Talk:Nikos Sampson

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This guy should have never existed. He brought onto the Greeks much misery. (UNFanatic 05:10, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC))

Birth

Regarding date and place of birth, this source claims Sampson was born 1935 in Nicosia. Also, it seems he died May 9, 2001. Rl 06:51, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Archangel of Freedom

Fought for freedom. Good man. --GreekWarrior 11:51, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

____________ The Turks would say the same of their troops... --SolDrury 18:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I would compare Mr. Sampson's presidency to an alternate history in which David Duke had been elected U.S. President in 1968. RadManCF (talk) 02:30, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Murderer of Turkish and Greek Cypriots

This guy was a fascistic Greek racist. He ordered the murder of many Turkish and Greek Cypriots, including women and children. The Turkish government replied to the attempted genocide of Turks with a division of the island into two: That of the Turks and that of the Greeks.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.27.160.248 (talk) 09:49, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Sampson deserves more than any other person credit for the partition of Cyprus. Considering what would have happened to the Turkish Cypriot populace had the coup prevailed, I think that Turkey did the only possible thing.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Expatkiwi (talk) • contribs) 02:04, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

=Lol, englishman or american, 7/7, 9/11 my friend, lets hope more are coming!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.186.227 (talk) 19:01, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Nikos Sampson was a brave man. He was a man that stood for a greater Cyprus. He was betrayed and put as president of Cyprus. He didn't want anything but the best for Cyprus.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.36.35.28 (talk) 22:17, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

He was a great family man.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.36.35.28 (talk) 22:18, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

All he wanted was Enosis and the complete Hellenisation of the island.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Expatkiwi (talk) • contribs) 15:47, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

I am Greek, Sampson was a fascist scum bag and he doesn't represent all of us. He caused us such misery with his stupid policies.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.64.26.69 (talk) 06:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Turks were fucking sampson's mother and they still fuck mothers of all apoelistes.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.69.28.32 (talk) 00:26, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Source for calling Sampson terrorist

Here is a high-quality reliable source on "Sampson the terrorist" and "Sampson the genocidal murderer". Use it freely. Especially pay attention to chapter Sadistic Reputation on page 4.

• "CYPRUS: Big Troubles over a Small Island". TIME. July 29, 1974.

Quotes:

A notorious terrorist, Nikos Giorgiades Sampson, 39, was picked as the new President.

Sampson, 39, who has openly bragged of killing at least a dozen men... He was one of about two dozen powerful right-wing "warlords" who maintained small private armies for attacks on Turkish enclaves.

"Sampson is a thug and killer, pure and simple."

Sampson would frequently be "the first reporter on the scene. The reason, of course, was that he himself had committed the murders.

-- Petri Krohn (talk) 09:35, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Sampson

"...He was a great family man..." . No doubt he loved animals too and doubtless his neighbours spoke well of him. Much the same was said of Adolf Eichmann amongst others. Sampson was a convicted murderer whose deluded obsession with enosis and ethnic cleansing led (ironically) to what now seems to be a permanent division of the island. He had not only Turkish but British and even Greek Cypriot blood on his hands. A real Ratko Mladic in his day was Sampson...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.97.206.199 (talk) 20:15, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Neither an angel nor a devil

Having fought along the anti-colonial guerilla warfare of EOKA against the British would obviously make him a ruthless gunman to any Englishman (as would any IRA fighter), but a resistance hero to others. If we are to a follow Wiki-NPOV we must refrain from moralistic ejaculations. The events in 1974 are remain quite contoversial. There is nothing black-and-white about the events leading to the anti-Makarios coup and the ensuing Turkish invasion. Demonizing Sampson alone for what happened then is certainly an easy thing to do, but quite at the risk of sweeping other peoples' responsibilities under the carpet. Rastapopoulos 15:05, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Quotes

I have the following quote I would like added to the main article

"Had Turkey not intervened I would not only have proclaimed Enosis but I would have annihilated the Turks in Cyprus." Sampsun to Eleftherotipia February 26, 1981 --SolDrury 18:01, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Anyone have a link to the original Greek text for this quote ? A right winger like Nikos Sampson would never, under any circumstances, use the word "intervened" when Turkey "invaded". It's like a right wing Turk saying Turkey "invaded" Cyprus, instead of "intervened" in Cyprus. There is an obvious translation issue here and so the rest of the translated quote is suspect too. The original Greek text is needed. Perseus1982 (talk) 09:59, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

He said επέμβει, which I would translate as 'interfere' -- as in, Turkey interfered in his plans. Alakzi (talk) 11:53, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a forum

Please narrow the content of your posts to the discussions about the article "stricto sensu" - all other posts can be removed per talk page guidelines. Thank you. Baristarim 06:37, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:NSAMPSON.JPG

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Template

The president of Cyprus template should removed or we can add his name. See also Template talk:CypriotPresidents about the discussion upon this issue.--Vagrand (talk) 18:20, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Edit warring and POV-pushing

Chat in the article like "The last statement is not historically correct. There was no invasion of the Greek junta but a military coup orchestated by the Greek dictator "' is unencyclopaedic, and there are a great many POV, unreferenced statements in the article. I'd like to ask that the edit-warring please stop. I'm going to ask for expert assistance on this, rather than revert the changes made by User:Marios Adamides again. Lone boatman (talk) 14:55, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

I noted that Cyprus articles are prone to this and consider community sanctions similar to those instituted for The Troubles articles may be necessary Kernel Saunters (talk) 15:00, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Edit Nicos Sampson

I tried to clarify the beginning of the article and also supplied the Charles Foley sources. I hope this was helpful. Christos Christos Evangeli (talk) 01:16, 20 September 2012 (UTC)