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Posted on August 29, 2008 - Total Views 52565
Solomos Solomou
Following the funeral of Tassos Isaac who was beaten to death by a Turkish mob in the UN buffer zone three days earlier, a group of unarmed Greek Cypriots re-entered the area where Isaac was murdered in order to demonstrate against his unlawful killing.
Among these demonstrators was Solomou who was a second cousin of Isaac. At around 2:20 pm, Solomou distanced himself from the rest of the demonstrators and walked towards a Turkish military post in Dheryneia. With a cigarette in his mouth, Solomou climbed the flag pole with the intention of removing the Turkish flag but was shot by Turkish snipers three times; in the mouth, in the neck and in the stomach.The whole scene was taped by bystanding journalists and was seen on live television. Solomou’s funeral was held on the 16th of August in Paralimni, among thousands of people and an official Cypriot day of mourning.
A few days after the killings of Isaac and Solomou, the then Prime Minister of Greece, Costas Simitis came to Cyprus and together with the then President of Cyprus, Glafcos Clerides visited the homes of the families of the two cousins.
On her part, the then Turkish Foreign Minister, Tansu Ciller who also visited Cyprus (the occupied north) a few days after Isaac and Solomou were killed, addressed a rally saying that Turks would “break the hands” of anyone who insulted their flag.
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August 29th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Poor Human that won’t be poor , Definitely must die.
That’s one brutal order in this brutal world.
August 29th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Don’t want to sound like an anti-American here, but the whole reason for the success of the savage and fairly cowardly Turks (Gallipoli, anyone?) in Cyprus was down to American funding. Why? Because the Turks have always let the US maintain air-bases in their territories (like us British puppies) and the Greeks wouldn’t. In fact, the proximity of American nukes in Turkey precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:15 am
WTF. why is he trying to break or pull that flagpole?
August 31st, 2008 at 8:03 am
why did he intented to insult the turkish flag? if you try to attack a country’s flag it gives the other side the right to kill that man.
flag is a honour of a country.
August 31st, 2008 at 10:54 am
@li
If you are brave enough see his cold-blood murder here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7g1O1JZNq4 (THIS IS NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS AND MAY DISTURB) and tell me if that is not an insult of human dignity.
The cowardly killing of Tasos Isaac in the UN buffer zone was not insulting enough? see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kaUvxLC92Q (THIS IS NOT SUITABLE FOR MINORS AND MAY DISTURB).
The preposterous (and monsterous) Turkish invasion that resulted in 200 thousands being refugees in their own country is not insulting enough?
The colonization of the occupied part of Cyprus by hundreds of thousands of Turks through all these years is not insulting enough?
Please not that the ECHR agrees that the Turkish flag was flying illegally on Cypriot territory. The ECHR has found Turkey GUILTY for the murders of both Tasos Isaac and Solomos Solomou, which both consist human rights violation.
So, please, do some investigation before commenting on sensitive topics like this.
August 31st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
When UN didn’t properly react in the case of Turkish attack on Cyprus, the UN lost its purpose. We as a human race are not ready yet for a body such as UN.
September 1st, 2008 at 6:04 am
Hi! I am Turk. Some of you support this event, some not. I think none of you know importance of flag for lots of Turkish people. Its our honour. Its more important than our lifes. Look at our wars . We always fight for freedom. for example Cyprus war. They killed, tortured, raped lots of Turkish people at there. They try to take freedom of our people. So we attack and fight for our freedom again. I wish people respect to other people’s rights in every way and not be greedy. So there is no any fight. As you quest if there is injustice, there is war
September 1st, 2008 at 6:30 am
He try to provoke other demonstrators !
but what he forgot is Turkish flag is holy for turks.
its icon is different than just a piece of cloth..
Turkish people lost many of lives for that flag.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_War_of_Independence
September 1st, 2008 at 8:00 am
we Turks want “peace” but we are going to “break the hands” of anyone who insults our flag.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:00 am
@leni
i am a turk.
do you explain; all turks monster and all greeks angel?
whats was doing solomos solomou and tasos isaac in the turks land / frontier? they was not hero they was not martyr they was just poor.its mean to declare war. thats a very easy to understand results.
you have to more investigate about this fact, they was just a PROVOCATEUR …
September 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
he is nothing but a tongs. i believe somebody wanted him do this knowing exactly he was gonna shot. somebody tries to provocate turks and greeks in order to raise tension in the area…
September 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I want to ask the Greek and Cypriot people who commented here; “What would you do if it was your flag?”, and please prove me that “Solomos Solomou” was not a bum. He was a member of Cypriot motorcycle gang and he was a bum and he got what he deserved. And you idiots try to make a hero out of him. He is a wasted poor soul. Hope he can climb that flag pole in hell.
@moriquendi: Do you even know WTF you are talking about? Have you ever read something about Gallipoli???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli show some respect who died at that war. To be more objective try to read this book “Les Carlyon “Gallipolli” (a day by day battle by battle account), 2001″ and many more out there written by not Turkish people. But I’m sure that you are just an idiot and can’t handle the truth. We didn’t tie our soldiers legs (so they have to fight for their lives) at Cyprus war in 1974. We didn’t rape women, we didn’t kill mothers and their 3 children in the bathtub even they didn’t do nothing. We didn’t mass murdered Turkish villagers. Mihail Hristodolu Muskos or Makarios isn’t a Turkish citizen and we didn’t say “When Turks comes to save Cyprus Turks the will never find one to save”???
I wonder if any one of you could explain me WTF is “Enosis” or “Megalo Idea”? Stop telling lies just for one time accept your shit and shut up….
September 1st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
[...] Solomos Solomou [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 3:45 pm
*** on guys. This is not a photo. I have bad feelings about it.
September 1st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
milliyetçi sanıyolar kendilerini böyle bayrak direğine tırmanıyolar, ulan Atatürk’ün yerde çiğnettirmediği Yunan bayrağı halen Harbiye ordu evinde duruyo.
o bayrak direği ananın değil sadece yedi ceddinin götüne girdi, emin ol yattığın yerde de huzurun olmayacak, çocuklarının, torunlarının da götüne sokacak bi bayrak direği her zaman bulacağız orospunun çocuğu
unlawful killing’miş bunu yazanın atalarındandı kazıklı voyvoda da… biz de sizden öğrendik kusura bakmayın
İşi gücü olmayan varsa lütfen çevirsin yazdıklarımı…
September 1st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
when a greece general was entering to izmir he push to turkish flag
after indepent war of turkish public saome people told the story to our leader who is atatürk and somebody said to him he have to push their flags but atatürk was very angry due to this situation he told a flag is honour of a nation we cant do this and we save that greece flag in a museum in turkey
September 1st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
this man is a brilliant magician, if you look closely you can see how his hand moves THROUGH the solid flagpole! many amatuers have attempted and failed to perform this trick.
September 1st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
turks are friendly…
for example ottoman…They are get justice world in people…
Christian, muslim, Jew…
All people freedom in the ottoman time…
All people comfortably trading in the ottoman time…
All people comfortably living in the ottoman country…
But Byzantium time?
turk nation is nationalist…But this nationalism not baneful, contrary constitutive ve connective a nationalism…
Western countries, long time promote pkk terrorism…This is reality…
pkk supporter country: Greece, Germany, Belgium, ABD, France, Russia…This is a reality…
September 1st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
OK…a flag is nothing but a piece of fabric…i really do not get the iconism of flags…they don’t really mean anything. Well, in a sense they do, they mean what the people of the country puts into them. So what a flag ‘means’ is only about as real as the Loch Ness monster…
September 1st, 2008 at 10:51 pm
No piece of sheet, clothe or rag whichever symbol it carries, worths the life of the lowest Bum.
Life should be valued much above symbols or collective images of patriotism. Screw nationalism, long live humanism.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
yay! lets put that on a flag!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 am
Are Greeks jewish?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 am
@ Hasan: Dear Hasan. Your teachers at school did a very good job. Well done to them. Turkey has NEVER in history fought for freedom. It has always had an expansionary policy. The fact alone that in the 21st century Turkey has a military government says a lot. What do you have to comment about the recent scandals regarding the coup plot?
@ cxc: No, not all Turks are monsters, not all Greeks are angels. But it seems that you’ve misunderstood some things here.
First of all, I never characterized Turks as monsters; I said that the invasion was monstrous. And it was.
Second, I’m not Greek. I’m Greek-Cypriot. Meaning: I live in Cyprus and I speak Greek. Many Turkish-Cypriot BROTHERS were victims of the war as well. Meaning: people who lived in Cyprus and spoke Turkish (NOT the colonists that Turkey brought AFTER the invasion). Cyprus constitutionally consists of both Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots (GC in a larger ratio)
Third: what you haven’t understood yet is that Solomou and Isaac where not in Turkish land. They were in Cypriot land. And it wasn’t even part of the occupied lands. It was UN buffer zone. That is neutral zone.
@ Emir: “We didn’t rape women, we didn’t kill mothers and their 3 children in the bathtub even they didn’t do nothing. We didn’t mass murdered Turkish villagers.” REALLY?? Well that’s a pretty ivory tower you’re living in!!
@ Tor: google it.
TO ALL: Both Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots made serious mistakes; only narrow-minded people would say the opposite.
But when human rights are at stake, people responsible should be convicted.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
he was probably high at the time he was trying to climb. he should have known that he was gonna die trying
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
also, he’s not a hero, he was only stoopid
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Everyone is must respect against Turks !This noob greek solomos solomou disrespect to Turkish flag and Turkish ppl.Greek’s own suppose something, but greeks are coward and liar.Greek’s is killed Turkish ppl in cyprus.In the same shape armenians killed Turks.I am asking everyone is this a justice ? (EOKA,ASLA,PKK vs…)
The cyprus is homeland of the Turks! not greeks.Which country is fighting with terror ? America ? for fighting oils.Greeks ?…nothing.England is puppet ? nothing..which country? Turkey is fighting with terror For years, why? For freedom.Greeks are puppet,kurds are puppet,armenians are puppet against Turks.
Now “dear” solomos solomou is a hero ? no he’s a noob and “greek”.
Türkiye Türklerindir, kıbrısta öyle orrospu çocukları kafanıza sokun bunu !
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I dson understand some people who spek the forainer. go away from americans
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Everybody can be sure the answer will be comletely same if anybody try to touch our flag like him. Our flag symbolize the peace… We never let anybody to bring down it… If it wave right now we obtain that with blood… Never forget the Gallipoli!
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Bravo cocuklar devam edin…
September 4th, 2008 at 2:21 am
No country that has self respect will let their symbol of honor be mocked.
Doing stupid things bring consequences. Doing fatally stupid things bring fatal consequences.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:00 am
if anyone touch my flag it is end will be like that
September 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
**** ur flags, they arent even good *** wipe material.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Just my 2 cents worth of a comment on what I am reading here.
I hear many Turks died for their flag and for freedom and all that. When did a Turkish war take place for freedom? The only wars Turkey has taken part in, are wars on foreign soil to so called protect their minority citizens there, and end up occupying a foreign land under that preface. Since when has this been called a war for freedom when it is fought outside your borders and ends up in permanently occupying foreign countries?
As for the flag being holy….fair enough that goes for all countries, but if somebody placed an advertising billboard on YOUR house without asking, and wouldn’t take it down, then you would climb up on YOUR roof and take it down yourself. The Turkish flag does not belong in Cyprus, as Cyprus was never Turkish. There are alot of Lebanese in Australia who claim they do not have equal opportunites as Australians do. Does that mean Lebanon has the right to claim part of Australia as it’s own due to the fact it has people living here? No. So why does Turkey think that wherever it has a minority population, that it automatically should claim part of that country as their own?
Finally, most citizens of countries have the intelligence and knowledge to criticize their own country when they do not conduct themselves properly. In Turkey though, if you are a journalist who speaks against your country and advertises its errors, you end up being locked up in jail or just dissapearing as has been repeatedly demonstrated. The result is that you have a population who only hears the propaganda the government wants its citizens to hear, and you have an ultra nationalistic country that regards nobody but themselves. It dissapoints me that a country who has a growing intelligible population, blindly follows its military ruled government without thinking for themselves, or having the courage to accept certain realities about the actions of their country/government.
A flag is only as holy as its cause.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:26 am
we respect your flag ,
please respect my flag too
September 5th, 2008 at 6:10 am
@ Leni:
your are seriously confused
OR
your are very ill-informed
OR
you are advertently trying to misinform people
for the first 2, well you can always read more.
for the 3rd: just go away.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:47 am
You’ll be definitely shot in ANY country, if you try to take down their flag.
This is a pure stupidity.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Just a little history about the Cyprus Island for who knows nothing about its history:
In 1191, Richard the Lionheart settled on the island during the Crusade. He later sold the island to the Knights Templars and then allowed Guy de Lusignan to buy the island in 1192. The island remained under the rule of Lusignan until Venetians took over in 1489.
In 1571, the Ottomans conquered the island and ruled it until they rented it to the British in 1878 in accordance with a defence alliance between Britain and the Ottoman Empire. In 1925, Cyprus gets annexed by Britain when the Ottoman Empire enters into the World War I on the side of Germany. The island becomes a Crown Colony under the British rule. In 1960, the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities established the Republic of Cyprus.
However, intercommunal strife began in 1963 when the Greek Cypriots attempted to unilaterally change the Constitution. The Turkish Cypriots were forced out of the Republic, a total of 103 Turkish villages were evacuated and the Turkish Cypriots were forced to live in enclaves that made up only three percent of the island. Turkey intervened in 1974 following a Greece-backed coup aimed at unifying the island with Greece. The island was divided into a Turkish-Cypriot north and a Greek-Cypriot south.
In 1975 Turkish Cypriots declared the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus and in 1983 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was established. In April 2003, the travel restrictions on the island were partially lifted and borders between the north and the south opened after 30 years. In 24 April 2004 Turkish Cypriots overwhelmingly accepted a United Nations peace plan, namely the Annan Plan, aimed at unifying the island. The plan failed when Greek Cypriots rejected it. On 1 May 2004, the Greek Cypriot side entered the European Union under the name of “Cyprus Republic” on behalf of the whole island.
September 6th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
why would you think we want to read your long *** history comment?
September 6th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
@dem, it seems your brain doesn’t get anything after reading more than 3 words.. if that comment too complicated for you, let me explain simply:
Cyprus was ruled by Ottoman Empire 300 years and it has never been a Greek island. Majority of the population was Turkish Cyproits.
The real war was not started by Turkish Cyproits, it was started by EOKA (terrorrist Greek Cyproits).
I believe this photo has not changed anything in the world. This is just a photo of a stupid supporter of EOKA who killed many Turkish Cyproits between 1963-74.
For the real reasons, check these photos first:
http://www.geocities.com/t_volunteer/cyprus/photo1.htm (6 pages)
September 7th, 2008 at 7:00 am
@Oz: You may believe whatever you want. We still haven’t read a constructive comment on your behalf. This could only be interpreted as:
you don’t have a clue about impartial history
or
you were so annoyed by the truth
or
you don’t have a clue about impartial history.
In all cases, I feel sorry for you.
@ Bill: I couldn’t agree more with you.
@ Evren:
Dear Evren thank you for your comment. It proves wrong all your friends who commented about Turkey only wanting peace throughout the centuries.
The problem with your historical analysis is that it goes only as back as 1191 and you are based only on this to “prove” that Cyprus is Turkish. To your information, this island goes a lot more back in time. Why don’t you investigate that as well and tell us what communities were living on the island then? And what languages were spoken then?
Solomou was not EOKA’s supporter, for God’s sake. He was furious and grieving his cousin’s cowardly murder (Isaac) some days before in the buffer zone.
As far as the link you provide, honestly I’m so sorry that Turkish Cypriots suffered these, very sorry. You should, however, know that Greek Cypriots have suffered the same…
@ ALL: What people commenting on this website do not want to understand is that BOTH sides made serious mistakes. People of both communities, unarmed people, innocent women and children were raped, humiliated and slaughtered. Everyone has the right to life and dignity, so did Solomou and Isaac.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
@evron; why would you think we want to read your short *** history comment?
September 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
that was an over reaction.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
some of these people go on and on….ooops, gotta run!
September 9th, 2008 at 9:34 am
This is not a question of one single event that took place;
it is a series of events which can be traced back to the late 1950’s.
What triggered the Turkish backlash and the invasion of the island was the Greek-Cypriot military coup in 1974, which was backed by Greece.
I don’t think the invasion was illegal as believed by 99.9% of the Greeks. It was a legitimate attempt to protect their (Turks) people.
Now, I do understand how a Cypriot who lost his home and relatives would feel when looking at this event, but I consider the whole act somewhat idiotic. What are you trying to prove? Don’t you know you’re gonna get shot? So what if you remove the flag? That doesn’t solve anything, you’re creating a new conflict. Renewing a conflict for the next generation.
I’m a Greek and I can understand compassion and pride. Cypriots have been granted the chance to reunite and they blew it all by themselves when the Turkish side accepted a plan proposed by the UN, which the Greek-Cypriots rejected.
September 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am
@ Dimitrakos: Greek Cypriots denied a plan that would destroy them. Study the Anan plan, it’s not that complicated to see that for yourself.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
these guys have been fighting since before xerxes and people have the nerve to talk about America?
September 10th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Solomos Solomou deserved death. No one can take their revenge from a whole country. He should use lawsuits, protests, maybe even go kill the mob who killed his cousin, but not insult the whole country by trying to take its flag. Isaac could be murdered by any other man from any other country, even greece, Solomos country. It it was greece would solomos try to take the his country’s flag? I dont think so.
And to those who talk about history etc. History is not important in greece stuation, its not important who lived there first what language is spoken, we must look at the time of the war. Getting closer to the time of the war there was a lot of Turks living in the greece with peace, but then greek people started to attack, hurt and insult Turkish people, such as US did to blacks and indians. So Turkey went to greece and tought them a lesson thats all. Turkey is not an aggressive country, but in a condition of threat, it has the ability to become the most powerful country ever.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Turkey aint powerful its a joke..hahahahaha! I spit on the Turkish flag. I spit on the greek flag. I spit on all flags, except of course the great American red white and blue, the colors a whole continent shelters under.
September 11th, 2008 at 5:17 am
you don’t kill a human being for trying to take down a flag.
You can put the flag back on its place but you can’t bring that man back to life.
I see turks, saying how “holy” their flag is to them, only as ignorant and indotrinated. They keep you bonded over this false ideal of patriotism, but people need to wake up…
September 11th, 2008 at 5:19 am
you don’t kill a human being for trying to take down a flag.
You can put the flag back on its place but you can’t bring that man back to life.
I see turks, saying how “holy” their flag is to them, only as ignorant and indotrinated. They keep you bonded over this false ideal of patriotism, but people need to wake up… people are all equal and they can be in peace.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
ok guys please everybody just chill up, and try have a common sense. I believe that, every nation, every people just want to live in a peaceful way right? Turks, greeks, americans, etc, people just want to go to their job, and have a nice evening at their homes. What I’m trying to tell is; I dont hate any nation. this is just a political matter, and if you gonna talk about a political matter, you gotta know somethings, at least basic historical, political, and economical conditions and history of the related issue.
each people has his own way of living on the earth. As a Turk, this is our culture, we protect our flag for our lives. If you guys dont approve, so be it, but I think people must respect eachothers point of view to the life, nation, country, patriotism. ok? can anyone claim these are wrong?
I see that some of you know NOTHING about Turkey. some of you are prejudiced. Some of you had said that, we are blindly follow the government’s order, no, thats not right. As a citizen, I think that numerous events occur in Turkey, that I dont like, approve. do you really think that we just obey the rules, and accept what we were “thought”, nobody can tell me how to think. But as a citizen, I just cant go the capital city, and change wrong things. Can you do that for me please?
people are friendly, governments are hostile ok? thats the main point. I have spent some hours with greek people, and I sincerely felt that, no matter the nations, I liked him, and felt that he liked us. we even use the same idioms, just one difference, turkish-greek.
some of you dont think that, you can shot a guy like that, but this is life-death matter for us. If I was there, and pointing a muzzle to that guy, I would proudly shoot him. If a Turk had climbed to a Greek flag pole, and was shot, I wouldnt get mad at Greek soldiers, I would get mad at that Turkish guy. Because, thats the worst way of insulting a whole nation. Solomos brought a shame for his own country by dying there doing that. What a foolish action!
By the way, I wish the mob, who killed his cousin, get arrested, and have the necessary penalty. I wish no greek was killed by Turks, and no Turk was killed by greek. That’s the way it must be.
I think, some of you guys, must google Gallipoli war, Turkish Independance war, history of Cyprus, and moreover have a synthesis of stream of events of the whole World-History.
If you capture this land, this is yours, if I capture this land this is mine. and you cant just cry out there like a baby! I’m sorry, but this is reality of whole world, not just a Turkish-Greek matter.
please everybody give up being prejudiced, and have a damn commonsense now.
The governments allways fight, and the nations always cry for their children, husbands, sons… I wish I could change this.
and one last word for the people blaming us with barbarism, terrorism, or racism, please google:
EOK, PKK, ASALA, American Indians, Ireland, Central-Asian massacres, Algeria, Hitler, Stalin, Palestin, Iraq, Afghanistan…
I know its a long list, but, hey, I have completed reading all these 5 years ago, why dont just try it?
thanks for spending your precious time for reading my reply.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
@Orhan, by golly you straightened us all out that time!
September 16th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
this picture can not change the world. unfortunately…
it doesn’t seems like that important as the other photos.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
giv him 3 points he got like a quarter of the way up
September 25th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
what kind of a name is solomos solomou? damn brazilian probably!!
October 7th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
From someone who’s neither Cypriot nor turk but knows the history of Cyprus I can say that that very few people here were worth reading. I highlight Leni and Orhan (with the exception of Orhan’s warped socio-cultural defending of the taking of a human life over a piece of fabric) amongst the few worth a read. I won’t bother going into counter arguments over some of the idiotic comments posted here (trolls). I will state my view only but will encourage the genuinely interested reader to do their own research and make their own mind up.
There’s no denying that Turkish history and culture is based on extreme nationalism and blood thirsty foreign policy. This is their history and almost as if to prove this you can read a bunch of turkish idiots right here doing there little gorilla chest thumps…. they can thump their chests all the way to hell for all I care. It changes nothing. Brain washed and frankly lacking the intellectual skills to see any further they are the perfect drones for Turkey’s barbaric attitude towards those weaker and more vulnerable than them. So brave to half invade an island who’s entire population is smaller than your army…. Yet these are the same people who want to be part of Europe (!)…. tell you what, when those turkish morons are chest thumping in hell and they see hell freeze over.. yeah that’s when they’ll be considered European.
It’s important to note that this illegal invasion was only possible because the americans and (as always) the english gave it the go ahead. These two nations are (also) right up there with the attaturk boys in terms of historical foreign policy… the main difference is that they make (some) efforts to disguise just how disgusting they are.
There is no such thing as a perfect nation. But everyone should have the right to their space. Cyprus right now still has some unwanted guests.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
The Turks massacred over 1,500,000 Armenians in the well documented Armenian Genocide.
Human Being number 1,500,001 was killed by a Turk because he touched some fabric with a special image on it. Go figure.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
butthurt greek is butthurt
October 26th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Well, let’s not jump to Armenian Genocide(!).
First thing i want to say is “The Turkish invasion was not illegal.”. Why?
After several years of negotiations, in 11 February 1959 Turkey, Greece, England, Turkish Cypriots and Greek Crypriots come to an agreement. Several pacts were signed about setting up unified Cyprus Republic, one of them (pact) was about guarantors. Turkey Greece and England were the guarantors of peace at Cyprus.
Well when complaints from Turkish Cypriots had raised and the situation became worse then ever, Turkey has used its guarantor rights to save Turks. This is not an illegal invasion, its the right that was given to Turkey after Zurich and London conferences and signed pacts.
And about this invasion, neither Americans nor English gave it to go ahead. Because after this, American and Turkish relationship got worse and Americans imposed embargo on Turkey.
@Lusitanian, you should read more, not only from the sources that was written by the people just like you but others to be aware of other ideas/thoughts/facts. We never had a blood thirsty foreign policy, yes we invaded lots of places in history but at those years world was like that, great(!) Byzantiums invaded too but with a differance, Ottomans never made the people of the invaded regions slaves, never massacred them. If you research closely you can find out that all nations that Ottomans dominated didn’t forget their languages and their population never decreased, none of them had vanished. In 1940’s even if it was too dangerous for young Republic of Turkey, we rescued many Jews from Germans.
@Lusitanian, i can recognize people like you, you talk a lot as if you know really perfect of what you talk about but you only have a little knowledge and lots of prejudice. Just like some other people who talk about Kurds, Cyprus, Armenians and blame Turkey but they neither really researched nor tried to see every aspect of situation.
I advise you to come to Turkey and see, most of our monuments are about art and culture not about wars or soldiers, we don’t have soldiers pictures on our money. And you can consider yourself as ape thumping your chest.
@Shane Tolmie, i bet that wiki page was written by Armenians, you should read one that is written by Turks, this issue is complicated and here is not the place to talk about.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
What if it would be the Greek flag and the guy who tries to take down the flag was Turkish? Would Greek soldiers let him take down the flag?
But of course this scenario won’t happen, because apparently no Turkish is dumb enough to commit such a crime.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
no one cares about these people, let them have at each other.
November 9th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
things are simple, lets kill all greek and turk nationalists, and the rest of the people will live happily ever after.
November 12th, 2008 at 8:12 am
“if you try to attack a country’s flag it gives the other side the right to kill that man.
flag is a honour of a country.”
A flag is a piece of fabric.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
what is he try to do?
November 18th, 2008 at 1:20 am
every flag has been fought for, “our flag is holy for us”. that’s crap, a flag is a f***ing flag, useless meaningless crap. fight for something honorable. patriotism is bullshit. you f***ed the other country just as much as they f***ed you so quit your “he hit me first” childish games and grow a pair. maybe do something to help someone else (a malnourished barefoot child perhaps) rather than helping yourselves, at least then you can die knowing you did something worth dying for….just because the guy before you said your flag had worth, doesn’t mean it actually does. think like an individual ~ newlife
November 19th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Im cypriot.. Nobody except cypriot knows what is like being refuge in your own country. the turkish invasion was one of the most dreadful events in our history.. Tasos is a national hero. He tried to take the turkish flag out of CYPRIOT land occupied by them.. you know im right..
November 20th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
that flag is a fagboy
November 27th, 2008 at 7:27 am
everyone knows turks are barbaric, so im not surprised that they would shoot an unarmed man that is not threatening the life of anyone. It is cold blooded murder. Turkey is a little ***** for the USA. the turks rolled over and pretty much sold there mothers to the States, so the USA could put some bases near middle east… Greeks on other hand have self respect, they didnt sell out nor will ever to the USA. And look at all the things Greeks have given to the world…democracy, theatre, art, philosophy. Not to mention gyros and coney islands!!! what did the turks give to society? women with mustaches.
November 27th, 2008 at 7:29 am
HAHA ^^^^ funny u mention that, my ex girlfriend was a turk AND she did have a mustache!
December 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
my girlfriend turk, she have tail! hairy tail!
December 18th, 2008 at 5:06 am
if he dont get a marlboro soon he will tear that whole sh*t house down!
December 25th, 2008 at 9:18 am
I like poles. Poland is full of them.
December 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
All of the greeks and cyprians should be killed this way, look what is happening now in greece, athens, they kill their own children.
December 26th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Hmm, so Cyprus is Greek because… 2000 years ago some Hellenic tribes lived there? Ha, ha… And these tribes, I suppose, are your direct relatives, your grand-grand fathers?
Greek nationalists are both funny and annoying to read when then vomit their “arguments” which connect thousands of years, just like it was yesterday (I wonder if they are not stupid enough to understand that it is just a propaganda, a cold war). In the meantime, their bandits conquer land by killing and ethnic cleansing: they did it to Turks, they did it to Bulgarians, they did it to Vlachs, they did it to Albanians, and they are doing it to us Macedonians.
I spit on your lies, on your false pride with ancient history, on your distorted values, on your racist laws (yes you have them) and on your lack of humanity, understanding and tolerance to other ethnic groups.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:25 am
Im cypriot.. Nobody except cypriot knows what is like being refuge in your own country. the turkish invasion was one of the most dreadful events in our history.. Solomos Solomou is a national hero. He tried to take the turkish flag out of CYPRIOT land occupied by them.. you know im right.