Posted on 06/07/2018 6:58:46 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
"Why is there not peace yet? How can we make peace when we have rabid murderers living among us? Instead of prosecuting them, we enable them to appear on TV and to boast about their murders.... If you do not even bring to account a murderer who says, 'killing was my art,' who will you bring to account?" — Şener Levent, the editor-in-chief of the Turkish Cypriot newspaper Afrika.
So far, these "rabid murderers" have not been held accountable for the slaughter of innocent Greek Cypriots: the ethnic cleansing of northern Cyprus. The greater issue is that he and his partners in crime were aided and abetted by the Turkish authorities. All of those responsible need to be tried at international criminal tribunals -- the sooner, the better.
Is Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who keeps talking about Cyprus as a security threat to the eastern Mediterranean, trying to deliver a message? Erdogan has long been warning Cypriot and international companies exploring energy resources in the region not to "trust the Greek side in Cyprus."
The Turkish president's repeated verbal attacks on Greek Cypriots also shed light on a recent interview, broadcast live on Turkish Cypriot TV, with 84-year-old Turgut Yenağralı -- a former member of the paramilitary Turkish Resistance Organization (TMT), founded 1957.
Yenağralı, in the interview, boasted about his role in the mass murder of Greek Cypriots and the reason for it.
"We traveled across Cyprus and either beat up or killed those who committed crimes against Turkishness," he began.
Question: Why did you engage in those activities? Was it an adventure or for excitement?
Yenağralı: No, it was for Turkishness.
Question: Was it easy to kill these people?"
Yenağralı: There is nothing more enjoyable... We took great pleasure after we killed those people.
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The lastest in the series was in Afrin Syria where Erdogan re-seeded 3,000 ISIS, many Al-Qaeda (Nusra) and more Jihadi's. Turkey is the shelter for all these and the Muslim Brotherhood.
There is no way to make excuses for what this is.
The West must wrestle with this and come to an honest conclusion how to end it.
Are the Greeks worth standing up for? I remember how they supported Russia when the Soviets shot down Flight 007.
When you go back to the decade prior to 1974....looking at both the Greeks and Turks in handling Cyprus (with the British in the middle of this)....both groups did a lot of cleansing on the side when the little war finally started. There were no winners in the end.
Greece is like the crazy chick who always wants money. You are tempted to dally with her but you know it will cost you in a lot of ways.
“come to an honest conclusion how to end it.”
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Expel Turkey from NATO immediately.
Yes. That.
But a bigger question has to do with how to stop more takeovers by Turkey.
If he hides under the canopy of Vlad, would we got after them or would Vlad look the other way?
Neither the US or Russia wants a direct conflict.
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