What kind of fairytale are you telling, Harris? Türkiye stopped a genocide.
In your story, there is no EOKA.
No Enosis.
No "Bloody Christmas" of 1963.
No UN-documented massacres in Ayvasıl, Muratağa–Sandallar, Atlılar.
No burned Turkish villages.
No 103 missing Turkish villages listed by UNFICYP.
In other words, nothing that actually explains why 1974 happened.
Türkiye’s intervention in 1974 wasn’t "epic," wasn't expansionism, wasn’t mythology.
It was something much simpler:
Preventing the physical destruction of an entire community.
The reason Turkish forces landed on Cyprus on 20 July is written in CIA files, British archives, UN records:
The Greek junta's coup, the attempt to annex the island to Greece, and the systematic elimination of Turkish Cypriots.
But in your narrative, EOKA-B disappears.
Grivas disappears.
The villages raided, the civilians executed, the forced displacements, all gone.
History begins exactly where you want it to begin.
You claim "no Turkish Cypriots were killed before 20 July."
Convenient.
Because you skip the years when Turkish neighborhoods were wiped out, when power-sharing was dismantled, when Turkish Cypriots were driven into enclaves under siege for over a decade.
You repeat the classic line:
“Turks bombed themselves.”
“Turks killed their own people.”
“Turks staged their own massacres.”
Harris, this isn’t analysis.
This is propaganda archaeology, digging up every disproven Rum nationalist talking point from the 1960s and serving it as fact.
Let me remind you of something you never mention:
Muratağa–Sandallar: 126 Turkish Cypriots, including children, executed and buried in mass graves.
Atlılar: 37 civilians massacred.
Ayvasıl: Entire families wiped out.
These are recorded by the UN and acknowledged internationally, except by you.
Had Türkiye not intervened in 1974, there would be no Turkish Cypriots left to argue about today.
That’s not Turkish rhetoric; that’s what former Greek officers and foreign diplomats admitted decades later.
As for "guarantor"…
Read the London–Zurich Agreements.
Turkish Cypriots were constitutionally co-founders of the Republic, until they were violently pushed out in 1963.
So when you talk about "occupation," but refuse to talk about the coup, the massacres, the enclaves, the ethnic cleansing attempts…
What you are offering is not a historical argument.
It is a selective morality play.
Your final insult, claiming Turks "live in delusion," is ironic, because the delusion here is the belief that you can erase half of the island’s history and still claim moral authority.
This isn't about Turks failing to provide criticism.
It’s about you refusing to acknowledge facts.
You ask why Turks don't accept your narrative?
Because it is incomplete, distorted, and built on erasing their dead.
Your fairytale collapses the moment you include the parts you always skip
@HarrisSamaras.