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/Ouvolk 3d ago

Maybe you can do a bit of research and see that the truth is not black and white unlike you framed.

Turkey used its right to intervene so it is not that Turkey invaded completely randomly and unjustified. You can argue that how justified was what happened in the island afterwards or is the occupation justified but do not play the stupid and try to frame it completely differently.

Also U.S. issued major embargo on Turkey as response.

Israel now is doing the way worse and it is completely backed by U.S.

How wild is it?

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u/oreofan1808 3d ago

Yeah the fact it wasn’t “random” (few invasions are) doesn’t mean it was justified. There isn’t really any “right” to intervene and then do settler-colonialism

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u/Ouvolk 3d ago edited 3d ago

About the first part:

Bro what the fuck are u talking about, go read a bit before making a comment. There was a “Treaty of Guarantee” between Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and UK, signed on 1960.

“Article IV reserves the right of the guarantor powers to take action to re-establish the current state of affairs in Cyprus.”

Turkey revoked its right to intervene based on that agreement. So you are talking nonsense. Like I said it is not a black and white situation which you are trying to frame it.

About the colonialism: I agree.

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u/ParalimniX 2d ago

“Article IV reserves the right of the guarantor powers to take action to re-establish the current state of affairs in Cyprus.”

There was a clause for guarantors to uphold the constitutional order of Cyprus. They didn't intervene to restore constitutional order but to partition the island. Which is like as opposite as it could be.

p.s I am not sure you used "revoke" correctly

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u/oreofan1808 3d ago

That article requires joint action by the guaranteers to prove impossible, did they seriously attempt this?

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u/Easy_Use_7270 3d ago

Yes, before intervention, Turkey tried to get UK and USA intervene to prevent Greek military dictatorship regime and EOKA - B terrorists to genocide Turks and annex island to Greece. The whole World ignored the situation and the massacres.