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[Get Real!]

Don't worry, as I am sure we will eventually dig up more bodies with TC artifacts among them, don't you worry

You can only dig up about 500, so chances are you’ll get very bored after that watching only GC bodies surfacing for another 5 years…

Btw, is there a TC custom to bury people with certain items?

[shahmaran]

Don't worry, as I am sure we will eventually dig up more bodies with TC artifacts among them, don't you worry

You can only dig up about 500, so chances are you’ll get very bored after that watching only GC bodies surfacing for another 5 years…

Btw, is there a TC custom to bury people with certain items?

No I think that only happens when you shoot people through the head and bury them in a hurry....

[The Cypriot]

I got my version from the embassy in Washington. Why would the Helsinki Commission be conducting a propaganda exercise do you think?

Are you sure your Mr Hilmi Akil (forgive me, his name sounds like a psychotic Bond villain) isn't the one spouting propaganda. After all, he is, without a shadow of a doubt, completely biased if he's on the TunRecNC payroll?

I am not entirely sure if you have cleverly missed out certain parts of that article Cypriot, or maybe different versions of it has been published in different papers, but here you go, read it carefully;

EXCLUSIVE: Religious artifacts in Cyprus in 'great peril'


Hilmi Akil, the Washington representative for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, dismissed the Helsinki Commission report as "a propaganda exercise," adding that Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders recently agreed to set up a joint committee on cultural heritage matters.

"The theft of cultural artifacts takes place everywhere, including South Cyprus," he said. "What we're objecting to is destruction, which has happened on both sides of the island, is being portrayed as something that only Turkish Cypriots have done."

Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC

[Get Real!]

Don't worry, as I am sure we will eventually dig up more bodies with TC artifacts among them, don't you worry

You can only dig up about 500, so chances are you’ll get very bored after that watching only GC bodies surfacing for another 5 years…

Btw, is there a TC custom to bury people with certain items?

No I think that only happens when you shoot people through the head and bury them in a hurry....

Well if bullets in corpse's heads are considered “ancient artifacts” then we’ve got a whopper of a claim coming…

[shahmaran]

I got my version from the embassy in Washington. Why would the Helsinki Commission be conducting a propaganda exercise do you think?

Are you sure your Mr Hilmi Akil (forgive me, his name sounds like a psychotic Bond villain) isn't the one spouting propaganda. After all, he is, without a shadow of a doubt, completely biased if he's on the TunRecNC payroll?

I am not entirely sure if you have cleverly missed out certain parts of that article Cypriot, or maybe different versions of it has been published in different papers, but here you go, read it carefully;

EXCLUSIVE: Religious artifacts in Cyprus in 'great peril'


Hilmi Akil, the Washington representative for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, dismissed the Helsinki Commission report as "a propaganda exercise," adding that Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders recently agreed to set up a joint committee on cultural heritage matters.

"The theft of cultural artifacts takes place everywhere, including South Cyprus," he said. "What we're objecting to is destruction, which has happened on both sides of the island, is being portrayed as something that only Turkish Cypriots have done."

Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC

Surely none of the officials from the RoC who provide them with the "full story" don't actually get paid for it, they do it for charity

[shahmaran]

Don't worry, as I am sure we will eventually dig up more bodies with TC artifacts among them, don't you worry

You can only dig up about 500, so chances are you’ll get very bored after that watching only GC bodies surfacing for another 5 years…

Btw, is there a TC custom to bury people with certain items?

No I think that only happens when you shoot people through the head and bury them in a hurry....

Well if bullets in corpse's heads are considered “ancient artifacts” then we’ve got a whopper of a claim coming…

I don't know about bullets but I'm sure you will find plenty of grandmothers and their embroidery

[Get Real!]

Don't worry, as I am sure we will eventually dig up more bodies with TC artifacts among them, don't you worry

You can only dig up about 500, so chances are you’ll get very bored after that watching only GC bodies surfacing for another 5 years…

Btw, is there a TC custom to bury people with certain items?

No I think that only happens when you shoot people through the head and bury them in a hurry....

Well if bullets in corpse's heads are considered “ancient artifacts” then we’ve got a whopper of a claim coming…

I don't know about bullets but I'm sure you will find plenty of grandmothers and their embroidery

At least they lived to be grandmothers…

[shahmaran]

Errrr.... OK...

Well lets hope GR that you and I won't have to kill each other and get to see our grandchildren, I guess...

[shahmaran]

In fact I wll go to sleep just to make sure, night night don't let the evil Turks bite

[The Cypriot]

I got my version from the embassy in Washington. Why would the Helsinki Commission be conducting a propaganda exercise do you think?

Are you sure your Mr Hilmi Akil (forgive me, his name sounds like a psychotic Bond villain) isn't the one spouting propaganda. After all, he is, without a shadow of a doubt, completely biased if he's on the TunRecNC payroll?

I am not entirely sure if you have cleverly missed out certain parts of that article Cypriot, or maybe different versions of it has been published in different papers, but here you go, read it carefully;

EXCLUSIVE: Religious artifacts in Cyprus in 'great peril'


Hilmi Akil, the Washington representative for the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, dismissed the Helsinki Commission report as "a propaganda exercise," adding that Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot leaders recently agreed to set up a joint committee on cultural heritage matters.

"The theft of cultural artifacts takes place everywhere, including South Cyprus," he said. "What we're objecting to is destruction, which has happened on both sides of the island, is being portrayed as something that only Turkish Cypriots have done."

Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC

Surely none of the officials from the RoC who provide them with the "full story" don't actually get paid for it, they do it for charity

Is this the best you can do? If you've got evidence that the independent Helsinki Commission is biased then let's see it. Now.

It's easy to come up with groundless accusations of propaganda – like your Mr Akil did; representing, as he does, a cowboy regime, outside of the law.

But if you really think Akil is right, back up his wild claims with some hard facts. If not, stop wasting time trying to justify the unjustifiable - to yourself, let alone to anyone else. Because the world won't believe you.

What are you, a barbarian?