Dear Congressman,
I am writing to express to you as an American of Greek descent that I believe the United States should give maximum support to our democratic allies Greece and Cyprus who are the victims of Turkish aggression and provocations. As is well known at the present time, Turkey is attempting to drill for oil in waters that are according to international law under the jurisdiction of Greece and Cyprus. The Turkish acts of aggression come in the aftermath of public statements made by the Turkish President himself that the Dodecanese islands that are off the coast of Asia Minor and belong to Greece under the Treaty of Paris of 1947 belong to Turkey. Such statements can only be construed as advocating ethnic cleansing and genocide as the population of these islands are overwhelmingly Greek and have not a single Turkish inhabitant residing on them.
Turkey has publicly condemned the Treaty of Lausanne which defines the present day borders between Greece and Turkey. The Turkish President is a jihadist and a fanatic intent on creating a greater Islamic Turkey at the expense of Greece. It is inconceivable to contemplate that the United States will not support Greece during this crisis. The Turkey of President Recep Teyyip Erdogan is gradually filling the vacuum left by the destruction of the Islamic State (IS). As thatJihadist entity was eradicated, Ankara is now emerging as its successor Jihadist state. The Turkish government has converted old Churches such as the famed Hagia Sophia into Mosques and has held public parades glorifying the Ottoman Empire and Islamic triumphalism.
Turkey continues to occupy thirty seven percent of the Republic of Cyprus. The greedy Jihadist Republic of Turkey seeks the oil that rightfully belongs to the people of the Republic of Cyprus. Having occupied the north of Cyprus and ethnically cleansed its territories of Greek Cypriots, Ankara is now seeking to seize the oil that belongs to the people of the internationally recognized and democratic Republic of Cyprus. The Turkish President has been adding fuel to the fire through his rhetoric by glorifying the racial extermination of Greek and Armenian Christians that occurred when Turkish forces seized that city from the Greek Army in September 1922. The Turkish President is a disturbed and dangerous individual that must be opposed by the civilized world.
I respectfully call on you to raise the matter of Turkish aggression against Greece with your colleagues in the House of Representatives and with the President himself. I respectfully ask that you make an appeal to the President to extend full support to the democratic Republics of Greece and Cyprus and to condemn and oppose Turkey. It is my opinion that the United States should terminate all military and other forms of assistance that are being given to the Turkish Jihadist government. The White House and the State Department should be called upon by the House of Representatives to condemn Turkish acts of aggression, to cut off all forms of assistance to Turkey, and to take further necessary diplomatic and political actions to stop Turkish aggression and maintain peace and stability in the region.
Respectfully,
Theodore G. Karakostas