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Attention of the GREEK PROPAGANDA MACHINES :!:

Famagusta thanks Turkish Cypriots for church clean-ups

THE FAMAGUSTA Municipality yesterday congratulated the Turkish Cypriots who cleaned up the rubbish and weeds from the courtyards of the historic churches within the walls of the old town of Famagusta.

In an announcement yesterday, the municipality noted that a clean-up of the area was carried out following a Turkish Cypriot press report by Havadis on August 7, 2012 highlighting the mess at historic churches within the coastal town’s medieval walls.

According to the report, the old churches were left at the mercy of time, overgrown with wild vegetation and rubbish, and frequented by drunks. The Church of Saint George in occupied Famagusta was even being used as a toilet, said the report.

The municipality contacted a representative of the World City Association where it learnt that the alleged culprits were Turkish migrants arriving at Famagusta port and not the Turkish Cypriots living in the area.

“The Famagusta Municipality would like to express its satisfaction with the cleaning up of the exterior areas of the churches, as well as its wish that similar acts of desecration are prevented in the future, and its willingness to contribute to the restoration of cultural and religious monuments in occupied Famagusta,” said the announcement.

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/famagusta/fa ... s/20120823

OK, Halil, you come ans fuck us and then you want us to say thank you at the end. Go ask your GC bum chums to thank you. You have a bloody cheek.

[halil]

ATTENTION OF GREEK PROPAGANDA MACHINES...............

November 1967, Greek Cypriot Interior Minister, and Akritas paramilitary leader, Polykarpos Giorkatzis's Greek Cypriot police tried to resume patrols of the Turkish Cypriot neighbourhood in the mixed village of Agios Theodoros. General George Grivas's National Guard helped.

When, on 15th November, fighting broke out and the National Guard invaded Agios Theodoros, it also invaded the nearby Turkish Cypriot village of Kofinou (1), where 'many houses were gutted' by fire (Crawshaw, 1978: 377). (Since then, the 'majority of houses' in Kofinou have been 'demolished' (Karaokçu, 2003c): for example, see figs. 1 and 2.)

http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspo ... vious.html

Just a few years ago, Kofinou Mosque was in allegedly 'very good condition' (CCEAA and CCTA, 2007kk); and when I visited it, whatever Greek Cypriot nationalist slogans had been graffitied on the minaret had been whitewashed (see fig. 3).

http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspo ... vious.html

Nonetheless, the mosque had been graffitied; and not only that. Window panes had been smashed (see fig. 4), and the building had been left open for animals to live, shit and die in it (see fig. 5).

http://human-rights-archaeology.blogspo ... vious.html
Moroever, graves had been 'vandalized and destroyed', the memorial to the victims of the 1967 battle had been 'broken'; and Greek Cypriot police 'intervention' drove media to 'delete [their photographic] shots' of the site (Karaokçu, 2003c).

Thus, there is a long history of Greek Cypriot nationalist violence against Turkish Cypriot community places and cultural heritage sites in Kofinou; and there is evidence of other, recent damage to the mosque.

Last week's arsonist may have been a bored teenager; but there does seem to be a greater problem. [The state cannot leave the building open to the elements, untouched despite decay and damage, then be surprised when a bored kid similarly treats it like a meaningless ruin and thinks nothing of setting it alight.(2)]

1.Also known as: Cofini; Geçit Kale; Geçitkale; Κοφίνου; Köfünye; Kophina; Kophino; Kophinou; Kophinu; Kyphino; and Secitkales.
2.Clarification added on 3rd March 2010.
CCEAA and CCTA (Cyprus Civil Engineers' and Architects' Association and Chamber of Cyprus Turkish Architects). 2007kk: "Kofinou Mosque [Kophinou, Larnaca District]". Cyprus Temples, 17th November. Available at: http://www.cyprustemples.com/templedetails.asp?id=271

Crawshaw, N. 1978: The Cyprus revolt: An account of the struggle for union with Greece. London: George Allen and Unwin.

Karaokçu, H. 2003c: "The present conditions of Turkish Cypriot villages in south Cyprus 3". Diplomatic Observer. Available at: http://www.diplomaticobserver.com/news_read.asp?id=838

Patroclos. 2010: "Tales from the coffeeshop: The roads less travelled". The Cyprus Mail, 28th February. Available at: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/opinions/tal ... d/20100228


Yaaaa Propaganda machines both sides are fucked each other ......

Both sides are suffered from this bloody Cyprus problem....not only you ....the Greeks suffered..... Turkey Destructed your heritage haaa how about the Turkish Cypriots heritages left in so called free areas....u want more evidence ? i can supply ....if admin permits...forum is organised only for greek propaganda...not to find solution ...only to blame one side all the time...not to get good lessones from our past mistakes...go on....you are thinking that world is sleeping and u can hide the truth of Cyprus problem....keep on rolling at same circule all the time....

[halil]

This is a short vid, haven't seen it before, well worth a watch, describing the Cultural Destruction of soooo much of CY's heritage by Turkey... all part and parcel of the Ethnic Cleansing and the "turkification" of the Occupied Areas by Vast Numbers of Illegal Settlers that Turkey has encouraged or allowed.

Pro produced by the Occupied CY Municipalities. It's in English...