Oğuzhan Hasipoğlu, Secretary Normal of the Nationwide Unity Occasion (UBP), stated, “The epic of the Turkish Cypriot College Youth, who left their political beliefs apart, took their weapons of their palms and ran to their deaths for his or her homeland and freedom, is written in golden letters in world historical past and sheds gentle on us.”
In his message for the sixtieth anniversary of the Wonderful Erenköy Resistance, Hasipoğlu stated that the Turkish Cypriot individuals have been honored to achieve the sixtieth anniversary of the Erenköy Epic.
Hasipoğlu included the next statements in his message:
“The epic of the Turkish Cypriot College Youth, who left their political beliefs apart, took their weapons of their palms and ran to their deaths for his or her homeland and freedom, written in golden letters in world historical past, sheds gentle on us.
The epic Erenköy Resistance, Turkey's proper beneath the Assure and Alliance Treaty to offer air assist to the mujahideen who have been being tried to be destroyed in Erenköy, comprises an vital element each militarily and for the Cyprus Drawback.”
Hasipoğlu stated that the battle given in Erenköy in order that Cyprus wouldn’t grow to be Greek and Turkish Cypriots wouldn’t grow to be a minority of Greek Cypriots paved the best way for July 20, 1974 and carried Turkish Cypriots to freedom and the institution of a state, and famous the next in his message:
“Because the Turkish Cypriot individuals, adorned with the Erenköy spirit for freedom and independence, it’s a historic duty for us to struggle for the additional growth of the state we now have established and for it to take its rightful place within the worldwide area.
I discover it helpful to take this chance to remind you ways acceptable it’s to insist on the registration of our sovereign equality and our demand for worldwide equal standing, in defiance of an understanding that doesn’t see the Turkish Cypriots as equal, has vowed to destroy them at each alternative, and camouflages its actual intention with so-called diplomatic initiatives.
On the anniversary of the August 8 Wonderful Erenköy Resistance, I bow respectfully earlier than the valuable recollections of our martyrs who sacrificed their lives for us and share my emotions of gratitude with our veterans.”
