Η βαρβαρότητα και η υποκρισία της Τουρκίας - Με άρθρο της στην εφημερίδα Israel Hayom, η Τουρκάλα δημοσιογράφος Uzay Bulut καταγγέλλει την τουρκική πολιτική ηγεσία και τα τουρκικά ΜΜΕ για τη στάση που κρατούν απέναντι στην τραγωδία που εξελίσσεται στη Γάζα σε σχέση με τα εγκλήματα που διέπραξε η Τουρκία στην Κύπρο.

Η βαρβαρότητα του Ισραήλ στη Γάζα είναι παρόμια με τη βαρβαρότητα που υπέδειξε η Τουρκία στη Κύπρο το 1974! Ένα πολυ σημαντικό άρθρο (στα αγγλικά)

Uzay Bulut

What about Turkey and Cyprus?‎   On July 20, two important incidents were reported by the Turkish Radio and Television ‎Corporation, the country's national public broadcaster.‎ The first report covered how Turkish officials, including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, were bashing Israel, the ‎‎"oppressor," for initiating a military operation in Gaza. Of course, there was no mention of this being a response to hundreds of rockets fired into Israel by Hamas.‎ It also did not come as a shock that the broadcast did not utter a single word about Hamas aiming at civilian areas in Israel, rejecting a cease-fire offer that had been accepted by Israel, and using its own people, including children, as ‎human shields. ‎ Because of the biased reporting by both pro-government and anti-government media ‎outlets, the people of Turkey have been almost clueless about what actually has been going on in ‎Israel and Gaza since July 8. Thus they have held repeated angry mass protests in the ‎streets and on social media.‎They even poured cans of Coca-Cola into the streets, seemingly believing that the relatively small Coca-Cola plant in ‎Israel supplies all the Coca-Cola in Turkey. But reality doesn't matter for these geniuses. There is no limit to the things one will do if motivated by pure and unadulterated hatred. ‎ The second report was about Turkish officials celebrating the 1974 Turkish ‎invasion, colonization and ethnic cleansing of northern Cyprus. ‎ Of course, their wording was not like that. They referred to the invasion as "a peace ‎operation," just as they have done for 40 years.‎ It is hard to believe but it is true: The Turkish invasion of Cyprus is officially celebrated ‎by Turkish officials as "the peace and freedom festival."‎ And Erdogan, in a letter to Dervis Eroglu, president of occupied northern Cyprus, ‎said: ‎"The peace operation has helped the Turkish Cypriot people look to the future with hope and ‎trust and has laid the foundations of peace and stability in the eastern Mediterranean."‎ As the whole world witnessed, what Turkey did in 1974 and still celebrates is the planned executions, deaths, destruction, massive ethnic cleansing and ongoing cultural and demographic rape that it has committed in Cyprus.‎ What happened was an invasion, and Turkey remains an alien invader in Cyprus. History tells the story: Cyprus has been Hellenic for 3,500 years and Christian for 2,000 ‎years. Never did the Turkish Cypriot minority, during its brief presence on Cyprus, ‎hold on to any contiguous part of the island. From 1,500 BCE into the 20th century, the occupied north, like the entire island, was always Greek, and later, Christian. But the destruction that Turkey caused was not only measured in human life. It did and still ‎does damage the Cypriot cultural heritage in the occupied part of the island.‎ It has plundered and systematically destroyed religious property, which has been a particular ‎target in an attempt to eradicate the cultural identity of the occupied area. Greek Orthodox ‎churches continue to be converted into mosques, vandalized or turned into entertainment ‎centers, livestock pens, barns, pubs and clubs. ‎ The Turkish government, denying these basic truths, celebrates the invasion and colonization of ‎Cyprus while bashing Israelis for protecting themselves from rockets and terrorist attacks in the homeland to which they have returned and where they have a historical and ethical right to stay.‎ When it comes to the allegations of using "disproportionate force," Turkey should ‎be the last one to condemn others; it has rich experience and great expertise in the very crimes that it projects onto others. ‎ Is it not ironic that on the same day that Turkey celebrates a "peace" operation, an invasion as far ‎as the rest of the world is concerned, which killed thousands, destroyed cultural treasures of ‎immense historical value, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and ethnically cleansed ‎the northern part of the island by force, it condemns Israel's military operation in Gaza, calling for all ‎sorts of punitive measures to be taken against the Jewish state?‎ The difference, we will most likely soon find out, is that Israel will withdraw after it has ‎achieved its stated objective to put a stop to the constant rocket firing from Gaza. ‎Turkey, 40 years later, remains engaged in a monumental exercise to change the demographics of ‎the part of Cyprus that it continues to occupy, having failed to fulfill its own stated objective to ‎restore Cyprus' constitutional order, and stands in constant violation of the very legal basis ‎it used as a pretext to invade by not recognizing the Republic of Cyprus. ‎ The rest of the world might call this hypocritical.‎ Uzay Bulut is a freelance journalist based in Ankara. What about Turkey and Cyprus? Part 2 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his presidential election rally in the southern ‎province of Mersin that Israel will be tried by an international court if it continues to act with its ‎current mentality. "We will see that. As Turkey, we will struggle for that," he added.‎ Ironically, when the European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey in May of this ‎year for its crimes during the 1974 invasion of Cyprus, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet ‎Davutoglu said that Turkey would ignore the ECHR ruling to pay compensation to the ‎Republic of Cyprus.‎ ‎"This ruling is neither binding within international law nor does it have any value for us," ‎Davutoglu said.‎ Davutoglu made these statements at the end of a meeting of the U.N. Committee on the ‎Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. ‎ So, after passionately defending the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Davutoglu ‎announced that Turkey would refuse to pay Cyprus the compensation ruled by the ECHR in ‎respect of the non-pecuniary damage suffered by the relatives of the missing persons, and by ‎the enclaved Greek-Cypriot residents of the Karpas peninsula during the Turkish invasion of ‎Cyprus.‎ If Turkish state officials do not recognize the rulings of international courts, then why do ‎they threaten Israel with being tried in the same courts?‎ In 2011, Erdogan said that Hamas is not a terrorist organization but a movement of ‎resistance that tries to protect its country from occupation. When Erdogan said that, the Gaza Strip ‎was not occupied; there was not a single Israeli in Gaza as Israel had withdrawn all its citizens ‎and soldiers from there in 2005. ‎ Erdogan, who has a great deal of sympathy for Hamas, does not seem to have the least of it ‎for the Republic of Cyprus.‎ Last year, he even said at a meeting at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest that "there is not a ‎country called Cyprus."‎ He added: "There is the Southern Greek Cypriot Administration. There is a Green Line, and ‎then at the northern part of it is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The new name of ‎this region according to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is the Turkish State of ‎Cyprus. The Kofi Annan plan also names it like that."‎ Unfortunately, no one in the conference rectified Erdogan's incorrect statements.‎ Of course there is a country called the Republic of Cyprus. This is recognized by the whole ‎world, although the northern part of it has been occupied by Turkey for 40 years. And there is ‎also the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which is recognized only by Turkey. The ‎international community correctly calls it the Turkish-occupied territory of the Republic of ‎Cyprus.‎ But how did the occupied northern part of Cyprus fall into the hands of Turkey?‎ Even though Turkish state officials proudly acclaim their 1974 "victory" in Cyprus, and ‎try to insult the Republic of Cyprus by claiming that it does not exist, the 1974 invasion of the island was ‎a collective crime against humanity and never a victory for people of conscience.‎ The "victory" for Turkey was a deprivation of life for Cypriots, including ‎indiscriminate killings of civilians, the bombing of civilian targets and hospitals, and cold-‎blooded murders that included women, old men, and children as young as 6 months old. ‎ Turkish army officials who took part in the invasion not only killed Cypriot ‎civilians but stole their property, as well. ‎ Land, houses, businesses and industries belonging to Greek Cypriots were seized and ‎distributed by the Turkish occupation forces to persons other than their legal owners.‎ They subjected persons of both sexes and all ages to torture and degrading treatment, including wholesale and repeated rapes.‎ They arbitrarily detained thousands of Greek Cypriot civilians in the occupied area under ‎inhuman conditions. They subjected them to forced labor and established concentration camps. ‎ A total of ‎1,619 persons have been missing since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and as a direct ‎consequence of it. ‎ Turkey, which forcibly displaced approximately 170,000 Greek Cypriots from their ‎homes in the occupied area and refused to allow them to return, is blaming Israel for being an ‎‎"occupier" in an attempt to boost its own international prestige.‎ After committing all those crimes against humanity, Turkish state officials ‎falsely declare that there is no country called Cyprus.‎ Ever since the occupation began, Turkey has maintained that it carried out a "peace ‎operation" to restore the constitutional order of Cyprus following a brief Greek Cypriot coup ‎and to protect Turkish Cypriots from harm and danger.‎ Turkey experienced two coups d'etat, in 1960 and 1971, before invading Cyprus. ‎ Then, six years after the invasion of Cyprus, in 1980, came the most horrific Turkish coup d'etat, claiming thousands of lives. How can Turkey, which has not been able to draft a civil ‎constitution for itself for 34 years after this coup, claim the ability to restore another country's ‎constitutional order?‎ The human rights record of Turkey during and after the occupation shows clearly that the ‎brief Greek coup d'etat was just a pretext for Turkey to invade Cyprus.‎ You don't torture, rape or forcibly displace innocent civilians after seizing their property if ‎your only aim is to restore constitutional order and to protect people there.‎ Sadly, the international community buys into this Turkish state propaganda. ‎And even globally known intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky seem to fall into its trap.‎ ‎"Turkey is the only country that has explicitly displayed its stern attitude toward Israel and ‎has opposed Israel's oppression of Palestine," Chomsky told the state-run Anadolu news agency.‎ But while praising Turkey's attitude toward Israel, he uttered not a word about the Turkish occupation of Cyprus. Every time the international community sees Turkish state officials bashing Israel for its ‎military operation in Gaza, it should recall the ongoing Turkish occupation of ‎Cyprus. ‎ Wars must come to an end; killings of innocent people must come to an end. So must ‎hypocrisy and double standards. ‎ While the officials of a colonizing country are occupying the land of Cypriots, ‎can they be sincerely concerned about the suffering in Gaza? If they can, it only shows their hypocrisy and anti-Semitism.‎ Uzay Bulut is a freelance journalist based in Ankara. Πηγή: www.israelhayom.com Δημοσιεύτηκε στις  27/07/2014 & 03/08/2014