WI Greek coup Successful, Cyprus Annexed

Hmm, now why does that sound like the Falklands War brouhaha?

Because it was :p
Mind, giving Makarios leftist leaning and his playact in the not-aligned movement (and remembering it was 1974 :eek:) I would not be surprised if the Greeks colonels had received a wink from CIA
 
Because it was :p
Mind, giving Makarios leftist leaning and his playact in the not-aligned movement (and remembering it was 1974 :eek:) I would not be surprised if the Greeks colonels had received a wink from CIA

Hmm, maybe the colonels thought that Makarios was a closet member of the KKE with that? :eek:
 
Hmm, maybe the colonels thought that Makarios was a closet member of the KKE with that? :eek:

I doubt the colonels did, but certainly Makarios was not loved by CIA.
The archbishop was a very complex figure, and his actions have not always been completely consistent; except in securing his position as the titular head of Cyprus, I mean.

He certainly wooed the supporters of enosis (for a time at least, and mostly prior to the military coup in Greece); at the same time in the early 1970s he was also getting support from the KKE.

The only sure thing is that the Sampson coup was precipitated by his request to the Greek junta to recall 650 Greek officers who had been seconded to the Cypriot National Guard: the request was in early May, and was re-confirmed on the 3rd of July 1974 after the failure of negotiation between Makarios and the junta. Sampson coup came two weeks later.
 
I will quite honestly say, that anything Wikipedia says on Poles, Armenians or Greeks, I will ignore.:cool:
Will you also ignore:
"In August 1995 the American Congress passed a special resolution marking the September 1955 pogrom, calling on the President of the United States Bill Clinton to proclaim 6 September as a Day of Memory for the victims of the pogrom."
???
 
What!? Why! I don't think the Greeks would go through with a genocide.

Why not? Check on what happened to all the Muslims in Greece when the Revolt occurred in the 1820s - and to the Muslims of Thessaly in 1880, and the Muslims of the rest after the First Balkan War - and the Muslims of Anatolia when the Greeks invaded after WWI.

Maybe the international community would stop them in Cyprus, but if I were the Turks, judging from history, I wouldn't bet on that.
 
Yeah, which major counrty hasnt committed genocide, (a word that seems to get tossed around after every little killing spree these days.:rolleyes:)

Still the Turks have stuck to the ''deny everything'' method of dealing with it. Which to be fair is a good idea since Kemalist Turkey has nothing to apologize for, since it the Ottomans wot done it.

Kemalist Turkey certainly has things to apologize for, but it's not true that the Turks "deny everything" - that is just what the Armenians et al accuse them of. They just have a different understanding of many events - sometimes wrong, but often closer to the truth than the politically accepted understanding of events. There is certainly a lot of denial in there - but then all states do that, don't they? We don't hear the imperial powers bending over backwards to accept the horrific atrocities and genocides they committed in their colonies - and many people around here are still apologists and deniers when it comes to the Good Old Days of global imperialism.
 
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