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Hey there, it's me, the editor. My name is Mustafa Niyazi. I'm 34. I'm a polyglot. I graduated in 2018 from Zhejiang University with an MPhil in International Relations. Currently I work in the Education Industry as a Kindergarten Teacher. I have been teaching since 2013. I'm also an editor in real life and do the occasional piece for newspapers and other projects. Admittedly my early days on Wikipedia have been quite mischievous and a certain few of my contributions have consciously been uncharacteristic of my personality albeit for reasons I deemed warranted at the time.

Pages I've Created
Lagenorhynchus Swine

Pages I've Edited
Timeline of events in Cyprus, 1974

EOKA

Kıbrıs

Hellim

List of designated terrorist groups

Pages I'm Interested In
Hittites

Rigas Feraios

Megali Idea

İstanbul riots

Enosis

Cleopatra VII Philopator

List of Ptolemaic governors of Cyprus

List of Ottoman governors of Cyprus

List of British governors of Cyprus

Sargon II

Richard I of England

Two-state solution (Cyprus)

Sargon Stele

Akkadian language

Mycenaean Greek

Turkish language

Ottoman Turkish language

Citium

Phoenicia

Ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus

Sur (Tyre)

Battle of Salamis (306 BC)

Antigonus I Monophthalmus

Foreign relations of Cyprus

Politics of Cyprus

Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573)

Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517)

Sokollu Mehmed Pasha

History of Cyprus (1878–present)

Cyprus Convention

Abdul Hamid II

Joseph Nasi

Kıbrıs Türk Hava Yolları

Peter Young (historian)

Peter Young (British Army officer, born 1912)

Bayrak Radio and Television Corporation

Sakari Tuomioja

European Day of Languages

Polycarpos Giorkatzis

List of massacres in Cyprus

Bronze Age: Early Bronze dynasties

List of Turkish Cypriots

London Conference of 1912–1913

Kuzey Kıbrıs Turkcell

Central Bank of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Foreign relations of Northern Cyprus

Greek War of Independence

Fazıl Önder

İnkılâpçı

List of cities, towns and villages in Cyprus

Turkish exonyms

Flag of Cyprus

Flag of Northern Cyprus

British Cyprus

Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Turkish Cypriots

Battle of Lepanto

1931 Cyprus revolt

Demographics of Cyprus

Cypro-Minoan syllabary

Eteocypriot language

Niketas Chalkoutzes

Nikephoros II Phokas

Nikephoros Phokas the Elder

Cyprus

Ottoman Cyprus

Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)

Treaty of Versailles

Annan Referendum in the TRNC

Causes of the Annan Referendum Outcome

Bülent Ecevit

Geology of Cyprus

Alashiya

Osman Örek

Raif Denktaş

Serdar Denktaş

Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha

Othello Castle

Fortifications of Mağusa

Mağusa

Vamık Volkan

List of archbishops of Cyprus

List of imams of Cyprus

Mustafa Çağatay

Turkish Resistance Organisation

Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus

Currency of Cyprus

Lefkoşa

Civilian casualties and displacements during the Cyprus conflict

Cypriot articles

Start-Class Cypriot articles

High-importance Cypriot articles

EOKA B

Battle of Pentemili beachhead

Attila 1 Landing and Offensive, Aphrodite Two Defence Plan and Counter-Offensive

Attila 2 Offensive

Demographics of Cyprus

Motto of the Republic of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Foreign relations of Northern Cyprus

Cypriot pound

İbrahim Çallı

Public holidays in Northern Cyprus

Languages of Cyprus

Conflict resolution

Civil Society Dialogue project in Cyprus

Federation of Turkish Associations UK

Federation of Turkish Cypriot Trade Unions

British Turks

British Cypriots

Turkish Cypriot diaspora

Turkish minorities in the former Ottoman Empire

Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Turkish Federated State of Cyprus

Association of Turkish Cypriots Abroad

Embargoed!

Cyprus Mail

Peter Young (British Army officer)

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377 (Acheson Plan)

Turkish nationality law

Turkish identity card

Northern Cypriot identity card

Turks of Western Thrace

Timeline of events in Cyprus, 1974

Timeline of Cypriot history

United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus

Rauf Denktaş

Fazıl Küçük

Dolma

Strained yogurt

Çörek

Döner

Ancient history of Cyprus

History of Cyprus

Cypriot pound

Kingdom of Cyprus

Sahanlı (Saganaki)

Tarhana

İçli/Bulgur köfte

Shish kebab

British Turks

List of British Turks

Greeks in the United Kingdom

Greek Secondary School of London

List of international schools (in the United Kingdom)

Ethnic groups in London

Nikos Sampson

Turkish diaspora

Greek diaspora

Greek Civil War

Genocides in history

Pogrom

Vice President of Cyprus

History of Cyprus since 1878

UN Resolution 550

UN Resolution 365

UN Resolution 367

UN Resolution 541

UN Resolution 544

UN Resolution 649

Greek landing at Izmir

Autonomous Turkish Cypriot Administration

President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Politics of Northern Cyprus

Greek genocide

Muratağa, Sandılar and Atlılar massacre

Turkish War of Independence

Occupation of Izmir

Greek War of Independence

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

Great Fire of Izmir

List of massacres during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)

Turkish Genocide

Morea

Thessaly

Epirus

Thrace

Macedonia

Greek Invasion of Turkey

Greek Invasion of Cyprus

Cretan Turks

Timeline of the Turkish War of Independence

Holocaust denial

Armenian Genocide denial

Turkish Cypriot Genocide

Turkish Cypriot Genocide denial

Holocaust denial

Battle of Dumlupınar

Racism in Turkey

Black Lives Matter

Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King

Malcolm X

Muhammed Ali

Turkish Cypriot protests

Taksim

Self-determination

Peremptory norm (jus cogens)

International law

Human rights

Civil rights

Economic Relations

Montreux Convention

List of Turcopoles on Cyprus

List of Mamluk rulers of Cyprus

List of Turkic dynasties and countries

16 Great Turkic Empires

Hunnic-Cyprus relations (220 BCE - 577 CE)

Göktürk-Cyprus relations (551–744)

Khazar-Cyprus relations (651-983)

Uyghur-Cyprus relations (744–840)

Karakhanid-Cyprus relations (840–1212)

Ghaznavid-Cyprus relations (977–1186)

Selçuk-Cyprus relations (1037–1194)

Harzemşah-Cyprus relations (1077–1231)

Golden Horde-Cyprus relations (1236–1502)

Karamanid-Cyprus relations (1250–1487)

Mamluk-Cyprus relations (1250–1517)

Timurid-Cyprus relations (1368–1501)

Mughal-Cyprus relations (1526–1858)

Ottoman-Cyprus relations (1299–1922)

Turkish words in the Greek Cypriot dialect

List of people killed during the Cyprus Emergency

Travel
I've always been a traveler and been out and about with my friends experiencing all manner of things with many people from around the world.

First as a kid I loved going out and "exploring", as I called it. I spent my days walking through parks, museum, galleries and shopping streets just to "go out for a little" and "relax". I religiously trekked to the library on the weekends, conquering books, old and new, for young and old readers, and ploughing through each and every "Reading Relay" the borough organised for kids, and of course also used that as an excuse to "explore" on the side either on the way or when coming back home. I walked back and forth through the village, up and down the hills, took buses to my favourite parks, squares and markets... eventually my feet took me to more places than the rhapsodic city streets and the great concrete jungle could provide.

Whenever my family asked "Where are you?" or "Where are you going?", I'd customarily reply: "Japan" or "Australia".

That was my thing.

Countries I've been to (in no particular order)



Places I've transited through



Places I'd still like to visit



Video Games
I enjoy video games very much and have a host of consoles in my collection.

Here are the consoles I own in order of when I received/bought them:
 * Atari 7800
 * Sinclair ZX Spectrum
 * Commodore 64
 * PC
 * Nintendo Gameboy
 * Nintendo 64
 * Nintendo Gamecube
 * Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
 * Super Nintendo
 * Playstation
 * Playstation 2
 * Gameboy Advance
 * Gameboy Colour
 * Nintendo DS
 * Nintendo Wii
 * XBOX 360
 * Nintendo Switch

Some of my favourite games are:
 * Manic Miner
 * Defender
 * Pedro
 * Zzoom
 * Pac-Man
 * Tower Toppler
 * Commando
 * Ikari Warriors
 * Joust
 * Contra
 * X-COM (UFO: Enemy Unknown, Terror from the Deep, Apocalypse, Interceptor, XCOM: Enemy Unkown, XCOM 2)
 * Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun and Red Alert I & II
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * Mortal Kombat
 * Pokemon (Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Gold, Crystal... Stadium... Mystery Dungeon)
 * Animal Crossing
 * RollerCoaster Tycoon
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Mass Effect I, II & III
 * Star Fox & Star Fox 64
 * Metroid
 * Kirby
 * Super Smash Bros
 * Metal Gear

Gaming computer Specs:
 * Processor: i7-116567 2.8GHz-4.7GHz 4-8 Core
 * RAM: 32GB DDR4
 * Hard Drive: 1TB Solid State
 * Graphics Card: ASUS 12GB ROG-STRIX-RTX3060-012G-V2-GAMING (External) Razer Core V2
 * Keyboard: Logitech K380
 * Mouse: Logitech Pebble
 * Controller: Switch Pro
 * Operating System: Windows 11

Reading
I love reading. Since I was young I've always enjoyed picking up whatever it was and mowing through it only realising the time when the librarian comes to tell me they're closing or my parent's remind me it's time for bed.

My favourite novel when I was young was A Tale of Redwall by Brian Jacques. The medieval anthropromorphic animal theme that appealed to my unconscious obsession with Biker Mice from Mars. The fight between good and evil. The trials and tribulations of young Mathias, a peasant nobody mouse that would take up arms to fight the scourge of the evil and conniving rat guy...

I also love poetry, and it's no secret that I love writing poetry also, along with novels and short stories of my own, and then some.

Some Books I Like
The Complete Chronicles of Conan: Robert E. Howard

The Children of Hurin: J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis

James and the Giant Peach: Roald Dahl

The BFG: Roald Dahl

Matilda: Roald Dahl

The Golden Compass: Phillip Pullman

Think: Simon Blackburn

The Art of Peace: Morihei Ueshiba

The Book of Dede Korkut: Anonymous

Great Love Poems: (Edited by Shane Weller)

How To Be an Anti-Racist: Ibram X. Kendi

Dead Space Martyr: B. K. Evenson

Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes

Some Manga I Like
Ironfist Chinmi: Takeshi Maekawa

Dr. Slump: Akira Toriyama

Dragon Ball: Akira Toriyama

Naruto: Masashi Kishimoto

Death Note: Tsugumi Ohba (writer), Takeshi Obata (illustrator)

Akira: Katsuhiro Otomo

Claymore: Norihiro Yagi

Some Cyprus Related Reading
''Overview: Cyprus has a deep and rich history spanning tens of thousands of years. Throughout this history it has come under the influence of different people and cultures, and it has also been visited or inhabited by the Anatolians, Ugarit, Phoenicians, Dorians, Hittites, Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Romans, Turcopoles, Arabs, English, Knights Templar, Lusignans, Seljuk Turks, Karamanid Turks, Genoese, Mamluk Turks, Venetians, Ottoman Turks, British and Modern Greeks. For the past 2,500 years the island has been ruled by the Assyrians (709-569 BCE), Egyptians (569-545 BCE & 325-30 BCE), Persians (545-325 BCE), Romans (30 BCE - 1191 CE), English (1191), Templars (1191-1192), Lusignans (1192-1489), Genoese (1374-1464, governed Mağusa port and town only), Mamluk Turks (1426-1517, conquered the island and made it a tributary kingdom), Venetians (1489-1571), Ottoman Turks (1571-1878), British (1878-1960) and the Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots (1960-present). It is currently a hot-pot of various different cultures and traditions. The most dominant and influential is Turkish.''

''Turkish Connection: The island has been predominantly populated by Turkic speaking people since the 11th-12th centuries CE and has an islamic heritage dating back to the 7th century CE. The island has witnessed the purveyance of Turkish culture and traditions since the 16th century CE. The Turkish Cypriots are ancient natives of the island with a continuous uninterrupted heritage and history that spans centuries. The current political future of the island is connected to the Turkish Cypriot people, their state and the Republic of Türkiye''

''Greek Connection: The island has been home to various Greek speaking people and cultures throughout history. The modern Greeks, through the process of their ethnogenesis, decided to include the island of Cyprus in their designs for a greater Greek state, even though it was not an ethnically Greek island, it did not traditionally belong to the Greek speaking world, and it was predominantly Turkish. As such they tried to force demographic changes, displace the island's natives: the Turks, and ethnically cleanse the island in order to apply the concept of irredentism, leading to a conflict with the Turkish Cypriots and Türkiye, and, the current physical and geographical separation of the Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots.''

''Current Events: There are currently two states on the island: the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), an independent, democratic, semi-presidential republic, and the Greek occupied Republic of Cyprus. Attempts to hellenise the island culminated in 1974 with a full-scale invasion by Greece, a war with the Turkish Cypriots and Türkiye, the defeat of Greece and the Greek Cypriots, and their subsequent withdrawal to the south of the island.''

Cyprus, As I Saw It In 1879 (1879)

Excerpta Cypria: Materials for a History of Cyprus (1908)

A History of Cyprus (1940-52)

P.E.K.A. (Πολιτική Επιτροπή Κυπριακού Αγώνα) Bildirileri (1950) (Ref: 2257)

Üzerinde Grivas İle Makarios'un Resimleri Olan EOKA Rozeti (1955-1974)

CYPRUS: Deepening Tragedy (21 May 1956)

CYPRUS: Fire & Smoke (2 July 1956)

CYPRUS: For the Hangman (20 August 1956)

CYPRUS: Riots & Resolution (23 December 1957)

Memorandum Setting Out the Agreed Foundation for the Final Settlement of the Problem of Cyprus (1959)

CYPRUS: Making Progress (26 January 1959)

London-Zürich Agreement (11 February 1959)

1960-1970 Yılları Arasında Kıbrıs'ın Siyasi Durumu İle İlgili Türkiye Basınında Yayınlanan Karikatürlerden Bazılarının Kupürleri (10 Adet Kupür) (1960-1970) (Ref: 2673)

Treaty of Guarantee (16 August 1960)

Treaty of Alliance (16 August 1960)

Treaty of Establishment (16 August 1960)

Cyprus: Death at High Noon (14 February 1964)

World: MAKARIOS OF CYPRUS (28 February 1964)

CYPRUS MASSACRE BY GREEK FORCES CHARGED BY TURKS... (29 February 1964)

Cyprus: Search for Compromise (6 March 1964)

JOHNSON WARNS INONU ON CYPRUS; Invites Him to US for Talks (6 June 1964)

Cyprus: The Parable of the Blue Beads (3 July 1964)

Cyprus: Knocking Heads Together (19 June 1964)

Cyprus: Taking Sides (2 October 1964)

THE AKRITAS PLAN (Declassified on 24 April 1966)

Cyprus: A Place of Arms. Power Politics and Ethnic Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean (4 October 1966)

BARBARIE A CHYPRE: BARBARIE A CHYPRE DE NOTRE ENVOYE SPECIAL (1967)

Peace Without Honour (1969)

Cyprus (1969)

EOKA Mücadelesi Tarihi 1955-1959 (1972) (Ref: 369)

Akritas Planı - Türk'ü İmha Planı (May 1972)

Gen. George Grivas Dies; Led Cyprus Underground (28 January 1974)

CYPRUS: Death of a Legend (11 February 1974)

The Speech by Makarios Delivered before the UN Security Council on 19 July 1974 (19 July 1974)

Excerpts From Makarios's Statement to the U.N. Security Council (20 July 1974)

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Resolution 573 (1974) (29 July 1974)

CYPRUS: Big Troubles over a Small Island (29 July 1974)

The G.O.P's Moment of Truth: The Battle Over Cyprus (29 July 1974)

TRIPARTITE CONFERENCE & GENEVA DECLARATION (1974) (1 August 1974)

NOTE BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL (U.N. Document S/11413) (4 August 1974)

LETTER DATED 7 AUGUST 1974 FROM THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF TURKEY TO THE UNITED NATIONS ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY-GENERAL (U.N. Document S/11423) (7 August 1974)

Security Council Resolution 360 (16 August 1974)

Turkish Newsman Dies (27 August 1974)

The Wrong Horse (1977)

Belgelerle Kıbrıs'ta Yunan Emperyalizmi (Megali İdea - Filiki Eteria - Kilise) (1978) (Ref: 267)

The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demagogues, and Bayonets (January 1978)

THE “AKRITAS PLAN” AND THE “IKONES” DISCLOSURES OF 1980 (4 August 1980)

The Cyprus Conflict: A Lawyer's View (1981)

The Cyprus Triangle (1 September 1982)

The Road to Bellapais: The Turkish Cypriot Exodus to Northern Cyprus (1982)

The Mediterranean Feud (1983)

30 Hot Days (1 January 1985)

Kıbrıs'ta Asırlık Cami Nikah Salonu Olarak Kullanılıyor (1986) (Ref: 2224)

Burdened With Cyprus: The British Connection (1 January 1986)

Cyprus: My Deposition (1 January 1989)

How the 1960 Republic of Cyprus was Destroyed (1 January 1991)

TURKEY, GREECE AND THE CYPRUS CONFLICT (1991)

Settlers and Refugees in Cyprus (1991)

Kıbrıs Gerçeği 1931-1990 (1991) (Ref: 390)

Kıbrıs Gerçeğinin Bilinmeyen Yönleri (1992) (Ref: 335)

Confidence Building Measures (1992-1994)

The struggles of the Turkish people of Cyprus (1995)

Türkiye-AB Gümrük Birliği Antlaşmas ve Kıbrıs (1996) (Ref: 2155)

Letter sent by TRNC President Rauf Denktas to the Greek Cypriot Leader Glafkos Clerides, 22 September 1996 (22 September 1996)

The Genocide Files (1 January 1997)

Resolution by the Turkish Grand National Assembly On 21 January 1997 (2 January 1997)

Circular Note Sent to the Embassies of the EU Member States Concerning the Greek Cypriot Application to the EU, 30 June 1997 (30 June 1997)

Cyprus, The Destruction of a Republic: British Documents 1960-1965 (1997)

The Cyprus Imbroglio (1 January 1998)

Resolution 186 – It's Genesis and Significance: Maneuvers at the UN in 1964 (1999)

Resolution of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, 15 July 1999 (15 July 1999)

Why Cyprus Entry into the European Union Would be Illegal (2001)

Kıbrıs Sorununun Kapsamlı Çözümü İçin Antlaşma Temeli (11 Kasım 2002) (Ref: 917)

The Cyprus Question as an Issue of Turkish Foreign Policy and Turkish American Relations 1959-2003 (2003) The first Geneva talks begin between the foreign ministers of the guarantor powers (Greece, Turkey, and the United Kingdom) to discuss the situation on the island. The Turkish representative, Turan Güneş, determines to find a solution that can guarantee the safety and security of the Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish Armed Forces until a solution respecting the political situation on Cyprus could be reached. The Greek Foreign Minister, George Mavros, argues that according to Article 4 of Resolution 353 the Turks are to withdraw all troops from the island immediately, and agrees that a security zone should be established between the Greek and Turkish forces, but only on the Turkish side of the ceasefire line, threatening to otherwise evacuate 50 Greek Cypriot villages if Turkey refuses. He also accuses Turkey of advancing beyond the ceasefire line and demands that a new constitutional order be set up on the island. Güneş responds by stating Article 4 of Resolution 353 exempts the Turkish troops from those to be withdrawn because they are in Cyprus "under the authority of international agreements", specifically the Treaty of Guarantee, and reiterates that they would have to remain as long as the Turkish Cypriots remain under threat of attack, noting that attacks on the Turkish Cypriots and Turkish Armed Forces had persisted throughout the ceasefire. He also points out that the Turkish corridor in Cyprus is so narrow that should the safety zone be established on the Turkish side of the ceasefire line, there would not be any Turkish zone left, and further argues that the 1960 Constitution no longer has any validity to the Turkish Cypriots or Turkey as by the time of the current events the Cypriot state had already disintegrated, and a new state would therefore have to be established taking into account the fact that the Turkish Cypriots have already developed their own national and municipal administrations, namely, a federated, bi-zonal government needs to be contemplated. Finally, he maintains that Turkish encroachments on the ceasefire line were in response to multiple serious breaches of the ceasefire agreement on the part of the National Guard, EOKA and the Greek Armed Forces.

WHY IS CYPRUS DIVIDED? (30 September 2004)

Turkish proposal for the simultaneous lifting of all restrictions in Cyprus by all relevant parties (30 May 2005)

Enosis, Socio-Cultural Imperialism and Strategy: Difficult Bedfellows (July 2005)

Cyprus 1974 (2005)

Bodies of evidence burial, memory and the recovery of missing persons in Cyprus (2005)

Items-in-Cyprus - documents, resolutions, reports by the Secretary-General - Security Council documents (1974) (15 June 2006)

Kıbrıs Antlaşmaları, Planları ve Önemli BM, AB Kararları (1571-1983) Cilt 1 (2007) (Ref: 1256)

Kıbrıs Antlaşmaları, Planları ve Önemli BM, AB Kararları (1983-2008) Cilt 2 (2008) (Ref: 1257)

Erenköy ve Hayat (Ref: 2925)

Search for solution in CYPRUS (2008)

Trauma, Identity and Search for a Solution in Cyprus (2008)

Britain and the 1960 Cyprus Accords: A Study in Pragmatism (1 January 2009)

America, Britain and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974 (2009)

The History and Politics of the Cyprus Conflict (2010)

Idioms that Comprise the Presence of Turkish Words in Greek Cypriot Language (1 April 2010)

Tarihe Işık Tutan ANILAR: 1955-1974 (1 January 2011)

A History of Cyprus, V4: The Ottoman Province: The British Colony, 1571-1948 (13 June 2011)

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus: Life on a Mediterranean Island (12 June 2012)

The Cyprus Emergency – The Divided Island 1955-1974 (19 May 2014)

Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı Gazete Manşetleri (20 June 2015)

Immigrants and Refugees - Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology (2017)

Sole Survivor of 1974 Tochni Massacre: They were firing for ten minutes (15 June 2017)

The Battle of Kokkina (21 August 2018)

Kıbrıs Gerçeği (September 2018)

A Brief History of Cyprus: The Story of a Divided Island (1 July 2020)

Grivas: legend or destroyer? (8 September 2021)

Çilekeş Ada Kıbrıs (30 September 2022)

The Vision for Two States in Cyprus (2023)

Kıbrıs Şehitleri (2023)

Gizli Kalmasın

The History and Politics of the Cyprus Conflict

Kıbrıs Tarihinde Yaǧmuralan

20 July Peace Operation: Reasons, Development and Consequences

Past Masters of Illegality

Rauf Denktaş at the United Nations: Speeches on Cyprus

The Turkish Cypriot State – The Embodiment of the Right of Self-determination

Mediating in Cyprus: The Cypriot Communities and the United Nations

The Cyprus Tapes

Greek Cypriot state terror revealed

Fatal Leadership

Constitution of the Greek Cypriot Constituent State

Constitution of the Turkish Cypriot Constituent State

Treaty Provisions and Basic Documents with Regard to the EU Membership of Cyprus

Some Turkish History Related Reading
''Overview: Turkic peoples and related groups migrated west from present-day Northern China, Northeastern China, Mongolia, Siberia and the Turkestan-region towards the Iranian plateau, South Asia, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and Anatolia (modern Türkiye) in many waves. They have historically been an ethnically and religiously diverse people and culture, and have a continuous uninterrupted history that spans thousands of years.''

史記 / 太史公書 (Records of the Grand Historian) (91 BC)

宋書 (Book of Song) (492-493)

魏書 (Book of Wei) (551-554)

周書 (Book of Zhou) (550-629 CE)

隋書 (Book of Sui) (636)

北史 (History of the Northern Dynasties) (659)

通典 (Tongdian) (766-801)

五代會要 (Wudai Huiyao) (961)

舊五代史 (Old History of the Five Dynasties) (974)

新唐書 (New Tang Book) (1060)

五代史記 (New History of the Five Dynasties) (1073)

Natural History (1961)

The Consonantal System of Old Chinese: Part II (1963)

An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-13th Century Turkish (1972)

The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture (1973)

China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture (1975)

Türk Adı ve Türklük Kavramı (April 1977)

Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century (1982)

Byzantinoturcica II: Sprachreste Der Türkvölker In Den Byzantinischen Quellen (Byzantine Turks II: Linguistic Remains of the Turkic Peoples in the Byzantine Sources) (1983)

Graphical fund of Turkic runiform writing monuments in Asian areal (1983)

Otdelenie za ezikoznanie/ izkustvoznanie/ literatura (1984)

The Name of the Kirghiz (1990)

The 'High Carts': A Turkish-Speaking People before the Türks (1991)

Oghuzes (Turkmens): History, Tribal organization, Sagas (1992)

An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992)

Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (1992)

An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992)

Irk bitig (the book of omens) (1993)

History of Humanity: From the seventh century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. (1996)

History of civilizations of Central Asia: Nomads In Eastern Central Asia (1996)

The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997)

A history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia. Vol. 1: Inner Eurasia from prehistory to the Mongol Empire (1998)

Imperial China: 900–1800 (1999)

Türk Tarih Kongresi (1999)

Historical Atlas of the Medieval World, AD 600–1492 (1998)

Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: An Introduction to Early Hungarian History (1 March 1999)

A History of Inner Asia (17 February 2000)

Ji 姬 and Jiang 姜: The Role of Exogamic Clans in the Organization of the Zhou Polity (2000)

Historie des Turks – Deux mille ans du Pacifique á la Méditerranée (History of the Turks – Two thousand years from the Pacific to the Mediterranean) (2000)

Zur jenissejisch-indianischen Urverwandtschaft (On the Yenisei-Indian ancestry) (2004)

The Turks in World History (October 2004)

Historical Development of the Pre-Dynastic Khitan (26 February 2005)

The Turks in World History (2005)

Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World (2006)

Türks and Iranians: Aspects of Türk and Khazaro-Iranian Interaction (2006)

A Glossary of Historical Linguistics (2007)

Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania (19 May 2010)

The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (2010)

Central Asia in World History (14 January 2011)

Studies on the peoples and cultures of the Eurasian steppes (2011)

Interpreters in Early Imperial China (2011)

ARCHIVUM EURASIAEMEDII AEV (Archive of Eurasia Medium) (2012)

The Making of the Tuoba Northern Wei: Constructing Material Cultural Expressions in the Northern Wei Pingcheng Period (398–494 CE) (2012)

Languages of the World, An Introduction (2012)

Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present (1 November 2013)

The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe (2013)

World History: Journeys from Past to Present (2013)

A Global History of War: From Assyria to the Twenty-First Century (17 November 2014)

列傳第八十七 突厥 鐵勒 (Biography 87: Tujue; Tiele) (2015)

The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia (2015)

Review of Robbeets, Martine (2015): DIachrony of verb morphology. Japanese and the Transeurasian languages (2016)

The World of the Huns. Chapter IX. Language (Accessed: 18 March 2015)

The Historical Meaning of the Term Turk and the Nature of the Turkic Identity of the Chinggisid and Timurid Elites in Post-Mongol Central Asia (2016)

Diachrony of verb morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian languages (1 January 2016)

Winds of Jingjiao: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia (2016) China's Last Nomads: History and Culture of China's Kazaks (2016)

New trends in European studies on the Altaic problem (1 January 2017)

The Connection of the Genetic, Cultural and Geographic Landscapes of Transoxiana (8 June 2017)

A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Historical Sources and Y-DNA Studies with Regard to the Early and Medieval Turkic Peoples (18 October 2017)

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes (May 2018)

The Ethnogonic Tales of the Türks (25 July 2018)

Shatuo Türks 沙陀突厥 (Accessed: 30 April 2019)

China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State (13 June 2019)

The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia (27 June 2019)

Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production (14 February 2020)

Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West (10 May 2020)

Populations dynamics in Northern Eurasian forests: a long-term perspective from Northeast Asia (21 May 2020)

Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East: Integrating archaeology, genetics, and linguistics (June 2020)

The medieval Mongolian roots of Y-chromosomal lineages from South Kazakhstan (22 October 2020)

Making Sense of World History (22 October 2020)

Geçmişten Günümüze Türk Tarihi (18 December 2020)

Genetic substructure and admixture of Mongolians and Kazakhs inferred from genome-wide array genotyping (December 2020)

Historical Backgrounds (2021)

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia (22 August 2021)

From the Khan's Oven: Studies on the History of Central Asian Religions in Honor of Devin DeWeese (11 October 2021)

Byzantium and the Pechenegs: The Historiography of the Problem (2022)

Genetic continuity of Indo-Iranian speakers since the Iron Age in southern Central Asia (14 January 2022)

The Story of Russia (20 September 2022)

Genetic Relationship Among the Kazakh People Based on Y-STR Markers Reveals Evidence of Genetic Variation Among Tribes and Zhuz (2022)

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road (31 December 2022)

Ancient genome of Empress Ashina reveals the Northeast Asian origin of Göktürk Khanate (17 January 2023)

Music
I love music as much as I love reading.

Here are some of the styles I listen to / play:


 * Classical
 * Blues
 * Jazz
 * Metal

Here are some of the bands and singers I like:


 * Iron Maiden
 * Barış Manço
 * Pentagram
 * Bill Withers
 * The Doors
 * Ayten Rasul
 * Kurban
 * Al Green
 * Queen
 * Pink Floyd
 * The Beatles
 * Sting
 * The Kinks
 * The Yardbirds
 * Manfred Mann
 * The Monkees
 * Dio
 * Ratt
 * Run DMC
 * 2Pac
 * Led Zeppelin
 * Steelheart
 * Teddy Pendergrass
 * Earth, Wind & Fire
 * The Temptations
 * The O'Jays
 * The Isley Brothers
 * Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes
 * Average White Band
 * Ayla Dikmen
 * Rafet el Roman

Here are some of the composers I like:


 * Basil Poledouris
 * Koji Kondo

Here are some of the bands I've seen live:


 * Scorpions
 * Journey
 * Angel Witch
 * Ozzy Osbourne
 * Judas Priest
 * Whitesnake
 * Slipknot
 * Testament
 * Megadeth

Film and Television
CARTOONS! CARTOONS! And more CARTOONS!

Here are some cartoons and animations I like:


 * Tom & Jerry
 * The Flintstones
 * The Jetsons
 * Super Secret Squirrel
 * Wacky Races
 * Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
 * Scooby Doo
 * Dr. Slump
 * Mighty Orbots
 * Dragonball
 * Raggy Dolls
 * Duck Tales
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * Wallace & Gromit
 * The Simpsons
 * The Dreamstone
 * Dragonball Z
 * Captain Planet and the Planeteers
 * 2 Stupid Dogs
 * Swat Kats
 * Animaniacs
 * Earthworm Jim
 * Freakazoid
 * Pinky and the Brain
 * Dexter's Laboratory
 * Pokémon
 * Cow and Chicken
 * I Am Weasel
 * Johnny Bravo
 * South Park
 * The Powerpuff Girls
 * Ed, Edd n Eddy
 * Futurama
 * Happy Tree Friends
 * Hajime No Ippo
 * Shaman King
 * The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
 * Samurai Jack
 * Naruto
 * Evil Con Carne
 * Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
 * Yakitate!! Japan
 * Onegai My Melody
 * Death Note
 * Metalocalypse
 * Korgoth of Barbaria
 * Claymore
 * Psychic Detective Yakumo
 * Superjail
 * Naruto Shippuuden
 * Shaun The Sheep
 * The Amazing World of Gumball
 * Psycho-Pass
 * Sarah and Duck
 * Rick and Morty
 * Noragami
 * Dragon Ball Super
 * Erased

I also love documentaries, newsreels, anything informative, or science or history related.

Cyprus Related Videos
Churchill meets with President Inonu of Turkey (1943)

Turkish Dervish Dancing: Cyprus (1947)

Cyprus Turks Demonstrate In London Against Greeks (1954)

Village Pays Up (1955)

Selected Originals - Cyprus Trial (1955)

Crisis Island (1955)

Cyprus Trial (1955)

UK: CYPRUS CONFERENCE: (1955)

CYPRUS: Meeting of the leaders (1955)

CYPRUS TALKS (1 September 1955)

CYPRUS - LONDON PROTEST MARCH (8 September 1955)

CYPRUS CRITICAL DAYS (6 October 1955)

COMMANDO PATROL IN CYPRUS (17 October 1955)

LEICESTERS ARRIVE IN CYPRUS (20 October 1955)

CURFEW MEASURE IN FAMAGUSTA (27 October 1955)

CYPRUS - DAY TO DAY (5 December 1955)

ARMED GUARD FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN (8 December 1955)

POLICE DOGS ARRIVE IN CYPRUS (15 December 1955)

CYPRIOT SCHOOL CHILDREN RIOT (15 December 1955)

CYPRUS OUTRAGE - SHOOTING AND BOMB OUTRAGE (19 December 1955)

Cypriot Girl Denounces E.O.K.A. (1956)

Arms Search In Nicosia - And Plane Crash (1956)

Mountain Searches In Cyprus (1956)

Cyprus Catastrophe (1956)

Cyprus Student Riots (1956)

Search For Arms In Engomi, Cyprus (1956)

Bishop's Brother On Trial In Cyprus Aka Bishop's Brother Charged (1956)

Selected Originals Bishop's Brother On Trial In Cyprus Aka Bishops Brother Charged (1956)

Commissioner Holds Enquiry Into Bomb Throwing - Cyprus (1956)

Makarios Deported (1956)

Village Killing (1956)

KING OF CYPRUS INTERVIEW (9 January 1956)

PARATROOPS LEAVE FOR CYPRUS (16 January 1956)

TURKISH DEMONSTRATIONS (16 January 1956)

OFFICER SHOT IN CYPRUS (23 January 1956)

TERRORISTS ON TRIAL IN CYPRUS (23 January 1956)

PARATROOPS SETTLE DOWN IN CYPRUS (23 January 1956)

CYPRUS OUTRAGE (16 February 1956)

CYPRUS SCHOOL BOMBED (8 March 1956)

CYPRUS PLANE ABLAZE (8 March 1956)

MIDDLE EAST REPORT - CYPRUS (15 March 1956)

TERRORIST STRIKE AGAIN (22 March 1956)

CYPRUS - THE LIGHTER SIDE (16 April 1956)

CYPRUS BULLETIN (3 May 1956)

DISPATCH FROM CYPRUS (17 May 1956)

TERRORISTS ON THE RUN (21 June 1956)

CYPRUS - FIRE AFTERMATH (25 June 1956)

CYPRUS - OFFER TO TERRORISTS (27 August 1956)

CYPRUS - TRUCE ENDS (3 September 1956)

CURFEW IN NICOSIA (4 October 1956)

OPERATION SPARROWHAWK (18 October 1956)

CYPRUS - COPTER PATROL (24 December 1956)

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY LEAVE CYPRUS (7 January 1957)

ARMS FOUND IN HOUSE IN CYPRUS (11 February 1957)

OPERATIONS IN MACHERAAS (7 March 1957)

MAKARIOS FREED (1 April 1957)

CYPRUS RELAXES (18 April 1957)

POLICEWOMEN FOR CYPRUS (10 June 1957)

CYPRUS DEMONSTRATIONS (4 November 1957)

Cypriot Turks March To Downing Street (1958)

Search Of Three Terrorist Villages AKA Search Of 3 Terrorist Villages (1958)

TURKISH RIOTS (Cyprus) (3 February 1958)

TURKISH CYPRIOT DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON (27 February 1958)

CYPRUS CINEMA BLOWN UP (21 April 1958)

ANTI-TERRORISTS OPERATION (29 May 1958)

CYPRUS FLARE-UP (12 June 1958)

CYPRUS STORY (23 June 1958)

PRIME MINISTER CALLS ON CYPRUS (14 August 1958)

CYPRUS SECURITY SEARCH (21 August 1958)

POLICE CHIEF IN CYPRUS (25 August 1958)

CYPRUS OUTRAGE (9 October 1958)

BIG CYPRUS FIRE (3 November 1958)

REPORT FROM CYPRUS (13 November 1958)

DISPATCH FROM CYPRUS (20 November 1958)

CYPRUS DISPATCH (1 December 1958)

TO SCHOOL UNDER ESCORT (2 February 1959)

CYPRUS - LATEST NEWS (26 February 1959)

THE BARBED WIRE GOES (16 March 1959)

TURKS DAY - NO SOUND (27 April 1959)

CYPRUS OUTRAGE (31 December 1959)

GREEK AND TURKISH FACTIONS CLASH (26 December 1963)

HOUSES BURN AS CONFLICT BETWEEN TURKISH AND GREEK CYPRIOTS CONTINUES (31 December 1963)

TURKISH CYPRIOTS EVACUATE MIXED VILLAGES IN CYPRUS (21 January 1964)

TURKISH CYPRIOT STUDENTS RETURN FROM TURKEY (1 February 1964)

US CITIZENS EVACUATED FROM CYPRUS (5 February 1964)

Rauf R. Denktaş Yıl 1964 BM Konuşması (February 1964)

GREEK CYPRIOT TROOPS MANOUEVRE (23 April 1964)

TURKISH CYPRIOT REFUGEES EVACUATED (16 May 1964)

GREEK CYPRIOT POLICE SEARCH TURKISH BUS AS UN POLICE LOOK ON (1 June 1964)

Cyprus Delegation Leave For London (1964)

UN Force Disregarded (1964)

Gen. Carver Takes Over (1964)

Explosion In Mosque In Nicosia (1964)

Cyprus - A Powder Keg (1964)

UN Troops Take Over In Cyprus (1964)

UN In Command (1964)

Elusive Peace (1964)

UN Troops Take Over In Cyprus (1964)

UN Security Council Settle Cyprus Problem (1964)

United Nations Mediator In Cyprus (1964)

Tragic Aftermath Of Turkish Bombing On Greek Cypriot Village (1964)

Crisis in Cyprus (1964)

Canadians Send Troops (1964)

Cyprus Talks In London (1964)

Sandys Opens Cyprus Talks (1964)

Security Council Calls For Ceasefire In Cyprus (1964)

Anti-British March In Cyprus (1964)

CONFLICT IN CYPRUS (1964)

CYPRUS - BONE OF CONTENTION (17 February 1964)

GREEK CYPRIOT TROOPS MOVE (23 April 1964)

FLASHPOINT CYPRUS (13 August 1964)

Turkish Soldiers Arrive In Cyprus For Relief Duty AKA Turkish Troop Relief (1965)

GREEK CLERIDES AND TURKISH DENKTASH MEET FOR TALKS ON THE CYPRUS SITUATION (25 June 1968)

BRITISH TROOPS IN CYPRUS (17 June 1971)

TURKISH CYPRIOT NEGOTIATOR RAOUF DENKTASH INTERVIEW (21 September 1971)

DENTKTASH INTERVIEW (14 March 1972)

RAUF DENKTAS BECOMES VICE-PRESIDENT OF CYPRIUS (17 February 1973)

TURKISH LEADER, RAUF DENKTASH, SPEAKS AT RALLY IN NICOSIA (11 February 1973)

POLICE STATION IN CYPRUS, BLOWN-UP BY THE EOKA (4 April 1973)

AFTERMATH OF FURTHER EOKA BOMBING ATTACKS (9 April 1973)

KIBRIS BARIŞ HAREKATI ESNASINDA CEPHEDE ASKERLER İLE YAPILAN RÖPORTAJ (1974)

PRESIDENT MAKARIOS SACKS GREEK OFFICERS IN THE CYPRUS NATIONAL GUARD (10 July 1974)

INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OF CYPRUS ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS (11 July 1974)

INTERVIEW WITH NICHOLAS SAMPSON, WHO CLAIMS TO BE THE PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT OF CYPRUS (15 July 1974)

ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS ESCAPES CYPRUS (16 July 1974)

SCENES IN CYRPUS (16 July 1974)

INTERVEIW WITH KYRIAKOS PALOS OF EOKA - B (17 July 1974)

COUP D'ETAT (18 July 1974)

DEPOSED PRESIDENT MAKARIOS OF CYPRUS ARRIVES AT KENNEDY AIRPORT (18 July 1974)

EXILED PRESIDENT MAKARIOS MEETS UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL, KURT WALDHEIM (18 July 1974)

PRESIDENT OF CYPRUS, ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS PRESS STATEMENT (18 July 1974)

Makarios Speech at the UN Security Council denouncing the coup of the Greek Junta (19 July 1974)

RAUF DENKTAŞ kıbrıs cıkarma anı radyo KONUŞMASI (20 July 1974)

SCENES IN ATHENS AFTER TURKISH INVASION OF CYPRUS (20 July 1974)

MAKARIOS ADDRESSES UNITED NATIONS ON CYPRUS SITUATION (20 July 1974)

CYPRUS THE COUP AGAINST MAKARIOS (21 July 1974)

MAKARIOS IN LONDON and PM ECEVIT (22 July 1974)

INTERVIEW WITH CYPRUS LEADER OF TURKISH CYPRIOT COMMUNITY, RAUF DENKTASH (31 July 1974)

British soldiers talking to Greek cypriot guard during Turkish liberation of Northern Cyprus (1974)

Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı'nda Yakalanan Rum Savaş Esirleri Adana'da (1974)

INTERVIEW WITH TURKISH CYPRIOT LEADER RAUF DENKTASH (5 August 1974)

GREEK NATIONAL GUARD PATROLLING KYRENIA, CYPRUS (5 August 1974)

INTERVIEW WITH TURKISH CYPRIOT LEADER, RAUF DENKTASH (6 August 1974)

INTERVIEW TURKISH-CYPRIOT LEADER RAUF DENKTASH (21 August 1974)

SOVIET DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS DENKTASH (19 September 1974)

RAUF DENKTAS MAKES A STATEMENT TO THE PRESS (4 October 1974)

CLERIDES AND DENKTAS TALKS (7 November 1974)

GREEK CYPRIOT REFUGEES (6 December 1974)

ECEVIT ON VISIT TO CYPRUS WITH DENKTASH (4 January 1975)

ECEVIT AND DENKTASH VISIT TURKISH HELD REGION OF CYPRUS (4 January 1975)

TURKISH CYPRIOT REFUGEES AIRLIFTED TO ADANA (22 January 1975)

INTERVIEW WITH CYPRIOT LEADER, RAUF DENKTASH (19 February 1975)

GREEK CYPRIOT VILLAGE HELD IN TURKISH SECTOR OF CYPRUS AP Archive (20 February 1975)

Greek-Cypriot Students Demonstrate Against United Nations Decision On Cyprus 1975 (14 March 1975)

DENKTASH ON CYPRUS PROGRESS (31 July 1975)

INTERVIEW WITH RAUF DENKTASH (15 September 1975)

DENKTASH WITH CLERIDES (17 February 1976)

Divided Cyprus | Turkish Cypriots | Greek Cypriots | This Week | 1976 (6 May 1976)

SUSPECTS FOR MURDER OF US AMBASSADOR IN 1974 TAKEN TO COURT (6 February 1977)

INTERVIEWS WITH GREEK CYPRIOT CLERIDES AND TURKISH CYPRIOT DENKTASH (4 August 1977)

TURKISH-CYPRIOT LEADER DENKTASH INTERVIEW (18 January 1978)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Couo4LeSP88&t=4s Mr R.R. DENKTASH ADDRESSING THE UN. SECURITY COUNCIL ON NOV/1983 (November 1983)]

Cyprus - Greek and Turkish Cypriots clash (11 August 1996)

Cyprus - Greek Cypriot shot dead (14 August 1996)

CYPRUS: TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER TANSU CILLER'S REACTION TO SHOOTING (15 August 1996)

Cyprus - Turkish-Cypriot soldier killed (8 September 1996)

USA: ENVOY MEETS PRESIDENT OF TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTH CYPRUS (28 October 1997)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2XwO9KUznA Kıbrıs'ın 50 Yılı Belgeseli | 1999 | 32. Gün Arşivi (1999)]

Denktash warns against entry of southern Cyprus to EU (27 November 2001)

Greek Cypriot president makes first trip to Turkish Cypriot north (5 December 2001)

Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia - A moment with Irfan Hassan (27 September 2009)

Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia - A moment with Goksel Yusuf (27 September 2009)

Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia - A moment with Behayi Bilal (29 September 2009)

Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia - A moment with Munure Huseyin (6 October 2009)

Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia - A moment with Salih Huseyin (9 October 2009)

Turkish Cypriot Migration To Australia - A Moment With Duriye Mehmed (13 October 2009)

Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia - A Moment With Jale Dellal (3 November 2009)

A Moment with Hasan Osman - Turkish Cypriot Migration To Australia (6 November 2009)

Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia - A Moment With Kubilay Genc (20 November 2009)

Turkish Cypriot migration to Australia - A Moment With Hakki Abdurrazak (22 November 2009)

Homeland (23 December 2010)

KEREM HASAN | DISPATCHES - RAUF DENKTAŞ 27.12.2010 (27 December 2010)

Turkish Cypriots are being treated unjustly (13 November 2014)

BİR FOTOGRAFIN HÜZNÜ BELGESELİ (2015)

ARŞİV ODASI: Kıbrıs, 1963-2015 - BBC TÜRKÇE (23 July 2015)

Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı sırasında esir düşen İslam Bahçe'nin yaşadığı inanılmaz olay (18 June 2017)

Rauf Denktaş'ın BBC röportajları (13 January 2018)

BBC'nin Kıbrıs harekâtıyla ilgili 1975'te hazırladığı program (21 July 2018)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQcSYjQhKcw Kıbrıs neden önemli? 2. Dünya Savaşı neden çıktı? İlber Ortaylı anlattı - Gündem Özel 14.06.2019 (14 June 2019)]

Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı | TRT Arşiv (19 July 2019)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9owC4fHLRIc&t=24s Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı'nda Neler Yaşandı? | 20 Temmuz 1974 | 32. Gün Arşivi (21 July 2019)]

Kıbrıs'ın İlk Fethi | Hala Sultan'ın İzinde (1 October 2019)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOjndd46eKE Kıbrıs'ın Fethi'nin 448. Yılı (1 October 2019)]

Kapalı Maraş | Belgesel (18 November 2019)

Cyprus: Operation for Peace (20 July 2020)

Neo-Nazis of the Mediterranean (30 July 2020)

A Thousand Words; The Voice Behind the Image (21 December 2020)

The Lost Villages of Cyprus - Arpalık (Agios Sozomenos) (8 February 2021)

100 YEARS of Turkish Cypriot Migration to the UK (18 February 2021)

TURKS IN PRE-OTTOMAN CYPRUS (2 March 2021)

Yaşayan Tarih: Kıbrıs Barış Harekâtı (21 July 2021)

Turkish Cypriots' Struggle for Survival (25 October 2021)

"Yunan Mezalimi'nin Sessiz Tanıkları" (15 November 2021)

TURKISH NATIONAL STRUGGLE IN CYPRUS 1963-74 (15 February 2022)

Explained: The Cyprus conflict (5 July 2022)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8DrhfKkrKI&list=PLaUvdHgLycbyD-gMX8Qr8lU0z6wKsN_Nw&index=14&t=19s Kıbrıs Barış Harekatı'nın Gazi Komutanları Anlatıyor! (21 July 2022)]

Tarihte Bugün - Rauf Raif Denktaş (13 January 2023)

Tarihte Bugün - Fazıl Küçük (15 January 2023)

Kıbrıslı Türklerin Varoluş Mücadelesinin Simgelerinden: Kayıp Otobüs (17 April 2023)

Performing Arts
I have a history of performing, although I'm a bit shy, I do play a number of instruments such as the alto saxophone, the piano, guitar... my favourite instrument of all time would probably have to be something chromatic percussion i.e. the marimba. I also like to play tune percussion such as the djembe etc.

Here is a list of the instruments I have experience playing in-front of a live crowd (in order of appearance):


 * Recorder
 * Xylophone
 * Alto Saxophone
 * Marimba
 * Tam-Tam
 * Kettle Drums
 * Steelpans
 * Djembe
 * Acoustic Guitar
 * Electric Guitar
 * Midi-Synth Guitar
 * Keyboard

Here are some of the groups I've performed with:


 * Bessemer Grange Recorder Team
 * Kingsdale Jazz Band
 * Kingsdale Percussion Ensemble
 * Dulwich Youth Orchestra
 * The Charter School African Drumming Group
 * Decrepit Womb

Here are some of the places I've performed:


 * Bessemer Grange Primary School
 * Kingsdale Secondary School
 * Saint Faith's Church
 * Southwark Cathedral
 * National Theatre
 * Dulwich College
 * Dulwich College Preparatory School
 * Alleyn's School
 * Fox & Firkin
 * Amersham Arms

I also enjoy attending the odd concert or theatrical play here and there.

Some of the plays I like:


 * His Dark Materials (2000s)
 * The Lion King (2018)
 * Billy Elliot the Musical (2010s)
 * Thousand-Year Love (2012)
 * Swan Lake (6-7 January 2023)
 * The X Land of Fantasy (2020s)

I've also learned and performed Traditional Turkish Cypriot Folk Dance(s) and can balance a bunch of glasses full of water upside down on my head...

I also play the sax for the odd wedding here and there...

Idioms & Allegorical Sayings I Like

 * Damlaya Damlaya Göl Olur - Turkish


 * Literal translation: "drop by drop makes a lake", it means that small steps lead to results, the accumulation of small things leads to something good. An English equivalent would be "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".


 * Nazar Değmesin - Turkish


 * Literal translation: "don't let the evil eye touch", this is a reference to the evil eye, a widely-held belief that if someone were to look at you enviously etc it would result in misfortune or bad luck.


 * Ne Ekersen Onu Biçersin - Turkish


 * ''Literal translation: "you reap what you sow" or "what goes around comes around". This one pretty much just speaks for itself.


 * Avucunu Yalamak - Turkish


 * Literal translation: "licking your palm", basically to be disappointed, this is one of the more common Turkish idioms.


 * Eşek hoşaftan ne anlar? - Turkish


 * Literal translation: "A donkey doesn't understand soup", this reflects on the fact that if you give a donkey some soup, with no comprehension, understanding, they would not be able to appreciate it beyond any other food item. A similar equivalent would be "casting pearls before a swine", basically, it's a waste to give something to someone who doesn't know how to appreciate it or what it's worth.


 * Ağlamayan çocuğa mama yok - Turkish


 * Literal translation: "The baby that doesn't cry doesn't get food", this idiom is very self-explanatory. It means if you don't ask for something or show that you want it you won't get it. A similar idiom in Chinese would be "不哭的孩子没有糖吃" which means: "the child who doesn't cry doesn't get candy".


 * Actions Speak Louder Than Words - English


 * When you just talk about doing something but you don't really do anything about it, or when you say one thing but do another... for example, telling someone "I love you" but not showing it.


 * Barking Up the Wrong Tree - English


 * You’re looking in the wrong place – accusing the wrong person or pursuing a mistaken or misguided line of thought.


 * Beating Around the Bush - English


 * When you don’t want to answer or you avoid talking about a particular topic and you try to curveball the situation if possible. That's what beating around the bush is.


 * Biting More Than You Can Chew - English


 * This is about when you try to accomplish something that is frankly too difficult or you don't have the right knowledge or experience etc to achieve it.


 * Making a Long Story Short - English


 * This means saying something briefly and getting to the point right away without getting into the details.


 * Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover - English
 * Another one that is pretty self-explanatory. Don't judge people or objects etc by their appearance. This is also used to mean "it's what's inside because that matters".


 * A fox can’t smell its own scent - English


 * Everybody knows that a fox has a very keen sense of smell and can detect the scent of other animals, but not its own. The scientific answer to why is that a fox’s fur traps the animal’s own scent. This is possibly to prevent it from being detected by other animals. The side-effect however is that the trappings also apply to its own nose. Anywho, similar to a fox, though for different reasons, people also sometimes don't necessarily always have awareness about certain things concerning them.


 * If you lay with a mad dog, you'll get fleas - English


 * My mum and dad always tell me to stay away from trouble... they never said this idiom or inferred its meanings, but it makes sense that if you also have around with the wrong crowd or get involved in a troubled environment, you'll also very likely be impressioned by it.


 * 拿着鸡毛当令剑 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "Holding a chicken feather as an imperial edict", basically it means feigning legitimacy; a person who gives orders based on some ambiguous, innocuous or very broad words etc.


 * 以礼相待 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: “To treat somebody with due respect”, this can be used when one is not showing due consideration for others.


 * 得道多助，失道寡助 - Chinese


 * ''Literal translation: “A just cause attracts much support, an unjust one finds little”, to put this into perspective, this is like putting pomp and effort into a sports day for teachers while not putting any planning, effort or consideration into the sports day arranged for the children...


 * 电线杆当筷子-大材小用 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: “Using telephone poles as chopsticks—putting much material to petty use”


 * 过河拆桥 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: “Dismantling the bridge after crossing it”


 * 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉-痴心妄想 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "A toad craving for swan flesh-an impractical dream", this is a very common saying used to mock wishful thinking or impractical plans.


 * 老虎戴佛珠-假装闪人 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "A tiger wearing monk's beads-a vicious person pretending to be benevolent", this expression is used to allude to people who pretend to be well intentioned but who are actually just the opposite, mal-intentioned, conniving...


 * 老鼠钻牛角-此路不通 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "A mouse in an ox horn-meeting a dead end", this is used to mean that an idea or method is simply not feasible or someone is in a tight spot with no way out.


 * 狗咬刺猬-无处下口 - Chinese


 * Literal meaning: "A dog biting at a hedgehog-having nowhere to bite", this allegory means not knowing where to start or being in a position to accomplish nothing.


 * 黄鼠狼给鸡拜年-没安好心 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "The weasel plays a New Year call on the hen-not with good intentions", this one is also to the point and describes a hypocrite, one who seems or plays kind and sincere but is actually malignant and vicious.


 * 雷公皮豆腐-专找软的欺 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "The God of Thunder cleaves a bean curd-seeking out the soft and weak to bully", this idiom presents the epitome of savage power cutting tofu which is soft and easy to cut... it implies choosing to bully only the vulnerable and weak.


 * 木匠代价-自作自受 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "A carpenter in cuffs-suffering from one's own endeavours", this one is pretty self-explanatory. It is used to mean suffering the unfavourable consequences of one's own wrongdoings or mistakes.


 * 秀才遇见兵-有理说不清 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "A scholar meets a warrior-can't talk reason (unable to vindicate oneself against an opponent that doesn't want to reason", this one implies that there is no reasoning with an unreasonable person.


 * 阎王爷出告示-鬼话连篇 - Chinese


 * Literal translation: "The King of Hell's announcement-a whole series of lies", this one just means someone is telling a complete tin of porkies, a pack of lies...

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Hello and welcome again to my user page and Wikipedia! I certainly hope you like all the white and black and decide to stay. I hope its as fun reading my current babble as it was when I wrote it. If reading my babble here isn't your thing, then don't you fret; you can read my babble on pages I have edited or created instead, or, for you more traditional folk, you can instead stare at the white background and all of its marvelous nothingness. There's also a thrill-seeker option for those of you that wish to frustrate yourselves with failing to find my retracted creations. There's endless fun to be had here for all visitors (PG 3 and up)! Unfortunately, not everywhere in reach of my babble is as amazing as my user page. One or more of the pages I have created in experiment may not have conformed to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for page creation, and some of the pages I have edited (i.e. Cyprus, Cypriot refugees, Cypriot wine, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus, Famagusta, Lefkoniko, Embargo against Northern Cyprus, Cyprus Crisis, Bloody Christmas/Kanlı Noel (1963), Halloumi/Hellim, Hymn to Liberty, Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, the Annan Plan, the Akritas Plan etc) may have had the amendments retracted for credible and accidental copyright issues, or in most cases for upsetting the sympathisers or gatekeepers of selective misinformation that push strong pro-Greek Cypriot POVs and strong anti-Turkish Cypriot POVs, that sometimes try to create hostile environments, and that sometimes try to infer harassment and edit warring to damage and deter any potential challengers. That makes me well poised to consistently improve on my contributions and vigorously provide more and more robust contributions that are further and further improved with each and every feedback and edit. If you'd like to know more about how I contribute to Wikipedia and combat misinformation, feel free to follow the Articles that I edit, or my contributions to the Talk pages, where my mistakes and correct-doings alike are available for all to see. My contributions are transparent and I strive to NOT be PRO/ANTI anything, NOT be politicising, NOT be offensive, NOT be misleading, NOT be crude, NOT be harrassing, NOT be warring, FOLLOW the Wikipedia user and community guidelines, and suggest against and correct otherwise false or misleading (especially selectively misleading) information.

There are a number of pages about creating articles that I enjoyed reading when I first got started at Wikipedia, as were kindly posted by a kind user on my Talk Page in response to my first (failed) experiments at new article creation. The same links that were suggested to me then have been listed below. If you are interested and looking for help on how to make your own contributions, please visit the New contributors' help page, where many experienced Wikipedians will definitely help answer your super duper valid questions!
 * Your first article
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There are also a number of fundamental principles that I recommend super duper observing. This will benefit you, the rest of the Wikipedia community, and all visitors who wish to access good quality articles on Wikipedia.
 * Civility
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 * Verifiability, Not Truth
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 * Advocacy & Activism
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 * Disruptive Editing
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 * Personal Attacks
 * Accusing Others of Harassment
 * Casting Aspersions
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 * The 3 Revert Rule
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In addition to these principles there are other tools and guidelines that could super zuper thuper duper improve your contributions and efficiency.
 * Notifications & Pinging
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And before you present your suggested changes to an article in the relevant talk page together with reliable sources, you could first discuss your sources on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard. People with knowledge about sources are there to help. Review the Talk Page Guidelines and remember to communicate & be positive so as to avoid undercutting or obstructing other users. Be patient, helpful and friendly, and make that extra effort to be understood, but also be concise. Explaining why you have a certain opinion helps to demonstrate its validity to others and reach consensus.

And as a final point, I will also try my best to avoid making broad statements that interpret opinions or motivations, to use reliable and independent sources, to put that information into articles without adding any interpretation or analysis of my own, to include verifiable facts about events that have taken place rather than following popular discourse or generalisations, to avoid value based judgements or statements that infer assumptions, to not manipulate content or try to put political expediency before principal, to not just contribute out of systematic logic, but fairness, equality, neutrality, correctness, to always be accountable, to always be a positive force on Wikipedia, to never be a destructive force, to never propagate a hostile environment, to never be mislead by a mission to combat POV, to never use Wikipedia for advocations or activism, to never be dragged into edit warring, to never engage in disruptive editing, to never harbour or protect Denialism or Historical negationism, to ultimately strive to work with all editors regardless of views or opinions, to build a better encyclopedia for everybody, to be productive, to improve, to be as clear and concise as possible, to crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of the women!

I hope you enjoy your time on my user page and Wikipedia and also choose to become a constructive fellow Wikipedian! If you seek any help on the talk pages, please remember to sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically generate your name and the date after you publish your changes, which to Wikipedia is used like your signature. If you have any questions, take a look at where to ask a question, or send me a message on my Talk page. And again, welcome to my user page and the wondiferously splendid world of Wikipedia! Nargothronde (talk) 02:21, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

On Opinions & POV Pushing
Everyone has opinions. I am not immune to that. And when it comes to editing things on Wikipedia, my opinions are generally kept to myself; I try not to include the unnecessary, I do not sneak my ideas or sentiments into my edits, and I make all my contributions in good faith of the articles and their content, with respect of the Wikipedia guidelines and my own principles, and with the understanding that it's best to say things as they are instead of saying what you think of them. Be clear. Be factual. Be concise. Be right. Be robust...

To the gatekeeper of (selective) misinformation that is hellbent on trying to frustrate my contributions simply because they do not conform to his/her opinions or sentiments, and who is on a crusade to target my edits under the transparent guise of: civil pov-pushing, watered down language or tone, giving undue weight to fringe theories coming from unreliable POV laden sources, engaging in tendentious editing, making baseless accusations or threats, systematically using "experience" to justify such appalling behaviour & violations of the relevant Wikipedia guidelines... you're welcome to pretend and try to disguise your agenda, just as you're always welcome to engage me in constructive discussion to express your concerns. If I were Judge Dredd and I've sniffed out any such intentions, your skull will be "judged" by my fist. But since this is the real world, and also since we're on Wikipedia, I'll find better ways to deal with it that don't include sucking you into the fictional wastelands of Mega City 01.

If you see that I'm steering off course and letting the odd discrepancy through here and there, please let me know. As I've consistently said, any and all suggestions critical or not are 100% welcome, but I'd like to ask that any such matters are approached with civility and good faith etc, as one would expect from any part of the Wikipedia community. Thank you! Nargothronde (talk) 08:17, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

On Misleading Information
There are a number of articles that I am often struggling to understand. Sometimes this leads to systematic retractions of my edits often followed by accusations of POV pushing, harassment, and often baseless claims, usually with limited responses that range from harassing to hostile, such as the case when I attempt to reach out for correspondence with one user about his retractions of my edits. Sometimes the problem is that certain pieces of irrelevant information often get through, or are let through by the gatekeepers, and these certain pieces of information are not just often-times simply strategically incomplete, but also otherwise irrelevant, out-of-place, quite misleading and often-times sneakily assimilating or obscuring the context or meaning behind the greater sentence/paragraph/section/article which they target. If this happens and I get sidetracked thinking that a flagrant piece of POV pushing or malintention ridden contribution needs to be amended, please don't bear any hard or personal feelings if you think that my response was equally if not more POV pushing. Please also feel free to exercise the right I hereby bestow upon you to scrutinise and criticise and to do hold me to account for playing into the misleading nature of such information and trying to edit around it, thinking not to be a constructive force and not destroy or attack other peoples' edits and instead try to work around and restructure it to make it lose its malintended nature, make it neutral and based on facts and events rather than opinion, to try and do their contribution justice by assuming good faith and connecting that purposely missing logic, only to realise that I was pushing for nothing: maybe there was no logic at all, it may or may not have been a flagrant example of typical sneaky POV pushing, but instead of frivolously thinking that there's a mistake and I need to fix it, through collaboration and support rather than destruction, I instead need to know when and when not to champion for the removal of something that is simply just not meant to be there. If you're writing about apples and you start talking about stairs, don't forget to mention the pears. But if you're writing about cake and you start describing a flan... there's something wrong there, and I will pick up on it, and I will have increasingly more efficient ways to do something civil about it. Nargothronde (talk) 07:56, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

This is a New Article
This is a new article. This article is amazing. This article is on a notable topic that has been covered in detail in a number of reliable references from high-quality independent sources. This article contributes to Wikipedia. This article is not a blog or personal page and does not contain information owned by Nargothronde. This article has been created with plenty of knowledge of the article creation standards. This article is a small contribution to Wikipedia's mission, and is sharing reliable information for the benefit of people who want to learn. This article is not used to promote a company or product or person. This article does not advocate for or against anyone or anything. This article is clear, concise, constructive, and robust. This article was started, titled, formed, stubbed, categorised, and developed.

Communicating With Others & Dealing With Accusations
Talk pages are the principal medium of communication for editors. It is important to use Talk pages to discuss improvements to articles with other editors. It is also sometimes necessary to contact certain editors directly, and this should be done by leaving a message on their talk page. When certain editors routinely tell others (that they disagree with) to "Discuss this on the Talk page" and "Stay off my Talk page.", this is usually indicative of that editor having serious problems cooperating with others, which is highly problematic (see: tendentious editing - One who "bans" otherwise constructive editors from their talk page). Accusing editors of tendentious editing can be equally inflammatory and may be rather unhelpful in mediating most communication, where it can be seen as a form of personal attack if alleged without clear evidence, and unfounded accusations may constitute harassment if done repeatedly. This may cause problems where they may or may not have been intended. Rather than accuse another editor of tendentious editing, it may be wiser to point out behaviours which are contrary to Wikipedia policies such as WP:NOR, WP:RS, WP:NPOV, the 3RR rule, WP:AOHA and WP:ASPERSIONS, and to avoid the "chunk of text" defense in response to any dispute; if you are being accused of committing a personal attack or harassment, take a step back, carefully look over what has been written, and give simple, concrete examples that are brief and stick to the point, and demonstrate what you are trying to call out, and know when to take a break to avoid accidentally slipping through any easily impressionable language that may otherwise cause you to be the new target of accusations. Nargothronde (talk) 02:07, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

"Message To User On Disruptive Editing"
Thanks for contributing to discussions on multiple TalkPages concerning Cyprus. However, many of your contributions go against a number of Wikipedia's guidelines and policies on editing. I'm providing a rather summary list below. In the meantime, I advise that if you wish to try and eschew other ideologies while helping build an encyclopedia, you take a look at this article to help you get started:

What is an article?

Reading and understanding the following might also be of help:

Editing articles

Core content policies

You should also familiarise yourself with the following three principal core content policies:

Neutral Point of View

Verifiability

No Original Research.

Also kindly note the following clearly defined expectations for any contribution (as taken from the core content policy article above):

''“An encyclopedic style with a formal tone is important: straightforward, just-the-facts, instead of… opinionated. The goal of a Wikipedia article is to create a comprehensive and neutrally written summary of existing mainstream knowledge about a topic. Wikipedia does not publish original research. An encyclopedia is, by its nature, a tertiary source that provides a survey of information already published in the wider world. Ideally, all information should be cited and verifiable by reliable sources.”''

Regards, Nargothronde (talk) 06:32, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

List of Violations

In other threads on other TalkPages - including on my own TalkPage where you have seemingly pursued me for some reason - I have kindly advised you against:

(1) accusations ("Stop vandalising pages") ("stop pretending as if youre doing anything but spreading Turkish propaganda") ("have a clue what youre talking about")

(2) threats ("this is your last warning")

(3) providing points of view, not facts

(4) not providing citation or sources

(5) making conspiracy theory accusations

(6) making personal attacks

(7) expressing opinions rather than improving main space content

(8) disruptive editing

(9) attacking the editor instead of trying to take a look at the content...

(10) edit warring

(11) going against Wikipedia's civility policy and perhaps demonstrably working to damage the work of building an encyclopedia, as well as potentially demonstrating reservations or hostility towards certain opinions, which is conducive of creating a hostile environment...

(12) consciously committing violations of Wikipedia's editing guidelines and policies one after the other i.e. the "assume good faith" (AGF) guideline and "no personal attacks" (NPA) policy... and I made the point to emphasise these specific two in that discussion because you were also very easily presenting yourself as someone who potentially believes in certain conspiracy theories, though I still hope that was not the case, but when the inclusion of certain things in that article or other articles showed your theory etc for what it was: not fact, you accused and made accusations or insinuations that another editor was somehow involved (that's the "Turkish propaganda" reference you were making, in a nutshell)...

(13) making threats of some ambiguous "administrative action" and in doing so trying to poison the well against an editor so seriously as to disqualify them from editing some articles and editing in your proximity... that mindset in and of itself seriously violates AGF and NPA etc on so many levels. And there were also so many tendentious behaviours and impassioned advocacies underlying your rhetoric there.

(14) harassing users via their TalkPage and engaging in point of view pushing and disruptive editing on those TalkPages and elsewhere. Any TalkPage, the same as anywhere else on Wikipedia, is not your personal platform to try and engage in disruptive dichotomy battles of opinions, or to feign being able to assert some magisterial “authority” over other users or their contributions or information already published in the wider world which, frankly speaking, you do not have.

And although the following are not necessarily policy violations I have also advised you against:

(15) diggressive tactics and denialist strategies (""Greek occupation and invasion of Cyprus"- so Greece first occupied then invaded Cyprus? Surely itd be the other way round no?") ("the official narrative of it being for union with Greece is now disputed for the simple reason of, the coup happened on the 15th, the invasion on the 20th, if union was really the aim it could have been done in the 5 days leading up to the invasion, the fact that it wasnt, clearly proves there were other reasons but since that latter is up for debate, I wont say that was an error on your part.")

(16) selective disinformation ("you cant say Greece, which literally didnt put a boot on the ground for the coup, an invasion and then call a military operation")

Please adhere to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on editing.

They are there for a reason.

And always try to assume good faith and avoid getting into behaviours conducive of a hostile environment for other editors.

If there's anything you need help with i.e. if there's something you still do not understand, please do not hesitate to simply ask.

Cyprus 1963–1974

 * There was an ethnic cleansing of the Turkish Cypriot population in Cyprus by the Greeks and Greek Cypriots in 1963–74, before, during and after the Turkish Peace Operation. In the first of these attacks alone, dubbed Bloody Christmas (1963) by international media, 18,667 Turkish Cypriots from both Turkish and mixed villages abandoned the island, 270 Turkish Cypriot mosques, shrines and other places of worship were desecrated, and 25,000 Turkish Cypriots from 104 villages, amounting to a quarter of the Turkish Cypriot population, were displaced, exiled and forced to live as refugees in caves and enclaves on 3% of the island for 11 years, surviving mostly on foreign aid from Turkey. In an address at Rizokarpasso, on May 26, 1965, Makarios declared: "Either the whole of Cyprus is to be united with Greece or (it will) become a holocaust..." To extreme right-wing Greek nationalists in Cyprus, the Turkish Cypriots they killed were seen as "an outsider and a source of pollution", and as such were referred to as shillii (dogs) – meaning that, "like dogs, they could be killed with impunity". The events as they unfolded saw heavy media attention and strong criticism from the UK High Commission and others, which contributed to international condemnation of the Greek Cypriots and their leadership. Rauf Denktaş, the former Turkish Cypriot leader & the founder and first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, argues that it was the "deliberate targeting, killing and displacement of all Turkish Cypriots on Cyprus", and which was "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the entire national, ethnical, racial or religious identity of Turks on Cyprus", and that drew no line on few day old babies and elderly men, that lends these acts the textbook definition of genocide. This opinion is also reflected by Ertan Ersan, the director of the Remembrance Museum for Turkish Cypriot Casualties. To many Turkish Cypriots, it was part of a "conscious policy of genocide" designed to displace or otherwise exterminate the entire Turkish Cypriot population on Cyprus, the intent of which is purportedly disclosed in the Akritas Plan and Iphestos Files. 20th July is annually commemorated in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as the anniversary of Turkey's intervention, which according to Günay Evinch (Övünç), a practitioner of public international law at the Washington D.C. firm of Saltzman & Evinc, toppled the fascist dictatorship in Greece, and stopped the ethnic killings of Turkish Cypriots on Cyprus.{citation needed}} Conceding that these events are known and well documented, there have been calls within the UK government for this, as well as the attempted genocide and ethnic cleansing of Turkish Cypriots, to be officially recognised by Britain. Pierre Oberling described in his book - The Road to Bellapais - how leading up to December 1963 the Greek Cypriots made their final preparations for the impending conflict and behaved in an ever more provocative fashion, ex-EOKA officers were urged to assume a "tough and merciless attitude", visiting correspondents from Greece were "warned of a coming all-out attack on the Turks", and roadblocks were set up by illegally armed Greek Cypriot civilians hired as "special constables", who, in the early morning of Saturday, December 21, harassed a Turkish Cypriot woman, which formed an angry Turkish Cypriot crowd, and then fired an automatic weapon, murdering the woman and her escort, and "nearly cutting (them) in half" with their bullets. Oberling also described these events as the "opening salvo in the Greek Cypriot offensive".

In an address at Rizokarpasso, on May 26, 1965, he (Makarios) declared: "Either the whole of Cyprus is to be united with Greece or (it will) become a HOLOCAUST... The road to the fulfillment of national aspirations may be full of difficulties, but we shall reach the goal - which is Enosis - dead or alive".{{citation needed}

According to Harry Scott Gibbons and other journalists, the Turkish Cypriot Genocide was the attempted genocide and systematic ethnic cleansing of Turkish Cypriots on Cyprus by the Greeks and Greek Cypriots from 1963 to 1974.

It is considered a violation of the 1963 United Nations definition of genocide.

According to Michael Stephen, Lord Ken Maginnis & Co., the Greeks and Greek Cypriots were in direct violation of Articles 2(a), (b) and (c) and 3(a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of the 1948 Genocide Convention.

To many Turkish Cypriots, it was part of a "conscious policy of genocide" designed to displace or otherwise exterminate the entire Turkish Cypriot population on Cyprus, the intent of which is purportedly disclosed in the Akritas Plan and Iphestos Files, and accounts by foreign observers, journalists, photographers, British and American officials, and bodies of the UN.

To extreme right-wing Greek nationalists in Cyprus, the Turkish Cypriots they killed were seen as "an outsider and a source of pollution", and as such were referred to as shillii (dogs) – meaning that, "like dogs, they could be killed with impunity".

The violence had seen thousands of Turkish Cypriots emigrating to Turkey, Britain and Australia.

To the Greek Cypriots, the exact nature and extent of these claims are often disputed or downplayed, where they present the view that all problems on Cyprus began with the Turkish intervention of 1974, or that they and the rest of Cyprus suffered at the hands of Turkish Cypriot aggression, and where any mention of the behaviour of their community towards the Turkish Cypriots are often played down and dismissed as "Turkish (or Turkish Cypriot) propaganda", whereas the overwhelming majority of victims were Turkish Cypriot, both in number and proportion. This is also reflected in Greek Cypriot history textbooks and domestic and foreign policy today, where denialism and historical negationism are used to justify continued human rights violations against the Turkish Cypriots.

The events as they were documented are more difficult to dispute, particularly due to the amount of attention given to them by foreign journalists and observers at the time, various leaked documents such as the Akritas Plan and Iphestos Files, which outlined the strategy, tactics and intention behind these events, and the Turkish Cypriots themselves who operate a policy of "keep the door open but never forget". Former British Parliamentarian Michael Stephen concluded after an independent investigation that "until influential Greek Cypriots come to terms with the appalling behaviour of their community towards Turkish Cypriots and stop trying to convince the world that both sides are as much to blame as each other, there will be no reconciliation on Cyprus".

There are museums in Northern Cyprus that document large scale arrests/detentions/massacres/live burials/rapes/burnings/mutilations/desecrations of mosques & graves, not so much as had been explained in the Akritas Plan and Iphestos Files as necessary to prepare for the amendment of the Constitution in such a way as to allow the government to "legally" unite the island with Greece, the Greek Cypriot "Motherland", or to ensure that if Turkey had intervened to protect the rights of Turkish Cypriots on the island, there would be no Turkish Cypriots there for them to save.

In these plans, there were details given on how to provoke the Turks into taking up arms against the government so that the "legal" forces of the state could be empowered to crush what would be called a "Turkish mutiny", expel all Turks from the police and other government institutions, seal off the Turkish population in enclaves throughout the island, and pronounce a fait accompli before Christmas 1963. If they attempted to block constitutional changes by force, which was to be expected, they should be "violently subjugated before foreign powers could intervene". The Akritas Plan envisaged that the Western world would be too preoccupied with Christmas to interfere in time to prevent enosis, and not only would the speed of events take Turkey by surprise, but Turkey would also be unable to call a meeting of the two other Guarantor Powers, Britain and Greece, who together pledged to keep Cyprus independent, in time to prevent the island’s union with Greece.

The start of the Turkish Cypriot Genocide is also disputed,, with some citing it as starting as early as early 20th century Greek settlement of Cyprus, but the most common argument is that it began on the night of 20-21 December 1963, where the Greeks and Greek Cypriots launched the first of a series of attacks on Turkish Cypriots throughout Nicosia, where it was reported that combined forces of uniformed Greek Cypriot police and civilian EOKA gunmen began to systematically murder Turkish Cypriot civilians and arrest and disarm Turkish Cypriot policemen before murdering them, and soon afterwards taking control of the Cyprus government information organisation and announcing that the ‘legal’ authorities were putting down a "Turkish mutiny", before ousting Turkish civil servants throughout the island, replacing them with an all-Greek governmental administration, physically preventing Turkish Cypriots who tried to re-enter office, including the Turkish vice-president Dr Fazıl Küçük, and expelling as much of the Turkish Cypriot community from their homes as possible, which had the effect of forcing them to live as refugees on a blockaded 3% of the island. Although there were those who committed atrocities on both sides, the small pockets of Turkish resistance were by no account organised or well-equipped, and anything done by the Turks against the Greeks were in "payback" to what had already been done to their own community. Current Greek Cypriot discourse portrays that helpless and unarmed Greek Cypriots were attacked unprovoked by armed Turkish Cypriot thugs. The opposite is true.

About XXX thousand Turkish Cypriots were forced to flee from or were expelled from XXX villages throughout Cyprus including XXX, XXX, XXX, XXX and XXX. A large amount of them were also displaced when XXX were given to Southern Cyprus as part of the XXX Agreement, regardless of those villages being ethnically, politically, and culturally Turkish Cypriot for nearly XXX years. The majority of these expelled and displaced Turkish Cypriots ended up in what became Northern Cyprus, with some fleeing to Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and other countries. The ethnic cleansing of the Turkish Cypriots was the largest displacement of a single population on Cyprus in modern history. Estimates for the total number of those who died during the 1963-1974 period range from XXX thousand to XXXXX thousand, where the higher figures include "unsolved cases" of persons reported as missing and presumed dead by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the List of Missing Persons. Many Turkish Cypriot civilians were sent to XXX camps and prisons as well, where they often died. From 1963-1974, the majority of the Turkish Cypriot community were forced to live as refugees in enclaves on 3% of the island, blockaded by the all Greek Cypriot government, and got by on foreign aid largely from Turkey. The events are usually classified as either a population transfer or an ethnic cleansing. XXX Scholar Man, among a minority of legal scholars, equated ethnic cleansing with genocide, and stated that the expulsion of the Turkish Cypriots therefore constituted genocide.

All inter-communal violence and thus the Turkish Cypriot Genocide came to an end after the second wave of the Cyprus Peace Operation. To Turkish Cypriots, the Cyprus Peace Operation was welcomed as their liberation from having to live in constant fear of the relentless pursuit of enosis by the Greeks and Greek Cypriots, who were trying to exterminate them in the hopes of forcing them from the island. To the Greek Cypriots, they present the alternative discourse that this is central to the entire Cyprus dispute.

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The National Guarct under the cc1mmand of Gel}eral Grivas moved in and smashed the Tur1dsh-Cypriot fighters. .Ankara react~d sharply to these developments and through President General Sunay stated that "we decided to solve the Cyprus problem one•~ and for all" (l;{.atsis, 1976:122). ·yt:lrkey's threat of military action alairmed ,Johnson, who quickly dispatched Unde11secretary of Defl?nse Cyru.s Vance to the area to defuse the crisis. Under Wasbingtfm's pressure and f,earing an internal upheaval, the Colonels accepted Vance's recommendaJiobs 1.vhich indud~d withdrawal of all Greek forces clandestinely stationed on the island, dissolution of the Cypriot National Guard-largely run by officers from mainland Greece, expansion of the size and scope of the U.N. peace-keeping contingent, and compensation by Greece to all Turkish Cypriots who had suffered losses as a result of the fighting. In addition, the Greek Government voluntarily recalled General Grivas, who had become an embarrassment. Archbishop Makarios, however, refused to accede to the dismantlement of the National Guard and to transfer police responsibility to UNFICYP troops. After extensive manuevering in the U.N., the Turkish government finally agreed to modify its position regarding these two key issues. By the end of 1967 the Greek forces were out and the two communities had agreed to engage in intercommunal talks under the auspices of the U.N. aimed at solving the problem from within. 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Denktaş | Michael Christodoulou Mouskos (Makarios III): | Nikos Sampson | Georgios Grivas | Policarpos Yorgadjis | Ergun Olgun: | Other: | | | | | | <ref name="REJECTION"|quote=Northern Cyprus: Almost immediately, intercommunal violence broke out with a major Greek Cypriot paramilitary attack upon Turkish Cypriots in Nicosia and Larnaca. Though the TMT—a Turkish resistance group created in 1959 to promote a policy of taksim (division or partition of Cyprus), in opposition to the Greek Cypriot nationalist group EOKA and its advocacy of enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece)—committed a number of acts of retaliation, historian of the Cyprus conflict Keith Kyle noted that "there is no doubt that the main victims of the numerous incidents that took place during the next few months were Turks"/.> | | | | | Appendices: the Akritas Plan: | | | the Iphestos Files | the Treaty of Guarantee (1960): | Ethnic Cleansing:    https://www.quora.com/Do-Greek-Cypriots-get-awkward-or-upset-when-people-mention-Turkish-Cypriot-or-when-they-are-asked-if-they-are-Greek-or-Turkish Do Greek Cypriots get awkward or upset when people mention Turkish Cypriot or when they are asked if they are Greek or Turkish?

1) Faey Stern, Greek, Interested in Linguistics, Foreign Languages, Politics, Answered 24 May 2015

From my experience, this is a topic they would rather avoid. I don't think they hold much hostility for the Turkish Cypriots, but they certainly dislike Turkey and its mixing in their affairs. You should remember that all parts suffered. The Turkish Cypriots suffered whn the military junta came, and the Greek Cypriots sufferd when the invasion happened and they died in large masses. However what they haven't forgotten is that they had to abandon their homes. I wish this hadn't happened. The Greek Cypriots don't hate the Turkish Cypriots for 'existing'. They hate the fact that they exist in 'Northern Cyprus'. Because in order for them to live in Northern Cyprus, they had to abandon their homes. So, yes the idea of Northern Cyprus is appaling to them, but not the idea of Turkish Cypriots as a whole. I hope that what I is understandable. So, if you can, don't refer to Northern Cyprus at all. Remember, the atrocities were just some decades ago and mentioning them can create feelings of hate and sorrow in both side-some lost mothers, brothers etc, and you asking them could feel disrespectful and be a memory of death, even if you don't realise it. So don't ask. You never know what you will hear, or how the other people perceive what you say. It is a very touch subject for them. I don't agree with Turan Birol. If something is painful for someone, we should not disguss it. I will not ask people from Armenia or Aerbaijan about Nagorno-Karabakh, because changes are I'm going to say something ignorant that will hurt them.

I have hopes that the Greek and Turkish Cypriots will start seeing each other more like Cypriots. It would help to be 'abandoned' by both Greek and Turkish influence. As long as those exist, there will be hate and disagreements. I wish that the new politicians will change the situation.

2) Bashman Ahmet, lived in Turkey, Answered 18 August 2016

Such a narsist point of view.

I personally lost 5 family members. My family lost all of its money and property in Paphos because they had to move North to SURVIVE.

Now should I be offended because you mention "Greek Cypriot"?? No I will not be. As much as I hate the fact that I never get to see my uncle, I cannot chance that past and the facts.

Whether you accept or don't Greek Cypriots committed the biggest ethnic cleansing of modern history after the holocaust.

+50% of TOTAL POPULATION MURDERED & DISPLACED

There is approx. 900,000 Turkish Cypriots in the world and only 15-180k is living in Cyprus because they were forecefully deported from the island. There is more Turkish Cypriot living in city of London ALONE than in Cyprus. This pretty much explains everything.

It was Greek Cypriots who started the problem, Greek Coup to annex island to Greece just made it worse. I will not play the "blame game" but if it wasn't for Turkish intervention, probably I wouldn't be writing this.

So just stop being offended and do not avoid the problem. Take responsibility of your actions and negotiate with us to solve this problem.

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