Get Real! wrote:observer wrote:Dr Ernst Forsthoff, the neutral President of the Supreme Constitutional Court actually sent his letter of resignation to Makarios on 21 May 1963, it becoming effective on 15 July, after Makarios declared that he would not comply with the decision of the Supreme Constitutional Court regarding municipalities.
Surely the British, the UN, and/or some other authority would’ve recorded something about a neutral President of the Supreme Constitutional Court of the RoC being “FORCED TO RESIGN BY MAKARIOS”!
So, let’s do a search for …
“Dr. Ernst Forsthoff was forced to resign”
Here is the result…
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0g ... 1&ei=UTF-8
In which you’ll find that the ONLY websites that claim that “Dr. Ernst Forsthoff was forced to resign” are the following…
The Turkish Weekly… (our friend Ata ATUN!)
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=48593
Today's Zaman (our friend Ata ATUN again!)
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/yazar ... rno=122278
The “TRNC presidency”
http://www.trncinfo.com/tanitmadairesi/ ... PAGE09.htm
The standard ATCA acrobat propaganda manual…
http://www.atcanews.org/archive/HISTORI ... GROUND.pdf
And the remaining few sites in this search are irrelevant to the issue!
Why don't you take another 48 hours to hopefully find a CREDIBLE SOURCE including the alleged letter. Good luck.
Where did I say anything about Ernst Forsthoff being "forced to resign"? I only said that he resigned, and months before "the intercommunal hostilities" began, because of Makarios saying that he would not obey the rulings of the Supreme Constitutional Court.
The RoC's own website says that the makeup of the Supreme Constitutional Court, as laid down in the Constitution, was changed. Article 182 of the Constitution says that the Constitution may only be changed "by a law passed by a majority vote comprising at least two-thirds of the total number of the Representatives belonging to the Greek Community and at least two-thirds of the total number of the Representatives belonging to the Turkish Community". As this obviuosly did not happen, and Makarios was the head of the government that took this unconstitutional step, I believe my statement still stands.
