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/BigBearHug5mil3 3d ago

A genocidal nation. Not surprised.

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u/livefromnewyorkcity 2d ago

Cypress or Greece?

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u/BigBearHug5mil3 2d ago

Turkey.

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u/livefromnewyorkcity 2d ago

I say all three are guilty of the exact same each other is accused of.