Cyprus-Britains grim Legacy - The Full Documentary



This UK tv Channel 4 documentary was transmitted in 1984. I recorded it back then and glad that I saved it for the past 31 years. Should be of interest to anyone interested in modern Cyprus history. I hope you like it.

Comments

  1. I am a Cypriot Resident, explain our freedom
  2. Thank you 227beau, for saving and uploading this very interesting programme.
    I thank God that my parents had the good sense to leave that troubled, ethnically riven little island long before they brought me into the world.
  3. FUCK EOKA. FUCK ENOSIS.
  4. Truth be told cypriots , no matter the said actions against English sovereign , are. Y origin Greeks. Said actions must not be judged out of the general frame that creates them and that is the eons and eons of Greek origin and culture of cypriots. Certain proposed by English "solutions" were creating a situation to actually succeed their efforts of suppression. English wanted independence in order cypriots to stay under their power , they effectively turned a blind eye on Turkish arming of the minority that had its origin on the ottoman conquest.

    In short , crimes and brutality was used against Greek Cypriots as was used in other colonial areas. Cyprus was sold by the ottomans to the English and people was treated as an asset to protect
  5. One of the forgotten wars......first I have seen of this - thank goodness you recorded it.
  6. The brits should be fucked out of every piece of land that is not in England or wales. Fucking scumbags caused trouble no matter where they went - even in the EU.
  7. Cyprus had been ceded to Great Britain in 1878 by its Turkish ruler, the Sultan in Constantinople. Rule from day 1 was friendly - the Turks welcoming the British and the Greeks too though they longed even then for Enosis.  It seems a shame that the easy rule and the friendliness between both Turk and Greek citizens and communities had to be completely ruined by the Greek nationalists who pushed the issue especially after WWII. Their actions led inexorably to bitterness and divided communities with the British stuck like pigs in the middle.
  8. Matt Foley (below) says 'The Cyprus (and the Greeks) were immersed in Democracy,' and the British were scumbags for denying democracy to them. Ha ha bloody ha. In Greece after German occupation the Greek right wing and left wing set about murderng each other - so, no 'democracy' there then. And in Cyprus the Greeks REFUSED democratic self
    government - and chose violence. This appalling miscalculation resulted in the use of REAL violence - the Turkish invasion. This really was Greek Tragedy. Or are u saying, Mr. Folly, that the thousand years of Greek Turkish antagonism was all a British plot? Jesus fuck ... can't You Tube find a way to screen out retards like Mr. Folly? K.Woods
  9. Thanks for posting this.  I was in Cyprus from 73 to 76 in Nicosia.  Quite a crazy time back then!   I remember going on the demonstrations when the high schools got dismissed.  I was 14 at the time.
  10. That was a strange conflict.
    Superficially the reasons were clear. Greeks for enosis, British for colonialism.
    But why ?
    The latter stages of the Cyrpus conflict, 1963 to 1974 are easy to understand but not the anglo-greek dispute.
    What did the British have to lose when Greece allowed them the military control ?
    What did the Greeks have to lose by letting the British stay in power ? After all more Cypriots lived in the UK than in Cyprus and everything was destined to become EU eventually.
    But there were also statements from Greek liberal politicians in the early 50s to the effect that a struggle was unnecessary. Plastiras said it did n't make sense, Papandreou also.
    Then the royalists of Greece would rather be even less belligerent (but in fact queen Frederica became an EOKA supporter when it began).
    Papandreou who in later years became a Cyprus hardliner ("the" Cyprus hardliner rather) said at the time "Greece is breathing with one British lung and one American lung, a confrontation will be madness".
    So it's strange, for one who did n't live during the period.
    What necessitated the EOKA struggle and made it happen ?
    Maybe there are things we don't know.
  11. MAKARIOS RUINED CYPRUS.
  12. I learnt so much just by watching this video.....
  13. Cyprus Is beautiful ....so sad how things have turned out!!!
  14. Watch ..1974 Cyprus Conflict Ambiguous Differences on youtube....shows how ALL Cypriots should unite the Island TOGETHER.
  15. Loved North Cyprus much more than the south.
  16. Good to watch 1974 Cyprus conflict ambiguous differences . How father and daughter feel about all Cypriots.
  17. greeks figth alngside with british all the wars after all and they gave cyprus to the turks ..whats the wrong with them ?
  18. thank you very much for this video. Watching these people talk revealed so much of the character and intentions of the parties involved. Being Greek-Cypriot myself, i hate that term, i felt very emotional watching this. I shall refrain from making too many comments on the players involved because it would be emotive stuff which doesn't add to anything but i will add there was no mention of the American involvement (they wanted bases in Cyprus and Makarios said no) and the Greek Junta (American backed) betrayal was very briefly mentioned. I was extremely offended by the last comments in the video saying Makarios failed as a president. It sounds conspiracy like but very sadly true for the Cypriots. Again, thanks for the upload.
  19. The UK still has two parts of Cyprus Akrotiri and Dhekelia.


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