"When we were trying to convince Turkey to allow the passage of our troops through its territory in Northern Iraq, we gave Turkey two motives: several billion dollars in the form of donations and loans and Cyprus in the form of the Annan plan."
Daniel Fried, member of the National Security Council and special advisor to President Bush
Washington, June 26, 2003
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate
"We are all prisoners of knowledge. To know how Cyprus was betrayed, and to have studied the record of that betrayal, is to make oneself unhappy and to spoil, perhaps for ever, one's pleasure for visiting one of the word's most enchanting islands. Nothing will ever restore the looted treasures, the bereaved families, the plundered villages and the groves and hillsides scalded with napalm. Nor will anything mitigate the record of the callous and crude politicians who regarded Cyprus as something on which to scribble their inane and conceited designs. But fatalism would be the worst betrayal of all. The acceptance, the legitimization of what was done - those things must be repudiated. Such a refusal has a value beyond Cyprus in showing that acquiescence in injustice is not 'realism'. Once the injustice has been set down and described, and called by its right name, acquiescence in it becomes impossible. That is why one writes about Cyprus in sorrow but more - much more - in anger.", Christopher Hitchens, "Hostage in History: Cyprus", Washington, May 1997.
RESOLUTION 3212 (XXIX), Par. 1: Calls upon all states to respect the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and non-alignment of the Republic of Cyprus and to refrain from all acts and interventions directed against it.
RESOLUTION 3212 (XXIX), Par. 2: Urges the speedy withdrawal of all foreign armed forces and foreign military presence and personnel from the Republic of Cyprus and the cessation of all foreign interference in its affairs.
RESOLUTION 3212 (XXIX), Par.5 Considers that all the refugees should return to their homes in safety and calls upon the parties concerned to undertake urgent measures to that end.
1st Report European Commission of Human Rights on Turkey's invasion in Cyprus and aftermath
2nd Report European Commission of Human Rights on Turkey's invasion in Cyprus and aftermath
3rd Report European Commission of Human Rights on Turkey's invasion in Cyprus and aftermath
Initially designed and posted at MIT, several years ago, the message remains the same.....
"What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain,
nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom"
Nikos Kazantzakis
A column about the Armenian Genocide in "The Tech" of MIT.
Όσοι το χάλκεον χέρι βαρύ του φόβου αισθάνονται, ζυγό δουλείας ας έχωσι.