Remains of executed Cypriot soldiers identified

The United Nations-led Committee on Missing Persons confirmed that the families of the five soldiers in the photographs, which have become synonymous with the struggle of Greek Cypriots to discover the fate of hundreds of missing people, had been informed of the results of forensic tests.

The remains of the five soldiers, named as Antonakis Korellis, aged 30, from Kythrea; Panicos Nikolaou, aged 26, from Achna; Christoforos Skordis, aged 25, from Dhali; Ioannis Papayiannis, aged 23, from Neo Horio, Kythrea; and Philipos Hatzikyriakos, aged 19, from Ammochostos, were found in a well along with the relics of 14 others, also thought to be Christian Cypriots.

"It is a cold-blooded execution", said Andreas Chatzikiriakou, the brother of one of those killed on August 14, 1974. "I can never accept this."

The Turkish government had not commented on the findings.
Saturday, 8 August 2009

For more details:
http://www.apodimos.com/arthra/09/Aug/THE_KILLING_of_FIVE_GREEK_CYPRIOTS_PRIS...

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[uboot1967]

Δηστυχώς δεν έχουμε και μερικές ατομικές βόμβες....

[johnnywires3]

if this was in any other country there would be a move to bring the people responsible for this to justice.what the fuck are we doing not pushing for that.i am not saying the g/c did not also do some terrible crimes,but as i recall,no t/c pow was executed.

[Zachariah4131]

BLOODY ANIMAL TURKS ARE WONDERING WHY EUROPE REFUSES TO LET TURKEY ENTER THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION).

TURKS OF BLOODTHIRSTY MOSLEM ANIMALS.

[Napoleon40000]

@Oyrad58 your remark is irrelevant. What is relevant is the human rights record of Turkey right NOW. Your country is illegally occupying north cyprus and oppressing Kurds. Your president threatened to expel all Armenians from Turkey ( what, killing 1500 000 of them was not enough ??). Clean that up and Europe will be happy to accept you.

[dickerbush]

never this dumbed turkish apes in europe....never!

[vangestelwijnen]

Oyrad58, tell us something about Armenians :-)

[Oyrad58]

@Tralgit yea we cant join to EU! you know why? because we are not cruel as europeans. we didnt massacred native americans of america . we didnt enslaved all the africa and black people . we didnt colonize most south asia countries. so thats we cant join to Eu

[thefreecypriot]

@woodenmajor according to Turkey, none. She says 'They were sent to Greece after interrogation and their health was superb', any other governmental and independent research, 400 dead and about 1000 missing. most of the POW were never heard of again and several people I conversed with in the invaded zone talked about an entire battalion disappearing after being forced into a military base (about 350 people, handcuffed and beaten).

[thefreecypriot]

@lympia3 being a t/c, i'm probably not the ideal person to talk to about this, but as we grow closer, i think we will learn to forgive. Because a failure of both sides to forgive each other in the past resulted in the disaster of today, and we can't afford to make the same mistakes again.

[woodenmajor]

what is the best estimate to date of POWs murdered by the turks here ?

[Tralgit]

And these Turks should join the EU??

[TurkeyAlbanianGay]

WE TURKS ARE BARBARIAN