Turkish war crimes uncovered in mass graves in Cyprus - Turkey to be prosecuted at ECHR

Turkish war crimes uncovered in mass graves in Cyprus

11 August, 2009 03:46 (GMT +01:00)

International Desk

The Turkish army has been accused of war crimes during its illegal invasion
in 1974 of Cyprus, which has provoked Greek Cypriots to prepare law suits to
prosecute Turkey for war crimes. Following the discovery of human remains
in a mass grave confirmed using DNA evidence to be the bodies of five
Greek-Cypriot soldiers who appeared in an "iconic" photograph depicting the
ferocious military attack instigated by Turkish troops on the Mediterranean
island.

The families of the Greek Cypriots have said that the evidence found in the
mass graves of the bodies to be that of the men presumed missing for 35
years, were in fact murdered in the custody of Turkish troops.

"It's a cold-blooded execution," Andreas Hadjikyriakos, a brother of one of
the soldiers told Cyprus state TV. "I can never accept this." (Associated
Press)

The Associated Press in a report said:

"The remains of the soldiers and 14 other people were exhumed from an
abandoned well in late 2006 near the northern village of Tziaos, Elias
Georgiades, an official with the United Nations-led Committee on Missing
Persons, said. He said the soldiers' families were informed Friday that the
remains had been identified."

Greece's Foreign Ministry on Monday also said the latest discovery "confirms
... crimes committed during the invasion."

The Turkish government have made no comment on the reports and the Turkish
army did not according to UNFICYP (the UN force in Cyprus) provide any sort
of credible co-operation in the process of recognition of the remains.

The revelations of the mass graves comes on the day when the vice chairman
of the parliamentary group for the "Friend of Cyprus" Andrew Dismore Labour
MP for Hendon, and chairman of parliament's human rights committee outlined
how he was determined to pursue anyone who has committed war criminals and
said in
The Guardian:

"The UK must not be a safe haven for evil. The message to those who have
perpetrated the most heinous crime imaginable must be clear: they are not
welcome here, not to visit, not to live, not to holiday, shop or get medical
treatment. The UK should close these loopholes in the law. We also need to
establish a specialist war crime unit".

The London Daily News has been made aware of London based Cypriot
organisations preparing law suits against the Turkish government for war
crimes that may implicate London based Turkish diplomats and citizens who
have been accused of complicity in war crimes during the 1974 invasion of
Cyprus. There are around 3,000 Greek-Cypriots living in the Hendon
constituency of Andrew Dismore; which may according to senior sources in the
Greek-Cypriot community provide enough justification to pressure the British
parliamentary human rights committee to pursue Turks in the UK involved in
war crimes in Cyprus in 1974.

A dossier of the information will be submitted, according to a senior
Greek-Cypriot source, to the parliamentary human's right committee for
review on UK based Turks who were involved in war crimes in 1974.

The five men whose remains have been discovered are:

Korellis Antonakis Michael,age 30,from Kythrea
Nicolaou Panicos Chrisostomos,age 26,from Ekso Metoxi
Hadjykyriakos Philippos Stephanos,age 19,from Ammochostos
Papayiannis Ioannis Charalambos,age 24,from Aglangia
Skordis Christoforos Georghios,age 25,from Dhali

In January this year a leading Turkish actor confessed to murdering 10
Greek-Cypriots live on a Turkish talk show. Atilla Olgaç confessed that he
executed in cold-blood ten Greek Cypriot prisoners of war during the Turkish
invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

http://www.thelondondailynews.com/turkish-crimes-uncovered-mass-graves-cyprus...

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[Mawrilio84]

Turks are genociders all over the world know that!!! you can NOT get in EU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mawrilio84]

Invaders 

[Mawrilio84]

the Islamic empire let down by ottomans!!!!!, changed the quran, and Adhan to turkish!!!! turkish racist genociders, world are against you!!!! Turkish are the Most hated people in the world go and find out WHY!!!! why dont you get it!!! you will never get in EU!!!!! and you never had history or land you just stole and invaded it!!!

[tolga4you]

my dear friends i can show you 60 of these war crimes what the greec did to our civilians. but i dont do because we must look forward, we are mongolian Turks, and you are all Thives from Europa, so we have common things, most of al we are neigbours

[yklocnykl]

unfourtunately gayreeks and armenian dogs are still exit.\WHY their culture or their religion STILL exits?

because of OTTOMANS,we are not a kind of FASCIST like EUROPEANs or like western killers .if the ottomans had not been tolerant,you would have been Turks today.

[dwaler27]

@uboot1967 KISS THE ASS OF THE TURKS...LAZY PEOPLE...WE SAVE EUROPE FROM THOSE BEGGERS

[dwaler27]

@cbballbreaker1900 maybe 10.000 armenian army, this is it ! we change Turks with greeks , with threat of lausanne, remember !

[cbballbreaker1900]

armenian genocide by turkey was real just like the genocide by turkey of the asyrians and christians and kurds! mongolian turks dont belong in white europe or middle east

[cbballbreaker1900]

a few millions u mean

[cbballbreaker1900]

islam=evil and u muslums would noy exits it we americans would have nuked u or mecca!