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Turkish Cypriot journalist Şener Levent: “The Turkish army went into Syria and the Kurdish enclave of #Afrin to commit a massacre and occupy the country, just as they did here.” #Cyprus theguardian.com/world/2018/may…

@RedVanyaan @ArchysLife @MikeDiplockre The population of the occupied area was 85% Greek. The Turks have imported hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers from Turkey to deliberately alter the demography of the island in violation of the Geneva Convention. Just one of the many war crimes the Turks have committed.

@ArchysLife @FreeCyprus1 @MikeDiplockre They obviously want the island to be united and there are tons of people who are refugees from the North? Greek Cypriots were way more than 50% before its subsequent demographic engineering and its in recent memory.

It's actually nuts that Cyprus was allowed into the EU

@MikeDiplockre You realise that Cyprus is illegally occupied by Turkey don’t you?The “Cyprus problem” could be resolved if the international community pressured Turkey to abide by international law!

In a single and completely unnecessary move, Europe removed the one big piece of leverage the international community had over the Greek Cypriots, so now the Cyprus problem will likely never be resolved 🙃

It turns out the over 100 women from Turkey who flew over to America to have their babies then signed up for Medicaid So not only did their kids get birthright citizenship but then the American taxpayer had to pay for the procedure and follow up care End Birthright Citizenship

@HomerPavlos It wasn’t just the Turkish army that took part in murdering innocent Greek civilians. Eye witnesses in my mother’s village reported that their Muslim neighbours murdered Greek civilians with bayonets, including children and the elderly #Cyprus

In 1974, only 52 years ago, the Muslim barbarian Turks invaded Cyprus and committed crimes against Greeks that the human mind cannot comprehend and the whole world never heard about them. Mass murders of civilians were carried out systematically by the Turkish army. Not only unarmed soldiers who had surrendered, but also civilians, including children aged from 6 months to 11 years old, women, and elderly people up to 90 years of age, even paralysed individuals, people with intellectual disabilities, and blind people, were killed by Turkish soldiers. Eyewitnesses reported the killing of hundreds of persons by the Turkish forces. The accusations also include the murder of individuals who had attempted to visit areas under Turkish military control in order to collect their belongings from their homes. According to the report, the Turkish committed mass and repeated rapes of Greek Christian women of all ages, from 12 to 71 years old, in some cases to such an extent that the victims suffered from haemorrhages (loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel) or were left as mental wrecks. All the women and girls were gathered in separate rooms of empty houses. There they were repeatedly raped by the Turkish troops. In some cases, members of the same family were repeatedly raped in front of their own children. In other cases, women were raped publicly in a bestial manner. In some instances, the rapes were accompanied by brutal acts, such as violent biting that caused serious wounds to the victims, banging of the head on the floor, and strangling of the neck almost to the point of suffocation. In several cases, attempts at rape were accompanied by stabbing or the killing of the victim. Pregnant women were also among the rape victims. Among many other cases, a mentally retarded girl was raped in her home by twenty soldiers, one after the other. When the victim began to scream, they threw her from the window of the second floor: she suffered a spinal injury and remained paralysed. "They put us in a school classroom in Voni, along with the rest of the family. They would come in whenever they wanted, choose us, and take us to satisfy their sexual desires. I didn't go out to get rations. I always wore my grandmother's clothes to look old, but they could see my face. I only went out when I needed the toilet. I was constantly wrapped in a blanket, and all the little kids sat on top of me so that the Turks wouldn't keep dragging me away and raping me. This lasted for three months, until the Red Cross arrived." Testimonies from women victims of rape during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The crime described took place in the occupied village of Voni in the Nicosia province, which had been used by the Turkish army as a detention camp for women and children. Similar camps had also been set up in the villages of Vitsada, Marathovouno, and Gypsou in the Famagusta province, where, according to testimonies, systematic rapes were committed by the Turkish army. Hundreds were also the abortions that were carried out en masse in the second half of 1974 in Cyprus. According to testimonies from doctors recorded in the book by Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, "The Other War of the Doctors in 1974," hundreds of brutally abused women became pregnant and special legislation had to be passed so that they could terminate their pregnancies. Many abortions were performed in private clinics, several at the Nicosia General Hospital, while due to the overcrowding of that hospital with war wounded, many abortions were undertaken by doctors at the hospitals of the British Bases in Dhekelia and Akrotiri. Previously, many other women had miscarried using abortion pills, which were distributed to them by the Red Cross while they were still in the Turkish army's detention camps; a fact that leads to the conclusion that the brutalities of the Turkish soldiers were known even before the liberation of the captive women. It is noted that, in order to facilitate the process of mass abortions, even the Church of Cyprus had consented through its tolerance to the amendment of the legislation in 1974, so that the abortions of that period became legal. This happened 52 years ago. This happened to our mothers, to our sisters, to our grandmothers. We will never forget, so this will never happen again. We will rest when the terrorist state of Turkey will be destroyed.

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Turkey/Armenia: Here is rare footage of Armenian Christian children during the Armenian Genocide. These kids endured unthinkable suffering. Sadly, similar evil still happens today. Let us not grow tired helping and praying over persecuted Christians in our time.

@cenkuygur You should be cancelled for supporting the Armenian Genocide you hypocrite! You know who the Young Turks were and what they did!

Have you ever seen mainstream media cancel anyone for being in favor of Israel’s genocide? Isn’t being pro-genocide the most toxic thing you could be? That means you’re so racist, you don’t mind killing people based on their race or religion. Yet, media never cancels over that.

@sfrantzman Agree. We have all of these cuisines and more in Sydney ♥️

D, you get southern Italian, Greek, the Levant part of the Middle East cuisines (Lebanese, Syrian, Turkish, etc), Iranian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean

@zgizemozpinar Turkey will pay for its crimes. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/81…

Bu kare, 14 Ağustos 1974'te Lapta-Karava bölgesinde Türk birliklerine teslim olan Rum Milli Muhafız Ordusu askerlerine aittir. İddia edildiği gibi bir infaz anı falan değildir; savaş hukukuna uygun şekilde yapılan bir teslim alma prosedürüdür. Ayrıca fotoğrafta görülen ve isimleri Rum tarafınca da bilinen bu askerlerin büyük çoğunluğu, 1974 Eylül ve Ekim aylarında Adana Cezaevi üzerinden gerçekleştirilen esir değişimleri (prisoner swap) ile Rum kesimine sağlam şekilde iade edilmiştir. İade edilenlerin listeleri BM ve ICRC (Kızılhaç) arşivlerinde mevcuttur. Türkiye, 1974 Barış Harekâtı boyunca esir aldığı 2.000'den fazla Rum askerine III. Cenevre Sözleşmesi hükümlerini uygulamıştır. Fakat EOKA-B; Atlılar, Sandallar ve Muratağa köylerindeki Türk sivillere yönelik büyük katliamlar gerçekleştirmiştir. Bu katliamlar, BM barış gücü raporlarıyla da tescillidir. Not: Rum tarafının "kayıp şahıslar" (missing persons) listesinde yer alan birçok kişinin aslında 15 Temmuz 1974'teki Nikos Sampson darbesi sırasında bizzat Rumların birbirini öldürmesi sonucu öldüğü, ancak suçun Türk tarafına atıldığı yıllar sonra Rum gazeteci ve siyasetçiler tarafından da itiraf edilmiştir.

As a visitor to Chios between March 18 and 20, I made the journey up the mountain above the city to see the Nea Moni convent, the site of a horrific massacre at the hands of Ottoman Turks during the Greek War of Liberation in 1822. The 1822 Chios massacre, in the midst of a period when atrocities by the Ottoman Turks against Greek civilians were numerous and vicious, was one of the bloodiest.   Approximately three-quarters of the Chios’ population (which totaled 120,000) were killed, enslaved, or died of disease after thousands of Turkish troops landed on the eastern Aegean island. Please read my latest on the 1822 Chios massacre:

‘FOR THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF CYPRUS’ On 1 April 1955, the anti-colonial struggle to liberate Cyprus from British imperial rule began. We honour and pay tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of freedom. The liberation struggle for self-determination paved the difficult road toward Cyprus’ independence in 1960. However, the journey remains unfinished. 71 years after that first spark of resistance, the struggle for true freedom continues against the illegal Turkish occupation in the northern part of the Republic of Cyprus. We remember the past to protect our future. #FreedomforCyprus 🇨🇾 #Cyprus #1ηΑπριλίου1955

@Rattatay @MattisRedacted thedailybeast.com/the-20th-centu…

@MattisRedacted Citation needed

Oversaw a genocide of Greeks whose ancestors had lived in Anatolia since before the Turks left the Caucuses, but whatever

@AtlasXThugged @SteppeShaman thedailybeast.com/the-20th-centu…

@SteppeShaman I need a good biography recommendation on Ataturk.

Ataturk is a totally different breed of man. Forged in the trenches of the First World War and led a national rebirth after winning a three-front independence war. Lee Kuan Yew and Bukele are respectable but Ataturk is in a different league; a lightning bolt that lit up the sky

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@Kanca_Bey @DrewPavlou More lies. One example: “the Assyrian genocide was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province BY OTTOMAN FORCES [ie TURKS] and some Kurdish tribes during World War I.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayfo

@FreeCyprus1 @DrewPavlou Yes. Ottomans did you a favor by protecting the people. Greeks wiped out these civilizations from Anatolia by simply massacring them one by one: Hattians ​Hurrians ​Assyrians ​Hittites ​Arzawa ​Phrygians ​Lydians ​Urartians ​Lycians ​Carians

BREAKING: Islamist councillors in West Sydney mocked a motion for Greek Independence Day last week, denying the existence of historic Ottoman Empire atrocities against Greek Christians. One Islamist councillor stood up and denied the existence of the Jizya tax under the Ottomans, calling it ''uncorrect'' information that was ''offensive'' to the multicultural ''harmony'' of West Sydney. The Jizya tax was essentially a tax that the Ottoman Empire forced on non-Muslims as second class citizens. Greek Christians were forced to pay this tax as a special penalty for not being Muslim. It was designed to try force people to convert. The Canterbury-Bankstown council covers Lakemba and Bankstown, the areas where the Bondi shooter Navid Akram was radicalized. It's been subject to mass demographic and cultural change over recent decades. The suburb of Earlwood in this council area has one of the highest concentrations of Greeks anywhere in the world outside of Greece. Up to 25% of the population is Greek Australian, which is why independent councillor Barbara Coorey (an Australian of Lebanese Maronite Christian heritage) moved this motion and spoke about Ottoman atrocities. Now the Greek Australians in the area live under Islamist councillors who mock the atrocities that their ancestors went through while living under the rule of a foreign caliphate. And the hypocrisy is just unreal. The Canterbury Bankstown council fly the Palestine flag over their council chambers and constantly speak about Gaza and genocide. Yet these Islamist councillors mock Ottoman genocide against the Greeks, Armenians and other Christian minorities. Can you feel the diversity and multicultural harmony?

What an utterly idiotic article. Anti-colonialism is literally tied to self-determination, which respects the will of the majority including the right to join another state. Just as the Good Friday agreements recognise the right of the population of Northern Ireland to join the Irish Republic by referendum. Refusing the right to self-determination and then imposing a constitutional arrangement aimed at safeguarding the interests of other nations, by undermining the will of the majority population is what laid the ground for the violent events that followed starting with the Turkish violent insurrection in 1963 followed by the Turkish barbaric invasion, occupation and ethnic cleansing, a crime against humanity, in 1974. Cyprus will need to be liberated and the will of its population be respected, including the right to unite to Greece.

Under Erdogan, Turkey’s Brotherhood network is radiating out from Ankara. As it threatens havoc in Syria, the Palestinian territories, Libya, and elsewhere, Washington should not exempt Erdogan from consequences of harboring, funding, and defending terrorists. Read this new FDD Memo by @SinanCiddi and William Doran: fdd.org/analysis/2026/…

@angeliki_pap @AkyolinEnglish Exactly. Further, Turkey’s crimes are not only historical. They are ongoing, eg its continuing illegal occupation of EU member state #Cyprus.

Well the false equivalence here is that Turks came from Asia to lands already occupied by several other tribes and they had to rule them by force. I agree we should move on, but to do that Turkey needs to recognize the Armenian and Pontic Greek genocides commited about 100 years ago by the Ottoman empire for the Turkification of Anatolia instead of playing the victim. It would be a good start

Similarly, many Turks heard from their dads stories of “evils” committed by Christian Greeks (or Russians, Serbs, etc.) against Ottoman Muslims. Because history is full of complex conflicts and mutual atrocities. And wisdom is recognizing that “good and evil” exist on all sides.

@Mamuluks @DrewPavlou Many Australians including my family came here because we were persecuted by Islamic regimes. This includes many Muslims by the way eg from places like Iran. We love Australia and we don’t want the same issues here.

@Mamuluks @DrewPavlou For context, look up the Armenian Genocide. The Turks murdered millions of Christians including Greeks. Yet Turkey denies this event occurred to this day. It would be like Germany denying the Holocaust happened. The councillors’ actions reflect a similar mindset. It’s shocking.

BREAKING: Islamist councillors in West Sydney mocked a motion for Greek Independence Day last week, denying the existence of historic Ottoman Empire atrocities against Greek Christians. One Islamist councillor stood up and denied the existence of the Jizya tax under the Ottomans, calling it ''uncorrect'' information that was ''offensive'' to the multicultural ''harmony'' of West Sydney. The Jizya tax was essentially a tax that the Ottoman Empire forced on non-Muslims as second class citizens. Greek Christians were forced to pay this tax as a special penalty for not being Muslim. It was designed to try force people to convert. The Canterbury-Bankstown council covers Lakemba and Bankstown, the areas where the Bondi shooter Navid Akram was radicalized. It's been subject to mass demographic and cultural change over recent decades. The suburb of Earlwood in this council area has one of the highest concentrations of Greeks anywhere in the world outside of Greece. Up to 25% of the population is Greek Australian, which is why independent councillor Barbara Coorey (an Australian of Lebanese Maronite Christian heritage) moved this motion and spoke about Ottoman atrocities. Now the Greek Australians in the area live under Islamist councillors who mock the atrocities that their ancestors went through while living under the rule of a foreign caliphate. And the hypocrisy is unreal. The Canterbury Bankstown council fly the Palestine flag over their council chambers and constantly speak about Gaza and genocide. Yet these Islamist councillors mock Ottoman genocide against the Greeks, Armenians and other Christian minorities. Can you feel the diversity?