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Ozgurgun calls the EU a Christian club

Turkish Cypriot daily Bakis (21.01.11), under the title “There is no religious fanaticism in the TRNC” reports that self-styled minister of foreign affairs Huseyin Ozgurgun, in a press release, criticizes the latest resolution by the European Parliament, which condemns the forceful interruption by the Turkish occupation regime of the Christmas Mass attended by the remaining 300 Christians in the occupied part of Cyprus.

Ozgurgun said that “members of the Greek Cypriot Orthodox church living in the TRNC have been freely worshipping in line with relevant laws”. He added that it is great misfortune that this resolution strengthens the allegations that the European Union is not a community with joint values but a Christian club.

Ozgurgun also said that this resolution is a result of the Greek Cypriot propaganda and overshadows the importance and the neutrality of the EU.

“It would be a much more consistent act for the European Parliament to look into the rise in racist attacks in the Republic of Cyprus that was illegitimately made an EU member, instead of blackmailing the TRNC- which avoids religious fanaticism and allows everyone to enjoy freedom of religion”, Ozgurgun concluded.

http://www.cyprus.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.ns ... enDocument

[bill cobbett]

This Ozagherkin fellow is a blustery fool.

How can anyone defends the indefensible? The truth of the matter is that Armed and Uniformed Thugs in the pay of the Turkish Army burst in to a Church on the Holiest of Days in the Christian calendar, disrupted the Christmas Service and threw out the vicar and the congregation.

The European Parliament is quite right to be critical of yet another despicable action by the Illegal Turkish Occupation Regime.

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