Get Real! wrote:lovernomore wrote:to eraly to talk of flag. Read problems and see very litle hope for reunificaton.
UN special envoy warns 2009 last chance for peace in Cyprus
The article you posted is junk from the Hurriet… (ALWAYS INCLUDE YOUR LINK)
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/worl ... sp?gid=244When it comes to the CyProb, never-ever read Turkish or Turkish Cypriot newspaper articles!
All statements supposedly made by Downer or some “UN report” in this article are bogus.
Downer would NEVER make a statement like… “The UN is tired of the Cyprus problem” or refer to the RoC as “the Greeks”.
Also, doing a search for the alleged statements should return just the one manufactured hit.
The entire article is not worth the paper it was written on.
Unfortunately the truth is that Downer did say the things Turkish newspapers “Sabah” and “Hurriyet” attribute to him, and for this he has no place anymore as a UN mediator in Cyprus. I have reasons to believe he did say them, and he was not convincing at all in his (non-)rejection statements yesterday, after Christofias and Talat meeting. When a supposedly neutral mediator adopts the Turkish propaganda mottos, namely that it was a mistake that the EU promised membership to Cyprus without a solution and that this will be the last chance and if the problem is not solved by 2009, partition will follow, then the best thing the GC side has to do is to demand his urgent replacement.
The above claims (slogans) were initiated the last 2-3 years by the Turkish propaganda, and subsequently were also adopted and circulated around Europe and the international community by the conservative Anglo-American web of politicians, media (FT, WSJ, etc) and “think tanks” such as the ICG, for the sole purpose of promoting and facilitating Turkey’s EU accession process through the neutralizing her obligations and responsibilities in Cyprus. This propaganda policy aims at victimizing the EU for Turkey’s non-substantial accession progress, by projecting it as the wrong doer; and at the same time to undermine and neutralize the GC side’s moral substratum in the EU. It furthermore aims at intimidating the GC side through the blackmailing and extorting notion that this will be the last chance for a solution, and that partition will follow if it does not (essentially) capitulate to the Turkish claims and expectations.
For this Anglo-American conservative and imperialist web of Turkey’s friends, it is not a mistake that Turkey (illegally) invaded Cyprus 1974, it is not a mistake that it usurped the GC properties in the north and is looting them ever since, it is not a mistake that Turkey transfers for its own population in the north to permanently alter the demographics of the place, it is not a mistake that Turkey illegally occupies Cyprus for 35 years and has in this way been violating human rights and contributing to the isolation of the TC community, it is not a mistake that for thirdly (30) long years Turkey’s Cyprus policy was based on Ecevi’s and Denktash’s doctrine that “the Cyprus problem was solved once and for all in 1974,” it is not a mistake that the UN, the EU and the US have done close to nothing against any of the above wrongdoings of Turkey; but it is only a mistake that the EU admitted Cyprus as its member without a solution for which (non-solution) Turkey primarily bears the responsibility, as it was documented both by the EU and the UN up until Cyprus’ EU accession.
After allowing for more than 3 decades all the above, and after allowing the years to pass without telling turkey even once off; because now there is a need for Turkey to have a solution urgently for the sake of her EU aspirations, they started blackmailing the GC side which was and still is essentially the victim of all the past wrongdoings of Turkey, that this is the “last chance.” Where this pro-Turkish Anglo-American conservative web -whose membership it seems Downer has proudly attained, has been all these years?
The GC side should immediately call for Downer’s replacement, before worst things come out of his mouth and actions! He is very dangerous!
That is just as bad as the Cypriot/French design.
