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Conqueror’s mentality

By Philippos Stylianou

What happened at Limnitis on Wednesday was neither a fiasco due to bad handling nor a nasty misunderstanding.

Any way one tries to look at it, there can be little doubt that it was a deliberate show of force by the Turkish side, designed to prove who is boss around here – and will remain so.

You don’t go on record through the UN saying there will only be random checks on the buses and then ask all the passengers on board to produce their IDs, especially knowing that time is running out. This is called lying and cheating and can only betray meanness, ill will and malice aforethought, all far removed from the current peace-seeking climate on the island.

What’s more, this arrogant and high-handed attitude cannot be attributed to overzealous ‘officialdom’ or just bad manners. It is the outward expression of the conqueror’s mentality implanted in the occupation regime by its overlord Turkey, according to which the Greek Cypriots must never be allowed to forget their station as the defeated and humbled party on the island.

Their prostrated status will be carried over and perpetuated through a solution of the Cyprus problem, which will put into place control mechanisms for the whole island by Ankara, sealed to eternity with a confirmation of the unilateral Turkish guarantees.

Only on the eve of the Ayios Mamas feast, the new Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmed Davutoglou was here to make sure that the Turkish Cypriot leadership knows its lesson well and will play along all the way.

In plain words, Turkey is not after an equitable solution in Cyprus which will benefit the island and its people as a whole, but after a treaty of capitulation with the Greek Cypriots that will serve its long-term geostrategic interests in the region.

Unfortunately, the international community did not do enough from the beginning to deter Turkey from maintaining the mentality of conqueror in Cyprus and adjust its policy accordingly along more acceptable lines of civilised state behaviour.

This week’s Limnitis incident can be seen as a condensed version of the international community’s failure in Cyprus over the years. Instead of seizing the opportunity to safeguard the pilgrimage as a successful and happy development that would boost the peace process, they allowed its manipulation as a tool for furthering the policy of the occupation power.

What could have been done, one wonders? For one thing, the US Ambassador Frank Urbancic could ride in the first bus of the pilgrims’ convoy rather than drive comfortably in his limousine to the Morphou cathedral straight from Nicosia and wait for them there.

Likewise, the ambassadors of the other Security Council permanent members could do the same by riding each in a bus, along with the UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor Alexander Downer and UN Head of Mission Taye-Brook Zerihoun.

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Only on the eve of the Ayios Mamas feast, the new Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmed Davutoglou was here to make sure that the Turkish Cypriot leadership knows its lesson well and will play along all the way.

What a childish, over simplistic point of view.

[Oracle]

Only on the eve of the Ayios Mamas feast, the new Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmed Davutoglou was here to make sure that the Turkish Cypriot leadership knows its lesson well and will play along all the way.

What a childish, over simplistic point of view.

Childish and simplistic behaviour is all Turks are fit for. They have not developed the higher thinking capabilities of the other humans they wish to destroy! They are stuck in the mindset of the Ottomans ....

[insan]

Only on the eve of the Ayios Mamas feast, the new Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmed Davutoglou was here to make sure that the Turkish Cypriot leadership knows its lesson well and will play along all the way.

What a childish, over simplistic point of view.

Childish and simplistic behaviour is all Turks are fit for. They have not developed the higher thinking capabilities of the other humans they wish to destroy! They are stuck in the mindset of the Ottomans ....

On this forum, i frequently came across with ur childish and simplistic attitudes, Oracle. Please mature urself... belittleing and insulting the people u don't like, is ill-assorted for an educated adult like u.

[Oracle]

Only on the eve of the Ayios Mamas feast, the new Foreign Minister of Turkey Ahmed Davutoglou was here to make sure that the Turkish Cypriot leadership knows its lesson well and will play along all the way.

What a childish, over simplistic point of view.

Childish and simplistic behaviour is all Turks are fit for. They have not developed the higher thinking capabilities of the other humans they wish to destroy! They are stuck in the mindset of the Ottomans ....

On this forum, i frequently came across with ur childish and simplistic attitudes, Oracle. Please mature urself... belittleing and insulting the people u don't like, is ill-assorted for an educated adult like u.

Correction ... they are not people I don't "like" ...

Besides, your defence of Turkey is ridiculous! How can you compare the behaviour of 70 Million followers of Ottoman-Ataturkish genociding expansionist policies with that of one person on a forum?