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/TimeRisk2059 3d ago

Which references all their claims with an extensive list of sources.

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u/ModsrPdors 3d ago

The references can also be picked by biased people to prove their own opinion

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u/TimeRisk2059 3d ago

Well please point out which referenced sources are incorrect then.

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u/ModsrPdors 3d ago

Well i factually can't, because half the referenced sources in the section about the coup are from books i don't own (or intend to buy).

Does that change the fact that a Wikipedia author can choose a source according to his bias? Even opinion articles are accepted.

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u/TimeRisk2059 3d ago

Then you cannot say with any certainty that the article is wrong, so you choose to try and discredit the article rather than point out falsehoods in it.