“50 years since the invasion of Cyprus by Turkey. We have not forgotten. We honor and thank the fallen, the missing and those who defended the freedom of Megalonisos,” notes Nikos Dendias.
“We do not accept the continuation of the illegal occupation in violation of International Law and the United Nations Charter.
For the Greek Armed Forces, Cyprus is close”, the Minister of Defense underlined.
“We are fighting in full solidarity with the Republic of Cyprus to find a sustainable solution based on the decisions of the United Nations Security Council.”
This is what the Minister of National Defense, Nikos Dendias, points out in his post on his personal account on “X”, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, attaching a photo of the monument to the Fallen in Cyprus – located in the Hellenic Army Park in Goudi – where the verses of G. Seferis are written on a separate plaque:
“Memory wherever you touch hurts,
the sky is small, there is no sea,
what they kill during the day they empty with carts
by back…
There will be a resurrection at dawn. How they shine
in spring the trees will turn golden yellow
the fibrillation. It will be the sea again
wave will shake Venus.
We are the seed that is dying,” he concludes in his post.
50 years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
We do not forget. We honor and thank the fallen, the missing, and those who defended the freedom of Megalonisos.
We do not accept the continuation of the illegal occupation in violation of International Law and… pic.twitter.com/g9W9Y6kfO8
-Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) July 20, 2024