CYPRUS BUFFER ZONE
“This peace is known to Turks and Greeks all over the world that the bloodshed in Cyprus stopped with the Peace Operation of 1974,” said Tatar
The Netflix decision
strong> to include the Famagusta series in his program has caused a storm of reactions in the Occupied territories with the Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar speaking of a distortion of history and insisting on the Turkish narrative of the peace operation.
“The Cyprus issue never started in 1974. The Cyprus Peace Operation in 1974 was essentially a military intervention that saved the Turkish Cypriots from genocide. As Etcevit said, we are bringing peace to Cyprus with our intervention,” he emphasized.
“This peace is known to Turks and Greeks all over the world that the bloodshed in Cyprus stopped with the Peace Operation of 1974. After 50 years, peace continues in this difficult region,” he added.
“We also need to do different series to explain our own issue. They make propaganda according to themselves. They can influence a part of the audience. We must show the truth of the matter with our own series”, he emphasized.
Indeed, he was quick to direct fire against Greece on the occasion of Gaza: “How the Jews spread their propaganda in the events of Gaza, there is a Greek finger to it. We will proceed with the necessary reactions”.
