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[Oracle]

Many appeared surprised at the award of a Noble Peace Prize to President Obama, considering his relatively short career at the top. Yet, they fail to see the impact he has made in promoting the reversal of Turkish warmongering and oppressive tactics.

The Peace Prize is awarded to the person who:

"during the preceding year shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

He is the first US President to openly admit Turkey is occupying Cyprus and has to withdraw! He is the first US President to sign his name to a petition against the oppression of Greeks by Turkey.

This is why the Committee selected Obama.

His preliminary efforts to force Turkey to respect Human Rights have been heard by the world ....

... was Turkey listening?

[Oracle]

Well done President Obama ... they are starting to listen!

Turkey cancels military exercise in northern Cyprus
October 13, 2009

Turkey has decided not to carry out the annual military exercise "Toros" in northern Cyprus to offer amore favorable climate for the ongoing negotiations aimed at reunifying the divided island.

The decision was announced on Tuesday by Hasan Ercakica, the spokesman for the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mehmet Ali Talat.

"It has been decided that Toros exercise ...planned by Turkish Armed Forces and (the Turkish Cypriot) Security Forces Command will not be performed this year, just like last year," Ercakica said in a written statement.

He said this was a result of "all necessary consultations" with Turkey, in a bid to "improve the political environment" for the peace talks.

Cyprus President and Greek Cypriot leader Demetris Christofias had expressed during his meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last month that the Greek Cypriot side would cancel its annual exercise ''Nikiforos'' if Turkey scrapped its ''Toros'' military exercise.

Turkey maintains a military presence in the self-proclaimed "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which remains a key issue in the talks between the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus.

Source: Xinhua

[zan]

If you start your own religion Oracle you will have to accept that there will be factions....People reading something different into the writings of your BIBLE!!!!!!

[patriotisplus]

Wow.. Oracle, from the bottom of my heart, you really need to see a psychologist.

[B25]

Wow.. Oracle, from the bottom of my heart, you really need to see a psychologist.

And why is that then?

Another bloody turk in disguise, Pft!

This country could do with a few more like Ms O, we would soon cure our problem.

Oracle mou, spase t'arxitha tous. Bravo mwro mou bravo!

[Expatkiwi]

People here in the USA were mainly very pleasently surprised at the news of the Prersident receiving this award. Nice to know that POTUS isn't loathed internationally either.

[Oracle]

Wow.. Oracle, from the bottom of my heart, you really need to see a psychologist.

Why should I need to see a "psychologist" about the condition of the "bottom of your heart"?

Perhaps you need some beta-blockers because Obama's achieved another of his to-do listed jobs .... sending Hilary to hold Turkey by the hand and get them to sign on the dotted line to make up with Armenia ....

A decades-old conflict, stemming from the World War One mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman forces, needed a few more hours to simmer, it seemed, before resolution could begin.

Clinton, President Barack Obama's most prominent foreign policy adviser, played a key role in getting the long-term enemies to sign, hours late, protocols to establish diplomatic ties and open borders, U.S. officials said.

She drove back to the hotel where Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian was ensconced, spoke to him and Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu by phone, and persuaded both sides to meet at the university where the signing was to take place ...

Source:Reuters


Now do you get it?

Obama deserved the Prize because he has honed in on the world's Centuries old, Number ONE Expansionist warmonger, Turkey!

Armenia, Cyprus Kurdistan .... just watch Obama and Clinton kick Turkish butts!

[Gasman]

Turkey has decided not to carry out the annual military exercise "Toros" in northern Cyprus

Having just returned from there, I cannot help but think another reason for them deciding not to carry this out might be so they don't upset the horsdes of middle-aged Brits holidaying there (most of whom don't have the FAINTEST IDEA of what the 'Cyprus Problem' is all about and some of them never even heard of it!)

With new 'Holiday Villages' springing up everywhere, I should think they have enough to contend with regarding the extensive FORBIDDEN ZONES that encroach on almost all of them, without carrying out any military exercises!

The sheer number of flags, statues and brass and copper larger than life relief tributes to Ataturk all over the place (some of which look totally over the top and out of place in tiny villages) are quite enough to make people wonder where exactly they have landed.

[Gasman]

For horsdes read - HORDES!

Nowt to do with horses!

[RAFAELLA]

Downer mocks Nobel Obama decision

UN Special Envoy for Cyprus Alexander Downer said US President Barack Obama should have been “man enough” to refuse the Nobel Peace Prize and called it the worst decision in the history of the prestigious awards.

In a column he wrote for AdelaideNow, Downer said Obama was nominated after he had been in office for just 11 weeks.

“Even now, he only has served as President of the US for 8 1/2 months and has not had anything like enough time for his policies to bear fruit,” Downer said.

“This was a very bad decision and Barack Obama should have been man enough to refuse the prize. If he had, he would have helped preserve the integrity of the Nobel Peace Prize and also demonstrate a disarming degree of modesty.”

The Cyprus envoy, who has himself been the subject of much criticism in the Cypriot media lately, added: “How could he have snatched the prize from such people as the great Zimbabwean humanitarian and champion of freedom, Morgan Tsvangiri, or the renowned Greg Mortenson, a former U.S. Army doctor who has set up schools for girls in tough, Taliban-dominated areas of Afghanistan.

“These people are real heroes; brave, decent, effective and modest contributors to a better world.

Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba, who mediated to end the civil war in Colombia, apparently was nominated, too. But he is not on TV every night so he cannot get it.”

Downer described this year’s Nobel Peace Prize as “a hideous display of cynical politics” but does not blame Obama entirely, shifting most of it to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

He be moaned the fact that they never gave the prize to Mahatma Gandhi. “He was not worth it, apparently,” said Downer “But Barack Obama after just nine months in the job?”

Criticising the chairman of the Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, with whom Downer had a run-in with in the past, he said Jaglan had made “the worst decision in Nobel Peace Prize history”.

“He has done real damage to the institution. You cannot help a fool,” concluded Downer.

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