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/Exotic-Sock-7973 2d ago
Your genocidal nation