Organisational Secretary of KTOS Besim Baysal wrote in his Facebook account that the union, as it had been doing for many years, was trying to create an alternative to calendars brought from Turkey and that only presented the ‘official view’. Baysal also said they ran out of the calendars due to the high demand and were considering of printing a second issue...
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The calendar, issued annually, this time contained information on certain historical events which contradicted the ‘official history’ taught in Turkish Cypriot schools.
It mentions an incident where Turkish Cypriots were murdered by the Turkish Resistance Organisation (TMT) on April 22, 1962. Turkish Cypriot lawyers Ayhan Hikmet and Muzaffer Gurkan were assassinated by the TMT on that date.
It also refers to November 15 – the date the breakaway state unilaterally declared independence in 1983 – as: “the date when the common existence of the Turkish Cypriots was put in jeopardy and the date Turkish Cypriot international relations with the rest of the world came to an end after Rauf Denktash struck a deal with the generals of the coup in Turkey to establish the TRNC.”
Criticisms were also rife over the fact that Archbishop Makarios was presented as the “President of the Republic of Cyprus” – Turkey and the ‘TRNC’ do not recognise the Republic. June 12, 1958 was marked as the date when Turkish Cypriots “brutally murdered” nine Greek Cypriots in Gonyeli after being provoked by the British. The latter was taken from Niyazi Kızılyurek’s book “Hidden History of the Season of Violence”.
...In the meantime Turkish Cypriot education ‘officials’ asked the authorities to launch an investigation against KTOS, hoping that it would lead to a court case.
The Denktash Foundation said it also had called for a criminal investigation and would organise a protest against KTOS. No date was provided.
THE website of the Cyprus Turkish Teacher’s Union (KTOS) was hacked on Friday, replaced by the emblem and oath of the TMT guerrilla group in what appears to be a protest over the circulation of the union’s 2017 calendar that caused a stir in the north.
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...with the calendar sold out, where is vp when you need him, i would like to hear his take on this one.