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- Subject: Kupriako suvexeia...
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- SEGREGATION OF THE POPULATION
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- For years before the invasion, Turkish governments and others favouring
- the partition of Cyprus had propounded the cynical opinion that "Greeks
- and Turks cannot live together". This ignorant and racist view was
- propounded as the mental equivalent of partition. After the invasion the
- Turkish Government had the opportunity to segregate the population of Cyprus
- according to its ethnic origins. In South Africa apartheid and the spatial
- segregation of the black population into Bantustans was necessary for the
- dominance of the white minority over the black majority. In Cyprus the
- establishment of spatial segregation between the Greek Cypriot majority (82%
- of the population) and the Turkish Cypriot minority (18% of the population)
- was deemed by the Turkish Government a necessary prelude to asserting the
- "equality" of the two communities, a step towards the domination of Cyprus by
- Turkey.
-
- The fact is that for centuries Greek and Turkish Cypriots people had lived
- interspersed in the towns and villages of the island. This for Attila was a
- demographic barrier to partition.
-
- Some 10 years before 1974 invasion a secret Turkish organization, TMT, had
- tried to segregate the Turkish Cypriots in enclaves. After the invasion, all
- Turkish Cypriots were forced to move into the area occupied by Turkish troops.
-
- Presure from TMT, threats of the Turkish army to move to wherever Turkish
- Cypriots lived, the desire to reunite with family members, forced Turkish
- Cypriots to move from their homes in many parts of Cyprus, albeit very
- reluctantly, to the Turkish occupied area by the end of 1975.
-
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- "In Paphos today, where some 500 Turkish Cypriots were being transferred
- to the north, the main square resounded with the sobbing and wailing of
- elderly women abandoning their homes after a lifetime. Greek and Turkish
- Cypriots mingled easily with no apparent hostility toward each other. Many
- of the departing Turkish Cypriots handed over the keys of their houses
- to the Greek Cypriot refugees, with apparent pleasure, "to look after them
- well", as one said."
- Washington Post 11 August, 1975
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