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[lola-tulip]

FM Droutsas on Cyprus' Missing Persons Day

(ANA-MPA) -- The establishment by the Republic of Cyprus of Oct. 29 as the Missing Persons Day "reminds us that the great humanitarian issue regarding the fate of a considerable number of missing persons of the Cyprus tragedy is painfully pending for the past 36 years," Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas reiterated on Friday.

In a written statement issued by the ministry, Droutsas also said that Turkey "has the obligation to allow the opening of a substantial investigative process, which will lead to the determination of the fate of the missing."

The Greek minister also expressed his full support to the families of the missing, both in Greece and Cyprus.

As a result of the 1974 Turkish invasion in Cyprus, 1,619 Greek-Cypriots and Greeks were listed as missing, most of whom were soldiers or reservists, and who were captured.

Among them, however, were many civilians, women and children, arrested by the Turkish invasion troops and Turkish Cypriot paramilitary groups, within the area controlled by the Turkish military after the end of hostilities and far removed from any conflict zones.

Many of those missing were last seen alive in the hands of the Turkish military.

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showp ... ervice=142

[repulsewarrior]

...i would prefer that the Roc through its government respect all the missing, without ethnic distinction, as the common enemy of all Cypriots is the Intolerance which left these victims.

...needless to say that the Turkish Army allowed itself to benefit murderers for their personal gain, and in the south there are some who are no better. this must stop, our Government needs to consider how this is another example of an effort wasted because it does not allow for Justice being seen, impartial and principaled. it is too easy for "nationalists" on both sides to dismiss this day's importance otherwise.

...not unlike the lack of a National Anthem still, or no movement toward having Maronite as an Official Language as well, there are still "Greeks" and "Turks" in this debate.

[Oracle]

A day late, but the "Cyprus Mail" eventually, reluctantly, got round to it ...


http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/speci ... g/20101030

[repulsewarrior]

...at least a spokesperson from the crowd remembers that the missing are not exclusively grecophones.

[SKI-preo]

Attila Olgaç wasn't silent.

"On Rum'u öldürdüm" açıklaması
Yaptığı "On Rum'u öldürdüm" açıklamasıyla gündeme bomba gibi düşmüş ve rumların büyük tepkisine neden olmuştur.[2] Ayrıca bu açıklaması ile bazı türk mizah dergilerine de kapak olmuştur. [3]Bakırköy Cumhuriyet Savcılığı, söylediği sözlerle ilgili olarak Atilla Olgaç’la ilgili soruşturma başlattı. Sözleri tepki toplayınca sözlerini geri almıştır. Ve espri yaptığını söylemiştir.[4]