[Verginius Rufus]

A coup had just overthrown the government of Archbishop Makarios on Cyprus and the Turks used the fear that the government of Greece would try to unite Cyprus with Greece as a pretext for their invasion, occupying a third of the island and forcing all the Greek Cypriots in that part of the island to flee from their homes. The only good result was that the dictatorship in Greece was overthrown in the aftermath.

A few years ago I met an American professor who was living in Cyprus in 2001. She was fluent in Greek and living happily there but she was warned after 9/11 to leave. I suppose it was because of resentment over the US government's failure to take the Greek Cypriots' side in 1974.

I was in Greece for a few days while the dictatorship was in power and had a conversation on the acropolis with an American nurse who had recently entered Greece from Turkey. She was an African-American (light complexioned). She told me that the Greek border officials had beaten her up claiming that she was a Turkish woman smuggling drugs. That's not a slam on Greeks generally but on the kind of people who were working for the dictatorship--assuming the woman was telling me the truth but I have no reason to think she was lying.

[Texas Fossil]

It would be easy for me to believe that statement. Based upon what I’ve seen and read about Turkey.

For a few years, I’ve had very good teachers about Turk atrocities. To Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Alevi’s, Kurds, Syriac Christians and Ezidi. Multiple well read people helped me understand how bad it is. Some of them have been threatened and others have had their families in Turkey threatened to silence the criticism.

The threats are very real.

10’s of thousands of people are on an arrest warrant because of things said on Twitter or written for newspapers outside Turkey.

Turkey is a very evil place under Erdogan.

[tet68]

while the dictatorship was in power

I remember seeing a movie, “Z” about a set up
assassination from that time.
Haven’t seen it again.