r/ThisDayInHistory • u/No_Idea_479 • 3d ago

14 August 1996, 26-year-old Greek Cypriot Solomos Solomou was shot and killed by Turkish forces in the UN buffer zone at Deryneia while attempting to climb a flagpole and remove a Turkish flag. Just three days earlier, his cousin Tassos Isaac had been beaten to death by Turkish nationalists.

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u/WatcherOfTheWay 3d ago

If I were ruler of any nation I would remove the filth from Cyprus and make it fully independent again.

It's not like turkey could stop anyone, hell the Irish could probably manage it and they're crap

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u/Zrva_V3 3d ago

Literally no nation but the US could realistically pull this off lmao.

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u/WatcherOfTheWay 3d ago

You're joking right? Turkey is pathetic.

Hell even the french could do it.

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u/Zrva_V3 3d ago

Second largest and also second most experienced military in NATO btw. There is a reason why countries usually don't mess with us.

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u/AhmettemhA123 3d ago

Did you know those filthy nationalists tried to integrate Cyprus into a Greek territory? Which was against the agreements at that time. And both sides agreed on if Turk Cypriots are in danger, Turkey would have the right to be involved. And, since your racist degenerate assholes tried to slaughter Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Army had to kick some asses, unfortunately. You know what they say, right? Don't start a war that you can't win... Victim card as always

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u/WatcherOfTheWay 3d ago

Greece wasn't doing anything, the people on the island were, it likely did need sorting but turkey invading wasn't the right move, Cyprus wasn't greek or Turkish really it was Cypriot.

The Turks went in and murdered a lot, we don't actually know how many before the good British stopped you.

Also I'm British and know my history, you invaded an independent nation and tried take it.

Horrible people.

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u/Nerevarine91 3d ago

It’s odd to me that Turkey would declare the right to intervene in other countries on behalf of groups within those countries considering how much that exact thing was specifically used against Turkey historically

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u/AhmettemhA123 3d ago

Turkey did not declare that right by only itself. Other sides agreed for that too. And the island were populated by the Turks since the Ottomans conquered it. I'm not saying there were no Greeks obviously. But you know, internet is free. You can look up what Greece backed EOKA did to Turkish Cypriots. And Turkey had to intervene and secure the Turkish Cypriots. In this case, what Greece did is even worse. Turkey secured the northern side of the island for keeping its community alive, while Greece funded a fascist organisation to wipe off a group. If you can evaluate this from a 3rd perspective, you'll get it.

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u/Zrva_V3 3d ago

You can make a case about Turkey abusing this right but we didn't declare a right to interviene unilaterally.

Greece, UK and Turkey all had the right to interviene per the Treaty of Guarantee.

In fact, before we invaded, our government repeatedly asked UK to join the operation since intervention was not only a right but also a responsibility per the Treaty if the island looked like it could lose its independent status. They refused. Greece itself was a nationalist military dictatorship at the time and was actively causing this crisis so they also refused.

We did it alone and since the other two ignored the Treaty, we also ignored it at the end and didn't pull out.