection of various
agreements since then, most recently the 2004 rejection of the Annan
plan, and the fact that he, like his predecessors, is willingly held to
ransom by the Greek Orthodox Church.I wish that I had more time to expand on the negative part played by the Orthodox Church in respect of the rejection of the Annan plan and its relation to the ethnic cleansing that was visited on the Turkish Cypriots between 1963 and 1974. Only a knave or a fool can remain unmoved by the ghettoisation of the minority Turkish Cypriots, by the Akritas plan or by eyewitness accounts of the slaughter that was carried out during the Makarios presidency and by Nikos Sampson and the EOKA-B. I do not have to remind noble Lords that the same democratic deficit, moral deviance and violent hatred still pervade Greek Cypriot attitudes and are still being orchestrated and encouraged today, even on the football field and basketball court.»
–Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, 13 January 2011
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