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To: zonder who wrote (56532)	11/11/2002 10:01:31 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I agree the Turks had valid reasons to intervene in defense of Turkish Cypriots. Doesn't matter. The Turkish and Israeli occupations are still similar. Prior to the Turkish invasion, there were not Turkish and Greek sides of the island. About 200K Greek Cypriots became refugees and have not been allowed to return to their original homes. In other words, more Greek Cypriots were driven out of what is not the Turkish side of the island than there are Turkish Cypriots. ekeka.com More than two hundred thousand Greek Cypriots fled in terror before the advancing Turkish army. They were never allowed to return to their homes. The segregation imposed by the Attila line across Cyprus forced one third of the population to live as refugees. They gathered in the free area of Cyprus in makeshift camps, suffering distress and discomfort in half completed buildings. 70% of the economic potential of Cyprus was in the area occupied by Turkish troops. In the free areas there was enormous unemployment. In the ensuing ten years the refugees have struggled to overcome the losses they suffered. Whether workers, businessmen or housewives, they played a central role in the reconstruction of the Cypriot economy, which has enabled the free part of Cyprus to survive. The Cyprus Government has not used the refugees of Cyprus as bargaining counters, nor has it allowed political expediency to predominate over the need to relieve human suffering and provision for the basic needs of the refugees. Note that last paragraph. Now there, in addition to the absence of Greek terrorism, is another difference between the Greek and Palestinian situations.

To: zonder who wrote (56532)	11/11/2002 10:07:46 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There are no settlements in Cyprus systematically financed by Turkey, as is the case in Palestinian territory financed by Israel. ekeka.com Colonisation of the occupied area - The Colonist Settlers Soon after the invasion a transfer of colonists began from Turkey to the occupied area of Cyprus. When the so called "Turkish Federated State of Cyprus" was declared in the occupied areas in 1975, any member of the occupation forces of Turkey and anyone who had served in the terrorist organisation, TMT, was given the right to acquire citizenship rights. The exact numbers of the alien population, which has flooded the occupied part of Cyprus, is not known. But a Reuters dispatch from Nicosia on .2.1984 stated that the Turks who have moved to Cyprus since 1974 now form about one third of the inhabitants of the occupied area; and the Istanbul mass circulation newspaper "Gunaydin" on the 3rd March, 1984 said of the colonists: "45-50 000 is not a small number within the 160 000 population of the Cyprus Turkish Republic". (The "Cyprus Turkish Republic" is the name given to the occupied area of Cyprus by the occupation authorities.) The colonisers, mainly peasants from Anatolia, who have no interest in the independence of Cyprus, or the Cypriot identity of the Turkish Cypriots have become the mainstay of the separatist regime under the leadership of Rauf Denktash. .... The colonisers are alien to Cyprus; they have no interest in working for a Cypriot state and have a vested interest in Turkish expansionism. A sine qua non of any settlement is that they should leave Cyprus. Today the number of illegal colonists from Turkey exceeds 70 000 while the Turkish Cypriots have reduced to 120.000.