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[denizaksulu]

I preferred Ian Carmichael and Denniz Price as the original Bertie and Wooster, but you enjoy the following.

[Tim Drayton]

It was not only those 2. Almost all political groups(especially executives) contributed this havoc... The saddest is AKEL's official Enosis support...

Hope Tim translates the below linked article into English.

http://www.koxuz.org/anasayfa/node/2791

I agree with you that this is an important article, and have found time to translate the first paragraph, which provides a synopsis. If I find time to do more, I will post it later.

At the moment there is a lot of talk in North Cyprus about the Turkish translation of a new book published in South Cyprus. It is entitled “Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu”(Galeri Kültür Publications, Nicosia, 2009). The author is an AKEL member whose surname is Vanezis. Derviş Ali Kavazoğlu was a Turkish Cypriot communist who involved himself in the left and trade-union struggle in the 1940’s and tried to organise Turkish Cypriot workers into both the PEO trade union and the AKEL communist party. He became targeted, first by the British Colonial Government, and then by Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot fanatics. As of 1958, Turkish Cypriot members of PEO and AKEL also began to be targeted by the Turkish Cypriot underground organisation that sprang into action at that time, ushering in a period of great carnage in this connection. We also witness the slaughter of Greek Cypriot left-wingers by EOKA following 1955. Of course, a further point which presented the Turkish Cypriot fanatics and leadership with the opportunity to commit this carnage was the way that the AKEL Communist Party, founded in 1943, remained true to the cause of Enosis or indeed the official inclusion of the Enosis ideal in the party’s programme and founding statements. The party’s adoption of Enosis under the pressure of nationalists led to Turkish Cypriot left wingers being branded traitors by Turkish Cypriot fanatics and their being slaughtered due to their being socialists. For in those days there was not a great deal of public support for socialists. Simultaneously, a great deal of nationalist pressure was applied at the time. Turkish Cypriot members of PEO were openly targeted following a 1 May demonstration held in 1958 and some of their number were murdered. In spite of this, the AKEL Communist Party at that time, with a view to satisfying its own nationalists and maintaining its prestige in the Greek Cypriot community, did not abandon Enosis, which made things well nigh impossible for Turkish Cypriot left wingers and trade unionists, who had always been in a difficult position. In fact some of them were unable to remain on the island and had to emigrate. When leading trade unionist Ahmet Sadi was injured along with his wife in an attempted murder, a massive retreat began. And the Turkish Cypriot underground organisation, organised along the lines of Ergenekon, was now easily able to pursuade Turkish Cypriot workers to abandon PEO and to shut them into Turkish Cypriot areas.

[DT.]

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