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4 April 2008 7 February 2008 To Financial Times Please do not perpetuate the myth that the Annan plan was a plan for the reunification of Cyprus. It was a plan for partition... 7 February 2008 To Financial Times Lets put the record straight. There is no such country called “Greek Cyprus” on the island of Cyprus. There is the Republic of Cyprus encompassing the whole island, a member of the UN, EU and Commonwealth and a glance on their list of member states, does not show a ‘Greek Cyprus’. 16 November 2007 Published in Financial Times The Republic of Cyprus is a net contributor to the European Union – it is not "partly supported by EU subsidies". The Republic has prospered in spite of and notwithstanding the brutal invasion and illegal occupation by Turkey of over a third of its territory in 1974. The reward for their hard work was the Annan plan, a proposal that they should have 7 per cent of their land returned to them in stages and forget the rest. Unsurprisingly, they voted to reject that plan. 1 September 2007 David Milliband MP, Foreign Secretary First of all on behalf of Lobby for Cyprus may I congratulate you on your recent appointment as Foreign Secretary. We hope that this will herald the beginning of a more ethical approach to the Cyprus issue than we have witnessed under your predecessors. 24 April 2007 Guardian Geoff Hoon is certainly right in stating that Cyprus is of huge strategic importance. It is for this reason that Britain still maintains 99 square miles of 'sovereign' territory on the island, its "unsinkable battleship" (on which it secretly stored nuclear weapons in the 1960s). Unfortunately this strategic importance is downplayed by the UK media (Guardian included) which is all too keen to tow the government line in ignoring Turkey's crimes of ethnic cleansing, demographic engineering and cultural genocide in Cyprus. 12 Mar 2007 Overseas Property Professional The vast majority of property in the occupied areas that is promoted by developers is owned by Greek Cypriots. Such companies therefore will be profiting from the sale of illegally acquired land and properties. 7 Mar 2007 To Metro He should ask himself why he was treated so well in this "unspoilt" land. Did he ask what happened to the 200,000 Greek and other Christians that lived there before they were brutally etnically cleansed in 1974? 7 Mar 2007 6 Mar 2007 To Metro No reference is made to the illegal occupation by more than 50,000 Turkish troops, the forced expulsion of more than 200,000 Greek Cypriots and the transfer by Turkey of over 150,000 Turkish colonists to change the island's demography. 6 Mar 2007 5 Mar 2007 To Metro There is no such place as 'Turkish Cyprus' or 'Greek Cyprus'. The area you refer to is the illegally occupied northern part of the Republic of Cyprus. What a disgrace that Metro chooses to promote this area as a tourist destination while its inhabitants, 200,000 ethnically cleansed Greek Cypriots are forbidden to return by Turkey's army of illegal occupation. 11 Jan 2007 To Financial Times Many myths--if not outright distortions of fact--have grown around the situation on the island of Cyprus, and three of them have been included, yet again, in the FT 11 January report ('Cypriot bridge demolition reverberates in Ankara') by Vincent Boland and Karin Hope. 1 Dec 2006 To Guardian Cyprus may have entered the EU with its "grievances intact" but it certainly didn't enter with its territory intact. After thirty two years of occupation, newspapers such as the Guardian continue to ignore the countless UN resolutions that call for Turkey to withdraw its illegal occupying troops and allow the refugees to return to their homes. 10 Nov 2006 To BBC Have your say Turkey should stop crying wolf that it is being kept out of the the EU because it is a 'Christian club'. It has not joined the EU for a number of reasons, namely its failure to respect EU law and for continuing violations of human rights 9 Nov 2006 To BBC Have your say Turkey continually ignores any 'inconvenient' legal obligations. Turkey has been threatened with expulsion from the Council of Europe for failing to implement the hundreds of decisions from the European Court of Human Rights against her. To BBC Have your say 3 Nov 2006 To Guardian Today’s article ‘EU calls off Cyprus talks ahead of rights report’ 1 Nowhere in the history of the European Union will you find an application for EU membership by a country that is in illegal occupation of another EU Member State To Guardian To Guardian To Guardian To Guardian Nov 2006 To all MEPs Missing persons Accounting for the fate of those missing since its illegal invasion of Cyprus, in 1974, is one of a long list of obligations that Turkey has in its quest for membership in the European Union. 17 Oct 2006 To Independent Turkey and the law Turkey’s application to join the EU would stand far more chance of success if Turkey took notice of the legal decisions and obligations of the various international fora to which she belongs. 7 Sep 2006 To Telegraph, Times, Guardian Orams-Cherie Blair case – Your article of today "Couple win right to keep Cyprus holiday home" The English Court judgment established in very clear terms the following… Greek Cypriot owners of property in the occupied area such as Mr Apostolides are still the legitimate owners of that land and therefore persons who purport to buy or occupy land belonging to Greek Cypriots are trespassers and will be treated as such and are liable to be sued. 28 July 2006 To Independent Holidays where ethnic cleansing has taken place perhaps you would be honest enough with your readers, to whom you are making this offer, to present the true picture to them. To Independent 20 July 2006 To Prime Minister Tony Blair No doubt you, as well as the Greek Cypriot people, have noted the irony of the current developments concerning Cyprus. On the very day that the Republic of Cyprus is in mourning commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the brutal Turkish invasion of the island, your wife is in Court 24 of the Royal Courts of Justice arguing for the legitimisation of the theft of Greek Cypriot properties by UK subjects following the brutal eviction of the legal owners by Turkish troops in 1974. 19 July 2006 To Evening Standard Any report on a case being heard in court should at least refer to the claims being put forward by each party. Your report was woefully inadequate in this respect. 12 June 2006 Channel Five television Property Developing Abroad If you air this programme you will be encouraging an illegal act. You will also be offending the sensibilities of thousands of viewers who have property in the occupied area which is currently being exploited by the unethical and illegal acts of the developers. June 2006 To Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett Turkey should never be allowed to join the EU while it is occupying 37 percent of the territory of the Republic Of Cyprus The Republic of Cyprus is the only EU member state with a substantial proportion of its territory under military occupation by Turkey, a state aspiring to join the European family of nations. 21 May 2006 To Evening Standard The government of Cyprus, which controls the free areas is run by the citizens of the Republic of Cyprus, unlike the occupied north which is controlled by the generals of Turkey. 27 May 2006 To Channel Five television Property Developing Abroad You should also be aware that the land on which much illegal development is taking place is on land still legally owned by Greek Cypriots (note that 92% of all land in the north of Cyprus is owned by Greek Cypriot refugees or the Church of Cyprus). To Channel Five television 1 Feb 2006 Jan 2006 To Advertising Standards Authority Offensive advertising on London Transport I am writing to you because of the offence caused to me by advertising on London buses that promotes the occupied north of Cyprus as a legitimate holiday destination. 29 Apr 2005 To Prime Minister Tony Blair The abysmal record of the British government in its behaviour towards the Republic of Cyprus has damaged not only the relationship between the UK and Cyprus, but also that between the British Labour government and the British electorate of Greek Cypriot origin. 27 Sep 2004 To Financial Times Re: Time for the EU to reach a positive decision on Turkey "As for Turkey we would suggest that when it learns to abide by international law, treats its own political minorities decently and ceases to illegally occupy EU territiory it should be considered for EU membership, but certainly not before." To Financial Times To Financial Times 27 Apr 2004 To Financial Times "At last someone has read the Annan Plan and is honest enough to recognise that it does not accord with international law or with fundamental EU principles such as freedom of movement..." To Financial Times To Times To Telegraph To Telegraph 26 Apr 2004 To Economist "The UN, in its eagerness to satisfy Turkey’s demands forgot that there is public opinion in Cyprus, as a UN official confided to the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr Papadopoullos..." |
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