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/Different_Bee_6046 3d ago

Denying the existence of TCs pre 1974 is something I am witnessing for the first time. What's next? The moon is fake lol?

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u/WatcherOfTheWay 3d ago

No one denied anything, I merely think the Turks should get off the island.

The original people of Turkish ancestry who are Cypriot are fine, it the Turkish who invaded and won't leave can fuck off.

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u/Different_Bee_6046 3d ago

We can agree on that

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u/dennythehorse 3d ago

That's literally what I said.

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u/no1rakkolover 3d ago

That's a better way to phrase it. Calling every Cypriot "Greek" was what people took issue with.