Cyprus and the Cyprus Problem
Cyprus
has been culturally and historically, for thousands of years, 
a
Greek island in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Cyprus
has been culturally and historically, for thousands of years, a
Greek island in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
"We are all prisoners of knowledge. To know how Cyprus was betrayed, and to have studied the record of that betrayal, is to make oneself unhappy and to spoil, perhaps for ever, one's pleasure for visiting one of the word's most enchanting islands. Nothing will ever restore the looted treasures, the bereaved families, the plundered villages and the groves and hillsides scalded with napalm. Nor will anything mitigate the record of the callous and crude politicians who regarded Cyprus as something on which to scribble their inane and conceited designs. But fatalism would be the worst betrayal of all. The acceptance, the legitimization of what was done - those things must be repudiated. Such a refusal has a value beyond Cyprus in showing that acquiescence in injustice is not 'realism'. Once the injustice has been set down and described, and called by its right name, acquiescence in it becomes impossible. That is why one writes about Cyprus in sorrow but more - much more - in anger."
Christopher Hitchens, "Hostage in History: Cyprus", Washington, May 1997.
After been for 400 years, as the entire Greece, under Turkish occupation a Turkish minority of 18% remained in Cyprus, together with 78% of Greek Cypriots and 4% of Latins, Armenians and Maronites. The Turkish minority in Cyprus was created by Turkish settlers, who took advantage of the Ottoman occupation of Cyprus and the privileges offered to them due to their race, and by Greek Cypriots, who were forced to change their faith in order to save their lives during the Ottomans years.
In spite of the tortures we had suffered from the Ottomans and the fact that the overwhelming majority of Cyprus, who are Greek, wanted to unite the island with our motherland, Greece, we made the significant compromise to establish an independent state, the Republic of Cyprus.
We had agreed on establishing an independent state erasing the dream of many centuries of struggles against barbarians for freedom and unification with Greece as most other Greek islands had done, after the liberation of Greece from the Ottomans, taking into account the concerns of the Turkish Cypriots, who did not want to be part of Greece.
Although 97% of the Greek Cypriots, who themselves constituted the 78% of Cypriots wanted to be part of Greece, we gave up our undisputed, according to any civilized standards, right for self-determination democratically based on majority's will, to accomodate the Turkish Cypriot's concerns.
However, Turkey found that minority as an excuse as well as the CIA backed coop of the military Junta governing then Greece under the blessing of Kissinger to brutally invade and occupy the 40% of the island and most of the rich in resources areas including 65% of the beautiful Cypriot coasts. They murdered thousands of defenceless people, raped, burned, and destroyed everything on their way. People still do not know whether their love ones are still alive since 1619 people are still missing since 1974.
If the Turkish Cypriots had not been used by Turkey as an excuse
to set foot in Cyprus, we (all people of Cyprus of any nationality,
and religion) we would have been living in peace enjoying our
beautiful country.
Since we, the Greek Cypriots, gave up our dream for unification
with Greece in order to live under one state, the Republic of Cyprus,
in peace together with all other communities of Cyprus, the Turkish
Cypriots have no right of supporting the fascist and illegal occupation
of our land from Turkey. Fortunately, many Turkish/Cypriots are willing
to live in peace together with all other communities in the island,
while respecting the culture and value of each community.
However, their voices cannot be heard as they are suppressed by
the Turkish generals and the fanatics and nationalists in Turkey
and the occupied areas in Cyprus.
The relations between the Greek majority, and the Turkish, Maronite, Armenian, and Latin minorities of Cyprus were mostly peaceful, except of certain violent incidents that have been precipitated by fanatic nationalist Turks (and with the endless help of British and Americans according to the divide and conquer doctrine) with the aim of raising tensions and giving to Turkey a pretext to invade Cyprus.
However, as violence incidents have been committed by both Greek and Turkish fanbatics against innocent people from the other side, it is our (of all Cypriots) duty to recognize and condemn any violent and racist act against any Cypriot, in order to avoid repedition of such incidents, which have been used by external powers (i.e. CIA-backed Greek Junta (1967-74), Turkey and Agloamericans) to serve their interests while bringing misery and pain to our land.
For 27 years we, the Greek Cypriots, still do not have the right
to go to our own land, which is still illegally occupied by Turkey.
For 27 years Greek-Cypriots still wait for their 1619 missing love ones.
Do you want to see how it feels?
The 40% of Cyprus is under Turkish occupation for the last 27 years against numerous UN resolutions. Unfortunately, we have no ... oil, necessary for the .."New Order of Things" to work in our case. Its obvious that for the US foreign policy a barrel of crude oil worths much more than the dignity and the human rights of a nation with a 10,000 year history.
This is the "new order of things" that pres. Bush was talking in the early 90s? Should we name it a "new order of hypocrisy" When the US foreign policy-maker "humanoids" will take into account what is moral, just and according to basic human rights, and not only what happens to be their materialistic interest? Note: The 95% of the arms used to kill, rape, slaughter and keep occupying Cyprus are US made and provided...
One day we will bring down that bloody flag, for ever.
To all those hypocrites in the White House and the State Department, who claim that they straggle for the establishment of human rights and democracy, while they could not care less for anything other than their own materialistic interests, as they are the ones supplying the lethal machinery to the Turkish military pigs, let me remind you what you had voted in the UN General Assembly, on the evening of 1st November, 1974, with ALL countries in favor, with ZERO abstentions, and ZERO against:
If you feel bad about the acts of your country's army, paramilitaries,
and nationalists described in this page, you may help us make the presence
of such pages obsolete by asking your regime to follow the international
law and to respect our human rights and freedom. If there is something that
you should feel bad is not the presence of pages like this, which present
facts about the barbarity and cruelty of your nation, but the inaction on
your behalf to force your country (i.e. the military, the nationalists,
and the govermment, supported by the latter two groups)
to join the other civilized countries and respect basic human rights.
Only then, we will be able to live in peace for the future.
Dear Turkish Cypriots:
You are always welcome to live with us in peace, under one state,
the Republic of Cyprus, with full respect of everyone's human rights,
regardless of race, religion or whatever other preferences, with complete
demilitarization of our island, as a member of the European Union.
This implies that every citizen of Cyprus from any community should
love and protect our country and respect the rights, culture and
religion of every other Cypriot. It is the responsibility of all of us to
safeguard the rights of every single citizen of our Cyprus and live in
peace for the future, while looking into the past only to draw lessons for
the mistakes we did especially against the opposite community of our country.
This would benefit all of us, except the Turkish generals,
the nationalist grey wolfs, and the extremists of Denktash, since
it will make the presence and power of such fanatics obsolete.
It will be my greatest pleasure to delete this page as soon as a just and operational solution is found for the Cyprus problem, a solution that should be based on basic human rights and democratic principles, a solution that will allow every single refugee to return to her/his home, without any restrictions and/or limitations, as a citizen of a democratic country, member of the European Union.
