Tag: ENOSIS

  • History of Cyprus Megali Idea and Enosis

    History of Cyprus Megali Idea and Enosis

    This file contains old history to current status of the Cyprus island as well as Megali Idea and Enosis.

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  • CYPRUS: WHAT PEACE?

    CYPRUS: WHAT PEACE?

    by Rauf R.DENKTAS
    “Peace is not merely the absence of war, but presence of the rule
    of law, justice democracy and human rights” is the view of Mr. Andreas
    S.Kakouris who is accepted by the US Government as “the ambassador
    of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States”, and he laments “all of
    these elements are missing because of the continuing Turkish occupation
    of nearly 37 percent of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus and
    massive violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, the direct
    result of an armed illegal invasion by Turkey in 1974;”(!)
    Since, Mr. Kakouris is championing “the rule of law, justice,
    democracy and human rights” it becomes relevant to query his
    credentials as “the ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United
    Nations”. I am sure both Kakouris himself and the US authorities who
    have accepted him as “the ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the
    United states” know too well, that this appointment is flawed from a
    legal point of view because the consent and signature of the Turkish
    Cypriot Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus, whose existence was
    denied by Archbishop Makarios back in 1963 when he declared that he
    no longer recognized a vice-president because all aspects of the 1960
    constitution which had established a partnership Republic between the
    Turkish and Greek Cypriots had been changed was rejected by the Greek
    Cypriot Administration (the usurpers of the title of the Republic since
    1963) as from that date. Turkish Cypriot partner community was offered
    minority status: They could only come back to the “Cypriot fold” if only
    they accepted minority rights in a Greek Cypriot Cyprus.
    In other words the usurpers of power in the island had put
    themselves in a position which could not be defended constitutionally,
    legally or morally. In fact the onslaught on Turkish Cypriots was for
    uniting the island with Greece the prohibition of which was the essence
    of the 1960 Agreements! In other words, long before Turkey came to
    Cyprus as a guarantor, in order to prevent the declaration of Enosis and
    the destruction of the Turkish Cypriot partner, it is the Greek Cypriot
    leaders and their government who defied the rule of law, justice,
    democracy and human rights, by destroying the partnership Republic in
    the name of Enosis.
    The fact that in this era of big-power politics, the rule of law and
    constitutionality of appointments can be easily and lamentably ignored,
    does not absolve Mr. Kakouris from his obligation to be truthful while
    projecting the Cyprus problem to the world.
    The title of his article to CNN on July 9, 2010 is “Cyprus is not at
    peace with Turkey” and naturally his story begins with the arrival of
    guarantor Turkey in July 1974. Forgetting that Turkey intervened in
    order to prevent Enosis and protect Turkish Cypriot partner from further
    atrocities. The amnesia of the ambassador “to the events between
    December 1963 and July 1974” is a national disease but even this does
    not give the ambassador a free license to lie to the world at large. This is
    not a wild accusation-anyone who conveniently forgets the beginning of
    a true story and tells his own version of it may be a good story-teller but
    his lies will soon be discovered by truly interested, independent
    observers. A cursory look at the Genocide Files by Gibbons, a four
    hundred plus page book and a look at the Akritas Plan will suffice to put
    Mr. Kakouris on the top-list of story-tellers in the world. But, after all,
    that is what he is paid for by his masters back at home, called “the
    Republic of Cyprus” which in fact is what is left of this partnership
    Republic after Greek Cypriot side destroyed it in the name of Enosis.
    The Turkish intervention in 1974 did not only prevent the
    declaration of Enosis, by the arch-murderer Nicos Sampson, but it also
    saved thousands of AKEL members from summary execution while it put
    an end to the colonel’s rule in Athens; that, 20th July 1974 was, in fact,
    the day Turkish Cypriots were saved from mass graves or from forced
    migration as in the case of the island of Crete in 1900’s is an undeniable
    fact in the light of Makarios’ statement that “if Turkey comes to save the
    Turkish Cypriots, Turkey will find no Turkish Cypriot to save”.
    By the time Turkish soldiers moved to the Famagusta area the
    unarmed civilians of Muratağa, Sandallar and Aloa, were killed and
    buried in mass graves, without sparing 16 day old babies, one to
    fourteen year old children and grand parents in their eighties or nineties.
    Until saved by Turkey, 40,000 of Turkish Cypriots, the inhabitants
    of 103 villages, who had fled to safer areas were forced to live in 3% of
    the area of Cyprus, denied all their constitutional and human rights from
    1963 to 1975. How can Mr. Kakouris talk about denial of Justice to his
    people, just because Turkey, acting under the Treaties of 1960 saved
    Turkish Cypriots from this fate and prevented the handing over of the
    island to Greece?
    “Peace is not merely the absence of war”, true! But in the case of
    Cyprus peace between the two ex-partners requires absolute honesty
    about the causes of the conflict and not story tellers trying to convince
    the world that a Greek Cyprus has been occupied by Turkey. What is
    needed is a permanent settlement, therefore putting an end to these lies
    and allowing the two ex-partners to live in security in their respective
    states while agreeing to cooperate on matters of mutual interest is the
    way to a permanent settlement. Good neighbourliness is the ultimate
    answer!