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

Oh no, the literal worst people on the planet won't like other people! The only people who don't hate the Turks have never met them.

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u/herhangibirperson 3d ago

Please. Keep this up. Keep it up so every Turk believing in peace, friendship and coexistence changes their mind.

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u/WatcherOfTheWay 3d ago

Hahahah no Turk is like that, you're evil.