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[EPSILON]

Maybe some friendly Brit collector will "rescue" them for the British Museum ....

No, Brits don't need any more stones, they've got the elgin ones, what would they need any more for?

Yfred. You must consider the case ,instead of Attaturk's status, to start build Denktash status. Then the case will be more funny. I was always like the picture of Americans destroying Saddam's status in Bagdad. and believe me there are many buldozes in South.

[wyoming cowboy]

Why not build a statue of Mickey mouse instead it portrays the occuppied areas and Turkey better

[Floda]

Why not build a statue of Mickey mouse instead it portrays the occuppied areas and Turkey better

Better still, why not leave the statues intact and construct public conveniences around them ?, since they are located invariably in prominent positions, surely the 'New Use' would speak volumes to any visitors caught short.

Gentlemen could of course opt to be a little careless with their 'Aim'.

[Kifeas]

The Afrika newspaper’s comments on this issue:

http://www.afrikagazetesi.net/modules.p ... =0&thold=0

Knock it down immediately

Everyone is against it, but the military command is sticking to its guns! Is there nobody who can halt the construction of this monument which architects, engineers and town planners describe as a ‘death trap’? North Cyprus has turned into a land of flags, mosques and monuments. Rather than building roads that will prevent accidents and hospitals that will treat the sick, they on the one hand build mosques, and on the other erect monuments! With all experts commenting with respect to the monument that is being erected at the Kermiya (Ayios Dhometios) roundabout that it is a ‘menace to road safety’, the military authorities turn a deaf ear to the warnings and carry on with construction work! The Society for the Prevention of Road Accidents remains noticeably silent on the question of the monument which poses a particularly grave threat to our children who are attending the school in the area. The military authorities who turn a deaf ear to warnings are once again waving a red flag at civil society!

(My translation.)

A typical characteristic of 3rd world countries with totalitarian regimes and "cult of personality" cultures! In Greek we call it “Kitschario....”

[The Cypriot]

Maybe some friendly Brit collector will "rescue" them for the British Museum ....

No, Brits don't need any more stones, they've got the elgin ones, what would they need any more for?

There may be some vacant wall space to fill soon ...

Come on dearest spill the beans, are the famous stones going back any time soon?

I must say I appreciate your concern for the Elgin Marbles and your solidarity with the good people of Greece, in their struggle for the safe return of what they consider to be an important part of their cultural heritage; swiped, they feel, by the British.

However, the Cypriot people have vitally important parts of their own particular stolen cultural heritage to worry about right now - which they can only visit in a makeshift and badly mismanaged museum: the northern part of their island, controlled by Turkey's army without permission.

They would probably appreciate more solidarity from their own people in their struggle to free their lands, their heritage and their birthright from a foreign occupier.

[bill cobbett]

Maybe some friendly Brit collector will "rescue" them for the British Museum ....

No, Brits don't need any more stones, they've got the elgin ones, what would they need any more for?

There may be some vacant wall space to fill soon ...

I heard that, our O.

[Tim Drayton]

Afrika reports that this monument was debated in the TRNC parliament, where the only dissenting voice came from TDP leader Mehmet Çakıcı, who said (my translation):

“Ataturk, who said ‘Peace at home, peace in the world’ would not have permitted the construction of such a monument right next to the border at a time when peace negotiations are being held”

“I do not want monuments which target others in my country and which conjure up images of war.”

and directed at Interior Minister İlkay Kamil (implying that the Turkish army was pulling all the strings) “You are not the master of your own country.”

http://www.afrikagazetesi.net/modules.p ... =0&thold=0

[Tim Drayton]

A huge mosque with four minarets is to be built on the site of the current main bus station in north Nicosia. At the meeting at which this decision was taken, Nicosia Turkish Municipality Mayor Cemal Bulutoğluları’s objections were countered by a Turkish military official with the reply, “The RoT embassy will provide the money – why are you objecting?”

http://www.yeniduzengazetesi.com/templa ... &zoneid=19

[shahmaran]

I have no issued with Ataturk statues in Cyprus, as much as I find them to be pretty much meaningless here, specially in such numbers.

But those fucking mosques! God dam it!

These religious morons multiply like cockroaches and build their shit all over the place in such numbers that most of them are practically empty because there just isn't enough religious people on this side of the island, TC's don't give a shit about Islam, why can't they see it!

These stinking bastards are the people that need to be kicked out, not the hard working immigrants.

[denizaksulu]

This is the current state of progress on the controversial Ataturk statue:

Somebody ought to remind them that Ataturk did not give a piastre for Turkish Cypriots in 1927. Perhaps they would change their minds.