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OCCUPPIED NORTHERN CYPRUS

IN 1974, TURKEY INVADED THE NORTHERN PART OF CYPRUS RESULTING IN:

THE LOSS DUE TO THIS INVASION WAS AS FOLLOWS:
37% OF THE LAND.
48% OF THE CROPS.
45% OF THE LIVESTOCK.
70% OF THE WATER SUPPLY.
83% OF THE HARBOURS.
70% OF THE TOURIST INDUSTRY.
60% OF THE MINES & QUARRIES.
70% OF THE ECOMONIC STRUCTURE.

NOT TO MENTION 220,000 REFUGEES WITHIN THEIR OWN ISLAND, MANY THOUSANDS DEAD OR MISSING.
THE DESECRATION OF CHURCHES, MONASTERIES, ANCIENT SITES & VILLAGES.

IF THE INVASION OF CYPRUS WAS TRANSLATED INTO USA TERMS, IT WOULD BE LIKE THE MAP ABOVE.

CYPRUS SINCE THE 1974 TURKISH INVASION OF NORTHERN CYPRUS.

MAP OF CYPRUS IN 1963 AFTER TURKS DEMANDED TAKSIM (PARTITION) & WITHDRAW INTO TURKISH ENCLAVES.

CYPRUS IN 1960

THEY MIGHT HAVE OCCUPPIED OUR ISLAND FOR 35 YEARS, BUT THEY WILL NEVER EXSTINGUISH THE HELLENIC FLAME THAT BURNS IN OUR HEARTS, RUNS IN OUR VEINS & LIVES IN OUR MINDS...

KYPRO EINAI ELININKI !!!
ELEYHERIA I THANATOS !!!

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Permalink Reply by Pavlo on March 28, 2009 at 12:14pm: EUROPES LAST DIVIDED CAPITAL.

MAP OF DIVIDED LEVKOSIA.

ARIEL VIEW OF THE DESERTE OLD TOWN OF LEVKOSIA.

DESERTED OLD TOWN OF LEVKOSIA.

DESERTED GREEN LINE LEFT EMPTY FOR 35 YEARS.

Permalink Reply by Pavlo on March 28, 2009 at 12:30pm: VAROSHA THE HOTEL DISTRICT OF AMOCHOSTOS (FAMAGUSTA) WAS THE 3rd LARGEST TOW AFTER LEVKOSIA (NICOSIA) & LEMESOS (LIMASSOL) BEFORE THE 1974 INVASION.

VAROSHA BEFORE THE 1974 INVASION.

VAROSHA HAD A 0VER 45 HOTELS INCLUDING 2 FIVE-STAR, 12 FOUR-STAR, 30 THREE-STAR.
VAROSHA HAD A POPULATION OF 40,000 AT THE TIME OF THE INVASION.

TODAY IT IS A GHOST TOWN LEFT STANDING EMPTY IN NO MANS LAND.

Permalink Reply by Pavlo on March 28, 2009 at 12:38pm: THE BEAUTIFUL HARBOUR TOWN OF KYRENIA ON THE NORTH COAST NOW IN THE OCCUPPIED AREA.

KYRENIA WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE JEWEL OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN.

Permalink Reply by Pavlo on March 28, 2009 at 12:39pm: MORPHOU BAY WHERE MY FAMILY ARE FROM, NOW IN THE OCCUPIED AREA & RECENTLY HAS BEEN REPOPULATED WITH KURDISH SETTLERS FROM ANATOLIA.

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LAND OF MY ANCESTORS!!!

Permalink Reply by Pavlo on March 28, 2009 at 12:46pm: THE BEAUTIFUL PENTEDACTYLOS MOUNTAINS DESECRATED BY THE DISGUSTING TURKISH FLAG DESIGNED TO BE A THORN IN OUR SIDES FOR 35 YEARS.

ONE DAY WE WILL SEE THE BLUE & WHITE FLAG OF MOTHER GREECE IN ITS PLACE ON THAT MOUNTAIN!!!

Permalink Reply by Pavlo on March 28, 2009 at 12:52pm: IN 1974 THE TURKS INVADED THE GREEK ISLAND OF CYPRUS SENDING 220,000 OF OUR PEOPLE INTO EXILE IN THEIR OWN ISLAND...

35 YEARS HAS PASSED, BUT THE WORLD FORGETS THAT WE ARE GREEK & THE FLAME OF HELLENISM CAN NEVER BE EXSTINGUISHED FROM OUR PEOPLE.

CENTURIES OF OTTOMAN OCCUPATION SHOWED THAT OUR PRIDE, PATRIOTISM & DESIRE FOR ENOSIS CAN NEVER BE ERODED.

WE WERE HERE BEFORE THE TURKS EXISTED & WE WILL BE HERE AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN.

ELEVTHERIA I THANATOS !!!
KYPRO EINAI ELLININKI !!!
MOLON LEVE !!!

WE WILL NEVER FORGET !!!

Permalink Reply by Marcos Christou on July 21, 2009 at 12:48pm: love the photos pavlo. really makes you realise the seriousness of the cyprus problem which is so long ago now that people seem 2 have forgot about it. interesting. well done mate.

Permalink Reply by Loukia Pittas on July 23, 2009 at 5:53pm: I like this discussion because its an interesting subject & i like the use of photos instead of loads of words. They say a picture says a thousand words.

Permalink Reply by Uncle Ross on July 26, 2009 at 9:07pm: your picture is worth a thousand words........dear

Permalink Reply by Manoli Paravas on August 11, 2009 at 4:49am: Dude nice work....Only way anything is going to get done is to keep the public aware of whats happening...Nice photos as well......Thax Mano

Permalink Reply by Uncle Ross on July 25, 2009 at 12:08am: 8,500 - 8,000 B.C Hunter Gatherers . The earliest evidence
(Neolithic).

7,000 - 5,300 BC The first settlers: The Chirokitians.
Earliest pottery, which you will find specimens of in almost all the museums and collections in Cyprus.

4,000 - 2,500 BC Chalcolithic (Copper) Age Use of metals and settlement of west Cyprus.

2,700-1,600 BC Cypriot Bronze Ages, Early and Middle: Ox-plough, cattle, horses, and bronze making are introduced as well as a highly individual pottery style. 1st records of Alasia and its export of copper in near eastern historical records 1900B.C.

1,600-1,050 BC The Late Bronze Age: A period of sophisticated literate city states such as Engomi-Alasia and Kition. Large scale pottery export to the Levant and Egypt. Trade began in earnest.

1500 - 1450 BC: Development of Engomi as a major port. The Hittites rule in Cyprus.

1450 BC - 1000 BC: Late Bronze Age: 1220 Kition and Engomi was destroyed and then rebuilt, Beginning of the Egyptian domination of the island.

1300 BC The Hittites, Eteo Cypriotes and Minoans each created open syllibaries. Well it is presumed they are open syllibaries (based on the number of signs they employed) because they still cannot be read. Here is an example (let us know when you figure out what it says please!)

1200 BC - 1000: Establishment of the city states of Salamis (capital at the time), Soli, Marion, Paphos, Curium, and Kyrenia; arrival of Greek colonies.

850 - 750 B.C The Phoenician-led Renaissance at Kition.

750 BC - 612 BC: Cypro-Archaic 1 Assyrian rule of Cyprus; Seven Cypriot Kings paid homage to Sargon II of Assyria
(709 B.C)

568 BC - 525 BC: Egyptian rule.
In c.545 B.C. Cypriot Kings transferred allegiance to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia. Persian domination.

525 BC - 333 BC: Persian occupation and the rule of the island; also termed as the Cypro-Classical period and the duel between Kition and Salamis. Cyprus contributed 150 ships to the Persian fleet.
Then in 450 B.C. there was Cimons expedition to liberate Cyprus from Persia, but in 448 B.C. Cyprus is left firmly in the control of the Persians and Later Evagoras 1st became the king of Salamis, by 391 he was the master of all Cyprus.

468 BC - 294 BC The Kyrenia Ship

333 BC - 58 BC: End of Persian domination, death of Alexander the Great, ( press here to read his words) Hellenistic rule 1 & 11: the heirs of Alexander the Great rule the island. until 88 B.C. when Cyprus was returned to Egyptian rule

58 BC - 395 AD: Cyprus is reduced to the state of a Roman province and then in 47 B.C. Cyprus is returned to Egyptian rule by Julius Caesar until the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 B.C. when Cyprus became part of the Roman Empire : 350 years of quiet provincial prosperity.

330 AD - 649 AD:The foundation of Stavrovouni Monastery, within 10 years of each other Paphos and Salamis were ruined by Earthquake and tidal wave (332&342 A.D.) In 649 The death of the lady Umm-Haram, cousin of the Prophet at Tekke near Larnaca. The island becomes a part of the Byzantine Empire when Cyprus is gradually converted from paganism to Orthodox Christianity.

649 AD - 965 AD: A second Dark Age: The island is caught on the frontier between the two warring empires of Byzantium and Islam.

965 AD - 1191 AD: Return of the island to Byzantium.

1191 AD - 1192: Rule of the island by Richard the Lionheart, He sold it to the Templars for 100,000 dinars.He married Berengaria of Navarre in Limassol, where she was crowned queen of England. The Templars then re-sold the island to King Richard who later transferred it at the same price to to Guy de Lusignan.

1192 AD - 1489 AD: Rule of the island by the Frankish Lusignan dynasty.

1489 - 1570: Venetian domination of the island.

1571 - 1861: Conquest of the island by the Ottoman Empire.

1878 - 1914: The administration of Cyprus passes to Britain. Which remains formally part of the Ottoman Empire In 1880 Greek and Turkish were established as the mediums for education in the schools (Each to his own)1914 Cyprus was annexed by Britain when the Ottoman Empire enters into the World War I on the side of Germany; subsequently the island becomes a British Crown colony and under the British rule.

1924 - 1960: Under the treaty of Lausanne Turkey renounced claim to Cyprus in favour of Britain.

1959: Archbishop Makarios is elected president.

1960: Foundation of the Republic of Cyprus (by the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities).
The treaty of Establishment with its various appendixes is drawn up and signed

1963:President Makarios threatens changes to the constitution. Outbreak of inter communal fighting : Green line dividing communities in Nicosia were established. The Turkish side withdraws from the power sharing agreement.

1964: The United Nations peacekeeping force arrives. Enclaves are defended.

1974: Death of Grivas, leader of campaign for Enosis (Union with Greece) Conspiracy against President Makarios inspired by the Greek Junta , his overthrow, the declaration of Samson as President, invasion by Turkish troops, Glafkos Clerides is acting President until President Makarios returns (December 7th). A very busy year.

1975: Rauf Denktash becomes president of breakaway Turkish side. Start of inter communal talks in Vienna.

1977: Archbishop Makarios died. Spyros Kyprianou elected as president.

1983: Talks between the two sides suspended by Denktash. He declares Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus which is recognised by no one but Turkey.

1988: George Vassiliou elected as president and declares an end to bureaucratic lunacy. Promises people at least a reply to letters.

1993: Glafkos Clerides elected as president through proper channels this time.

1998: Talks continue and collapse over the years. Glafkos Clerides elected for second term. EU membership tentatively proposed. Missile crisis.

2001: Protests at Akrotiri British base over planned telecommunications mast.

2002: Kofi Annan peace plan presented to incorporate federation and a rotating presidency. A reunified Cyprus invited to join EU an proviso both agree to UN plan, otherwise only Greek side to join.

2003: Tassos Papadopoulos elected President. UN plan passes deadline. Borders opened for the first time in 30 years.

2004: Referendum on UN reunification plan accepted by Turkish side but rejection by Greek side means no EU entry for them.

2005: Helios Air crash kills all people on board.
Turkish side hold elections won by Mehmet Ali Talat.

2006: Despite closer ties and continuing talks, Turkey refuses to open its ports to Cyprus Republics traffic until EU ends the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community.

2007: Oil row, Turkey sends warships to Eastern med. Cypriots from both sides demolish barriers in the centre of Nicosia on the Green Line.

2008: Cyprus adopts the Euro. Goodbye Cyprus pound. Prices rise again.

To be continued..........

Permalink Reply by Maria Constantinou on July 26, 2009 at 4:06am: Wot ashame such a beautiful island has been torn apart like that.
Its ashame the world has forgot the occupation of Cyprus.
I found the photos interesting & the map of the cyprus invasion in American terms was scary but showed the seriousness of the invasion.
Well done Pavlo.