Under the title 14 corpses at Mevlevi Tekke [dervish lodge], Turkish
Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (09.09.09) reports that it was
established that a mass grave is located in the centre of Lefkosia at
the Mevlevi Tekke [dervish lodge] next to the Turkish war cemetery.

According to information acquired by the paper, this mass grave has
been established by the Committee on Missing Persons and it will soon
be opened. The paper notes that after April 2004, a group of Greek
Cypriots from occupied Aiyialousa village crossed over to the occupied
areas searching for a Turkish Cypriot police sergeant who saved their
lives during the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island.

The meeting was materialized with the pensioner sergeant Mr Vedat, who
was in bed sick and described to them an incident of which he was eye
witness. He said that during the invasion some Greek Cypriots were
buried in the Mevlevi Tekke. Reporters of Afrika went to the
above-mentioned place and took the picture of the spot where the Greek
Cypriots are buried. The reporters found out that the 14 Greek Cypriots
entered into the area occupied by the Turkish troops in 1974 either
because they lost their way or for some other reasons. They were killed
and buried in a hole at the above-mentioned Tekke.

http://www.ataa.org/reference/trnc/genocide_trnc.html

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus-TRNC

Attempted Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Cyprus

By Michael Stephen
Former British Parliamentarian (1992-97)

The assertion by Mr. Christides (May 10, 1999) that there was no
ethnic cleansing or attempted genocide of Turkish Cypriots by Greek
Cypriots is ridiculous. Until influential Greek Cypriots come to terms
with the appalling behavior of their community toward the smaller
Turkish Cypriot community and stop trying to persuade themselves and
the world that each side was as much to blame as the other, there will
be no reconciliation in Cyprus.

What did George Ball and Sir Alec Douglas say about the intentions of
Archbishop Makarios vis a vis the Turkish Cypriots?

In his memoirs, American Undersecretary of State George Ball said:
"Makarios's central interest was to block off Turkish intervention so
that he and his Greek Cypriots could go on happily massacring Turkish
Cypriots. Obviously we would never permit that. "The fact is, however,
that neither the United Nations, nor anyone, other than Turkey ever
took effective action to prevent it. On Feb. 17, 1964 the Washington
Post reported that "Greek Cypriot fanatics appear bent on a policy of
genocide."

Former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home said, "I was
convinced that if Archbishop Makarios could not bring himself to treat
the Turkish Cypriots as human beings he was inviting the invasion and
partition of the island."

On July 28, 1960 Makarios, the Greek Cypriot president, said: "The
independence agreements do not form the goal they are the present and
not the future. The Greek Cypriot people will continue their national
cause and shape their future in accordance with THEIR will." In a
speech on Sept. 4, 1962 at Panayia Makarios said, "Until this Turkish
community forming part of the Turkish race that has been the terrible
enemy of Hellenism is expelled, the duty of the heroes of EOKA can
never be considered terminated."

The Constitutional Coup

In November 1963 the Greek Cypriots demanded the abolition of no less
than eight of the basic articles that had been included in the 1960
agreement for the protection of the Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish
Cypriots, naturally, refused to agree. The aim of the Greek Cypriots
was to reduce the Turkish Cypriot people to the status of a mere
minority, wholly subject to the control of the Greek Cypriots, pending
ultimate destruction or expulsion of the Turkish Cypriots from the
island.

"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," wrote Lt. Gen. George Karayiannis of
The Greek Cypriot militia ("Ethnikos Kiryx" 15.6.65). The general was
referring to the notorious "Akritas" plan, which was the blueprint for
the annihilation of the Turkish Cypriots and the annexation of the
island to Greece.

Events leading to the sending of the UN Peace-Keeping Force to the
island

On Christmas Eve 1963 the Greek Cypriot militia attacked Turkish
Cypriot communities across the island. Large numbers of men, women,
and children were killed and 270 mosques, shrines and other places of
worship were desecrated.

On Dec. 28, 1963, the Daily Express carried the following report from
Cyprus: "We went tonight into the sealed-off Turkish Cypriot quarter
of Nicosia in which 200 to 300 people had been slaughtered in the last
five days. We were the first Western reporters there, and we have seen
sights too frightful to be described in print. Horror was so extreme
that the people seemed stunned beyond tears."

On Dec. 31, 1963, The Guardian reported: "It is nonsense to claim, as
the Greek Cypriots do, that all casualties 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,
including the wife and children of a doctor-allegedly by a group of 40
men, many in army boots and greatcoats." Although the Turkish Cypriots
fought back as best they could and killed some militia, there were no
massacres of Greek Cypriot civilians.

On Jan. 1, 1964, the Daily Herald reported: "When I came across the
Turkish Cypriot homes they were an appalling sight. Apart from the
walls they just did not exist. I doubt if a napalm attack could have
created more devastation. Under roofs springs, children's cots, and
gray ashes of what had once been tables, chairs and wardrobes. In the
neighboring village of Ayios Vassilios I counted 16 wrecked and burned
out homes. They were all Turkish Cypriot's. In neither village did I
find a scrap of damage to any Greek Cypriot house."

On Jan. 2, 1964, the Daily Telegraph wrote: "The Greek Cypriot
community should not assume that the British military presence can or
should secure them against Turkish intervention if they persecute the
Turkish Cypriots. We must not be a shelter for double-crossers."

On Jan. 12, 1964, the British High Commission in Nicosia wrote in a
telegram to London: "The Greek [Cypriot] police are led by extremist
who provoked the fighting and deliberately engaged in atrocities. They
have recruited into their ranks as 'special constables' gun-happy
young thugs. They threaten to try and punish any Turkish Cypriot
police who wishes to return to the Cyprus Government... Makarios
assured Sir Arthur Clark that there will be no attack. His assurance
is as worthless as previous assurances have proved."

On Jan. 14, 1964, the Daily Telegraph reported that the Turkish
Cypriot inhabitants of Ayios Vassilios had been massacred on Dec. 26,
1963 and reported their exhumation from a mass grave in the presence
of the Red Cross. A further massacre of Turkish Cypriots, at Limassol,
was reported by The Observer on Feb. 16, 1964; and there were many
more.

On Feb. 6, 1964, a British patrol found armed Greek Cypriot police
attacking the Turkish Cypriots of Ayios Sozomenos. They were unable to
stop the attack.

On Feb. 13, 1964, the Greeks and Greek Cypriots attacked the Turkish
Cypriot quarter of Limassol with tanks, killing 16 and injuring 35.

On Feb. 15, 1964, the Daily Telegraph reported: "It is a real military
operation which the Greek Cypriots launched against the 6,000
inhabitants of the Turkish Cypriot quarter yesterday morning. A
spokesman for the Greek Cypriot government has recognized this
officially. It is hard to conceive how Greek and Turkish Cypriots may
seriously contemplate working together after all that has happened."

Further attempts for ENOSIS

On Sept. 10, 1964, the U.N. Secretary-General reported that "UNFICYP"
carried out a detailed survey of all damage to properties throughout
the island during the disturbances... It shows that in 109 villages,
most of them Turkish-Cypriot or mixed villages, 527 houses have been
destroyed while 2,000 others have suffered damage from looting. In
Ktima 38 houses and shops have been destroyed totally and 122
partially. In the Orphomita suburb of Nicosia, 50 houses have been
totally destroyed while a further 240 have been partially destroyed
there and in adjacent suburbs."

The U.K. House of Commons Select Committee on Foreign Affairs reviewed
the Cyprus question in 1987 and reported unanimously on July 2 of that
year that "although the Cyprus Government now claims to have been
merely seeking to 'operate the 1960 Constitution modified to the
extent dictated by the necessities of the situation,' this claim
ignores the fact that both before and after the events o#, December
1963 the Makarios Government continued to advocate the cause of ENOSIS
and actively pursued the amendment of the Constitution and the related
treaties to facilitate this ultimate objective."

The committee continued: "Moreover, in June 1967 the Greek Cypriot
legislature unanimously passed a resolution in favor of enosis, in
blatant contravention of the 1960 Treaties and Constitution." (Art. I
of the Treaty of Guarantee prohibited any action likely to directly or
indirectly promote union with any other state or partition of the
island, and Art. 185(2) of the Constitution is to similar effect.)

Professor Ernst Forsthoff, the neutral president of the Supreme
Constitutional Court of Cyprus, told Die Welt on Dec. 27, 1963:
"Makarios bears on his shoulders the sole responsibility for the
recent tragic events. His aim is to deprive the Turkish community of
their rights". In an interview with the UPI press agency on Dec. 30,
1963 he said, "All this happened because Makarios wanted to take away
all constitutional rights from the Turkish Cypriots."

The Failure of the UN and the others

The United Nations not only failed to condemn the forcible usurpation
of the legal order in Cyprus, but actually rewarded it by treating the
by then wholly Greek Cypriot administration as if it were the
government of Cyprus (Security Council Res. 186 of 1964). This
acceptance has continued to the present day, and reflects no credit
upon the United Nations, nor upon Britain, nor the other countries who
have acquiesced.

On Aug. 12, 1964, the UK representative to the United Nations wrote to
his government in London as follows:

<<<http://www.ataa.org/reference/trnc/genocide_trnc.html

Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus-TRNC

Attempted Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Cyprus

By Michael Stephen
Former British Parliamentarian (1992-97)>>>

What a load of complete and utter bollocks.

The judgments of the ECHR and the resolutions of the United Nations make it
perfectly clear that the Turks began a terrorist rebellion in 1963 in order
to genocide the Greek Cypriots and take their land, an attempted genocide
and rebellion which the UN Security Council and the Galo Plaza report
condemned and which they finally succeeded in when Turkey invaded Cyprus in
1974 twice without any provocation whatsoever and in violation of the Treaty
of Guarantee and UN Charter and Geneva Convention.

http://www.greece.org/cyprus/

Following the invasion a report was prepared by the Commission of the
Council of Europe as a result of a complaint by the Cyprus Government. The
report examines alleged breaches of the articles of the Convention of Human
Rights of which each member of the Council of Europe (including Turkey) is a
signatory. The following is the summary as printed by the "Sunday Times" on
23 January 1977:
KILLING Relevant Article of Human Rights Convention:- Everyone's right to
life shall be protected by law.

Charge made by Greek Cypriots: The Turkey army embarked on a systematic
course of mass killings of civilians unconnected with any war activity.

Evidence given to the Commission: Witness Mrs K said that on 21 July 1974,
the second day of the Turkish invasion, she and a group of villages from
Elia were captured when, fleeing from bombardment, they tried to reach a
range of mountains. All 12 men arrested were civilians. They were separated
from the women and shot in front of the women, under orders of a Turkish
officer. Some of the men were holding children, three of whom were wounded.

Written statements referred to two more group killings: at Trimithi,
eye-witnesses told of the deaths of five men (two shepherds aged 60 and 70,
two masons of 20 and 60, and a 19 year-old plumber). At Palekythron 30 Greek
Cypriot soldiers being held prisoner were killed by their captors, according
to the second statement.

Witness S gave evidence of two other mass killings at Palekythron. In each
case, between 30 and 40 soldiers who had surrendered to the advancing Turks
were shot. In the second case, the witness said: "the soldiers were
transferred to the kilns of the village where they were shot dead and burnt
in order not to leave details of what had happened".

Seventeen members of two neighbouring families, including 10 women and five
children aged between two and nine were also killed in cold blood at
Palekythron, reported witness H, a doctor. Further killings described in the
doctor's notes, recording evidence related to him by patients (either
eye-witnesses or victims), included;

·         Execution of eight civilians taken prisoner by Turkish soldiers in
the area of Prastio, one day after the cease-fire on 16 August 1974.

·         Killing by Turkish soldiers of five unarmed Greek Cypriot soldiers
who had sought refuge in a house at Voni.

·         Shooting of four women, one of whom survived by pretending she was
dead.

Further evidence, taken in refugee camps and in the form of written
statements, described killings of civilians in homes, streets or fields, as
well as the killing of people under arrest or in detention. Eight statements
described the killing of soldiers not in combat; five statements referred to
a mass grave found in Dherynia.

Commission's verdict: By 14 votes to one, the Commission considered there
were "very strong indications" of violation of Article 2 and killings
"committed on a substantial scale".

RAPE Relevant Article:- No one shall be subjected to torture or to in-human
or degrading treatment or punishment.

Charge:- Turkish troops were responsible for wholesale and repeated rapes of
women of all ages from 12 to 71. Sometimes to such an extent that the
victims suffered haemorrhages or became mental wrecks. In some areas,
enforced prostitution was practised, all women and girls of a village being
collected and put into separate rooms in empty houses where they were raped
repeatedly.

In certain cases members of the same family were repeatedly raped, some of
them in front of their own children. In other cases women were brutally
raped in public.

Rapes were on many occasions accompanied by brutality such as violent biting
of the victims, causing severe wounding, banging their heads on the floor
and wringing their throats almost to the point of suffocation. In some cases
attempts to rape were followed by the stabbing or killing of the victims,
including pregnant and mentally-retarded women.

Evidence given to Commission:- Testimony of doctors C and H, who examined
the victims. Eye-witnesses and hearsay witnesses also gave evidence, and the
Commission had before it written statements from 41 alleged victims.

Dr H said he had confirmed rape in 70 cases, including:-

·         A mentally-retarded girl of 24 was raped in her house by 20
soldiers. When she started screaming they threw her from the second floor
window. She fractured her spine and was paralysed.

·         One day after their arrival at Voni, Turks took girls to a nearby
house and raped them. ? One woman from Voni was raped on three occasions by
four persons each time. She became pregnant.

·         One girl, from Palekythrou, who was held with others in a house,
was taken out at gun point and raped.

·         At Tanvu, Turkish soldiers tried to rape a 17 year-old girl. She
resisted and was shot dead.

·         A woman from Gypsou told Dr H that 25 girls were kept by Turks at
Marathouvouno as prostitutes.

Another witness said his wife was raped in front of their children. Witness
S told of 25 girls who complained to Turkish officers about being raped and
were raped again by the officers. A man (name withheld) reported that his
wife was stabbed in the neck while resisting rape. His grand-daughter, aged
six, had been stabbed and killed by Turkish soldiers attempting to rape her.

A Red Cross witness said that in August 1974, while the island's telephones
were still working, the Red Cross Society received calls from Palekythrou
and Kaponti reporting rapes. The Red Cross also took care of 38 women
released from Voni and Gypsou detention camps; all had been raped, some in
front of their husbands and children. Others had been raped repeatedly, or
put in houses frequented with Turkish soldiers.

These women were taken to Akrotiri hospital, in the British Sovereign Base
Area, where they were treated. Three were found to be pregnant. Reference
was also made to several abortions performed at the base.

Commission's verdict:- By 12 votes to one the Commission found "that the
incidents of rape described in the cases referred to and regarded as
established constitute "in-human treatment" and thus violations of Article 3
for which Turkey is responsible under the Convention."

TORTURE Relevant article:- see above under Rape.

Charge: Hundreds of people, including children, women and pensioners, were
victims of systematic torture and savage and humiliating treatment during
their detention by the Turkish army. They were beaten, according to the
allegations, sometimes to the extent of being incapacitated. Many were
subjected to whipping, breaking of their teeth, knocking their heads against
walls, beating with electrified clubs, stubbing of cigarettes on their skin,
jumping and stepping on their chests and hands, pouring dirty liquids on
them, piercing them with bayonets, etc.

Many, it was said, were ill-treated to such an extent that they became
mental and physical wrecks. The brutalities complained of reached their
climax after the cease-fire agreements; in fact, most of the acts described
were committed at a time when Turkish armed forces were not engaged in any
war activities.

Evidence to Commission: Main witness was a school teacher, one of 2,000
Greek Cypriot men deported to Turkey. He stated that he and his fellow
detainees were repeatedly beaten after their arrest, on their way to Adana
(in Turkey), in jail at Adana and in prison camp at Amasya.

On ship to Turkey:- "That was another moment of terrible beating again. We
were tied all the time. I lost the sense of touch. I could not feel anything
for about two or three months. Every time we asked for water or spoke we
were beaten."

Arriving at Adana:- "... then, one by one, they led us to prisons, through a
long corridor .. Going through that corridor was another terrible
experience. There were about 100 soldiers from both sides with sticks, clubs
and with their fists beating every one of us while going to the other end of
the corridor. I was beaten at least 50 times until I reached the other end.

"In Adana anyone who said he wanted to see a doctor was beaten.

"Beating was on the agenda every day. There were one or two very good, very
nice people, but they were afraid to show their kindness, as they told us."

Witness P spoke of:-

·         A fellow prisoner who was kicked in the mouth. He lost several
teeth "and his lower jaw came off in pieces".

·         A Turkish officer, a karate student, who exercised every day by
hitting prisoners.

·         Fellow prisoners who were hung by the feet over the hole of a
lavatory for hours.

·         A Turkish second lieutenant who used to prick all prisoners with a
pin when they were taken into a yard.

Evidence from Dr H said that prisoners were in an emaciated condition on
their return to Cyprus. On nine occasions he had found signs of wounds.