Turkey : The Turkish Army is reportedly being prepared for creating a crisis in Cyprus

http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/tcpr/2002/02-03-01.tcpr.html ^ | 02-03-01 | KIBRISLI

[pkpjamestown]

Under the banner front-page title "Media war by the EU against the Turkish Army!", KIBRISLI (1.3.02) reports that the Turkish Ministry of Justice has confiscated the "Idea Politika" magazine because it had written that Turkey is being prepared to create a crisis in Cyprus.

The paper argues that the article of the above-mentioned magazine has been published within the framework of the efforts exerted by the European Union to create "a Turkey where the power of money will rule and everything will be sold and bought like a merchandise". The EU, alleges KIBRISLI, "escalates the media war against the Turkish army which it considers as the biggest obstacle to this".

"According to the magazine", writes the paper, "the Turkish Armed Forces will create a crisis in Cyprus and will be absolutely isolated from the EU".

According to KIBRISLI the EU " is buying off journalists" within the framework of its psychological struggle and the campaign against the Turkish army.

The magazine wrote that Greece and the Greek Cypriots must not be considered as Turkey's enemies. It also argued that the reason for which Turkey wants to join the European Army is the fact that it sees from now that it could come to a conflict with the European Army because of the accession of the Republic of Cyprus to the EU.

[Aric2000]

Did you TOTALLY miss what he said Oxi? or just conveniently forget it?

He said, and I quote, "America shouldn't be anywhere near the Balkans. I agree, our actions there stink"

Where in that sentence did he ignore it? geez, you are just unreal....

[Aric2000]

There is just no debating with you in a logical manner, you ignore what we say and then change the subject. Man, I just cannot believe this. It is hilarious, I am SO glad that you have nothing to do with politics or diplomacy, you'd have Greece in a war within 2 days.

[Aric2000]

I'm going to bed, and hopefully I will have dream that will come true. I will wake up, come to Freerepublic and Oxi will debate in a logical and coherent fashion. His analysis of the world will be logical and deep in scope. He will make sense and not attack those who disagree with him.

He will be calm, cool and collected, he will not change the subject of the thread. He will not say to those that debate him that they have no right to an opinion because they do not live there, when in fact neither does he.

AHH, dreams, such wonderful things, but real life will kill it, oh well. We can always hope that somehow it might happen.

[TheEnd]

Let's get back to the issue here.

It is obvious that most of the people here are not familiar with what is/was happening in Cyprus , and I just assume that Arric here is somehow related to Turkey since he is so quick to show the Turkish side of the story in all the situations ( the genocide in Armenia,Cyprus, etc)

Let's start with the oldest story- Armenian genocide. Aric said that the Armenians killed 500,000 Turks, and the presumed genocide of a million Armenians was some of revenge. This will imply though that Armenians -under Ottoman occupation at that time- managed to get into Turkish motherland ( which motherland was conquest from the Eastern Roman Empire when the ottoman hordes invaded Constantinople coming from Asia ) and slaughter some innocent Turkish citizens. Is that the case ? For me it looks like a rebellion that got punished in Ottoman style. To assume that a occupied country committed genocide against the occupier, amounts to a claim that the French resistance "genocide" the German officers and soldiers in the WW2, and therefore wiping out a few million women and kids would do just 'Justice".

I'll continue with the rest if there is any chance that mpre than 3 ( Oxi , Aric, and myself) people are still watching this post, otherwise is a usless waiste of time to try to convince a Turk fan that Turkey was ever wrong, or convince oxi that Turkey has some justified claims in Cyprus.

Regards,

[crystalk]

Isn't that two TURDS with one BONE, or two TURKS with one Scone, or something like that?

[crystalk]

Any one of ten EU members could easily dispose of Turkey alone and leave them running off for quick hot bath and massage.

[Darth Sidious]

When has Cyprus NOT been in a crisis?! :-)

[freeasinbeer]

Really? And what 10 would those be? GB, France? ... Who else? Really? This is a serious question. I am neither greek or a turk, but would be interested to hear you name and back up 10 EU nations that have the army and the willpower to dispose of Turkey so easily...

[Turk2]

What occupation? The area has been under Turkish rule since 1071. That's 844 years (in 1915) and 421 years before America was even discovered! What kind of history education have you received?

Is America under American occupation?

[Turk2]

:-)))))))))

[SubMareener]

Any one of ten EU members could easily dispose of Turkey alone and leave them running off for quick hot bath and massage.

Tonight! Luxemberg vs. Turkey! I wonder what the line on that would be? ;-)

[Bogie]

I think it means for materalistic, rather than idealogical reasons. However,the best laid plans often go astray.

It would be too bad if the Turks were tied down with the Greeks, when there was a problem with Iraq.

[dighton]

The paper argues that the article of the above-mentioned magazine has been published within the framework of the efforts exerted by the European Union to create "a Turkey where the power of money will rule and everything will be sold and bought like a merchandise".

Great find, Dog Gone. I'm calling in our Rosetta Stone team.

"You must bring us ... a merchandise!"

[Orual]

Zaporozhue Cossacks Writing a Letter to the Turkish Sultan, Alexander Yakunin

Türkçe siir sayfasina hos geldiniz. Bu sayfa hepimizin siir sevgisinin ürünü, siir sevgisiyle kuruldu ve okurlarinin destegiyle bugünlere geldi. Bu sayfa bir maddi amaç için kurulmadi ve de bakicisina güzel sözlerden baska hiç bir gelir saglamadi, saglamayacak da. Hepimizin alin terini siir okur-severlere armagan ediyorum.

[crystalk]

Ten European nations that could remove Turkey by force from Cyprus? That should be easy to do. I didn't say they had to conquer Turkey and occupy it, or kill everybody there!

Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, Sweden, Switzerland (with a little mobility help), Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Norway, Israel, ...

[Mortimer Snavely]

Pardon the smarminess, but something tells me that this old "They Might Be Giants" tune is appropriate here:

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul....

[aculeus]

Great find, Dog Gone. I'm calling in our Rosetta Stone team.

I find it easier to read the 'deleted by moderator' posts.