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[Kypriotiki]

Remember the British expat named "Brian" who claimed he had been wrongly "deported" from the Republic of Cyprus? He resurfaced on the "atcanews.org" (Turkish Cypriot website) comments page with the following crap which I have copied and pasted:

Name: BRIAN SEMMENS
E-mail: [email protected]
Date Posted: 07:48, 16 08 2007
Message: Hi, some of you may know me (others not,) regardless of which, I have filed a citizens' petition with the European Parliament demanding to know why Turkish, an official language of a member state of the EU (the Republic of Cyprus,) has not been adopted as an official language of the EU in line with all other member states.

In addition I have filed a petition on the Downing Street web site asking the Prime Minster and the government of the UK support the petition in the European Parliament. I invite the members of this site/forum to visit the Downing Street web site and sign the petition.

Petition web link: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Turklang/

Please show your support and sign the petition


This Brian later posted under a Greek Cypriot sympathizer's handle on the comment's page, in an effort to discredit Greeks and the person who was trying to debate with the Turks. His two posts were only minutes apart.

[Svetlana]

The manner of his deportation was quite something; the Police arived; Brian who weighs some 32 stone, refused to travel to the airport in the police cruiser, chossing instead to use his Bentley. he then tore up the plane tickets given to him and booked Business Class!

He belonged to this Forum, some years ago.

Lana

[Sotos]

How do you know all those details Lana? Do you know this guy?

[denizaksulu]

How do you know all those details Lana? Do you know this guy?

RoC Secret Service , me thinks.

[paliometoxo]

wtf crap is that? when is turkey or north cy part of eu whats he on about an official eu language? like hell

[denizaksulu]

wtf crap is that? when is turkey or north cy part of eu whats he on about an official eu language? like hell

Of coure he is referring to the Cyprus Constitution. I dont know if there is anybody who taks notice of the Constitution anymore.

Regards
DA

[Sotos]

Our Euro coins also say "Kibris" on them I think EU decided about EU official languages not us. Maybe EU didn't care much to have Turkish

[erolz]

wtf crap is that? when is turkey or north cy part of eu whats he on about an official eu language? like hell

According to the EU the north part of Cyprus is in the EU, but EU law is suspended in this area currently. The basis of the argument is that Turkish is one of the two offical languages of the RoC and as such it should also be an offical EU language.

[erolz]

Our Euro coins also say "Kibris" on them I think EU decided about EU official languages not us. Maybe EU didn't care much to have Turkish

The decision on offical languages was made between and agreed by both the RoC and the EU commission during the RoC's accession process. The RoC submitted only Greek as the offical langauge of the RoC, despite the consitutional contradictions in this and the EU comission "agreed there was no point in undertaking the huge cost of introducing a language which would not be used unless a settlement was reached."

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... &archive=1

[DT.]

Our Euro coins also say "Kibris" on them I think EU decided about EU official languages not us. Maybe EU didn't care much to have Turkish

The decision on offical languages was made between and agreed by both the RoC and the EU commission during the RoC's accession process. The RoC submitted only Greek as the offical langauge of the RoC, despite the consitutional contradictions in this and the EU comission "agreed there was no point in undertaking the huge cost of introducing a language which would not be used unless a settlement was reached."

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.ph ... &archive=1

maybe we should have listed the invasion anniversary as one of our holidays as well?