Greek Press disclosed the secret message sent by Greek Cypriot leader Papadopoulos to the USA: 

“WE WILL EXTERMINATE ALL THE TURKS” 

During the 32nd Anniversary of the Turkish Peace Operation, a new analysis about the events on the island was published. According to the analysis, which appeared in the Greek press, Tassos Papadopoulos, who was a minister in 1964, wanted all the Turks in the island to be massacred. 

The Greek Daily Eleftherotipia on 21 July 2006 published an analysis carried out by a Greek Cypriot journalist Makarios Drusiottis. According to the analysis, following the bloody attacks by the Greek Cypriot guerilla against the Turkish Cypriots in 1964, Turkey was planning to carry out a military operation to Cyprus and Greek Cypriot leader Tassos Papadopoulos who was a minister during that period sent a message to the USA on behalf of the Greek Cypriot government. 

NTVMSNBC reported on 22 July 2006 that Papadopoulos in his message wrote that, “According to the estimations we made, by the time Turkish fleet arrives to the island within 75 minutes with the aim of providing our own defense we are determined to exterminate all the Turks in the island. We possess the necessary plans and means in order to materialize this” 

The analysis stated that Papadopoulos had similar threats after 3 years. According to the expressions of the then Greek Land Forces Commander, during an extraordinary military council meeting Greek Cypriot leader suggested that if Turkey had carried out a military operation in Cyprus, all the Turks on the island should have been wiped out. 

The analysis also reminded that the Greek Parliament with the aim of proving that Greek Cypriots were living in Cyprus ‘opened the Cyprus file’ between 1986-1988. 

However, it was stressed that with the fear that secret expressions which were not announced until that day could have justified Turkey’s military intervention in the island, the Cyprus file was closed forever.