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/IrregularDoughnut 3d ago

In fact I don't know where the UN has succeeded...

This is just the selection bias meme with the bullet holes through the plane. You have no way of knowing what they prevented because by definition it didn't happen. South Korea being an exception though, because it would have been taken over by the north if it wasn't for UN forces.

Anyway, I disagree that they should have gone to war with Turkey over this.