On the occassion of the 43 years since the invasion of the Turkish military forces in Cyprus (20 July 1974), the Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) issued the following statement:
“43
years have been passed since the Turkish invasion and the continuous
occupation of the 37% of Cyprus, since the crime against the Cypriot
people which took place within the framework of NATO, with the
support of the American and British imperialism.
The
coup d' etat of the Greek Junta and EOKA 'B against the government of
Makarios, which pulled the trigger for the Turkish invasion, consists
proof of how far can go the forces and governments which have committed themselves in implementing NATO's imperialist plans.
In the
conditions which are formed today for the control of the energy
sources by the monopoly groups, Cyprus becomes again the “apple of
discord” in the geopolitical antagonisms of the capitalist states.
All these pose serious dangers for Cyprus and for the people of the
region.
The
dichotomous and unjust for the Cypriot people confederal settlement
of the two “constituent states” which is being promoted - and the
cancellation of the fact that the Cyprus Issue is an international
problem of invasion and occupation of the northern part of Cyprus by
Turkey- does not consist a solution.
The
KKE firmly remains in solidarity with the Cypriot people, in their
struggle against the occupation and any dichotomous plan. The just
request for a Cyprus United, Independent, in one and not two states,
with One and Only Sovereignty, one Citizenship and International
Personality, free of foreign bases and military forces, without
foreign guarantors and protectors, a common fatherland of Greek
Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, is not cancelled by the difficulties
of today's negative correlation of forces. On the contrary, it (this
request) responds exactly to today's emergency problems and gives
perspective to the struggle of the Cypriot people, of all the people
of our broader region”.