Do you think the invasion/occupation of north Cyprus is legal?

Question

I'm talking about the 1974 events

Answer 1

Every INVASION/OCCUPATION is ILLEGAL..

Lets see what UN thinks:

turkish invasion:
http://www.un.int/cyprus/scr354.htm

declaration of the "TRNC":
http://www.un.int/cyprus/scr541.htm


Now lets see what happened:

MASS MURDER
1,600 Greek Cypriots were massacred, many of them tortured to death.

MASS RAPE
1,000 women aged 12 to 78 were raped.

ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES
More than 1,500 missing Greek Cypriots are still unaccounted for. Many were recorded by the Red Cross and filmed by the BBC as prisoners of the Turkish army. They have never been seen again.

ETHNIC CLEANSING
200,000 Greek Cypriots were expelled from their homes at gunpoint from the occupied north of Cyprus. To this day they are prevented from returning to and reclaiming their homes by 35,000 Turkish troops which are enforcing apartheid in Europe.

COLONISATION
Since 1974 Turkey has colonized the occupied north of Cyprus with 120,000 Turkish citizens in order to alter the demographic composition of the island.

CULTURAL DESTRUCTION
Hundreds of Greek Orthodox churches have been destroyed in order to eradicate the culture and history of the Greek Cypriots who are indigenous to the island for thousands of years.


Turkey claimed that under the provisions of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee which provided that Greece, Turkey and United Kingdom would ensure the independence and sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus, it had the right to take unilateral military action purportedly to restore constitutional order. NO INTERNATIONAL BODY OR ORGAN HAS RECOGNIZED THIS POSITION


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/1881/cyprus74.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHQXNKus03Q&feature=related
http://imia.cc.duth.gr/turkey/cypr.e.html
http://kypros.org/Occupied_Cyprus/cyprus1974/turkish_invasion.htm

Answer 2

surprising! The Turkish Cypriot inhabitants relatively had to stand up to the 'supremacy' of the Greek Soviet funded protection rigidity junta. Why do you think of that the North of Cyprus should not be especially inhabited by utilising the Turkish people who initially lived there and had claims on their territories many generations back? Cyprus is the two traditionally Greek and Turkish, and somewhat some different countries too, which provides no clarification for the Greeks to declare supremacy and proceed to hunt for to annexe the entire island, this is adversarial by utilising Turkey and the ecu. Partition is often an unlucky and 2nd terrific answer, yet while it has worked in Cyprus for quite a few generations I see no reason we could constantly start to oppose it negatively now.

Answer 3

I see that you all are missing the point. This invasion was not the direct will of neither the Greeks nor the Turks even though both appear as the villains of the result .
This was instigated by the USA that gave the green light to each side to start what has ended as the present situation of a divided island. If that was not on, rest assured nothing would have happened. It was only with their Okay that everything started and if they wanted they could have intervened in many levels to end the conflict more than once since, or they could insisted on implementing the UN Resolutions.
Their strategy was to let things go, as they did, because that was their interest.

Answer 4

Well Greek leader Makarios had signed an aggrement and gave Turkey right to interfere if there is any problem between two communities. This was way before 1974!!
Turkey is one of the guarantors of the island.
None of my greek friends can deny that!
So "technically", they had a right to invade.
They shouldnt have formed the TRNC tho...
That was dumb! Thanks for that Ankara puppet aka Denktas!

Answer 5

OK why not say yes to UN resolution and end it? Turks will be more happy to go back, I assure you. I know some other nations which had no regard for respectable institutions like UN and league of nations, like Nazi germany and former yugoslavia. You don't want to be like them.

Answer 6

Of cource it is illigal, ..... there are no legal invasions (unless you are the USA of cource)

Turks were just waiting to invade, and all these that they clain about protecting the Turks in the island is just crap and a smokescreen.

Had the Turkish state/army ever cared about Turks, Turkey whould have been one of the most wealthy nations of the world.

Answer 7

Despite the fact that teh 1974 events were illegal atrocities too, let's suppose that Turkey had a reason to protect Turkish Cypriots from the dictatorship then. Why did teh occupation continue afterwards? The dictatorship was over in less than a year. Why didn't Turkey withdraw the troops then, but instead continued the occupation and brought people from Turkey to establish a new status quo? Even if you are Turkish, you must realise that something is fishy in this!

Answer 8

Yes, the INTERVENTION was legal. Why do you think people SUGGEST a solution, but never does more than that to Turkey? Turkey is the guarantor of Cypriot Turks, after all, just like Greece is the guarantor of Cypriot Greeks.

You see, as long as Greeks stop seeing Cyprus as belonging to them, Cypriots will never be united. This kind of behaviour started everything, didn't it?

Answer 9

To ANDREAS:
what the hell you are talking about? The women who raped and killed are all Turkish cypriots lkilled,tortured,harrassed and raped by Greek cypriots!! And also the terrorist group EOKA,that you are proud of (!) You have always wanted to be the owner of anatiolia and cyprus that's why you are a liers and killers.Turks just defended theirself,that was their right by United Nations Human Rights Decleration(!) SO the invasion is totally legal.There will be no solution in the island since you change your attitude.