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[metecyp]

This is an article by Sener Levent. It was published yesterday and it's a reaction to the bicommunal Katalizmos celebration organized at Palm Beach in the north. I tried to roughly translate it from Turkish.


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Katalizmos

We need a crying wall, not a festival garden...

We need water to cleanse us from the dirt of our souls, not a sea to swim in to cool down.

To purify us from the sin of organizing a festival in the shadow of our houses ruined by bombs.

To relieve us from the shame of not trying to find the murderers of Isaac and Solomo.

Whose crazy person's idea was to organize a festival in the garden of a house that was bombed 30 years ago and whose sisters were raped?

Excuse me but I can't understand this.

Next to you is the valley of snakes, Varosha.

Snakes are also amazed.

You're dancing on the beach..

You're singing songs...

In the shadows of the buildings whose bullet wounds are not healed yet.

I would understand if you at least had a single soul locked in these songs...

But everybody is singing a different song in the hidden corners of his body.

Even the peace and unification wishes don't unify you...

What's the benefit of two ministers to shout "We want peace" on the stage for the peace?

If you could slip from your dreams and return to reality on this bomb-ghosts roaming beach, you would realize if you were friends or enemies.

But you are not brave enough for this.

Ask if you wish.

To the crowd you're singing the peace songs with, if there's one person saying "Give Varosha back to its old owners"

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What's the difference of such crowd from an orgasm-faking woman?

What one says invasion, other calls celebration.

One holds festivities on 20th of July, the other mourns.

One says "Give Varosha"

Other says "Not without solution"

One says "Isolations should be lifted"

Other says "Should not be lifted"

One says "Planes should land to Ercan"

Other doesn't want it.

The state in the north is pseudo for one; it's real for the other.

But everyone can sing peace songs by hiding all these in the depths of his soul.

There's no harm in writing "Big Peace Ceremony" in the newspapers as well, right?

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Are we the most two-faced people of the world?

Are we the most afraid to show our true face?

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Is it more important to look like peace-lovers than actually making peace?

Are we afraid that we would be alone if we tell the truth?

What's our difference from the chauvinist leaders of ours that we blame all the time?

We want peace but they don't, right?

I think we have another more serious difference.

More important than this.

They carry out the negotiations and bargaining.

We carry out the festivals and songs!

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We need a crying wall, not a festival garden...

To get together and to shed tears together.

To cry for our helplessness and impotence.

It's probably better than being seen as peace-heroes who cannot make peace.

It would relieve us from admitting that we prefer bizonality while singing that we all want to live together.

Instead of swimming in that sea to cool down, it's better if we drown in that water that would cleanse us from the dirts of our souls!

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[Kifeas]

To the crowd you're singing the peace songs with, if there's one person saying "Give Varosha back to its old owners"

Varosha? which Varosha? which owners? 90% of varosha belongs to EVKAF! That is what EVKAF claims!

[metecyp]

90% of varosha belongs to EVKAF! That is what EVKAF claims!

This should be very easy to verify, right? We must have all the records from the British time. So what's the issue?

[Othellos]

90% of varosha belongs to EVKAF! That is what EVKAF claims!

This should be very easy to verify, right? We must have all the records from the British time. So what's the issue?

There is no issue in reality and therefore there is nothing to verify. I remember reading that a Court of Law ruled against them when EVKAF raised the "issue" before them many years ago (I think this happened in 1962 and the Judge was a TC). The modern town of Famagusta (a.k.a Varosi) belongs to its 35,000 inhabitants who became refugees after Turkey's invasion in the summer of 1974.

Apparently in year 2005 some have started to search for ways to take possesion of and exploit and use what is not theirs in the first place.

O.

P.S: "Kataklysmos", not "Katalismos"

[Main_Source]

I think we knew what mete was trying to say.

[Yiannis]

Can someone explain me whats EVKAF.

[Kifeas]

Can someone explain me whats EVKAF.

Evkaf is the religious foundation of the TCs, similar to the Church of Cyprus.

[metecyp]

Apparently in year 2005 some have started to search for ways to take possesion of and exploit and use what is not theirs in the first place.

How can they claim that some land belongs to Evkaf if it's completely baseless? There must be some truth to it. I'm as skeptical as you are but at the same time, I want to hear the story behind it, if anyone knows.

P.S: "Kataklysmos", not "Katalismos"

I just translated from what Sener Levent wrote. I think we refer to it as Katalizmos in Turkish anyway.

[Kifeas]

Statements by the Government Spokesman - 21.06.2005
Government Spokesman - EU Regulations - talks in Brussels

"The Government Spokesman Mr Kypros Chrysostomides, invited to comment yesterday on whether the Turkish Cypriot side had proposed the return of Famagusta in the event that the Greek Cypriot side accepted direct trade and the management of its port by the Turkish Cypriots, said: “What they asked for, was the adoption of the two regulations beforehand, namely, the financial assistance to the Turkish Cypriots and the regulation on direct trade, the opening of ports and airports and, once this was done, they would then be willing to discuss the issue of Famagusta, of Varosha, that is, the opening of the closed town of Famagusta. However, they mentioned something which Mr Denktash persistently used to say, namely that 90% of the area of Varosha belongs to the Turkish Religion Foundation (EVKAF) and that it is an issue which should be dealt with by the courts. They had not given, that is, any specific indication on this. On the contrary, they wanted everything beforehand and pursued political upgrading and basically recognition: the opening of all ports and airports etc, before accepting to discuss the issue of Famagusta under the condition I said before which is the examination of the issue of ownership that the area of Varosha allegedly belongs to EVKAF.”

Mr Chrysostomides categorically denied a report in the Turkish Cypriot press that the Greek Cypriot side’s position was negative during the recent deliberations in Brussels and that the Deputy Foreign Minister of Luxembourg Mr Nicolas Schmit had noted it. “I wish to say that the Luxembourg presidency acted tirelessly and impartially and made every effort to reach a solution, something which the Government of Cyprus notes with gratitude. The whole effort failed due to insistence of the Turkish Cypriot side on its own positions”, Mr Chrysostomides said."

[Main_Source]

Like I said in a previous post...the ball is in Talat's court. You can't tell me that the proposals made by the RoC in the recent talks were not fair or generally negative.