The Daily Express reported on 28/12/96

"In the forbidden City" "We went into the sealed off Turkish quarter of Nicosia in which 200 to 300 people had been slaughtered in the past five days .We were the first western reporters there and we have seen sights too frightful to be described in print-horrors so extreme that the p people seemed stunned beyond tears and reduced to an hysterical andmirthless giggle that is more terrible than tears."

Reported by C.BS. TV 22.08.74

" Corpses of 88 Turkish Cypriots have been discovered on a rubbish heap ,in Nicosia.These people have been gunned down by Greek Cypriots and Greeks and before their murder they had been tied up with wire .The heads of some of the corpses had been severed from their bodies."

Washington post 23.07.1974

"In a Greek raid on a small Turkish village near Limassol, 36 people out of a population of 200 were killed.The Greeks said that they had been given orders to kill the inhabitants of the Turkish villages before the Turkish forces arrived".

Reported by Kurt Lariken corespondent the Die Welt Newspaper 22.08.1974

"Members of Greek Cypriot national guard were mercilessly murdering all the civilian men ,women, and children of the Turkish Cypriot villages and towns."

An interview given by a German tourist , Mrs Ingrid Habel Broadcast by the voice of Germany on 30.07.1974

"The human mind cannot comprehend the butchery of the Greeks .In villages around Famagusta region the Greek National Guard have displayed unsurpassed examples of savagery. Entering Turkish homes,they ruthlessly rained bullets on women and children. They cut the throats of many Turks."

Report on mass graves reported in the Guardian 21.08.1974

"Using mechanical shovels attached to the two tractors the troops unearthed the bodies of two men and two women clutching two children in her arms "

Reported by Jean Neuvecelle in France Soir

"I saw with my own eyes the shameful incidents . The Greek burned Turkish mosques and set fire to Turkish homes in the villages around Famagusta. Defenceless Turkish villages ,who have no weapons ,live in an atmosphere of terror created by the Greek Cypriot murderers. The Greeks with their bazookas create total chaos in the Turkish villages . The Greeks action is a shame to humanity"

The front page"The Times" 21/8/74.

"Major Eris said his investigations had shown that after the invasion a month ago two "officers" of the EOKA B paramilitary movement visited the Greek Cypriot village of "Tevi".The report goes on to say that they recruited 30 armed men . " The group then surrounded village(The Turkish Cypriot village of "Aloa") and took away the men and boys over 15 on foot . THERE HAD BEEN NO TRACE OF THEM SINCE." The major said .The following day the irregualars returned to Aloa and took the women and children to "Teyi" (nearby Greek Cypriot village) There the women and girls were raped repeatedly for four days before being shot and buried." Major Eris further said. he was concerned that people in other Turkish Cypriot villages in the area might have met the same fate.