Collectors Item... 'CYPRUS NEWS' from 1976

Stephan


Joined: 22/05/2009
Posts: 211

Message Posted:
12/01/2011 19:11

CYPRUS NEWS... I Have part copies of this first english language publication from 1976... full copies available also for 1978... 5th Jan 1 copy... 12th Jan 3 copies... 26th Jan 4 copies and 2nd Feb 2 copies... 'offers' sought for all as a 'job lot'.



Please call Stephan on 0533 866 1733

Denny


Joined: 09/12/2010
Posts: 261

Message Posted:
12/01/2011 19:38

Stephan,



Why not drum up a bit more interest by treating us to the headlines of the time? Hopefully that should generate some offers (unless they're as pants as these days )

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
12/01/2011 20:10

http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCYQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpseka.net%2Fpipermail%2Ftoday_pseka.net%2F2006-December%2F000141.html&ei=9-0tTb6OG4eShAfTn93OCQ&usg=AFQjCNGoZsz5KfP2EjFAnJB8MUCMgZPtaA

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
12/01/2011 20:12

I can imagine there are more then mumblings going on about partition in 2011,

Paul.

Stephan


Joined: 22/05/2009
Posts: 211

Message Posted:
12/01/2011 20:14

... makes interesting reading!

Stephan


Joined: 22/05/2009
Posts: 211

Message Posted:
13/01/2011 18:34

no reasonable offer refused...I paid 50 stg for them all

Denny


Joined: 09/12/2010
Posts: 261

Message Posted:
13/01/2011 20:11

Msg 3

>>High Commissioner Donald Gordon, in his own comment, rang the bell for something even worse: “The continued failure of the Turks,” he wrote, “to make any move towards a federal solution with two largely autonomous states and a weak central government, despite the fact that the other side have pretty well conceded this in principle, leads one to speculate that they may have some other purpose in mind: either partition or assimilation of northern Cyprus into Turkey.”



And with a reference to Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, the High Commissioner said that “he would be foolish to go for incorporation into Turkey although there is some evidence to suggest that this has for years been his personal dream.”<<



No comment necessary...

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
13/01/2011 20:43

RE msg 7, "Denny": High Commissioner Donald Gordon, 1976. Only two years after the mainland Turks - as guarantors - had the courage to intervene in Cyprus. Saving the Cypriot Turks from extermination. Mr Gordon, representing "guarantor" UK, was certainly not the man to have ANY comment.

Denny


Joined: 09/12/2010
Posts: 261

Message Posted:
13/01/2011 21:32

DC,

Perhaps, but they certainly had an accurate assessment of the long-term Turkish ambition of taksim. Which hardly makes the 1974 operation "courageous", not only because this led to a bloodbath for both sides, but since they had previous opportunities to intervene with troops in 1964 and 1967.

However, I agree with you that the British government acted shamefully in its inaction after the coup, especially given the number of UK troops on the bases plus UN soldiers who could have been re-badged fairly rapidly.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
13/01/2011 21:49

RE msg 9, "Denny": (...) this led to a bloodbath for both sides (...)

▶ Better than the complete and final bloodbath on one side.