PROFESSOR OZAY MEHMET IS AN ACCOMPLISHED ACADEMIC WITH CREDENTIALS FROM CANADA, CYPRUS AND BRITAIN . HE IS A RECOGNISED AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN WITH MORE THAN 4 BOOKS TO HIS NAME. HE WAS PART OF THE NEGOTIATING TEAM THAT WAS INVOLVED WITH THE ANNAN PLAN. I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU A LETTER HE HAS WRITTEN TO A PAPER RECENTLY. HE LIVES IN CANADA. PLEASE READ AND DIGEST, THEN CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS TO SAY. Letter from Canada 120 Mehmet5010@rogers SUPER PATRIOTS They are a special breed of ‘warriors’ of the Long Struggle. They control the agenda in the South and they represent the single biggest obstacle to settling the CyProb on the basis of the UN Peace Plan. Driven by hate of Turks and everything Turkish, these Super Patriots have their own version of Reality and History. A favorite instrument of war of these warriors is ‘blogging,’ writing nasty comments at length every day in the pages of the English daily Cyprus Mail, attacking viciously on anyone who dares challenge their Dogma. And what is the Dogma according to these Super-Patriots? 1. CyProb began with the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the summer of 1974. Everything in the North is ‘stolen’ property. 2. Akritas Plan and the suffering of Turkish Cypriots from Xmas 1963 - 1974 are myths. 3. The Turkish Cypriots rights? None, because this is an All-Greek island. TCs must accept whatever GCs feel giving them, including hydrocarbons. 4. 18% is a sacred cow for these Super-Patriots...The number means TCs are a small minority and can in no way be equal to GCs. 5. What is the solution of the CyProb? End the illegal Turkish occupation in the North, terminate the “pseudo-state” called TRNC, and return all “stolen” GC property to the rightful GC owners. These Super-Patriots are now mad at Jack Straw, the former English Foreign Secretary. Mr. Straw had the courage to ignore Papadopoulos and come on an official visit to TRNC President Talat. The Super-Patriots would lynch Straw for having recently uttered the perfectly logical reality of contemporary Cyprus: Accept the existing division and go for a Two-State Solution. This is too much for these Super-Patriots. Theirs is a fantasy world, shaped by ultra-nationalistic indoctrination at school and church, dreaming of the day when all Turks will be driven out of Cyprus, Izmir, Istanbul and Asia Minor, and all wrongs will be righted according to their dream. They might as well be waiting for the Venetians to re-conquer the island from the Ottomans! Never mind that neither the Venetians nor the Ottomans are around. Or that Byzantium is ancient history. Real world is not what these Super-Patriots recognize. The tragedy is that Super-Patriots call the shots when it comes to policy-making in the South…especially so whenever there is a weak Leader. And the current leader, Mr. Anastasiades [Mr. A for short] is nothing else if not weak. Even though in 2004 he voted for the Annan Plan, since his election, and particularly after the Euro bankruptcy that left the South in deep financial and economic crisis, Mr. A has never missed a chance to wrap himself around a Greek flag and dance to the tune of Super-Patriots.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:09:22 +0000
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