Turkey’s position is not supported by the international community, whatever the Turkish side says, whatever festivals are today, the President of the Republic Nikos Christodoulides underlined, after the memorial ceremony of the fallen in the Turkish invasion and the liberation of the Turkish invasion.

The President of the Republic said that July 20th is “a day of remembrance and honor for those who were sacrificed to exist today, to have the Republic of Cyprus”.

“At the same time,” he continued, “today is a day to reflect on these 51 years, to see how we create the conditions, because if we really want to honor the memory of all those who have been sacrificed, we must do whatever it is possible, to end our possession, to release us.”

“And just within this context, with a contemporary realism, utilizing and reinforcing all the power factors of our homeland, internal and external, upgrading the Republic of Cyprus, we do everything possible to achieve this goal,” President Christodoulidis said.

“Fifty -one years later, we are neither compromising nor forgetting what happened in 1974,” he noted. “We are here to do what is possible, we know our goal, we know where we want to go, we have strategy and planning and despite the difficulties, challenges and problems – which I do not degrade, I do not underestimate – at the same time I know very well that we do not compromise and do not have any possession,

Called to comment on what is being held today in the occupied territories, the President of the Republic said that “as every year, these festivals of shame with the descent of the Turkish president”.

Cyprus condemns the barbaric Turkish invasion and honors its fallen

“Today, 51 years have passed since that tragic Saturday morning on July 20, 1974, when the Turkish invader violated the sacred soils of our earth and despised international law divided the island with the power of weapons and violence.” This is how his telegram begins the Cyprus News Agency (KIPE) for the 51 years of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and continues:

“The people of Cyprus, who are still experiencing the consequences of that day’s blockade, today condemns the crime and honors the fallen. The sirens sounded in all cities with the alarm motto at 5:30 in the morning, while Turkey in 1974 invaded Cyprus violating the United Nations Charter.

Turkey’s dichotomic plans scattered death and forced 200,000 Greek Cypriots to leave their ancestral homes. The Turks bombed, destroyed, plundered, raped, ravaged churches and monasteries. 37% of the territory of Cyprus still remains in the hands of the conquerors.

Today, in all cities of free Cyprus, events of memory and honor are organized for the fallen and prayers to distinguish the fortunes of the missing Cypriot tragedy. “

In the memorial service, the government was represented by government officials, with the laying of wreaths, by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, as follows: in Limassol, the Director of the President of the Republic of the Republic, Victoros Papados Papados Papados Papados Papados Papados Papados Marios Hartsiotis, in the Church of St. George Kontou, in Paphos, by Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letibiotis, at the Metropolitan Church of St. Theodoros and Paralimni, the Minister of Energy, Commerce and Industry George Papanastasiou

Political parties and citizen organizations have issued announcements by condemning the Turkish invasion and organizing commemoration and honor events for the fallen tragedy.

Today, Turkish soldiers land on the coast of northern Cyprus in a “peace business” which was given the code name “Attilas”. Turkish transport planes carry paratroopers between 5:15 and 5:20 in the morning in the area of the Turkish Nicosia-Agios Hilarion. The paratroopers were massively falling while Turkey’s infantry forces landed on the beaches of Kyrenia. At 5:20 in the morning, the Turkish forces landing at five miles begins with the soldiers moving towards Kyrenia.

With the slogan “Aisse can go on holiday”, Turkey has sown the disaster on the island. Within three and four hours, the conqueror scattered the absolute devastation with fierce executions, rape, captive arrests, church disasters, uproar. The “government” of Nikos Samson’s coup d’etat resigned at the expense of developments on July 23, 1974.

In New York on the afternoon of July 20, the Security Council meets resolution 353 calling for a ceasefire and withdrawal of foreign troops from Cyprus, ending every foreign military intervention and commencement of talks between the three guarantors of Cyprus. In Brussels is the Council of Permanent Representatives of NATO members, but it avoids taking a substantial position.

In Geneva, feverish consultations began to find a peaceful solution under the auspices of British Foreign Minister John Callahan. The Greek Cypriot side, represented by Glafkos Clerides, claimed for the first time since 1963 the implementation of the Zurich-London and the Cypriot Constitution. Turkey refused and put forward its constant request for the geographical separation of the island.

Turkish Foreign Minister Turan Guen had a plan that the Republic of Cyprus would be a bi -communal federal state of many cantons, in which the Turkish Cypriots would control about 34% of the island. Clerides called for a postponement of 36 or 48 hours to consult the Council of Ministers. The Turks rejected his request, and then in a pre -planned move, first at 3:30 in the early morning of August 14, 1974, withdrew her delegation, in less than 1 1/2 hours later (4:35 am of the same day), he went to the second wave of the second wave.

The most tragic consequence of the Turkish invasion is the missing. Thousands of Greek Cypriots were arrested and held in concentration camps in Cyprus while more than 2,000 prisoners of war were illegally transferred and held in prisons in Turkey. The fate of a significant number of missing has not yet been ascertained to date.