The stamp of shame will accompany the architects and pawns of treason for ever
15 July 2025, AKEL C.C. Press Office, Nicosia
The black anniversary of 15 July 1974 recalls the implementation of the NATO plan that drowned our country and people in blood. The fascist coup against the Makarios government executed by the Greek Junta and the underground armed EOKA B organisation of Grivas was the first part of the general plan for the partition of Cyprus and that’s why it was subsequently followed by Turkey’s brutal invasion.
As such, the coup was a conscious complicit action in the tragedy suffered by our people. It was treason, not some “foolish act” nor was it a “civil war”. Our people certainly do not forget that it was the coupists who opened the back door to the invading Turkish army of Attila when the coupists themselves hid in the rear and engaged in the murder of leftists, supporters of President Makarios and Turkish Cypriot civilians, leaving the children of our people to wage the unequal and betrayed battle with the hordes of invaders. No matter how many years may pass, the stamp of shame will accompany the architects, perpetrators and pawns