My name is Theodore Karakostas and I am a Greek American writing to protest the statements of former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw who advocated the recognition of the occupied territories of Cyprus. The Republic of Cyprus remains the only legitimate authority on the whole of Cyprus. It is generally well known that the Turks invaded Cyprus in 1974 and pursued a policy of ethnic cleansing which resulted in the murders, rapes, and ethnic cleansing of the Greek Cypriots.
It is indicative of how utterly contemptible a man that Mister Straw is. The Turkish government has over the past century been responsible for repeated crimes against humanity against a variety of religious and ethnic groups. The Turkish leaders of both the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic were responsible for the genocide of millions of Christian Armenians, Greeks, andAssyrians and were assisted by unscrupulous statesmen from America and Europe.
In more recent years, Turkey was an ally of the Islamic State even while the latter were actively involved in genocide against the Yazidis, Christians, and Shi’ite Muslims. Turkey purchased oil from the Islamic State and permitted psychopathic volunteers fromAmerica and Europe to pass through its territory to serve this genocidal group. Turkey has also actively supported Syrian jihadist groups actively affiliated with Al Quada.
In response to this, supposed statesmen such as Mr. Straw seek to deliver the Cypriots to the bloody hands of the present day Turkish jihadists. This comes of course after the western world remained indifferent to the murderous and aggressive policies of the psychopathic leaders of Azerbaijan against the Armenians of Artsakh where numerous crimes against humanity were perpetrated by Baku with the assistance of Ankara.
The Republic of Cyprus has sovereignty over the whole of Cyprus. It is the representative of Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Turkish Cypriots of course have been vanishing as most of them have immigrated in response to the large scale settlements in the occupied territories of Turkish citizens. The resources in the Mediterranean around the Republic of Cyprus belong to Cyprus alone and not to the jihadist terror state that is Erdogan’s Turkey.
I object morally to the immoral and criminal statements of Jack Straw who seeks to whitewash the horrors perpetrated against the Greek Cypriots by the ethnic cleansers of Ankara. Mr. Straw has reminded humanity of the past crimes perpetrated by the British in Cyprus between 1955 and 1960, and why Great Britain must have no say or participation in the future of a free and liberated Cyprus.
It appears to me the British are as treacherous and as committed to appeasement of evil dictators today as they were in 1938.
Theodore G. Karakostas