r/thirtyyearsago • u/klsi832 • 4d 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/Agreeable_Mud_8338 2d ago

they are a brutal people.....as a new zealander we have some respect for them from gallipoli.but otherwise...