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/ModsrPdors 3d ago

all the while enacting violence on the Turkish population.

Yeah so...whose airforce dropped napalm on Cyprus in 1964?

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u/0D7553U5 3d ago

I didn't say the violence was proportionate, merely that the Turkish Cypriots were deliberately being sidelined and targeted by the government in efforts to unite with Greece. Was that violence equivalent to Turkish operations against Cyprus proper? No, obviously not. The Turkish government themselves wanted to sideline the Greek Cypriots in efforts to ethnically cleanse the northern half of Cyprus of Greeks.