Turkish Invasion of Cyprus Captured Up Close (1974) 

Invasion??? And what about innocent Turkish people who were killed by Greeks wildly?

Wow invasion eh? I'm not turkish but I've never seen an " invasion" where the "invaded" people rush to help the "invading" soldiers and give them water

Not an occupation, but an attempt to save the Turks living in Cyprus from the massacre. It has also been successful.

I love how the reporter frequently says invaders to turkish troops while turkey didnt even cared about cyprus from 1923 to 1960's. The matter is that the greeks of the island organized and aimed to unite with greece after ww2, they created an armed group, EOKA and it was basically a terrorist group. attacked turkish population ta gain control of the whole island. all countries doing same thing to protect its people but some unbiased media calls some operations for peace and others for invade.

Interesting that the British journalist just 'happened' to be there, and the welcoming reception he received from the Turks.

I love how they just casually approached the Turkish paratrooper and shook his hands. 😂

The reason why they lived in peace the last 50 years

It is not an invasion. Government of Turkiye tried everything to stop Greek assaults on Turkish neighbourhoods in every official way but they failed. Actually this is why mr. reporter and Greek forces surprised because they were thinking Turkiye will accept and let Turkish people suffer. This was a peace operation for Turks.

My uncle was a veteran of this war, he was loader an M47 patton, he was in the rank of corporal, and he still describes that deafening sound when the bullet bounced off the tank.

The geographic position of Cyprus made it an island aircraft carrier during the cold war.

Yes it was such an invasion that villagers came up to the soldiers in order to help them carry their weapons lmao. Cyprus war was not a black and white war, it was grey.

Not an invasion. At the time, Greeks were slaughtering the Turks in an attempt to drive them out of Cyprus. However, Turkey intervened in the conflict (as a Turkish state) and rescued the Turks.

Barışcıl olalım ama Cengiz Topeli unutmayalıö

This is so crazy, nothing like how war is portrayed

this is how freedom comes...

As a Turkish individual from Lefke, we will never have same identity as Greeks under name of humanism. If Eoccans were successful Greeks considered them their ancestors. We would have ended up like Cretans or Morean Turks.

Eski Türk ordusu bambaşka 😎

Dünyanın neresinde olursa olsun....Zulme karşı savaşacak haysiyette ve cesarette ve kabiliyette olan Türk milletinin, evladı olmaktan gurur duyuyorum.

O indirdiğin helikoptere kutban komutanım sonsuz saygılar...

50 years of peace in the island thanks to Cyprus peace operation that has been done by Turkish army. Both sides are living happily in peace.

Ah O Kıbrıs'ta ki O Çocuklar Ne güzel canlar... :-') Kurtarıcı Askerlere Yardım ediyorlar. :-')

First time I've come across this particular footage. Lapped up every second of it. It's just amazing how they capture the start of the invasion, meet up with the paras... The paras seem very professional and friendly even. Of course war is not entertainment, but this was a joy to watch nevertheless! Is there any more like this?

Very valuable footages from a documentary. I believe these footages of Cyprus operation are most of limited visual documents.

Nobody went there for the land or the oil. They were there to protect people and humanity. If you call it an occupant, call your own country's police an occupier too.If someone is shouting war and slaughtering civilians, everyone with the power must put a stop to it!

My uncle was flying one of these helicopters during Cyprus operation. The exact number was 91. Turkish command was expecting medium level casualities and losing a part of fleet when passing Beşparmak Mountains, since the area was defended by 300-400 AA guns. It was yet a must to occupy inland roads to block Greek Guard reserves from the coast, for gaining superiority in landing line. Thus they decided to take the risk. Actually almost all helicopters were hit several times and were full of holes. But none was down, and no one was killed. Thinking similar model guns of Greek Guard successfully downed a Noratlas aircraft by friendly fire and killed 32 Greek commandos from mainland, we know that these guns were no joke. So, these helicopters were very very lucky. One of his friends also told me his own story to explain how it was a miracle. After dropping the soldiers he asked his superior to close the door, because they cannot take off fast enough to escape when doors are open, and they were under heavy fire. The officer was sitting at the back and he refused to move to open door as he was afraid. There has been a short dispute and the pilot forced him at gunpoint, telling him that as long as they are in the air mission the pilot is the one that gives orders. He could report it if he wished, when once they return to safety, but he better move his ass now. The officer finally got up from his seat and closed the door. When he hastly returned he discovered the huge AA bullet hole on the seat he was sitting just a few seconds ago. They all laughed at it for minutes and their dispute was never reported. Years later my uncle was present in a NATO meeting as personal assisstant of a high ranked officer who was his close friend of arms from that war, he also wintessed American officers cornered Turks for getting information how the hell they actually came out Başparmak without single casuality, and kept rejecting the "pure luck" explanation.

আলহামদুলিল্লাহ, বাংলাদেশ থেকে বলছি মুসলমান মুসলমানদের ভাই, আমাদের ভাইদের জন্য সারাজীবন দোয়া থাকবে

Şehit Pilot Yüzbaşı Cengiz Topel ❤🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 Seni hiçbir zaman unutmayacağız Ruhun Şad Mekanın Cennet olsun

Hilarious how all the people on the island in this video are speaking turkish but not greek.

Thank you Turkish army for saving inccent lives and for the stoping the killers from committing crimes and athinc Cleansing Thanks millions Turkish army from Algeria 🇩🇿

Good Job from the Turkish forces

Tüm gazilerimizi, şehitlerimizi ve askerlerimizi saygı ve rahmetle anıyorum

I was a kid then living in the city of Mersin in Turkey where this operation started from. I could count at least 50 helicopters flying over to Cyprus. There was a hospital in the area and when one of the helicopters landed near the hospital I could not believe how much dust blew over. It was like a giant fan blowing on the dusty field. My father was a cop and he told me the private bus companies carried some the troops from their bases. It was a hot summer day and people were bringing in all kinds of refreshing treats to the soldiers. One of my cousins served on the island and I asked him a number of questions. In short he told me the war wasn't like it was shown in the movies.

TURKS COMMİNG ,RUUUNNN HELLAS

2:05 the baby lol Anyways, these are very valuable footages that deserve to be watched more. Invaluable results of history.

2:53 There is no way they could have stopped an army that looks at death with a smile like this on their face.

During this war I was serving on HMS Hermes, a British commando carrier, with a large helicopter fleet, we were deployed to the Cyprus coast to help rescue tourists and other innocent civilians trying to escape this conflict.

I love the fact that how Westards doesn't know it was actually Turkiye who made current Southern Cyprus government but Greeks still got greedy and wanted to wipe out Turks then in 1974, became a failed state. After that Turkiye used it's right on Treaty of Guarantee to land on the Island.

How did you know to be there for the reportage?

Many Westerns forget that not just the North but also the South owes it's freedom to Türkiye. It was Greece who wanted to occupy Cyprus not Türkiye. Türkiye just intervened to make sure that Turks in Cyprus are safe. Türkiye did not attack to stop Cyprus join Greece, or to conquer it.

Turkish army was the biggest troop provider to NATO.

Ayşe tatile çıksın. Gurur verici.

Do you have videos about Nikos Samson 's EOKA coup and killing of the US Nicosia Ambassador by Greco-Cypriots ?

Still crazy how much the split was between North and South at that time.

Invasion? we saved our own people from the genocide we didn't invade the area where the Greeks lived

Abd süriye de ırakta ne yapıyor bide onu anlatsan

If you treat Turks bad than this happens......

We saw two face of western countries on this war. If EOKA plans organised by Turks, EU will destroy whole Turkish community on the island. But they did it to Turkish population before the war... Still they trying to blame Turkish side but their hands not powerfull because of what did EOKA in the past.

4:11 hope the Turkish kids were not killed by greek forces when they started shelling.

Not invasion an operation for stopping killings of turks by greeks and maintaining peace on the island. Operation was very succesful since than any active conflict occured on the island.

My grandad was at base in Cyprus when this started my grandma and mum too they were attack also had to hide on the beaches for evacuation

It was Turkish protectors of Cyprus. Greek invasion was stopped.

'Invasion'? You mean like, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya? No, it wasn't an invasion like those countries suffered. If anything, the Turks were the ones facing an invasion by the Greeks. The mission to secure the safety and freedoms of its citizens began just days after Britain turned down Turkey's request for help in finding a peaceful settlement. As a result, Turkey was forced to go it alone, and did what any honourable nation would do to protect its citizens and lands.

Drop zone is the Ormophito Plaine. Just north of Nicosia.

it was not invasion , Turkish Army brought peace to island stopped Greek killers

This was may be the most rightful defending operation of a minority. Turks were massacred, no one can deny it and took years with diplomacy but no success. Greek junta and terrorist wanted the whole island get part of Greece and of course this is casus belli.

Not for petrol, not for democracy, not for gas! For our people in the Cyprus 🇹🇷

I am from India I just came to north cyprus for study (Near East University) I loved this video explaining history I am currently in Lefkosa I can imagine the scene those days

I this is wrong title, it should be Turkish defence of Turkish Cypriots

Tesadüf eseri ingiliz gazeteci ortada olmasa bu görüntüler hiç olmayacaktı

tüm şehitlerimizi saygı minnet le aniyouruz Allah mekanlarını cennet kılsın emenetiniz emenetimizdir🤘🇹🇷gazilerimiden hayatta olanlara sağlıklı ömürler niyazederim allahtan

Tüm şehitlerimizin ruhu şaad olsun.Şanlı ordumuz var olsun.Rahmetli Ecevit sen ne büyük adammışssın rahmet olsun.

I was nine years old living with my parents in Istanbul I remember this very well.Nothing was pleasant about the war

Wrong headline! „Turkish peace rescue Operation against Greek invasors and genezoiders.“ it should be.

it is not "invasion", silly. It was an "intervention" that had to be done to protect the Turkish 40% of the population on this once-Ottoman island.

Although I understand that based on existing treaties Turkey should protect a part of the population, there are better ways to do so. So, when peace is restored you leave the two communities to live together in peace. As it was planned and agreed originally. You do not invade again for the 2nd time while all parts are negotiating. You don't send thousands of people to live in the island in order to change the population balance. Macarios was hugely responsible for many bad decisions. That does not justify all later Turkish actions. As Greek I'm deeply ashamed for this video anyway.

Not invasion, its liberation and protection.

İnvasion ? Really ? Cyprus is since 1573 Turkish land. British annexed Cyprus. Just as Crimea is Ukrainian territory.

Amazing heart these Turkish paratroopers had. Jumping into battle to save the civilians in the north from extermination from the Greeks.

Not invasion it is prevention of genocide.

For a combat jump they seemed awful high. Maybe the camera angle. Can't be sure.

Asil Askerlerimiz Allah Hepsinden Razı Olsun Tüm Şehitlerimizin Mekanı Cennet Olsun Gurur Duyuyorum Herzaman Onlarla🇹🇷

Güçlüyüz, cesuruz, hazırız!

It is f-- crazy to see people jump out of sky with a bag strapped to their back and a gun in their hand to go to war...

You spelled LIBERATION wrong

Fascinating!! Invasions/liberations used to be like picnic :)

Really Perfect...

Cyprus was already Turkish territory. A peace operation was carried out to stop the occupation and genocide of the Greeks.

My God save Turkey and its People we want peace and be respected These soldiers are the grandsons of Çanakkale Victor they know whst iş war and Will give up all for our nation

3:11 this is what Russia thought invading ukraine was going to be like.

YOU NEVER ABANDON YOUR BLOODS, YOUR FAMILY....MAY ALLAH BLESS ALL THOSE TURKISH SOLDIERS WHO DIED WITH JANNAH...TURKEY❤

This operation and the sanctions that followed directly contributed to the development of the indigenous millitary aerospace and electronics industry thus paving the path to the Ukrainian folk classic "Bayraktar'. #kizilelma

Invasion?? That is Turkish land!! and greeks lost from long time ago

Tanrı Türkü Qorusun ! Tengri Biz Menen ! 💪🏻🇦🇿❤️🇹🇷❤️🇰🇿❤️🇹🇲❤️🇰🇬❤️🇺🇿❤️🇲🇳❤️🇭🇺❤️🇧🇬❤️🇵🇰❤️🇧🇾❤️🇷🇺❤️🇺🇦❤️🇨🇾(NCTR)🤜🏻 Qoy "dünya" ləqəbli avropa bizi düşman bilsin, biz onları cəzasını verəcəyik !

it is not invasion but a peace operation after which both sides have been living in peace

Rest in peace Mr.Nicholson.

You can tell that the journalist was an intelligent officer 🙄

The Greek Cypriot EOKA terrorist organization attacked the Turks in the 1960s. They attacked Turkish villages and killed the Turks. In fact, as far as I understand, you are unaware of the existence of Greek gangs who brutally murdered the wife and 3 children of Doctor Major Nihat İlhan, who was in charge of the Turkish Regiment Command, in the bathroom. The Turkish soldier did not go to the island that day because he was bored. It is an operation by the Turkish Armed Forces against Nikos Sampson and his gang, who suspend the 1960 Cyprus constitution by a coup d'etat and do not see the Turks as equal partners of the Cyprus state, for justifiable reasons. In fact, Greek Cypriots and Greece should be grateful to Turkey. If Turkey had not made an operation, the Greeks would have been led by the EOKA mercenaries, and they would have attacked the Greeks who opposed them, not only would they have killed the Turks. In Greece, the Colonels' junta would gain power with the Nikos Sampson coup in Cyprus, and you would completely break Greece from democracy and you would now encounter a very different Greece

you misspelled liberation

2:07 the baby in lady arms had a rough day..

It is such a Stupidty of the Reporter that Turkish soldiers are invaders. Which folk would applaud a troop that is invade a country. A folk only applauds if theye are Rescued. Tell people about the Cyprus history and greeks. Cryprus Turks were killed by greek guerilla troops. If you are just a foreigner of the region you won't get it right your are not told what actually happened.

Güzel bir belgesel...tebrikler

May be you noticed that turkish cypriot radio announced the operation at 5 o'clock and the first paratroopers lamded at 6 o'clock... It was because of a silly mistake... Turkey had informed turkish cypriot leadership that the operation would start at 5 o'clock so that turkish resistance force would be alerted to help Turkish soliders. So that Turkish cypriots annpunced it in radio broadcastimg... but Turkey would intervene at 5 oclock of Turkish time but it was corresponding 6 o'clock in Cyprus time... Turkish cypriots made announce and waited for one hour with heavy concern.

Bro what is that random british journalist doing how did he knew💀

and britain was supporting greece even tho they were killing turks in the island it was like a smaller version of what happened in palestine but this time victory was for the opposite sides

The title is completely wrong. This was not an invasion. It was an intervention against the Greeks who were killing defenseless civilians.

This is so relatable, kudos to you and your work!

No mention hwo the greek invaded the island 1st

Brave Turkish soldiers stepped in to save Turkish Cypriots from the atrocities done against them by the Greeks

See how the soldiers you describe as invaders treat you and the people around you with respect.