Posted on 03/22/2019 4:29:38 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Nestoros said the CMP regularly raised the matter of a mass grave in Adana. He added that they also knew of a mass grave in the area of Kyrenia’s Botanical Gardens from information provided by a Greek Cypriot survivor. Plus, the CMP had testimony that bodies had been collected in the area.
Under the headline “Buried Alive,” Afrika reported on Thursday that Greek Cypriots taken prisoner were brutally murdered and buried near a river.
The information came from a man who claimed he was at the Kyrenia harbour working when he overheard two Turkish soldiers talking about it. At the time, there were Greek Cypriot prisoners there awaiting their transfer to Turkey.
“If we take them to Adana too, we will do what we did to the others,” one of the soldiers said. “We took the others, tied their arms and legs and buried them alive near a river there; we didn’t waste any bullets. Because we buried them on the riverbank, the river will carry them away with the passage of time and no trace will be found.”
The unnamed eye witness was around 18 at the time and, along with other people, he had been asked by the Turkish army to pour concrete on the road to the harbour for better access.
He said Greek Cypriot prisoners were lined up there and the workers were told not to look at them.
The report, signed by Afrika editor Sener Levent, also claimed that the biggest mass grave was located in the yard of the Apostolos Varnavas church.
Levent suggested that Turkish Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adali was assassinated in 1996 because he was looking into the matter.
After the creation of the CMP in the early 90s, Levent said, Turkey sought to eliminate all traces of mass graves in Cyprus..
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The Turkish language was brought in by immigrants from Central Asia after the Byzantine defeat in the battle of Manzikert in 1071, but the modern Turks are probably a mixture of Central Asians and those who were there before (Lydians, Cappadocians, Galatians, etc.) and those who were brought in as slaves during Ottoman times. As late as the early 1800s Turks were raiding coastal areas of the Mediterranean and carrying peasants off as slaves.
The modern Turkish language was created by an Armenian after WWI. They did not discuss that fact that he was Armenian.
The Armenian Who Helped Create Today’s Turkish Language
http://armenianweekly.com/2017/07/11/the-armenian-who-helped-create-todays-turkish-language/
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The modern Turkish language owes a lot to an Armenian
http://100years100facts.com/facts/modern-turkish-language-owes-lot-armenian/
I have no Armenian, Turk, Kurd or Arab ancestry.
But I have posted a lot of articles here about them over past 5 years. It has been an education.
I do have many friends in the region. And I have learned to trust those who are always truthful with me.
Some of the DNA tests I have taken show a little "Middle Eastern" ancestry but that seems to date back thousands of years, to prehistoric farmers from that area moving into Europe, long before the Armenian or Kurdish languages existed, or before the Arabic language was spoken in what is now Syria and Iraq.
Kazantzakis in one of his books talks about rescuing Greeks who were in danger of being massacred by Kurds (in the 1920s, I think), which just goes to show that no group has a perfectly unblemished record. Simeon and Levi slaughtered the men of Shechem (after they had raped their sister Dinah) and the Israelites never returned the jewelry they "borrowed" from the Egyptians.
The Middle East if full of “old grudges”. They have long memories concerning abuses, but at times those memories are not based on facts.
My father and I both had our DNA tested. His for male DNA, mine for my mothers female DNA. (I no longer have a male offspring so it made no sense to test my male DNA)
I think the “ancient” components of DNA may be suspect. The modern connections are amazing.
They seem to indicate that everyone came from Africa. I doubt that.
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