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With all respects to the
Kyrenia
Liberty Project
..... a modern Odyssey in search of it's own home port ...
This is a continuing study project
formalised in June 2004 Working Title
"In search of Filotimo"
(see notes below on the meaning of this uniquely Greek word)
Subtitle: British and American cultural
misperceptions of Cyprus
have caused a large part of the problem and continue to prevent a solution
What proof of US
Hypocrisy do we need on Cyprus - recent examples
Watch the BBC Documentary featuring
Christopher Hitchens'
"The Trials of
Henry Kissinger"
and view material by Hitchens regarding
US complicity in the 1974 coup in Cyprus
on a page here
Watch background material from links on the
following page,
and particularly the item at the bottom of that page,
"Cyprus -
Britain's Grim Legacy" - 1984 TV Documentary
The Cultural Olympiad 2004 provided an
opportunity for discussion of certain fundamental core values (or
the disbenefit from their fragrant disregard) in the existence (or
not) of ethicality in international relations
Start with the
content of a letter
by Gene Rossides
about US Foreign Policy on Cyprus,
to Colin Powell US Secretary of State 18th June 2004
Context:
watch: BBC Newsnight Report about the outcome of the EU Summit
13th December 2002
including an interview with UK Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw
about Cyprus implications
See:
My own Open Letter
to The
Cyprus Weekly Newspaper
Out of date sequence,
27th August 2004
Latest Developments
(of relevance to my 'open letter' in the link above)
European Court of Human Rights resumes Cyprus
hearings
(which were suspended during the Kofi
Annan process)
3rd September News
CNN Reminds the world of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottomans
despite it's continuing non-recognition by modern Turkey
Read news coverage from numerous perspectives
September 10th developments
following Verheugen's visit to Turkey
29th June 2004
Olympic Flame 2004
Arrives in Cyprus
8th - 9th July 2004
See
archives
recorded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)
during the 30th Anniversary events 2004
including many interviews with notable personalities (in Greek)
with 2 very notable interviews in English,
one with Lord McNally (advisor to Callaghan in the 70s)
and another with (Tom Boyard ? spelling)
Director of The Cyprus Section at the US State Department in 1974
Olympic Flame "returns home"
Olympics
Opening Ceremony
extensive archived TV coverage
My view is adequately put in the following short
"letter to the Jerusalem Post" by one of it's reader's:
There's a Cypriot proverb that does not
translate, but I will quote it for those visitors to this site who
do speak Cypriot-Greek.
"Ipen o Gadaros tou Petinou Tsefala"
"what
ankara wants"
The Jerusalem Post
having read the turkish standpoint regarding
israel-"palestine" relations . | no doubt the turkish govenment
led by erdo...
paul harris
london uk ( 6 Jul 2004)
polaris82003$yahoo.co.uk
having read the turkish standpoint regarding israel-"palestine"
relations .
no doubt the turkish govenment led by erdogan is going to lead
the way by
1. withdrawing turkish army forces from cyprus which it
unlawfully invaded 30 years ago, and compensate the displaced
greeks
2 . granting the kurds an independent state
3. paying compensation to the massacred armenians and their
descendants.
the saying " people who live in glasshouses should not throw
stones has evidently no been translated into the turkish
language ?
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Oh yes ... let the
Americans impeach Bush, and the British get rid of Blair,
then we can try to solve the Cyprus problem WITH some Filotimo !
See
previous research archives on this website
See
website giving the history of the Turkish invasion/occupation
For Cyprus ... The Athens Olympics Opening
Ceremony Coincided with
the 30th Anniversary of the Turkish Invasion of the island "Phase 2"
(arguably the greater an offence for being in breach of
the cease-fire agreements and in fragrant disregard
of UN Security Council resolutions,
but there again it was Kissinger that was US Secretary of State then)
... taking the majority of the territory they
seized in 1974
and still occupy all that land today ...
the US and UK 'helped' try to "fix things"
via the Annan Plan,
... but a stone remains a stone
and brutal invasion with subsequent legitimation
... doth not a "comprehensive settlement plan" make
... therefore, much of Cyprus TV has had
a distinctly
non-Olympic Spirit feeling to it (for some of us).
See some of CYBC's coverage
on the night of the Olympic Opening Ceremony,
and on the day after, 14th August,
on the actual 30th anniversary of the second Turkish "push",
taking Morphou, Famagusta and Karpasia
to add to the Kyrenia area which they had grabbed during phase 1.
See "cybc TV
coverage" which has been archived
see Cyprus Press of the
period
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