[alethia]

Actually, a_Turk, this information is documented as around 30,000 to 50,000. I pretty significantly downscaled what I had read/researched in different sources. What is the number of missing that you have in mind? Surely you will not say that no Greek Cypriots are missing? The numbers were significant.

I am also not blind to the fact that there have been in excess of 30,000 Turkish citizens murdered by Kurdish terrorists in recent years. This has caused the high level of angst and desire to prevent more Turkish deaths at most any cost -- including sending Special Operations forces into Northern Iraq.

We lost 3000 American citizens on September 11th -- and we will never forget how these deaths occurred and who was responsible. Our current military action shows the lengths to which our country will go to preserve its security.

In all of these cases, these deaths have caused pain, suffering and hatred to the people and ethnic groups suffering them. I am quite enlightened -- and pretty balanced in my outlook and presentation of the facts, a_Turk.

[a_Turk]

Tell me how many Turkish Cypriots were murdered by Greek Cypriot death squads between 1960 and 1974..

[Turk2]

Do you know what the total population of Cyprus is?
Then number of missing that the Greek Cyriots are claiming is a little over 1800. However most of those losses are actually Greeks killed by fascist Greeks during the coup. There are loads of eye-witness testimonies about large numbers of Greek Cypriots being killed by the mainland Greek controlled National Guard and Greek Special Forces. All those losses were also conveniently blamed on the Turkish invasion.