TWO NEWS STORIES and QUESTIONS
First story: “Turkish students attending a British school in the Greek Cypriot side of Cyprus were subjected to a racist attack by Greek Cypriot militants. As a result of the attack, the students were brutally beaten. The families panicked when they heard that their children had been beaten by Greek Cypriot youths. The students were brought to the TRNC under Greek Cypriot police escort.”
Second story: “With the ceremonial detonation of the last two mines yesterday in the buffer zone under United Nations control, mine-clearing operations in Nicosia were completed. The EU has spent 5 million euros since 2004 on the project launched to clear the buffer zone on the island of mines. To date, the Mine Action Center has cleared an area of 1 million 850 thousand square meters of mines.”
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The first story reports that the students were subjected to a planned attack...
Was it actually a surprise that this happened?
At the beginning of the week, the anti-Turkish statements spewed by Greek Cypriot “religious” figures and the Greek Cypriot administration leader Papadopulos, followed by the passage of a law providing for a seven-year prison sentence for foreigners using former Greek Cypriot properties, as well as for Turkish Cypriots, showed that these events could happen.
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Now to the second story...
The second story also reports that the mines have been cleared...
But “Why are the mines being cleared?”
Because the EU still believes that the island’s two communities can live together...
But why does the EU not want to believe that the two communities cannot live together?
Because the EU made a mistake; it admitted the Greek Cypriot side as a member representing the entire island.
Now this mistake needs to be corrected, and the EU is chasing after these utopias.
Let it chase...
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After all that has happened, do these questions occur to you?
1. While the Annan Plan was being debated yesterday, how right was it to call those who raised the disaster scenarios voiced by many people “opposed to a solution” and “defenders of the status quo”?
2. If the Annan Plan had been accepted, would we be longing for the days we have today?
3. If the plan had been accepted, would the disaster scenarios have been very unlikely to come true?
4. How realistic are “Peace in Cyprus Cannot Be Prevented” or the “idea of living together”?
5. Is it really true that “you can’t make a coat from a bear’s hide, or a friend of a Greek Cypriot”?
6. ....................... (I’ll leave this one to you.)
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I’ll say a few words about the first story and then wrap up...
We should tell the whole world about the arrest warrant and this racist attack on our students by organizing protest demonstrations.
There will also be provocations by Greek Cypriots at this stage.
Please do not fall for these provocations...
In the end, it seems the mines were cleared for nothing!
Both the EU and the UN, as well as the others (the US, the UK, etc.), must understand this clearly: “Experience has shown that the idea that Turks and Greek Cypriots can live together has no connection whatsoever with reality and can never be more than a fantasy.”
Author’s note: “Peace in Cyprus Cannot Be Prevented” was given as an example not to target any political phenomenon, but because at the time it was used to mean “the removal of borders and living together.” Also, the slogan is already being stated incorrectly. I believe it would make sense if the slogan were phrased as “A Solution in Cyprus Cannot Be Prevented.” Regards...