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[Get Real!]

Turkey’s Dirty Harry...

“Harry Scott Gibbons” is the fictional invention of the Center for Strategic Research of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. The idea is for Turkey to pretend that “foreign authors” are condemning the Republic Of Cyprus and promoting the Turkish invasion & occupation of Cyprus despite Turkey’s international condemnation, as bizarre as it may sound…

http://www.sam.gov.tr/about.php


The site claims that…

“Harry Scott Gibbons is a journalist. He served in the Middle East, Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and the United States and is the author of the book The Genocide Files, published by Charles Bravos, London, 1997.”

…yet, not the slightest shred of evidence exists that such a journalist exists let alone one that “served” on Cyprus. Another interesting point is the total lack of moral values this “journalist” displays in all his writings and reminiscent of the typical Turkish foreign policy psyche. Seriously, what is the probability that a complete foreigner will agree with Turkey’s stance 100%?

http://www.sam.gov.tr/volume6c.php


It is no surprise that the overall Cyprus Problem stance of the fictional “Harry Scott Gibbons” is the well-known and erroneous Republic of Turkey stance…

“The Cyprus problem was solved in July 1974, when the Turkish Armed Forces intervened in…”

http://www.sam.gov.tr/perceptions/Volum ... BONS_6.PDF


To conclude, anything written by the pen name of “Harry Scott Gibbons”, such as "The Genocide files" is not worth the paper it is written on.

Regards, GR.

[coremax]

Truly unbelievable...
read here...

[observer]

You'd think that his wife would know this as she writes detective stories!
http://archive.worcesternews.co.uk/2006 ... 07578.html

Murder... in Evesham, she wrote
From the archive, first published Thursday 30th Mar 2006.

M C Beaton's latest book to be published in this country is entitled Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham. The wizard in question is a hearthrob hairdresser who captivates the heroine before being exposed as having a rather nasty sideline as a blackmailer and is eventually murdered in his own salon.

Publisher Constable & Robinson confirmed the author would be happy to be interviewed. But when the summons came, `M C Beaton would be happy to see me in her Evesham hairdresser's', I began to feel a little edgy.

Of course, the fears were completely without foundation. M C Beaton - aka Marion Gibbons - turned out to be a charming "grannybe" and hairdresser Gareth Martin certainly didn't look like a blackmailer...I think.

Marion is a successful, full-time author whose works include the Hamish McBeth series successfully translated onto the small screen by the BBC. Married to modern history writer Harry Scott Gibbons, the couple divide their time between their Cotswolds home in Blockley and Paris.

.........and more about her writing

[Get Real!]

Truly unbelievable...
read here...

Thanks for the link... Oh, the shame of it all!

[Get Real!]

You'd think that his wife would know this as she writes detective stories!
http://archive.worcesternews.co.uk/2006 ... 07578.html

Murder... in Evesham, she wrote
From the archive, first published Thursday 30th Mar 2006.

M C Beaton's latest book to be published in this country is entitled Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham. The wizard in question is a hearthrob hairdresser who captivates the heroine before being exposed as having a rather nasty sideline as a blackmailer and is eventually murdered in his own salon.

Publisher Constable & Robinson confirmed the author would be happy to be interviewed. But when the summons came, `M C Beaton would be happy to see me in her Evesham hairdresser's', I began to feel a little edgy.

Of course, the fears were completely without foundation. M C Beaton - aka Marion Gibbons - turned out to be a charming "grannybe" and hairdresser Gareth Martin certainly didn't look like a blackmailer...I think.

Marion is a successful, full-time author whose works include the Hamish McBeth series successfully translated onto the small screen by the BBC. Married to modern history writer Harry Scott Gibbons, the couple divide their time between their Cotswolds home in Blockley and Paris.

.........and more about her writing

One thing you have learned from the Greeks, and even surpassed them, is the fine art of Mythology!

[Oracle]

This Dirty Harry is such a political animal, an intellectual heavyweight and heroic historian that he has a second notable book under his cider-drinking, West Country Bumpkin belt ...

Tall Woman: Story of Virginia Dare
by Harry Scott Gibbons

So he has "moved up" from writing about Romantic Ladies, which don't sell, to fiction for the Turks ...

[Nikitas]

Hey, a guy's gotta make a living!

He is not the only one. Read Paul Theroux's the Pillars of Hercules to see how authors know very well on which side their bread is buttered. But eventually lies catch up with one, and in Theroux's case he traps himself in his own book.

[Get Real!]

Hey, a guy's gotta make a living!

He is not the only one. Read Paul Theroux's the Pillars of Hercules to see how authors know very well on which side their bread is buttered. But eventually lies catch up with one, and in Theroux's case he traps himself in his own book.

I’d have more respect for these people if they sold their mothers for a living than their blatant attempts to distort history, for only a very foul upbringing could possibly lead to such disgraceful behavior.

[lovernomore]

Hey, a guy's gotta make a living!

He is not the only one. Read Paul Theroux's the Pillars of Hercules to see how authors know very well on which side their bread is buttered. But eventually lies catch up with one, and in Theroux's case he traps himself in his own book.

I’d have more respect for these people if they sold their mothers for a living than their blatant attempts to distort history, for only a very foul upbringing could possibly lead to such disgraceful behavior.

your feelings about tcs is no diferent than tcs feeling you greeks/cypriots. we think you are the scum of this planet. you lie, you dsitort history, you thing you are superior when you're just paesents, the list is endles. all the reason to stay separate no?

[Tim Drayton]

Well, you can buy this book from Amazon, so I suspect that this work and its author do exist.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genocide-Files- ... 0951446428