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[bill cobbett]

Opinion piece in the Washington Times by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman of the USA House Foreign Affairs Committee.

First Bit...

"... Since its invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Turkey has claimed that it was acting as a protector and guarantor of the island’s security. But a closer examination of its actions on Cyprus indicates motivations of a very different character.

Turkey’s invasion resulted in hundreds of thousands of Greek Cypriot refugees, who have been unable to return to their homes for almost 40 years.

The international community has repeatedly condemned the illegal military occupation of Cyprus by Turkish troops.

The United Nations Security Council has passed 75 resolutions calling for Turkey to allow Greek Cypriots to return to their homes and to withdraw its troops from Cyprus. Yet Turkey continues its occupation.

More than 40,000 heavily armed Turkish soldiers are occupying the northern part of the country, with one Turkish soldier for every two Turkish-Cypriots.

The presence of this overwhelming force cannot be justified by the claims that they are needed to prevent any renewal of violence.

In fact, since the 2003 opening of the border between the two communities, more than 17 million intercommunal visits have occurred without conflict... "

Last Bit...

"... Ankara’s support for these illegal immigrants is not welcomed by the native Turkish-Cypriot community.

In fact, Stella Altziman, who resides in that region of Cyprus, wrote in 2010: “Due to constant migration from Turkey, [the northern occupied area] is like a Turkish province” and the native Turkish-Cypriots have become a minority in their own land.

Last year, many Turkish-Cypriots protested Turkey’s policies toward Cyprus, with some carrying banners that read, “Ankara, get your hands off our shores.” Yet Turkey continues to flood its areas of occupation with illegal Turkish immigrants.

In his visit to Cyprus last year, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan mocked the Turkish-Cypriots, stating, “If you don’t want us to send people, you need to have more babies.”

By its occupation, Turkey is “guaranteeing” nothing but a creeping annexation. It is time for Turkey to withdraw its military troops, end all support for illegal immigration to Cyprus and let the true inhabitants of the island determine their own future. Only then will the long-suffering Cypriot people finally enjoy the peace and security they have been trying so desperately to achieve for decades.



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[Get Real!]

I guess Christofias' $100m gift to Cuba paid off after all!

[Flying Horse]

As Turkey is having its own political troubles at the moment, all eyes are on how messy it might become.

'If' it gets messy and Erdogan receives 'dictator status', other powers (as they usually do) will start voicing opinion in the threatening direction


Thus making Turkey remove its troops from Cyprus to protect its own land.

It may sound a very daft hypothesis, but coaxing a rat out of a hole in such a way, surely can't be so obvious? Can it?


If it comes to that sort of hypothesis, of course...

[Lordo]

oh dear you are liable to drive the local teenagers into a wanking craze speaking like that. they have been dreaming for a such a scenario for 50 years.

alas highly unlikely. us is only interested in the army and what it does, anything else is incidental.

[Get Real!]

I guess Christofias' $100m gift to Cuba paid off after all!

She's part Cuban.

[Demonax]

More than 40,000 heavily armed Turkish soldiers are occupying the northern part of the country, with one Turkish soldier for every two Turkish-Cypriots.

They need protecting... from the Anatolian gypsies.

[erolz66]

Opinion piece in the Washington Times by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman of the USA House Foreign Affairs Committee.

From June 2012

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... -in-peace/

[Demonax]

Opinion piece in the Washington Times by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman of the USA House Foreign Affairs Committee.

From June 2012

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... -in-peace/

So what's changed? Good article by the most senior Republican woman in congress and Chairwoman of the influential Committee on Foreign Affairs. She clearly knows her stuff...

[erolz66]

So what's changed?

Exactly

[Lordo]

what you boys dont realise is it does not make any difference who says what outside of the administration. what matters is what obama and cia say.

it has been 40 years and you are still cluless