I camion vagano per le strade di Kerynia che trasportano merci rubate da case saccheggiate – ” ” ” ” ” ” “Operazione pacifica (Inviazione turca) 1974.

Absolutely shameless. And they have the audacity to claim that Greeks want “everything,” forgetting that they stripped us of everything we had with no shame and complete barbarity. Some of us lost everything because all our parents owned was in the occupied areas. What’s even more shameless is that they call this “peace.”

Peace, for them, means stripping Greek Cypriots of their homes, land, and rights. Peace, for them, means ignoring the killings, the atrocities, and the trauma. The hundreds of our women who were assaulted by turkish soldiers, by killers who were high on drugs and behaved like animals.

If we ever “reunify” (it would not be **re**unification but *unification* with Turks, because the people we would be unifying with came here after their bloody invasion), there is every reason to believe that the same horrors could happen again. When? Sooner or later, eventually. How? By fabricating a narrative that Greek Cypriots are threatening their people. They will always find a way to twist the story and make up a narrative that works for their interests (which are always against ours).

I hope we never have to experience such atrocities again. I do not even want to imagine what our parents went through. All I can hope is that history does not repeat itself and that our generation is spared from such suffering.

IMHO, keeping them out of our affairs and not living with them is a strong and smart step toward preventing future tragedies.

Υ.Γ.: Τα δωμάτια που φαίνεται να “ενοικιάζονται” στη φωτογραφία στην Κερύνεια δεν ενοικιάστηκαν ποτέ. Εκλάπηκαν και δόθηκαν στους εισβολείς.

AFAIK, especially in Girne, they gave the goods to the people in need who had just moved (moved as in picked a house) there. because there were so little turkish speaking population in the area back then, there was NOTHING but empty/half empty houses. and from what i’ve understood, same thing but opposite happened in turkish speaking areas that happened to be in the south, like Limasol. just, because the turkish speaking population was so low, there was a massive shortage of houses for greek speaking Cypriots whereas for turkish speaking Cypriots, the empty houses were filled with settlers. 

and actually my grandpa was one of the politics responsible with the spreading of these goods. from the words of my grandma, he did everything he could to be fair. to the point he waited for his own turn to get his own set of bedframes (where he was the managing authority) because he felt as if he was “looting” the area where he was actually just trying to help his people survive. 

so i think turkey is in fault here, especially the turkish speaking Cypriots at the time. its just the fault of turkey for diving such unequally and having people settle in the empty homes, where settlers are still flowing in massively to this day.