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Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 9:02 am
by Groucho
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 9:04 am
by mrsgee
According to one report, it is an individual seeking political asylum.
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 9:06 am
by Groucho
mrsgee wrote:According to one report, it is an individual seeking political asylum.
If that's the case the only asylum offered should be a lunatic one!
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 9:16 am
by kerry 6138
BBC reporting he has x wife in Cyprus , likely another asylum claim ,this happened in UK a few years ago.
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 10:38 am
by tomsteel
Does this hijack constitute terrorism, as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary? Just a thought!
Terrorism RETURNS to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 11:38 am
by Keithcaley
At the very least, the title of this thread should have been "Terrorism returns to Cyprus.
What about EOKA? Makarios? Grivas?
Why they were never charged with attempted Genocide or 'Ethnic Cleansing' is beyond me!
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 1:23 pm
by woodspeckie
A man has been arrested apparently some mental health problem, trying to get to his ex wife in Cyprus. No terrorism problem police say.
Re: Terrorism RETURNS to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 2:26 pm
by ardstrawray
Keithcaley wrote:At the very least, the title of this thread should have been "Terrorism returns to Cyprus.
What about EOKA? Makarios? Grivas?
Why they were never charged with attempted Genocide or 'Ethnic Cleansing' is beyond me!
My thoughts as well Keith.
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 3:35 pm
by kaiserphil
tomsteel wrote:Does this hijack constitute terrorism, as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary? Just a thought!
Depends, I would say, upon whether the report of his wearing a suicide vest is true.
Seems unlikely if he just seeks asylum I suppose.
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 4:54 pm
by mrsgee
I think a bit of over reaction here.....lets not all get carried away.
Re: Terrorism RETURNS to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 5:42 pm
by Barney
Keithcaley wrote:At the very least, the title of this thread should have been "Terrorism returns to Cyprus.
What about EOKA? Makarios? Grivas?
Why they were never charged with attempted Genocide or 'Ethnic Cleansing' is beyond me!
And what happened in the summer of 1974 wasn't ethnic cleansing on an even greater scale?
Oh, I get it the Greek Cypriots deserved it.
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 5:59 pm
by mrsgee
Oh dear I think this is going down a completely different route....again.....I feel a debate coming on which is nothing to do with the original comment....I'm Off......
Re: Terrorism RETURNS to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 6:09 pm
by erol
Barney wrote: And what happened in the summer of 1974 wasn't ethnic cleansing on an even greater scale?
Oh, I get it the Greek Cypriots deserved it.
All below is my own personal view. Nothing more or less
What happened to GC in 74 was not justified or legitimised by what was done to TC by GC before that or by the Greek/ GC coup. It is not right for
anyone to be forced to flee their homes under force of arms of fear of such. Turkey had a legitimate right to intervene to restore the (1960) constitutional order. They did not have a legitimate right to unilaterally decide to impose partition as a 'solution' in Cyprus.
However one can not understand what happened in 74, why it happened, why it was allowed to happen, why so little was done to reverse it once it had happened outside of the context of what occurred before it. Nor can one seek a 'settlement' that seeks to only address the results of the events of 74 without addressing the issues that led to the events of 74.
Also for what it is worth I do not agree that actions of Makarios and Grivas and the like were attempts at 'genocide' or 'ethnic cleansing'. I think they did and were willing to use (or allow to be used) illegal force against the TC community in pursuit of the goal of Enosis but to claim such was attempted 'genocide' is to me not true. It is alleged that Sampson had draw up a specific genocide / ethnic cleansing plan that had he managed to stay in power he might have implemented. I find that crdible as a possibility but he never had a chance to implement such a plan if it did indeed exist.
Re: Terrorism comes to Cyprus?
Posted: Tue 29 Mar 2016 6:46 pm
by Sugarpuffbear
It was not terrorism!
As regards 74 division, the reason it happened is easy to explain. If a country has a divided population due to whatever, although it is usually religion that causes all the problems, then other countries will decide to split the country between the two separate warring fractions kept apart by a separation controlled by United Nations, until such time as they resolve their differences. This has been applied in India, Ireland and Bosnia just to name a few of the other countries where this policy has also been applied. Once they learn to live together again the UN pulls out.
It just saves many lives and an escalation perhaps involving other countries taking different sides of the warring fractions.