Sep
4
2005
The Bloodthirsty and the Barbarous
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July 20 is an anniversary day in Cyprus. South of the Green Line, it is a day of sirens, memorials, cemetery services and hunger strikes; north of the Green Line, one of parades, rolling tanks, fanfare, and waving beauty queens. On both sides you will hear orations and see flags—Greek ones in the south, Turkish ones in the north. The anniversary is of the first wave of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, which led to the island’s partition, now in its 31st year.
