29^TH ANNIVERSARY OF GREEK MILITARY COUP

Today is the 29^th anniversary  of the bloody Greek Military Coup in Cyprus, which was started against Makarios, under the leadership of Greek Generals with the aim of annexing the island to Greece (ENOSIS).

Greek Cypriots supporting EOKA, who were against the further delay of the island’s annexation to Greece and the officers and soldiers of the Colonels Junta in Greece, who could not succeed in achieving their aim of Enosis because of the Turkish Cypriots’ resistance during the 11 years between 1963-74, with the aim of immediately achieving Enosis,  staged an armed attack against the so-called “Cyprus President” Makarios, whose aim was to achieve Enosis in the long run.

The Greek Military Coup in cooperation with those EOKA supporters in Cyprus, with the aim of achieving Enosis, toppled Makarios and proclaimed EOKA leader Nikos Sampson as the so-called “President” 29 years ago.

During the coup, approximately 2,000 Greek and Greek Cypriots, who were against EOKA or Makarios, were killed. The Junta also led the escalation of the terrorist activities against the Turkish Cypriots.

Makarios, who just about managed to save his life during the coup, in his speech at the UN Security Council on July 19, 1974, clearly displaying the aim of Greece, explained the massacres and threats awaiting the Turkish Cypriots.

Accordingly, Turkey by using her rights granted to her by the international Treaty of Alliance and Guarantee, with her Peace Operation on July 20, 1974, by preventing the illegal annexation of the island to Greece saved the Turkish Cypriots from total annihiliation. In Greece, the Junta period which started with the military coup in 1967, became  history and as a result of the coup democracy was restored in Greece.