Nearly 38 years ago, Turkey illegally invaded the island of Cyprus, seizing 38% of its land and forcing hundreds of thousands of Cypriots from their homes. To this day, there are some 40,000 Turkish troops occupying the northern part of Cyprus. That’s more troops than the U.S. has in Iraq and almost half of the troops the U.S. has in Afghanistan. With tens of thousands of armed troops in an area about the size of Rhode Island, occupied Cyprus is one of the most highly militarized areas in the entire world.
Foreign troops on Cyprus are a continued crime against the Cypriot people, both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots alike. Turkish occupation troops have desecrated and destroyed religious relics and property in northern Cyrpus, including destroying over 500 Greek Orthodox churches. Turkey’s continued occupation of Cyprus is an affront to international law, human rights and religious freedom and forments instability in this key region.
The people of Cyprus deserve better. The people of Cyprus deserve an end to a foreign occupation of their land.
Sign the petition to demand that Turkey remove all of its occupying forces from Cyprus.
We’ll deliver your petition directly to members of Congress and the President so they can also demand that Turkey finally comply with international law.
hellenicleaders.com
Antifon cartoons
Sunday, June 3, 2012
All Time Popular Posts
-
SUGGESTED MEASURES FOR FACILITATING THE SMOOTH FUNCTIONING OF THE STATE AND FOR THE REMOVAL OF CERTAIN CAUSES OF INTER- COMMUNAL FRICTION...
-
TC: "We need to realise 'what is it' that really matters, we cant have it both ways! The 'TRNC' is not a normal place, ...
-
What do you call the act of changing a nation's ethnic map in less than a month as depicted in the maps attached? Is a simi...
-
Address to Cypriots by President of the Republic Tassos Papadopoulos, on April 7, 2004, regarding the referendum of 24th April 2004 (full t...
-
Sovereign? Really? On whose authority? "The Embassy does not believe that the loss of Cyprus-owned physical infrastructure, nor th...
-
Hardliners are those who support the bogus BBF (bi-zonal, bi-communal federation) basis that aims to formalize the division of an illegal ...
-
1960 was the year the Cyprus Republic was formed. How can it possibly relate to the plight of Kurds in Turkey? Turkish Cypriots (here...
-
Internal and external forces are tearing at the nation’ seams By Shehab Al Makahleh - - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Turkey, an erstwhi...
-
Makarios did not leave a memoir or diaries, so this 1974 interview with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci stands as one of the more reveal...
Last 7 Days Popular Posts
-
What do you call the act of changing a nation's ethnic map in less than a month as depicted in the maps attached? Is a simi...
-
What's the face of your minority dictating the terms of your surrender? Bizonality (not merely stupid, a criminal concept for Cypru...
-
Interview by Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Christoph Scheuermann - Turkish author Elif Shafak sees her country as a "wobbly democra...
-
Kurdistan deserves to be. Period. The question is, will it manage to be Muslim but not Islamic? Will its women be free? If Kurdistan were to...
-
“A constitution that cannot solve the Kurdish issue in Turkey cannot be a new constitution. We are not here to start trouble. We want a s...
-
Makarios did not leave a memoir or diaries, so this 1974 interview with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci stands as one of the more reveal...
-
Psychopathic people and behaviour are found within all cultures and religions. But one tops them all — by many lengths. The daily mass kil...
-
Today's Zaman 9 May 2011 Mumtazer Turkone - "The speech delivered by Aysul Tuğluk at the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) last wee...
-
Wed, Dec 30, 2015, Stephen Starr in Constantinople Turkey’s military operation against militants in the Kurdish-populated southeast has...
-
We must all acknowledge the hopelessness of Turkey's and nationalist tCypriots' predicament. Energy has changed everything. The EU n...
Newspapers & Media To Watch
About Me
Followers
Turkey's Kurds & Cyprus' tCypriots
As either unitary state or federation solutions are discussed as replacements to Cyprus' 1960 and Turkey's 1923 unworkable constitutions, should we abide by "if a right is a right too many for Turkey's Kurdish community (circa 23% of population) then that right is a right too many for Cyprus' tCypriot community too (circa 15%), and vice versa." Is the adoption of this fair logic the catalyst to securing just solutions for both UN countries.