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	CYPRUS PROBLEM: Enclaved Greek Cypriots
		Greek Cypriots say the murder was only the latest in a series of incidents in the township of Rizokarpaso, in the isolated north eastern tip of the divided island, aimed at terrorising the township's remaining Greeks into fleeing south and leaving their property for the Turks.
		The vast majority of Greek Cypriot prisoners of war were released in the areas controlled by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus and were never allowed to be reunited with their wives and children as should be the case according to the provisions of the Vienna Agreement.
		Enclaved Greek Cypriots, who were not able to prove, by producing title- deeds, that the houses in which they lived belonged to them (either because they lost the title-deeds or because the houses belonged to their children or parents) were forcibly driven out and were obliged to live in barracks or with relatives.
	www.hri.org /Cyprus/Cyprus_Problem/enclaves.html (4617 words)

	Turkish invasion of Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 12 June 1958 eight innocent unarmed Greek Cypriot civilians from Kondemenos village were murdered by T.M.T. terrorists near the Turkish Cypriot populated village of Geunyeli in a totally unprovoked attack, after being dropped off there by the British authorities.
		By 1975 on 20,000 Greek Cypriots remained in the north, enclaved in the Karpass peninsula.
		Greek Cypriot Military personnel and reservists, as well as civilians, including women and children, were captured by the invading Turkish armed forces, or disappeared, after the cessation of hostilities, in areas under the control of the Turkish army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkish_Invasion_of_Cyprus (4215 words)

	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was unilaterally proclaimed in 1983, nine years after the Greek Cypriot coup d'etat that was carried out by EOKA-B which was instigated by the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and the ensuing Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
		Turkish Cypriots were opposed to the proposal since it relegated their status to a minority, instead of co-founders of the state, whilst also removing their community’s constitutional safeguards.
		Though much of the initial withdrawal was in the wake of violence, it has been alleged that the Turkish Cypriots' own paramilitary group TMT exercised influence in preventing some Turkish Cypriots returning to their villages, thus leading to the segregation of the communities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Cyprus (3396 words)

	Cyprus
		Greek Cypriots were required to present their passports at the checkpoints along the buffer zone, something many were reluctant to do.
		Greek Cypriots were also permitted to drive their personal vehicles in the north, provided they arranged insurance with a provider in the Turkish Cypriot community.
		Greek Cypriots and Maronites resident in the north were still unable to leave property to heirs residing in the south.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27832.htm (10512 words)

	OLIR: Osservatorio delle libertà ed istituzioni religiose
		The applicant Government averred that the children of Greek Cypriots living in northern Cyprus were denied secondary-education facilities and that Greek-Cypriot parents of children of secondary-school age were in consequence denied the right to ensure their children’s education in conformity with their religious and philosophical convictions.
		Accordingly, the legitimate wish of Greek Cypriots living in northern Cyprus to have their children educated in accordance with their cultural and ethnic tradition, and in particular through the medium of the Greek language, could not be met.
		Greek Cypriots forced to leave the Karpas region to Turkish settlers; and the continued deprivation of possessions of Greek Cypriots located within the Turkish-occupied area.
	www.olir.it /ricerca/index.php?Form_Document=3688 (4172 words)

	The enclaved Greek Cypriots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As during the centuries of Ottoman rule, the Greek Orthodox priest becomes today savior and guardian of Greek civilization and tradition.
		Ethnic cleansing in the occupied areas and the enclaved "Despite the policy of terror implemented by Turkish troops, the hardships, oppressions, intimidations and threads, about 12,300 people refused to leave their homes in the area occupied by the ivaders and tried to keep their possessions, their land, their homes, and heir property.
		Wife of murdered Turkish Cypriot journalist reveals evidence "Turkish Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adali was assassinated for his writings and for what he was yet to reveal against the policy of the illegal regime in Cyprus' occupied north, his wife, Ilkai Adali, has stated" CNA, August 25, 1996.
	www.hr-action.org /chr/enclaved.html (280 words)

	Greek_cypriots info here at en.getsearchinformation.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Greek Cypriots trace their origins to the descendants of the Achaean Greeks and later the Mycenaean Greeks, who settled on the island during the second half of the second millennium B.C. The island gradually became part of the Hellenic world as the settlers prospered over the next centuries.
		The Greek Cypriot language is an idiom (sometimes falsily, or in non-linguistic context, labeled as 'dialect') distinct from the formal Greek language (note that different idioms exist on many of the Greek islands) as it is spoken in mainland Greece.
		In many ways, the Greek Cypriot pride and interest in perpetuating their unique dialect and distinct identity from the mainland Greeks is similar to that of the Turkish Cypriots' interest in doing so with respect to the mainland Turkish dialect and population.
	en.getsearchinformation.info /Greek_Cypriots (1192 words)

	State Reports - CERD - Cyprus - CERD/C/263/Add.1 (1994)
		Relatives of the enclaved residing in the Government-controlled area are not allowed to cross to the occupied area, even in cases of deaths or funerals of close relatives.
		All enclaved male Greek Cypriots between the ages of 18 and 50 are forced to report to the illegal "police station" in Rizokarpaso every Friday at 3 p.m.
		The Greek Cypriots who were forcibly expelled from their homes continue to be arbitrarily deprived of their properties in the occupied areas.
	www.bayefsky.com /reports/cyprus_cerd_c_263_add.1_1994.php (4537 words)

	Greek News - Greek & Cypriot Ambassadors to UN Stress Turkish Violations of Human Rights
		He said that as long as a large section of Cyprus' territory remained under the control of the Turkish armed forces, "this commitment, as well as the relevant resolutions of the UN and the European Court of Human Rights, cannot be implemented in Cyprus".
		He further expressed "serious concern" over the human rights of the enclaved in the northern sector of Cyprus given that, of the 20,000 Greek Cypriots who chose to remain in their ancestral homes, in the occupied area, following the Turkish invasion, fewer than 522 had managed to remain there.
		In that framework, the Greek envoy concluded, the excessive construction activity in the occupied sector, in Greek Cypriot properties, and the illegal sale of Greek Cypriot properties to foreigners, causes grave concern.
	www.greeknewsonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4018 (672 words)

	North Cyprus - NorthCyprus
		The Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities living on the island were given full participation in governing the new Republic.
		The Turkish Cypriot Enclaves were blockaded and embargoed by the Greek Cypriot authorities.
		The failure of Turkey to withdraw its troops from the island and restore the Republic of Cyprus after the collapse of the coup attempt is widely regarded internationally as a violation of the Treaty of Guarantee, UN resolutions and international law.
	www.kopete.org /North-Cyprus.html (1589 words)

	European Court of Human Rights finds Turkey Guilty
		On the issue of property, similar violations were found, while regarding the enclaved, the report said their living conditions constituted a serious form of intervention in the right to respect for private and family life.
		But the Strasbourg court upheld charges that some 170,000 Greek Cypriot refugees living in the south of the island and banned from returning to their homes in the north were deprived of rights to property, compensation and a family life.
		In the wake of the invasion, 180,000 Greek Cypriots fled or were expelled from the north where Turkey maintains 35,000 troops in support of the local Turkish government.
	www.btinternet.com /~argyros.argyrou/Guilty2.htm (2484 words)

	Cyprus - Local News 13/08/2004
		Only half of the Greek Cypriots would be able to return to their homes while both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots would lose 2/3 of their individual properties, in an imposed scheme of mass confiscation of properties, based on grounds of ethnic origin,” he also said.
		Diko and Edek had objected to the lack of Greek flags, the absence of an official protocol, overseas guests and the national anthem, which was, after all, played at the end of the rally.
		Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash shut the gymnasium down in 1975 in a bid to push out of the Karpass some 500 mostly elderly Greek Cypriots - all who remained from 20,000 people trapped behind the lines there in the aftermath of the Turkish invasion a year earlier.
	www.cyprusweekly.com.cy /default.aspx?articleID=8820&heading= (3936 words)

	Cyprus News Agency: News in English (AM), 98-02-15
		Turkish Cypriot journalists told CNA that when they asked their colleague why he was carrying a revolver, he replied he had forgotten to leave it in the occupied areas.
		Greek Cypriots are voting between last Sunday's two frontrunners, incumbent President Glafcos Clerides, who got 40,05 percent of the vote, and former Foreign Minister, George Iacovou, who gained a marginal lead of 40,66 percent.
		Over 300 Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the areas of Cyprus occupied by Turkish troops since they invaded in 1974, came to the government-controlled areas to cast their vote in today's election runoff.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/cyprus/cna/1998/98-02-15.cna.html (2367 words)

	The enclaved Greek Cypriots. Those who stayed behind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Although the rights of the enclaved are protected by the 1975 Third Vienna Agreement, which states "that the Greek Cypriots at present in the north are free to stay and that they will be given every help to lead a normal life," a recent U.N. report paints a far different picture of their fate.
		Although more than 20,000 Greek Cypriots remained in the occupied area after Turkey's 1974 invasion, most have left as a result of a systematic campaign of harassment by the occupation authorities.
		Greek Cypriots say the murder was only the latest in a series of incidents in the township of Rizokarpaso, in the isolated north eastern tip of the divided island, aimed at terrorizing the township's remaining Greeks into fleeing south and leaving their property to the Turks.
	www.hr-action.org /chr/enclaved00.html (1183 words)

	cyhumrights
		In August 1974, 20.000 Greek Cypriots (out of the 200.000 who were living in those areas before the Turkish invasion of the island) decided to remain in their homes under Turkish occupation.
		In August 1975 an agreement was reached in Vienna, providing that those Greek Cypriots who remained in the Turkish occupied areas were to be given "every help to lead a normal life, including facilities for education and for the practice of their religion, as well as medical care and freedom of movement".
		It must be stressed that the homes and properties of those Greek Cypriot "enclaved" who are forced to move to the government-controlled areas of Cyprus are given to Turkish settlers who were illegally brought from mainland Turkey to the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus.
	www.webspawner.com /users/cyhumrights (1010 words)

	Xak.com: DISY officials in Karspasia
		The DISY representation visited Greek Cypriots in Ayia Triada before moving on to Rizokarpaso from where they saw the beleaguered primary school and high school that is set to open again this September.
		The enclaved informed the party of their needs, including concerns about high school education, lack of direct telephone access with the free areas and the easier trade of veterinary products.
		Regarding the decision by the Turkish Cypriot authorities to open the Rizokarpaso High School, KS EDEK socialist leader Yiannakis Omirou highlighted that this was not the achievement of one party alone but the work of all parties.
	www.xak.com /main/newsshow.asp?id=35677 (537 words)

	Mass Violations of Human Rights
		The nearly 200.000 Greek Cypriots (40 % of the total number of Greek Cypriots in 1974) who were forcibly expelled from their homes by the Turkish invading forces in 1974 are still being prevented from returning there and are refugees in their own country.
		Out of 20.000 Greek Cypriots who chose in 1974 to stay in their ancestral homes in the area occupied by Turkey, only about 450 have managed to remain and live in the Karpasia peninsula at the eastern corner of Cyprus.
		Denktash declared that the missing Greeks and Greek Cypriots had in fact been killed in 1974 in cold blood by Turkish Cypriot irregulars and, therefore, the whole issue should be considered to be closed.
	www.greekembassy.org /Embassy/content/en/Article.aspx?office=1&folder=44&article=89 (2825 words)

	Cyprus bicommunal discussion and chat forum : BIZONALITY/UNITARY STATE?
		Greek Cypriots, being the majority, wanted to make Cyprus part of another country because that's what they felt like without considering what Turkish Cypriots want or need.
		In the first example the minority Greek Cypriot community might not have polticial equality within the zone in which they live but their wider community does have such political equality in Cyprus in general.
		What matters is that the Greek Cypriots in the north have absolutely no political voice in their homeland, which happens to be under Turkish Cypriot and Turkish administratino.
	www.talkcyprus.org /forum/post-2839.html (2366 words)

	Partition Plans Furthered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This action is not only against the Greek Cypriots, who have been living in this island for thousands of years, but also against the real interests of the Turkish Cypriot community, which has been used by Turkey in the last decade or so as its tool against the independence of Cyprus.
		It should be noted that the "constitution", in all relevant provisions, refers to the members of the Turkish Cypriot community as "Turkish citizens" so as to enable Turks from Turkey to colonize Cyprus without being distinguished from the indigenous Turkish population.
		An outrageous act of the Turkish Cypriot leadership was also the enactment of a "law" for the distribution of Greek Cypriot property to the Turks.
	www.hri.org /Cyprus/Cyprus_Problem/p_partitionfurth.html (355 words)

	CYPRUS v. TURKEY - 25781/94 [2001] ECHR 331 (10 May 2001)
		It recalled that in its 1976 report it had stated that it was widely accepted that a considerable number of Cypriots were still missing as a result of armed conflict in Cyprus and that a number of persons declared to be missing were identified as Greek Cypriots taken prisoner by the Turkish army.
		Accordingly, and this was not disputed either by the respondent Government, displaced Greek Cypriots had no possibility of returning to their homes in northern Cyprus and were physically prevented from crossing into the northern part on account of the fact that it was sealed off by the Turkish army.
		The fact that a very substantial number of Greek Cypriots had to seek refuge in the south coupled with the continuing division of Cyprus must be considered to constitute very serious obstacles to their quest for information.
	www.worldlii.org /eu/cases/ECHR/2001/331.html (15376 words)

	CYPRUS: 3rd Report of the European Commission of HumanRights
		Unremitting refusal to allow 180,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to return to the occupied area and to allow any displaced Turkish Cypriots to return to the Government-controlled area.
		In May 1985 the puppet regime in the Turkish occupied area purported to introduce a "Constitution", Article 159 of which expropriated all immovable property belonging to Greek Cypriots displaced by Turkey, much of this property being taken for the use of the Turkish Army.
		In September 1986, the Turkish settler and Cypriot coalition "Government", announcing their program, declared that in place of definitive possession certificates they would now start giving title deeds conferring full ownership on those who had earlier been allocated Greek Cypriot-owned land.
	www.btinternet.com /~argyros.argyrou/Eurohrc3.htm (1061 words)

	Xak.com: National Council calls on Turkish side to return Famagusta
		The decision, taken during last night's meeting and announced here Wednesday, also calls on Turkey to implement the Third Vienna Agreement on the enclaved Greek Cypriots and to effectively cooperate to ascertain the fate of the missing persons.
		In addition, the National Council stresses the readiness of the Greek Cypriot side to enter direct and substantial negotiations based on the Annan plan in finding a solution to the Cyprus problem, based on the relevant UN decisions.
		It also believes that showing passports and issuing "visas" by the occupation regime does not imply recognition, even indirect, of the illegal regime, and neither does it undermine the legitimate and internationally recognised state of Cyprus.
	www.xak.com /main/newsshow.asp?id=21909 (178 words)

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		The Commission noted that the general living conditions of Greek Cypriots in northern Cyprus were imposed on them in pursuit of an acknowledged policy aiming at the separation of the ethnic groups in the island.
		The restrictions imposed on the Greek Cypriots had the effect of ensuring that inexorably with the passage of time, those communities would cease to exist in the northern part of the island.
		Turkish Cypriots had become refugees in their own land, and in 1964, they were subjected to the embargo that persisted until this day.
	www.unhchr.ch /huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/A7B69A4F84237739C1256A2C0047A1F0?opendocument (10360 words)

	EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - News Flash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The case was brought before the Court by the Cyprus government, which argued that the 27-year-old Turkish occupation of the northern part of the island violated most of the rights enshrined in the European Human Rights Convention.
		In its case, Cyprus argued that Turkey has violated several articles of the European Human Rights Convention involving the living conditions of the Greek Cypriots enclaved in the occupied part of the island, rights of displaced Greek Cypriots and missing persons since the invasion.
		Speaking to reporters, Markides said "it is binding for all Council of Europe member states and is the biggest and most serious case ever to have been tried by a European court, since the establishment of the Council of Europe (CoE) in 1950".
	www.greekembassy.org /press/newsflash/2001/May/nflash0511e.html (382 words)

	Cyprus - Local News 13/08/2004
		Anastassiades also said that solving the enclaved region’s problems required goodwill on the part of the Turkish Cypriot leadership and the occupying forces.
		He went on to give the origin of the word ‘Nenekides’, coined after Demetris Nenekos, one of the 1821 Greek revolution chieftains who betrayed the cause to pay homage to Ibrahim Pasha.
		Kids again will be studying at the gymnasium following an almost 30-year absence after Turkish Cypriot authorities agreed to the government’s terms for reopening the school.
	www.cyprusweekly.com.cy /default.aspx?articleID=8820&heading= (3936 words)

	Greek Cypriot enclavded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At Rizokarpaso, the regional capital, he visited a Greek Cypriot coffeeshop where he was welcomed by a dozen old men, some of the less than 500 mainly elderly Greek Cypriot enclaved, who still live in the Karpass, out of the 25,000 that inhabited the region before the 1974 invasion.
		It is all a mockery.'' De Soto was briefed on the state of the building by two UN architects, who carried out an inspection to determine what needs to be done to protect the monastery, which is an important party of the Greek Cypriot cultural heritage.
		De Soto said the UN is ready to repair the monastery, as well as the Umm Haram Tekke at the Larnaca Salt Lake, as part of a plan to protect the cultural heritage of both sides and thus increase trust between them.
	www.lobbyforcyprus.org /press/press2000/CyW040300.htm (1028 words)

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