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1570 Cyprus Capaign, Modern Greek Military Plans:Odd similarities

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Topic: 1570 Cyprus Capaign, Modern Greek Military Plans:Odd similarities
Posted By: baracuda
Subject: 1570 Cyprus Capaign, Modern Greek Military Plans:Odd similarities
Date Posted: 08-Sep-2005 at 02:14
Ok a little introduction "The battle of Lepanto" in 1571 is the greatest naval battle of the renaissance period, it is also the last battle that 'Galleys' were used, Christians 206 Galleys, and 6 Galleases : 70 000 men , Ottomans/Muslims 208 Galleys,56 Galeots,64 Fusta's : 77 000 men , the battle ended in the defeat of the muslim forces and basically destruction of the Ottoman navy but was short lasted and the victory led no where the ottomans hastily built 2000 Galleys and a better naval officer was put in charge of the fleet, a few of the alliance made political steps to be with the Turks in 1572, 1573 pope Pius dies, 1573 Venetians sign peace with the Ottomans.. there is a supposedly famous saying by the grand ottoman vezir Sokullu Mehmed Pasha ".. Christians have singed my beard (the fleet) but I have lopped of his arms (Cyprus)"

Well its in a time since 1540 the Republic of Venice, played a holy war on the ottomans (Jihad-Crusade whatever you call it) and in these years Venice began loosing its naval superiority in the mediterranian sea, and the neutralness of its lands, Crete and Cyprus, so a war was declared on them by the Ottomans.. which resulted in the taking of Crete and Cyprus by them in about 1570.


(the map of events)

Venetians needed help so they went once more to the Holy leage and organized the Holy war.. in 1571 which is the battle of Lepanto I meantioned above..

Anyway battle of lepanto, isnt really the one I mean here, but the 'Cyprus campaign'.. has a very funny resemblence to the modern Greek Military Excersize Plans for an assault on Turkey via Crete and Cyrpus which I have seen a couple of years ago on the Greek military excersizes in the Agean/Mediterrainian sea

The resemblence is funny, unfortunately I havent been able to find a picture of the modern military excersizes on map yet..



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Posted By: Yiannis
Date Posted: 08-Sep-2005 at 05:10

Baracuda, you're full of it, and you miss no opportunity to show it to the world.

You mention a foolishness that you cannot even substantialize and you present it in such a manner, that the uneducated reader will assume that it's a real plan drafted by the Greek military. Even if it's true (but I won't take your word for it) you should clarify that these map exercises include all kinds of scenarios. If you search hard enough, you'll find one suggesting Greece attacking Turkey via China.

At the moment, the only real Greek military dogma is that of defencive war against any aggressor. The rest is... whatever... I'm waisting my time.

PS

Did you know that Baracuda is written with 2 Rs? 



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Posted By: Phallanx
Date Posted: 08-Sep-2005 at 16:47
Well Yiannis is actually right, have you ever taken a look into the NATO execise titled 'Dynamic Mix'??
In 1998 there were continuous landings of troops on the shores of Doganbey(sp?) in Turkey and Sardinia, would this mean NATO is planning a probable invasion on Turkey and Italy ???

Have you probably forgotten or just don't know of the Turkish exercise titled 'TOROS 2000' and the reaction it brought up when several thousand Turkish troops landed in N.Cyprus???
 Of course this is quite different to any other exercise since it was performed by the so called 'Aegean Army' which is independant, has absolutely no connection to the troops commited to NATO.




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Posted By: baracuda
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2005 at 00:19
No actually all that isnt really what I meant I belive the excersize is called Nikiforos or something, it basically is from the joint defence protocol Greece and Cyprus signed, in the plan of the excersizes i.e. the playout it is similar to the map above part some cases as it plays out direct attacks on land support and nullify Turkish threat coming from inland and water... basically its defence excersizes but with Turkey in the role of 'attacker' on Cyprus, Crete, Rhodos.. was saying that its a funny coincidence, from looking at the map above.
and I wasnt attacking anybody but I suppose the forum is a place for 'flame, blame and bad manners' even from the moderators.

I dont remmember but our military does TOROS or some other similar operations in the Aegean just to show metal.. its supposedly main goal is 'Search and Rescue'.

'Yiannis', I couldnt careless about your blaint accusations and bad manners, but you can look at every single greek excersize you like, or Turkish one's, it isnt a war between Greece,Turkey, Cyrpus. No,its just excersizes which have the oppressor as the other country in some case of war, what can be done, what should be done etc..
And a drafted plan being similar to a a campaign plan that was played out 434 years ago which resulted in the destruction of the Turkish fleet I would call 'a good one'

And I know how 'barracuda' is written, I dont use it that way as when written this way it has a couple more meanings its my nick.

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Posted By: Jalisco Lancer
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2005 at 00:54
Yiannis and Baracuda (only 1 r in spanish ), please keep BOTH the manners or I'll glady close the topic.

This is suppose to be a civilized discussion. OK ?

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Posted By: Phallanx
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2005 at 02:10
Well yeah, Nikiforos-Toxotis, is a combined naval and air support exercise in the mentality of what you describe. It was actually formed as an answer to the Turkish, 'Toros- Barbarosa' that plays out an invasion senario on Cyprus, in which the occupation forces play an active role.

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Posted By: baracuda
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2005 at 06:20
I wasnt judging it, as it doesnt matter 'why', the only thing I wanted to point out was its similarity to something older which is usually something that you dont see in these types of excersizes, its good for the Greek Navy to have many excersizes, on it own or with various commands..some are; Iolkos 95,Astrapi '98,Ariadne '01,Lailaps '01,Alexandros '02... There are similar excersizes that Turkey has of its own, but none that I can think of that have a historical tie to it...

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Posted By: Byzantine Emperor
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 01:09

No offense to my modern Greek colleagues, but I would have much rather read about the 1570 Cyprus campaign alone than its similarities (or lack of) with any modern military exercises. 

Wasn't Ottoman naval power waning by 1570 as well as Venetian?  After the naval advancements of Suleiman the Magnificent's reign, Ottoman domination of the Mediterranean gave way to the Spanish and the Portuguese.  And of course the Spanish and Portuguese went on to explore the Atlantic while the Ottomans remained fixated on the Mediterranean. 

It would seem that the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus could have been a stepping stone to taking the Suez and the Red Sea.  I know that the Ottomans made it into the Indian Ocean, but why were they pushed out by the Dutch and the Portuguese, if they had the key island of Cyprus to use as a base?



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http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=12713 - Late Byzantine Military
http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=17337 - Ottoman perceptions of the Americas


Posted By: strategos
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 01:42
Komnenos this is bull, you close any of my topics on cyprus yet you keep this one open.

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Posted By: Byzantine Emperor
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 01:51
Originally posted by Byzantine Emperor

No offense to my modern Greek colleagues, but I would have much rather read about the 1570 Cyprus campaign alone than its similarities (or lack of) with any modern military exercises. 

Wasn't Ottoman naval power waning by 1570 as well as Venetian?  After the naval advancements of Suleiman the Magnificent's reign, Ottoman domination of the Mediterranean gave way to the Spanish and the Portuguese.  And of course the Spanish and Portuguese went on to explore the Atlantic while the Ottomans remained fixated on the Mediterranean. 

It would seem that the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus could have been a stepping stone to taking the Suez and the Red Sea.  I know that the Ottomans made it into the Indian Ocean, but why were they pushed out by the Dutch and the Portuguese, if they had the key island of Cyprus to use as a base?

This thread is probably dangerously close to being closed.  I tried to salvage it, at least.



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http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=12713 - Late Byzantine Military
http://www.allempires.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=17337 - Ottoman perceptions of the Americas


Posted By: Jalisco Lancer
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 01:51


Strategos, like it or not, I'm the mod on this forum.
If you have an specific complain, address it properly and if it requires any sanction, I will glady act.
So , be more than wellcome to discuss and stop complaining out of topic. Agree ?


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Posted By: strategos
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 02:00

Taxim, (partition in Turkish) of the island was always in Turkey's plans. In 1956 the Turkish Cypriot leader F. Kutchuck submitted on a map Taxim proposals dividing Cyprus to North and South (Hitchens "Cyprus: Hostage to History"). In 1974 the Turkish troops divided the island to north and south deviating from the 1956 plan only in minor details. It is therefore clear that the 1974 invasion was a part of a plan and not the result of any actions of the Greek-Cypriots in the sixties

More than 110,000 Turkish settlers have been transported to the occupied areas, in an attempt to change the demographic character of the island. These settlers, while Turks, they are completely different culturally from the Turkish-Cypriots whose culture is very similar to their Greek counterparts. The Turkish-Cypriots are becoming a minority in the occupied areas and are migrating to other western countries. On the other hand their leaders, under Turkey's direction, continue to bring the negotiations in the UN to a deadlock. The reason is simple: they are satisfied with the status quo.

Oh and I do not mind Jalisco, your a good guy, from time to time/



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Posted By: Jalisco Lancer
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 02:01
stick to the discussion.ok ?

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Posted By: strategos
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 02:03

During the course of 1957, TMT pressured the Turkish Cypriots into withdrawing from any co-operative ties they had with the Greek Cypriots and, on the whole, they were successful; this policy later became known as the `from Turk to Turk policy’. Such encouragement was entirely alien to the co-operation and quiet existence which had always prevailed between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but was necessary to sow the seeds of partition. A similar policy was followed in Istanbul, organised by the Turkish National Student Federation, which had worked closely with Kibris Turktur in its planning of the anti-Greek riots there back in 1955.

During the course of 1957, TMT pressured the Turkish Cypriots into withdrawing from any co-operative ties they had with the Greek Cypriots and, on the whole, they were successful; this policy later became known as the `from Turk to Turk policy’. Such encouragement was entirely alien to the co-operation and quiet existence which had always prevailed between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but was necessary to sow the seeds of partition. A similar policy was followed in Istanbul, organised by the Turkish National Student Federation, which had worked closely with Kibris Turktur in its planning of the anti-Greek riots there back in 1955.



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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 05:01

strategos, could you care to explain how are these "claims" related with the discussion? We had couple of Cyprus partitition topics before, and this isnt one of them.

I wont get into the procedure of taking out the truths out of your posts as I always do, but believe me, seperating the north to Turkish Cypriots is much more civilised than uniting the whole island (ENOSIS) with Greece. Anyway, stick on the topic and dont cause any other topics to be closed please.

BTW, please show the objective sources of this copy paste...



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Posted By: baracuda
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 11:08
"Byzantine Emperor" - if they faught, in 1571 with the ammounts of ships. I dont think that their sea power was so bad, plus adding to that 2000 new ships were constructed, although haphazardly and so on.. taking Cyprus was for preventing raids coming and being supported from it as they did a lot of damage.

...1574 Murat III becomes sultan, Tunus is re-occupied, 1576 Morroco becomes a vassal (temporarily), 1576-79 Conquest of Georgia and Abhazetti, 1578-87 Conquest of western Iran, 1586-89 Occupation of southern Somali and Kenyan ports, 1591 Occupation of Gulf Coast of Arabia.. 1591 - Mehmet III becomes Sultan... they didnt stand still as you see..

A similar naval warfare was in 1654-1669 Cretean War 1657 - (although it didnt have the ship count of Lepanto) in the Dardanelles the Ottoman navy again faces the Venetian, Papal and Maltese (knights of st.John) fleets which were attempting to blockade the straights from the venetian held, Limnos and Bozcaada Imroz) they were forced out of these islands, and the blockade ended... (1821 the Greeks revolt in the Aegean and Pelopenese islands.)

In the 17th century the navy goes into a decline, but is somehow revived by foreign advizors, and converts (French) the navy see's a lot of action in the Napoleonic wars, well and it survives up to the end, even though technologically the navy stays pretty inferior to other nations.


Anyway my post was just for similarities of the 1570 Cyrpus Campaign, and war of Lepanto as its pretty similar on the map, maybe of course its the best naval way, but coincidence's are always interesting..
As for ottoman history goes, if you dont look a the smear and read it from almost neutral sources then its pretty interesting.. as it lasted for a long time, and the foreigners that converted and modernized the army and fleet made sure that the death of the empire lasted another 150 years.. Osprey Publishing has some good books on various periods of the Ottomans and the war of Lepanto which includes the campaign I was talking about. ..
I would post many more articles on the Ottomans, but not in this forum/site as one can see from the things writen above..

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Posted By: Phallanx
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 13:18
If the island was of such importance to avoid the raids, the question that comes up is, since they (Ottomans) finally did conquer it (even though they lost the battle) why would they hand it over to Venice in a treaty just two years later (1573) ???

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Posted By: strategos
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 14:18
Originally posted by Oguzoglu

 

I wont get into the procedure of taking out the truths out of your posts as I always do, but believe me, seperating the north to Turkish Cypriots is much more civilised than uniting the whole island (ENOSIS) with Greece. Anyway, stick on the topic and dont cause any other topics to be closed please.

Removing peoples from the North and placing them in the south is really civilized.

This is related because it was said this is similar to greek plans of invasion of cyprus, and while greece never did or never will unless extreme case, takism did prevail on the island.



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Posted By: DayI
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 14:37

Aslo strategos, H. cypriots werent angels, they killed many Turkic cypriots, thats an act what i call thats uncivilized.

what side you turn, or look those words gonna took this topic into a flame war.



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Posted By: baracuda
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 14:45
If the island was of such importance to avoid the raids, the question that comes up is, since they (Ottomans) finally did conquer it (even though they lost the battle) why would they hand it over to Venice in a treaty just two years later (1573) ???


No they didnt, you must have read it wrong where you looked, Venice gave the control of the Island to the Ottomans in that treaty March 7, 1573

And at a later date in 1669 Crete was taken from the Venetians.

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=435&HistoryID=aa43 - Here's a link for you..


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Posted By: Jalisco Lancer
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2005 at 23:04


Guys, please stick to the original topic and do not turn it in an endless, pointless discussion. Otherwise, I will close it.

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Posted By: Landsknecht_Doppelsoldner
Date Posted: 20-Nov-2005 at 12:54

Originally posted by Byzantine Emperor

Wasn't Ottoman naval power waning by 1570 as well as Venetian?

Venice had been in decline since 1499-1500, with their defeat at the hands of the Ottomans at Zonchio and Lepanto (1st Battle).  They were able to hang on mainly because of their superior military technology (ships, guns, etc) and self-serving diplomacy.

I wouldn't say that the Ottomans were in decline in 1570, but they certainly were immediately after Lepanto.  The new fleet they built the following year was far inferior to the previous one (i.e., it was made of green wood), and they were NEVER able to replace all the skilled manpower (captains, pilots, sailors, free oarsmen, naval archers, etc) that was lost on Oct 7, 1571.  Their navy was simply never the same after that.



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Posted By: Spartakus
Date Posted: 20-Nov-2005 at 13:01

That's it.I will emigrate to Mars.



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Posted By: bg_turk
Date Posted: 03-Jul-2006 at 11:41
Originally posted by strategos

During the course of 1957, TMT pressured the Turkish Cypriots into withdrawing from any co-operative ties they had with the Greek Cypriots and, on the whole, they were successful; this policy later became known as the `from Turk to Turk policy’. Such encouragement was entirely alien to the co-operation and quiet existence which had always prevailed between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but was necessary to sow the seeds of partition. A similar policy was followed in Istanbul, organised by the Turkish National Student Federation, which had worked closely with Kibris Turktur in its planning of the anti-Greek riots there back in 1955.

During the course of 1957, TMT pressured the Turkish Cypriots into withdrawing from any co-operative ties they had with the Greek Cypriots and, on the whole, they were successful; this policy later became known as the `from Turk to Turk policy’. Such encouragement was entirely alien to the co-operation and quiet existence which had always prevailed between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but was necessary to sow the seeds of partition.



I think this thread is very interesting, and I do not wish for it to be closed so I will try to remain as respectful as possible to the erroneous claims presented above by stratego, though I cannot help but express my opinion that statements like "TMT pressured Turks to leave their homes and the government" are utter lies.

This is just another version of Turkish Cypriots made Greek Cypriots attack inncocent Tutkirh Cypriots in their homes with the specific aim of driving them from those homes and from the government, and not actually Greek Cypriot irregular and regular armed bands that were turning up in Turkish villages and using violence and force and murder to drive Turkish Cypriots from thier homes.

The primary reasons for the MASS exodous of the Turkish Cypriot population into enclaves which constituted less than 5% of the island was not TMT, it was Greek Cypriot aggression and violence towards the Turkish Cypriot community, encouraged and allowed and sponsored by the Greek Cypriot state and the Greek millitary junta. 

Turkish Cypriot withdrew from a government where the Greek Cypriot elements had refused to implemt agreemnts made in the 60 neogitations and ignored a supreme court rulling against the Greek Cypriot side. How can one continue to participate in a partnership government where one side reneges on agreements and illegaly ingores it's own supreme court rulings?

Also the Turkish Cypriots made a formal request in 65 via the UN to return to their positions. This was outright refused by the then all Greek Cypriot controlled 'Republic of Cyprus' unless they accepted without any negotiation Makarios' 13 proposed ammendments to the constiution that would have robbed TC of 95% of their rights under the consitituion, and would have brought the island one step closer to union with Greece.

A detailed narrative of the events that lead to the end of the Turkkish Cypriots in the government is given in Cyprus Conflict
http://www.cyprus-conflict.net/narrative-main-%203.htm - http://www.cyprus-conflict.net/narrative-main-%203.htm

The partition of the island was not due to some inherent desire of Turkish Cypriots to partition it, it was due to the Greek Cypriot desire for ENOSIS and attempt to turn it into another Greek province and their refusal to share it with Turkish Cypriots. If Greek Cypriots did not seek ENOSIS (union with Greece), I am confident that the Republic of Cyprus in the form agreed by both sides would have remained intact, most of the intercommunal violance would have been avoided, and Turkish soldiers would have never set a foot on the island.



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