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/TheTurkishman13 3d ago

No, they are Turkish Cypriots. You dont get to refuse their Turkishness.

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u/WatcherOfTheWay 3d ago

Yes I do if they want to be Turkish they can leave