1974 Cyprus Coup - Turkish Invasion Looms in Tense Reports on Mounting Crisis (1974)
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- On 17 July 1974, two days after being overthrown in a military coup d'etat led by the Cypriot National Guard, deposed President of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios III held a press conference in London. Having fled to the UK with British assistance, Makarios sought to denounce the Greek-sponsored coup as a foreign invasion, while asserting his status as the legitimate ruler of Cyprus. While Makarios told reporters that he did not yet wish for military assistance from Britain or Turkey, Turkish forces were already mobilising to intervene. Indeed, ITN filmed the Turkish prime minister, Bülent Ecevit, arriving at Downing Street for an urgent audience with Harold Wilson the same day Makarios paid his own visit to Number 10.
ITN also interviewed Kyriakos Palos, the UK chairman of the Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B (EOKA-B), a Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisation dedicated to achieving enosis (union) between Cyprus and Greece. Palos justified the coup on the basis that Makarios was interested not in ruling Cyprus but in promoting his "personal cult", aided by repressive state security organs. Palos also argued that time would see the Cypriot people come out in support of the coup. The following day in Paris, ITN's Jon Lander interviewed UK foreign secretary James Callaghan about the unfolding crisis. Callaghan described his efforts at diplomacy as war loomed over the eastern Mediterranean, emphasising the UK's recognition of the deposed Makarios III as the legitimate Cypriot president, and warning that he believed the crisis would deteriorate further before things improved.
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Interestingly, or let's say, unfortunately, wherever the Imperialist English went, they left behind cartographical and political problems.
Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, Cyprus between the Turks and the Greeks, Rhodesia under Smith, the Palestinian problem due to the Belfour declaration which pitted the Jews against the Arabs, and Iraq and Kuwait Boundary line confrontations, which exist even today.
I can cite several other examples from Africa, the Middle East and SE Asia too.
So, most of the Geopolitics of the Cold War was dominated by the English Imperial Designs to use the divide-and-rule policy which failed everywhere after they set those nations or regions free.
great old red indian saying: when you walking by a lake and you see two fishes fight, know well that british has passed through there!
@@tekinmoustafa8141 i thought it was Indian… not red indian… red indian is in North America….
@@michaeljose8122 nah. In amerika.amerikan red indians. Indigineos people of amerika. Indians in india are different
@@michaeljose8122This proverb belongs to the native Americans, the people of the Turks.
@tekinmoustafa8141 well quoted.
Thank you for this piece of history regarding my country.
MAKARIOS called Greece as invaders not Turkey. Check it out and be objective.
It was before the Atilas operations that's why
Turkey hadn’t invaded yet, the Greek junda tried to topple him. Turkey seized the opportunity of infighting and made a cowardly and illegal full scale invasion.
@@salarycatWho is capable of telling us "the legal" scale? How many % of island's area, we are allowed to take?
Mr. Ecevit declared many times, that Turkey is ready to make comprimises on land, if people's security guaranteed.
But greeks did not take this, because their only aim was "final solution", i.e: 100% greek island and without a single Turk living there. You should admit this fact before any argumentation here.
You even rejected Annan's plan, which included many advantages for greek. Because you want to have EVERYTHING😅😅😅
But what you get is only 60%, you racist fools. You will never ever get EVERYTHING.
@@salarycatturkey intervened to defend the Turkish Cypriots that were about to annihilated by Greek speaking Cypriots with the help of the fascist regime in Greece
@@jayski9667 that's not the case. Turkish Cypriots lived peacefully along Greek Cypriots for centuries. They were fed propaganda and fought against Cypriot independence which caused some friction but nothing that couldn't be resolved peacefully in the independent Cypriot state.
They were happy that Turkey invaded to "save them" and now they ended up being a vassal of Turkey with zero self-rule, and outnumbered by settlers from Turkey that were eager to squat on the houses of refugees.
Lets be intellectually honest here. Greece's candal against the british caused them to retreat from nato until turkey allowed them to rejoin.
No one cared about turkey
@@georgestamatakis697 nikos sampson did😊
also you should be singing about the Murderous Eoka who killed the Children and Women of MURATGA and Sandalar village which they buried alive
Turks and Greeks have been killing each other for over 1000 years most of their lands used to be Greek honestly give it a rest ffs
congratulations talking the truth,mate.
Bulent Ecevit a most intellectual, regal leader ❤
You need to put your crack pipe down...
@@ptolemy7783boruyu soktuk 1974 temmuzda
So why you name the video as Turkish “ invasion” and not “intervention” ?
Because if it was an intervention the Turkish troops would have returned as soon as the Greek threat was eliminated
@@lamondaforestry Greek threat was eliminated but Turkish Cypriots were still deprived from their constitutional rights due to unconstitutional amendments made by Makarios in 63. Cypriot Turks were pushed to live in enclaves under constant Greek oppression
@@lamondaforestry Siz savaşmayı çocuk oyuncagı mı sanıyosunuz.. Kıbrıstaki Türkler güçsüz.. Türk askeri adadan çıktıgında Türklere yine soykırım uygulanacaktı.. Soykırım olmayacagı garantisi alınmadan ve eşit şekilde yönetim kurulmadan nasıl terk edilebilirdi.. Bugün dahi bu garantiler verilmiyor. Birleşmiş milletlerin Annan planını unutmuş gibisin.. Türkler adanın birleşmesine evet dedi, Rumlar hayır dedi.. Buna ragmen Rumlar Avrupa birligine alındı.. İki yüzlü bir dünya düzeni var..
@@canozmen what are you talking about? The TC had elected members in the Cyprus Parliament. What short of propaganda you are trying to push, really? You thing in 2024 people don't have access to basic sources, Wikipedia and such? Oh I forgot, it was banned in your country... It's ok, believe what your history books tell you, because for everything bad in your country it's the foreign western powers to blame. Even for the paper made buildings that fell from the earthquakes, Greeks made the cement and Americans and EU the steel.
@@canozmen no one was deprived, stop spreading lies. They had elected representatives in the Cyprus Parliament. They had civil servants working for the government.
Callaghan'ın günbegün kepaze oluşu diye de özetleyebiliriz videoyu
true
...it leads one to ask the question....why was Makarios so loved by the British government? The journalist is amazing with his questions...those were the times when journalists could think. Equally, if one does research then one will find out that the division of the island all ready was decided between Ecevit, Karamanlis under the observant eye of the english in Paris in 1959. So let us not kit ourselves of the events that followed.....they were all in the game and played it very well.
Ecevit was not a part of government in 1959. You need some true history
So how was the division gonna be drawn out , if it was decided in 1959 , when the Turkish Cypriot population at the time was around 10%
it always makes me think that how bbc and the itn had colorized footages when actual turkish forces took zero colorized footage
Turkish journalists had black and white cameras back then. Turkey only started colour TV broadcast in 1981.
Makarios went to London to beg Turkey to come save his crown
What I have heard greek blaming greek.
dishonorable makarios,sampson,gravis etc etc etc. DEATH forever to eoka and enosis.
Indeed you heard correctly.
This is because it was a coup instigated by an unelected military junta in Greece against the elected government of Cyprus.
Why does this surprise you?
Turkey had military plans to invade before the coup. UK allowed the invasion as per their usual policy of causing regional conflict and maintaining bases and influence.
the turks done everything they could to get the other two guarantors to go along and re establish the status quo so they done everything it was the two other guarantors that chickened out so they went in it was not planned it was a neccessity to protect their own people . callahan was an absolute twot because he actually stated an agreement that old we cannot go along with so therefore keep quiet you had your chances
Greeks started the 1974 war, they refused the faire and balanced Anan Plan in 2004. They wanted it all and only misery and shame.
1974de esasen adanın tamamı alınmalıydı sembolik bir parça rumlara bırakılırdı. Esasen kıbrıs osmanlı toprağıydı ve tamamen geri alma hakkımız vardı.
Yes for those that don’t know or pretend. Turkey intervention was for the peace of the island. Greek and Turkish Cypriots. If turkey never intervened its quite obvious what the result would’ve been. In history there is no turning back. And cannot change it but except the circumstances it evolved to. Since the partion and TRNC was declared seems like the problem is solved and solution is right in front of our eyes. No war, no issues, mutual respect whether they like it or not. It’s like a relationship. You may not love each other however mutual respect is the way forward. All the things in between are propaganda and misinformation. It’s up to Greek Cypriots to except this and move forward and build economic bridge with Turkish Cypriots. Everything else is false dream and will never become a reality.
1960-63 the events have neen swept under the carpet, as the British Government began to recognise the Greeks as the sole rulers of Cyprus; that is inspite of signing the 1960 London and Zurich Agreements!
It is clear that all the blame lies with Greece. But for some reason the whole world blames Turkey. The reason for this is that the Greeks knew how to cry and make propaganda. If the Turks had tried to kill Makarios, the whole world would have declared the Turks murderers. Whatever the Greeks do, no one blames them. One of the rare videos that tells the truth..
Yes, the blame lies with Greece at the time, and Turkey had a right to intervene under the guarantor treaty to restore the status quo, but NOT to occupy and ethnicaly cleanse the north of Cyprus so that it then became an invasion.
@@Agamemnon1002exactly that. I don’t think the world objects to Turkey’s intervention(Attila 1) as it was rightfully justified by the London/Zurich agreement to bring stability to the island after the illegal coup by the Greek junta.Followed by ceasefire (as it happened) and the illegal administration overthrown the UN takes over and a solution is found with the guarantors (Greece, Turkey, Britain) and Cyprus over discussions. The conquest (Attila 2) and unjustified occupation, to this day, of 36% of the island is the part the world is against and therefore not recognise as illegal.
Turkey was found guilty by the European Commission of Human Rights for displacement of persons, deprivation of liberty, ill treatment, deprivation of life and deprivation of possessions. The Turkish policy of violently forcing a third of the island's Greek population from their homes in the occupied North, preventing their return and settling Turks from mainland Turkey is considered an example of ethnic cleansing.
@@gpapa31what did the Turks do following the war, living on southern side?
If an ethnic cleansing happened at all, it happened on both sides. Like the one during 1923-24 period btw Turkey & Greece.
To blame Turkish side, doing ethnic cleansing, is only an effort to cover the real ethnic cleansing and massacres between 1963 & 74 by greek fascists.
By the way, following first stage of war, many negotiations held in Geneva without a reasonable result. And Turkish military was squeezed in a very small part of island. This was not safe at all both for militarist as well as turkish cıvıl people on the island. Consequently, your comment has too many lies inside.
@@bhg6gs first of all why are you mixing incidents that have nothing to do with Cyprus (eg: 1923?). You don’t see me bringing 1955 Istanbul genocide and cleansing into the mix?
Obscene actions were performed by both sides in Cyprus. The Greeks had EOKA B, a terrorist organisation that as you said was attacking Turkish communities for nearly a decade to accomplish ENOSIS (unification with Greece) and was funded by the Greek military junta. And the Turks had TMT (Türk Mukavemet Teşkilatı) an ethno-nationalist organization, with a right-wing stance-which was funded and supported illegally by Turkey in an attempt to oppose EOKA, create a division and eventually partition of the island. Both groups are responsible for atrocities. To make the argument that Turkey’s disobedience to the ceasefire and move to Attila 2 is justified due to past actions is absurd, firstly because both sides had blood on their hands and second, and most important, two wrongs don’t make it right. After all the London-Zurich treaty is clear on the matter of intervention and there’s zero ambiguity. So occupation and settlement is a clear breach and illegal to this day no matter how you want to slice it. That’s why Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to this day is a de facto state and is recognised globally by absolutely no one but Turkey.
@@gpapa31 I mentioned 1923 matter not to attack you, be calm. İt was just an example of people's exchange (i do not know the appropriate definition for that action, sorry), as much possible as in peace. So your prejudice takes you to wrong paths.
So, at the end there was no ethnic cleansing in cyprus by the Turks. Besides TMT was only a defence organisation. When you have only 25% of population,, or maybe less, you can not attack the rest, can you? What you say is nonsense.
Please see the map of the area occupied by Turkish troops, you will see a small triangle. Military wise, this is not a safe heaven at all. 4 weeks long following first Turkish attack, there were negotiations in Geneva. I see that you don"t want to remember these meetings. When Turkish troops were in a weak position, why did not greeks accept any solution in Geneva. Because they wanted the whole island without a single Turk, as they did ever since 1953. At the end Turkish troops attacked much larger areas and ocuupied succesfully. Please remember the greeks were the coup-makers, whici threw xyprus constitution inti garbage. Now you claim that, you want the previous position back. Sorry too many things happened since that fascist coup in Cyprus.
Last note: İstanbul incidents in 1955 (you must be living in another world to call that genocide, you better visit a psychiatrist), were not a genocide. Only 6 turkish citizen greeks were murdered. This was a racist crime, which can not be forgiven, but yet it was not a genocide, you fool.
13:26 The critical question.
Please, a video of Makarios speaking Turkish
Hearing in the end the British minister my impression is that everyone knew what is going to happen in the next two days apart from Mr Ioannidis , the Greek dictator , who has fallen in a deep sleep ..Should I be unfair If I say that this tells a lot about the man's ability to comprehend the situation?
A 5,000 year old family fued
And we had to flee our home and lose all our belongings because of it
In Cyprus,there were a steadfast Communist support for President Makarios.Also Cypriote Communist party was faithful to the Soviet Union..In 1973 the coup of Brigadier Ioannides in Greece, a U.Sbacked general,because his opposition against socialists and communism and the subsequent coup by 39-year-old Nikos Sampson in. Cyprus used against churchman Makarios.. Sampson declared himself the leader of the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus. On July 19, 1974,Making a speech at the Council in London , Makarios said that the Greeks occupied Cyprus and that the Greek flag was flying in all Cypriot government offices and that there were great losses and that the Greeks were murdered Cypriots and more dangerous than the Turks and that the independence of Cyprus had disappeared and its people were in danger. Britain and US did not support Makarios. It's not hard to understand why .The Turkish Army landed on the island from Kyrenia Karaoğlan location on the morning of July 20, 1974.Meanwhile, on July 23, the Greek junta in Athens Greece was overthrown and N.Sampson resigned in Nicosia. During and after the actual operation The Turks where in matters where they had rightful cause with some politicians incompetent attitudes and demands in many agreements, meetings and negotiations over the years. This prevented gains for Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots in Turkey's rightful cause. The fact that the guarantor state, England, did not want to take the initiative caused many problems. With this operation, the Turkish Cypriots were protected and the annexation of the island to Greece was prevented, but even if the operation was not carried out, I think the annexation of Cyprus to Greece would never have happened.
Turkish invasion? that is not an invasion, that is liberation of Turkish Cypriots. they were victims of greek violence fueled by nikos samson.
you are brainwashed
Kind of what happened in Imbros?
Lefteria stis sklavomenes patrides. Diekdiko then ksexno tha ekdikitho. ⚡️
Οι Έλληνες πραξικοπηματίες γεύτηκαν την τουρκική σφαίρα🇬🇷🫂🇹🇷
No tengo Google translate. Perdon.
@@juanf666highboson5 it's Greek
If England and America had taken some initiative to protect the Cypriot Turks after the Greek coup in Cyprus.Türkiye would not have landed there. They very obviously supported the coups in Greece and then in Cyprus for their own benefit.
Wilson was as much use as a chocolate teapot.
The facts are clear - it was the Greek junta from Greece who invaded Cypriot sovereignty and Turkey as a guarantor had no choice but to go in despite Britain’s reluctance. Ever since the Turkish intervention peace has prevailed.
Μία λέξη: ΠΡΟΔΟΤΗΣ
What happened next could not be worse.
Nobody talks about the Greek Cypriots that died before the Turks came from the 15th July to the 20th,how about some comments from our Cypriot men here regarding this
so when you sing a song about Cyprus you should have the full picture from the 1963 to 1974 not just pick and choose what makes you feel good
5 times the journalist said that turkey was preparing to invade and nobody prevented it.
Here ,we must thank the Russian foreign minister mr.Lavrov
Right with their illegal invasion against Ukraine, the man mentioned about the Cyprus issue, and how all those western countries hypocrites are still have their eyes,ears and Mouths completely shut about
I'll never forget Callaghan's comments in the house of commons after condemning the Turkish invasion . " Today Cyprus is a prisoner of Turkey , tomorrow Turkey will become the prisoner of Cyprus " . Yeah , very prophetic words lol .
Zaten öyle.Kuzey kıbrıs'a 50 yıldır Türkiye bakıyor ve memurların aylık maaşını her ay Türkiye karşılıyor.Eğer çözüm sadece Türkiye'nin elinde olsa,Türkiye Kıbrıs sorununu 1 günde çözer ama Abd,İngiltere ve İsrail Kıbrıs'ta kalıcı bir çözüm istemiyor.
İNVASİON ??
since 1571 İTS TURK
Invasion in 1571
@@robinsonrex1280 before Ottoman Latin invasion earlier arab invasion later English invasion greek invasion
@@user-sb3yq5hi5p Oh if that is the case then it is Greek since before Ottoman and Latin invasion.
@@robinsonrex1280 what were you greek doing at that time as your mainland Moran peninsula.
İ will give you the answer invasion or colonisation or pirot..
@@user-sb3yq5hi5p What were you Turks doing at that time? Your mainland is in Asia Minor. You are the father of invasion, colonisation and pirot(Barbary pirates)