{"id":20938,"date":"2010-07-28T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20938"},"modified":"2010-07-28T14:55:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T12:55:57","slug":"cyprus-what-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/07\/28\/cyprus-what-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"CYPRUS: WHAT PEACE?"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Rauf R.DENKTAS<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\u201cPeace is not merely the absence of war, but presence of the rule<\/div>\n
of law, justice democracy and human rights\u201d is the view of Mr. Andreas<\/div>\n
S.Kakouris who is accepted by the US Government as \u201cthe ambassador<\/div>\n
of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States\u201d, and he laments \u201call of<\/div>\n
these elements are missing because of the continuing Turkish occupation<\/div>\n
of nearly 37 percent of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus and<\/div>\n
massive violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, the direct<\/div>\n
result of an armed illegal invasion by Turkey in 1974;\u201d(!)<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Since, Mr. Kakouris is championing \u201cthe rule of law, justice,<\/div>\n
democracy and human rights\u201d it becomes relevant to query his<\/div>\n
credentials as \u201cthe ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United<\/div>\n
Nations\u201d. I am sure both Kakouris himself and the US authorities who<\/div>\n
have accepted him as \u201cthe ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the<\/div>\n
United states\u201d know too well, that this appointment is flawed from a<\/div>\n
legal point of view because the consent and signature of the Turkish<\/div>\n
Cypriot Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus, whose existence was<\/div>\n
denied by Archbishop Makarios back in 1963 when he declared that he<\/div>\n
no longer recognized a vice-president because all aspects of the 1960<\/div>\n
constitution which had established a partnership Republic between the<\/div>\n
Turkish and Greek Cypriots had been changed was rejected by the Greek<\/div>\n
Cypriot Administration (the usurpers of the title of the Republic since<\/div>\n
1963) as from that date. Turkish Cypriot partner community was offered<\/div>\n
minority status: They could only come back to the \u201cCypriot fold\u201d if only<\/div>\n
they accepted minority rights in a Greek Cypriot Cyprus.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In other words the usurpers of power in the island had put<\/div>\n
themselves in a position which could not be defended constitutionally,<\/div>\n
legally or morally. In fact the onslaught on Turkish Cypriots was for<\/div>\n
uniting the island with Greece the prohibition of which was the essence<\/div>\n
of the 1960 Agreements! In other words, long before Turkey came to<\/div>\n
Cyprus as a guarantor, in order to prevent the declaration of Enosis and<\/div>\n
the destruction of the Turkish Cypriot partner, it is the Greek Cypriot<\/div>\n
leaders and their government who defied the rule of law, justice,<\/div>\n
democracy and human rights, by destroying the partnership Republic in<\/div>\n
the name of Enosis.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The fact that in this era of big-power politics, the rule of law and<\/div>\n
constitutionality of appointments can be easily and lamentably ignored,<\/div>\n
does not absolve Mr. Kakouris from his obligation to be truthful while<\/div>\n
projecting the Cyprus problem to the world.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The title of his article to CNN on July 9, 2010 is \u201cCyprus is not at<\/div>\n
peace with Turkey\u201d and naturally his story begins with the arrival of<\/div>\n
guarantor Turkey in July 1974. Forgetting that Turkey intervened in<\/strong><\/div>\n
order to prevent Enosis and protect Turkish Cypriot partner from further<\/strong><\/div>\n
atrocities.<\/strong> The amnesia of the ambassador \u201cto the events between<\/div>\n
December 1963 and July 1974\u201d is a national disease but even this does<\/div>\n
not give the ambassador a free license to lie to the world at large. This is<\/div>\n
not a wild accusation-anyone who conveniently forgets the beginning of<\/div>\n
a true story and tells his own version of it may be a good story-teller but<\/div>\n
his lies will soon be discovered by truly interested, independent<\/div>\n
observers. A cursory look at the Genocide Files by Gibbons, a four<\/div>\n
hundred plus page book and a look at the Akritas Plan will suffice to put<\/div>\n
Mr. Kakouris on the top-list of story-tellers in the world. But, after all,<\/div>\n
that is what he is paid for by his masters back at home, called \u201cthe<\/div>\n
Republic of Cyprus\u201d which in fact is what is left of this partnership<\/div>\n
Republic after Greek Cypriot side destroyed it in the name of Enosis.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The Turkish intervention in 1974 did not only prevent the<\/div>\n
declaration of Enosis, by the arch-murderer Nicos Sampson, but it also<\/div>\n
saved thousands of AKEL members from summary execution while it put<\/div>\n
an end to the colonel\u2019s rule in Athens; that, 20th July 1974 was, in fact,<\/div>\n
the day Turkish Cypriots were saved from mass graves or from forced<\/div>\n
migration as in the case of the island of Crete in 1900\u2019s is an undeniable<\/div>\n
fact in the light of Makarios\u2019 statement<\/strong> that \u201cif Turkey comes to save the<\/strong><\/div>\n
Turkish Cypriots, Turkey will find no Turkish Cypriot to save\u201d.<\/strong><\/div>\n
By the time Turkish soldiers moved to the Famagusta area the<\/div>\n
unarmed civilians of Murata\u011fa, Sandallar and Aloa, were killed and<\/div>\n
buried in mass graves, without sparing 16 day old babies, one to<\/div>\n
fourteen year old children and grand parents in their eighties or nineties.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Until saved by Turkey, 40,000 of Turkish Cypriots, the inhabitants<\/strong><\/div>\n
of 103 villages, who had fled to safer areas were forced to live in 3% of<\/strong><\/div>\n
the area of Cyprus, denied all their constitutional and human rights from<\/strong><\/div>\n
1963 to 1975. How can Mr. Kakouris talk about denial of Justice to his<\/strong><\/div>\n
people, just because Turkey, acting under the Treaties of 1960 saved<\/strong><\/div>\n
Turkish Cypriots from this fate and prevented the handing over of the<\/strong><\/div>\n
island to Greece?<\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\u201cPeace is not merely the absence of war\u201d, true! But in the case of<\/strong><\/div>\n
Cyprus peace between the two ex-partners requires absolute honesty<\/strong><\/div>\n
about the causes of the conflict and not story tellers trying to convince<\/strong><\/div>\n
the world that a Greek Cyprus has been occupied by Turkey. <\/strong>What is<\/div>\n
needed is a permanent settlement, therefore putting an end to these lies<\/div>\n
and allowing the two ex-partners to live in security in their respective<\/div>\n
states while agreeing to cooperate on matters of mutual interest is the<\/div>\n
way to a permanent settlement. Good neighbourliness is the ultimate<\/div>\n
answer!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Rauf R.DENKTAS \u201cPeace is not merely the absence of war, but presence of the rule of law, justice democracy and human rights\u201d is the view of Mr. Andreas S.Kakouris who is accepted by the US Government as \u201cthe ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States\u201d, and he laments \u201call of these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,225,922],"tags":[3312,343,3313],"class_list":["post-20938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus-trnc","category-greece","category-world","tag-enosis","tag-makarios","tag-the-akritas-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}