"The Genocıde Fıles" by Harry Scott Gibbons (Charles Bravosœ16.50) Friday, 06 July 2007 This is the first book in English to make a thorough research into the causes of what is described today as the "Cyprus problem." To most outsiders, the troubles in Cyprus began in 1974, when Turkish military forces landed on the island, dividing it into a Greek south and a Turkish north. Pro-Greek explanations for the Turkish action range from "out of the blue" and "for absolutely no reason at all," to "an attempted coup on the island by mainland Greece which Turkey feared would lead to union with Greece. "The latest Greek Cypriot propaganda makes no mention of a Greek coup and states simply that "Turkey thought a move to unite with Greece was being planned." The true facts are that Greece DID stage, manage and carry out a successful coup, overthrew the elected president, Archbishop Makarios (after unsuccessfully attempting to kill him), formed a new government led by a tried and convicted Greek Cypriot terrorist, began a civil war between the pro-Athens Greek-Cypriot National Guard, led by mainland Greek troops and supported by the Greek-Cypriot terrorist organisation EOKA B, battling it out in the streets with supporters of the ousted Makarios. Armed Greek Cypriot civilians joined in the fighting and, in five days, some 2,000 Greeks and Greek Cypriots had been killed. Then the National Guard turned on the Turkish Cypriot population as they tried to flee from the fighting and began killing them out of hand. It was only then that Turkey sent in its forces to stop the civil war, overturn the coup and restore the lawful president, Archbishop Makarios. It was not an unwarranted invasion. The Standing Committee of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe ruled, July 29,1974, the "Turkey exercised its right of intervention in accordance with Article IV of the Treaty of Guarantee." This was the treaty signed by Britain, Turkey, Greece and the Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus to preserve the independence and integrity of the island. But when the Turkish intervention began, the feuding Greek sides joined forces to fight the Turks. The Turks won, and the present boundary line between the Turkish North and Greek South was drawn, but not before Greeks and Greek Cypriots had committed horrific massacres against the Turks in cities, towns and country villages. It was the Turkish landing troops who captured the instructions issued by the Greek Cypriot National Guard to carry out these massacres, the dossiers which Harry Scott Gibbons has given in detail and which gave the title "The Genocide Files" to his book. All of this is ignored by the self styled "peace negotiators" from Europe, the United States and the United Nations, who shuttle in and out trying to persuade the Turkish North to give up its de facto status as an independent country and return to their little ghettos with their burnt out villages and their rich farmlands confiscated, to once again be at the mercy of the Greek Cypriots and their genocide plans. The book also describes in detail the massacres of the Turks by the Greek Cypriot community in December 1963, only three years after the island had gained its independence, which began 11 years of brutality against the Turks. During this period, Turks were hounded into ghettos, some only tent villages of refugees, squeezed into three percent of the island, whereas at independence they had owned 35 percent, some of it the richest farmlands. Now the Turks hold 37 percent, mostly uncultivable mountain and poor farmland. And the Greeks now want this, too. Harry Scott Gibbons exposes the long-standing bias of the UN against Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots and its determination to return the Turks of Cyprus to virtual slavery, and the attempt, in 1974, by Britain's socialist government to force Turkey to stand by and watch the genocide of the island Turks. There is no longer a "Cyprus problem," says the author. It was solved in 1974 when Turkey intervened and the island was divided. The Turks of Cyprus now live in peace, interfering with no one. The Greeks want this state of affairs to end. The North is theirs, they say. The reaction of Turkey, which looks after the defence of North Cyprus, is, says Gibbons, "You want it, come and take it." No one has any doubt what the outcome would be. So Greece and Greek South Cyprus are now attempting to win by stealth what they cannot by force of arms. They want the European Union, the United Nations and America to bring the whole island into the EU, whereupon Turkey, not a member of the Union, could be ordered to remove its protecting forces from Cyprus. And the fate of the Cyprus Turks would be sealed. And that fate would be genocide.