MR. SENNEROĞLU… NEVER MIND!
(Publication
Date: March 9, 2007)
Halloumi.
Hellim.
Greek.
Turkish.
PKK.
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Wellllll…
My head is all
mixed up again.
The thing that has me
confused is issue 1.
I remember the lines in Professor Arslan’s book Çekirge where he writes that ASALA members wandered freely around the Greek side, when I hear about PKK supporters and PKK members carrying out actions…
The Greeks, who shared a bed with ASALA yesterday, are doing the same thing today with PKK members.
What the two organizations have in
common: hostility toward Turks…
The Greeks support anyone who harms the
Turkish race, which they regard as their enemy, without caring whether they are terrorists or whatever!
The Greeks are applying a very old
historical principle on this matter: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
And that is exactly where my head
gets confused, and I ask myself a question: Who are our enemies and/or our friends?
The thing that has me
confused is issue 2.
An event whose purpose I can’t
figure out has begun in London.
The event’s name: Northern
Cyprus Festival. (Not the TRNC!)
Its purpose: to showcase Northern Cyprus
culture.
Its location: London.
Events: folk dancing,
Cypriot cuisine, handicrafts, caricatures, paintings, artists, etc.
When I looked at the event program, its location, its name, etc., I was very confused.
My optimistic guess is that this
event seems to me to be “intended as a promotion”...
In other words, I suppose that was what the event’s organizers had in mind.
However, just like me, the organizers must also be very confused; I suppose that’s why I’m confused too.
When I look at the event’s
name, this is what comes to mind: There is an ethnic group that is a minority among the Greeks and lives in Northern Cyprus, and they are showcasing their culture.
Another thing that reinforces this
idea is the repertoire of songs to be performed at the event; apparently, songs will be sung in Turkish and Greek.
I found this idea of the event’s
organizers very interesting.
Whoever came up with this
idea, as I said just now, must be rather confused.
I ask myself
questions:
Could the TRNC’s policy have changed
without our knowing?
Do we now want to be a
minority among the Greeks?
What nonsense is this?
The thing that has me
confused is issue 3.
The issue of hellim has been
debated for days.
We’re up in arms because the Greeks are going to register hellim as “halloumi”...
Our Minister of Agriculture says
objections have been filed.
Forget it, Minister,
seriously, just forget it...
Someone is laughing at us
now.
You’re going to organize an event in London, call it the Northern Cyprus Festival, and your aim is to showcase your culture and hold a concert as if to prove that the songs in your own culture are in Greek.
Then won’t people say to you,
“Come on, if your culture includes songs in Greek, why are you objecting to hellim’s name being registered in Greek?”
When these words are said to you,
what will you say?
On the one hand, you’ll object to hellim’s name being Greek, while on the other you’ll showcase your own culture with songs in Greek. What kind of thing is this?
If that’s the case, why—and what—are you
objecting to?
Whoever is responsible for this event, which is full of indecision, confusion, currying favor, poor communication, irrationality, imbalance, etc., well done to them(!).
I suppose as long as this government is
in power, I’ll continue to be confused!
See you on Monday… Be respectful in
traffic!
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