{"id":41381,"date":"2010-08-01T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.palmografos.com\/?p=41381"},"modified":"2010-08-01T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T19:58:00","slug":"vivvo-6458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/?p=41381","title":{"rendered":"CANA Grass-roots Cyprus News Update and Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">For Immediate Release: July 30, 2010<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel (917) 699-9935<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">NEW YORK\u2014The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) sends out its regular  breakdown of news and translated articles from the Greek-Cypriot press and  analysis on developments in the field of justice for Cyprus and grass-roots  peaceful resistance against the Turkish racist bizonal bicommunal  federation.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Below follows 5 Main articles of interest, please distribute widely and  please remember to give credit to CANA and the author(s)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">1) CANA IN THE NEWS<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) has been cited this month in  high circulation newspapers around the world, &#8211;New York Post, The Guardian UK,  The Daily Telegraph, El Pais of Spain, and was practically the only  Greek-Cypriot organization cited PRIOR to Jennifer Lopez\u2019s cancellation of her  performance in Turkish-occupied Cyprus. News wires such as Y Net in Israel,  Russian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish, French major networks, and literally hundreds  of news sites, celebrity news sites and blogs spanning almost every country and  language in the world. Just this past Thursday CANA Press officer, Nikolaos  Taneris\u2019 letter \u201cTurkey uses Cyprus as port of Terror\u201d was published in The  Washington Times. And today Taneris\u2019 letter was also cited by the influential  Hoover Institution Hoover Daily Report: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/news\/daily-report\" title=\"http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/news\/daily-report\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.hoover.org\/news\/daily-report<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The Hoover Institution is influential in the American conservative and  libertarian movements.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Following last week\u2019s Press Release \u201cTURKISH EMBASSY HITLER SALUTE\u201d ,  numerous Jewish-American and Israeli news outlets contacted us and the CANA  Press Release has been reproduced along with the CANAgrassroots You Tube videos  on the following influential sites in the US and Israel PLEASE SEE LINKS  BELOW:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/europenews.dk\/en\/node\/33976\" title=\"http:\/\/europenews.dk\/en\/node\/33976\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/europenews.dk\/en\/node\/33976<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/israelmatzav.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/july-20-2010-tisha-bav-turkish.html\" title=\"http:\/\/israelmatzav.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/july-20-2010-tisha-bav-turkish.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/israelmatzav.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/july-20-2010-tisha-bav-turkish.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/thesilentmajority.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/21\/greek-cypriot-americans-demonstrate-at-turkish-embassy-dcon-36th-anniv-turkish-invasion-of-cyprus\/\" title=\"http:\/\/thesilentmajority.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/21\/greek-cypriot-americans-demonstrate-at-turkish-embassy-dcon-36th-anniv-turkish-invasion-of-cyprus\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/thesilentmajority.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/21\/greek-cypriot-americans-demonstrate-at-turkish-embassy-dcon-36th-anniv-turkish-invasion-of-cyprus\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/gatesofvienna.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/sieg-heil-at-turkish-embassy.html\" title=\"http:\/\/gatesofvienna.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/sieg-heil-at-turkish-embassy.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/gatesofvienna.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/sieg-heil-at-turkish-embassy.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greekrealm.com\/forum\/greek-diaspora\/15519-turkish-embassy-hitler-salute-july-20-2010-a.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.greekrealm.com\/forum\/greek-diaspora\/15519-turkish-embassy-hitler-salute-july-20-2010-a.htm\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.greekrealm.com\/forum\/greek-diaspora\/15519-turkish-embassy-hitler-salute-july-20-2010-a.htm<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/tundratabloid.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/turk-embassy-supporter-gives-hitler.html\" title=\"http:\/\/tundratabloid.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/turk-embassy-supporter-gives-hitler.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/tundratabloid.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/turk-embassy-supporter-gives-hitler.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/hellenicvanguard.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/turkish-fascists-outside-turkish.html\" title=\"http:\/\/hellenicvanguard.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/turkish-fascists-outside-turkish.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/hellenicvanguard.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/turkish-fascists-outside-turkish.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1389blog.com\/2010\/07\/26\/nazi-salutes-at-the-turkish-embassy\/\" title=\"http:\/\/1389blog.com\/2010\/07\/26\/nazi-salutes-at-the-turkish-embassy\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/1389blog.com\/2010\/07\/26\/nazi-salutes-at-the-turkish-embassy\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblogmocracy.com\/2010\/07\/26\/nazi-salutes-at-the-turkish-embassy\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.theblogmocracy.com\/2010\/07\/26\/nazi-salutes-at-the-turkish-embassy\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.theblogmocracy.com\/2010\/07\/26\/nazi-salutes-at-the-turkish-embassy\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">CANA was also cited and quoted extensively by Daniel Greenfield\u00a0\u00a0, born in  Israel but now living in New York City he is a writer and columnist for some  major publications, here is the link:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/friday-afternoon-roundup-congress-of.html\" title=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/friday-afternoon-roundup-congress-of.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/friday-afternoon-roundup-congress-of.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The site \u201cReal Americans Defend Israel\u201d also cited and quoted CANA  today:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/llphfreedom.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/best-is-on-friday-friday-afternoon.html\" title=\"http:\/\/llphfreedom.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/best-is-on-friday-friday-afternoon.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/llphfreedom.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/best-is-on-friday-friday-afternoon.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Jewish-American conservative writer, humorist, and political commentator  Julia Gorin, cited CANA and Savvas Iacovides\u2019 analysis \u201cWe need a Defence  Cooperation Agreement with Israel\u201d in two separate follow up articles:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliagorin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2381\" title=\"http:\/\/www.juliagorin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2381\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.juliagorin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2381<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliagorin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2388\" title=\"http:\/\/www.juliagorin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2388\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.juliagorin.com\/wordpress\/?p=2388<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">NOTE: The Cyprus Action Network of America will soon be issuing a  comprehensive press breakdown as the ONLY Greek Cypriot organization in America  cited worldwide in the international press and news wires PRIOR to Jennifer  Lopez\u2019s cancellation of her performance in Turkish-occupied Cyprus. CANA with  pride is the most widely published and cited Greek-Cypriot organization in  America and there is no stop in sight.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">2)\u00a0\u00a0Following Jennifer Lopez, Cercle Brugge cancelled visit to the occupied  and apologies<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Cercle Brugge,\u00a0\u00a0the Belgian Football Association was organising a visit to  the Turkish occupied area of the Republic of Cyprus set to take place next week.  When news reached the Greek Cypriot football Association\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAnorthosis\u201d of  Ammochostos, the latter immediately contacted the Belgium Cercle Brugge  enlightening them of the situation and action was also coordinated through the  Embassy of Cyprus in Belgium through the Cypriot Foreign Ministry. As a result  of this coordinated action the visit to the occupied has been cancelled.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">after learning of the true facts and the ongoing Turkish invasion and  occupation of that part of the Republic of Cyprus to its credit,\u00a0\u00a0Cercle Brugge  not only cancelled but has posted an apology on its website which reads as  follows:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">SORRY<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00abAfter careful deliberation, Cercle Brugge has decided to cancel the visit  of the occupied part of Cyprus . Cercle Brugge also wants to sincerely  appolagize to the directors and supporters of ANORTHOSIS FAMAGUSTA for, totally  unwillingly, having mentioned this sensitive subject. We never had the intention  to hurt or shock anyone!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">We are looking forward to the two sportive games we will be playing against  each other\u00bb.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00abCercle Brugge ziet na overleg af van een bezoek aan het bezet gedeelte van  Cyprus . Cercle Brugge wenst zich bij deze ook oprecht te verontschuldigen bij  het bestuur en de supporters van ANORTHOSIS FAMAGUSTA indien wij, volkomen  onbewust, een gevoelig onderwerp hebben aangeraakt. Dit was nooit de  bedoeling!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Wij kijken uit naar de sportieve ontmoeting tussen beide clubs, deze en  volgende week\u00bb <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerclebrugge.be\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.cerclebrugge.be\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.cerclebrugge.be\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u201cAnorthosis\u201d wishes to warmly thank the Directors of Cercle Brugge for  their action and the cancellation of their trip to the occupied\u00a0\u00a0but also for  their understanding of this delicate matter which does not affect only  \u201cAnorthosis\u201d but the whole of Cyprus .\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAnorthosis\u201d has arranged for the  mission of the Belgium team and their supporters to visit the Civil Centre of  Ammochostos Municipality in Dherynia in order to be fully informed of the  ongoing Turkish occupation of Cyprus .<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The report as carried by Sigma live 28.7.2010, on link: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/sports\/football\/cyprus\/a+league\/290955\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/sports\/football\/cyprus\/a+league\/290955\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/sports\/football\/cyprus\/a+league\/290955<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">3) Why Papandreou and Christofias need to go to Israel<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Article by leader writer in \u201cSimerini\u201d newspaper in Cyprus Mr. Savvas  Iacovides 11 July 2010 \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simerini.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.simerini.com\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">www.simerini.com<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Greece and Cyprus are at a critical political, economic and military  crossroad. Due to decades of dissipation and especially the last few years  Greece has deteriorated economically and politically.\u00a0\u00a0Turkey, the Skopjians,  the Albanians, they all declare aggressive intentions against her. Despite the  efforts of Athens to facilitate Turkey\u2019s EU accession negotiations, especially  Ankara, is accelerating her expansionist demands against Greece. Weakened  militarily and dependent economically, Greece today is not in a position to face  up to an excessively arrogant Turkey, which intensifies her intentions on all  fronts and demands not only a peripheral role but aims at a future super power  role.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Turkey is attempting to change the status quo in the wider Middle East and  elevate itself to the defender, protector and the mouthpiece of the Muslim and  Islamic world.\u00a0\u00a0For the U.S.A despite the occasional crisis, Turkey remains a  significant strategic ally whilst Turkey already doubts the other powerful  factor in the Middle East, Israel.\u00a0\u00a0Turkey has taken advantage and used the last  incident with the activists. The last incident with the activists to Gaza, has  been used excessively by Turkey in order to weaken and de-legalise the state of  Israel and at the same time, to claim a reformist role in a new order in the  area.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">From the other hand, Cyprus, under Turkish occupation (since the invasion  in 1974) and under threat by Turkey, is in deep illusion preoccupied with  impassive negotiations which, gradually and due to na\u00efve and bent ideological  perceptions of President Christofias, is drawn towards de-recognition and  negatively towards uplifting-recognition of the pseudo state. Turkey had made it  clear since 1956 and very recently through Davudoglou: \u201cEven if not one single  Muslim Turk was in Cyprus, Turkey ought to retain a Cyprus issue. No country can  stay indifferent towards such an island, which is placed in its vital area  (\u2026).\u00a0\u00a0It is necessary for Turkey for strategic purposes to be interested in  Cyprus besides the human factor (\u2026)\u201d. The dangers hanging over Hellenism are  nationally deadly. Greece and Cyprus have nowhere to look for. Wolves and hyenas  are standing ready to snatch and grasp more national land. Two hundred or so  years after the Greek Independence and fifty of that of Cyprus, Greece and  Cyprus are faced with the worst dangers for their survival.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Napoleon the Great, speaking at his Council, made the following great  statement: \u201cI became a catholic to end the war in Vend\u00e9e.\u00a0\u00a0I became a Muslim to  impose on Egypt. I became a pro-Pope to win the clergy in Italy. And if I were  to rule the Jewish people I would not hesitate to\u00a0\u00a0re-build the Solomon Temple\u201d.  The Greeks do not need to become\u2026 Jews but to learn from the example of Napoleon  the Great. Taking into account the economic, political and military weakening  situation both Greece and Cyprus have found themselves these days, they do not  have many choices but only one and powerful: To reach out to Israel and enforce,  and further develop\u00a0\u00a0their ties and relations on all aspects, especially on the  defence and military cooperation and their relations on other areas. Information  from different sources indicate that, after the very serious crisis and the  un-restorable relations between Turkey and Israel, Athens has at long last began  some approaches towards Jerusalem.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Doing the right thing, Greece seems to be taking advantage of the crisis in  the Turkish-Israeli relations and is investing in stronger military ties with  Israel as well as in the area of information. Papandreou seems to be investing  in a more radical reinforcement of Greece\u2019s relations with Israel through a  strategic coalition agreement, seemingly to re-generate and bring Greece back to  its original position as a power in the area of Eastern Medeterranean.\u00a0\u00a0It is  more than clear that the serious economic crisis that has kneeled Greece, has  forced Athens to turn towards reinforcing its already good relations with  Israel, whilst Papandreou, according to a Jewish think-tank with a good echo  towards the Israeli Government, has turned towards Jewish economic giants to  save the Greek economy. From the other hand, good sources from the U.S.A state  that the leadership of the Greek-American lobby, following the crisis with the  activists to Gaza and the crisis in the Turkish-Israeli relations, has thickened  its contacts with the leadership of the Jewish Lobby (Jewish Committee).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u201cIt is a historical opportunity for the Greeks\u201d, we were told by a high  ranking official of the Greek-American lobby. \u201cThe USA are questioning whether  Turkey is really still a trustworthy ally. We believe this is now a big  opportunity to develop and reinforce even more our relations with Israel\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It  is already well known that the Jewish lobby in the USA has terminated all  relations with Turkey and stopped all assistance towards the Turks. On the  contrary, it has turned towards the Greeks, because the Israelis regard Greece  and Cyprus as the only democratic and free countries in the Middle East which  are inundated by Muslims and Islam. The same sources informed us that during the  forthcoming Annual Conference of the Greek Cypriots Abroad to take place in  August (2010) the President of the Jewish lobby Mr. David Harris is expected to  attend.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Reasons of high priority vis-\u00e0-vis security, military, economic, political,  national and of biological survival for Hellenism in facing the resolute  aggressive objectives of Turkism dictate that G. Papandreou and D.Christofias  visit Jerusalem the soonest possible. To draft strategic\u00a0\u00a0agreements and  cooperation agreements on all areas. It is a unique opportunity, when the  interests and anxieties of Israel, for its own security and survival, tally with  those of Greece and Cyprus. Papandreou and Christofias are called upon to act  and take advantage\u2026 yesterday, of this unique and historical opportunity.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Translated by Fanoulla Argyrou (London).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">4) Ignorant Cameron and pathetic Christofias, Translated from Greek to  English below:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/simerini\/columns\/thesi\/290991\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/simerini\/columns\/thesi\/290991\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/simerini\/columns\/thesi\/290991<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Leader article by Costakis Antoniou, Simerini 29.7.2010<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Ignorant Cameron and\u00a0\u00a0pathetic Christofias<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The English, whether Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrats are all the  same, they remain provocative, historically inadequate and turcophiles, through  their \u201cgolden age\u201d with Turkey.\u00a0\u00a0Without the slightest of change in their policy  over Turkey and Hellenism in Cyprus. David Cameron\u2019s pro-Turkish outburst, his  historically negligent statements, confirm not simply his turcophilia but also  their cunning policies against Cyprus. Those we have lived through, and those we  will live\u00a0\u00a0through.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u201cWhen I think about what Turkey has done to defend Europe as a Nato ally,  and what Turkey is doing today in Afghanistan our European allies, it makes me  angry that your progress towards EU membership can be frustrated in the way it  has been&#8221;, stated the historically negligent English Prime Minister.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">When did Turkey become the defending-angel of Europe, for Cameron to praise  her today? When she retained her skilful neutrality vis-\u00e0-vis the fascism of  Hitler? When she collected the American dollars and the English sterling and at  the same time turned the blind eye to the Soviets? When, pretending to be the  \u201cbastion of the West\u201d, she cashed on the tolerance of the English and the  Americans for the slaughter against the Hellenism of Constantinople, of the  Cypriots, of the Kurds and of the minorities in Turkey?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Did Cameron hear nothing of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, for the  continued for 36 years occupation of land of a country \u2013member of the European  Union? Has he never heard of un-enforced Ankara Protocols, and he feels \u201cangry\u201d  because some European countries frustrate Turkey\u2019s EU entry negotiations?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">However more anger is felt by the Greeks in Cyprus, listening to Cameron  violate so cruelly History and become the stooge of neo-Ottomanic dream of  Ankara.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">We heard nothing here from the Cyprus Government, not a hint of  protest\u00a0\u00a0for all the British Prime Minister stated. President Christofias did  not manage one single word and did not try to correct all those historical  distortions so provocatively Cameron stated. He did not remind him at all of his  country\u2019s responsibilities and the fact that it was Britain which first dragged,  on paper and on the ground the partitioning line of Cyprus. He did not remind  him at all that Turkey, as an aggressor and occupying force, is not allowed  entry into democratic Europe, nor that Ankara has undertaken to fulfil some  obligations, as precondition to her entry into the European Union. Obligations  that she has not fulfilled.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">If President Christofias abandoned to one side the courtesies and spoke  with the language of truth to Mr. Cameron, he would have created the adequate  scepticism and adequate interest of the British Public Opinion, and also within  the European P.O. But, is it time now to reveal the true face of Turkey?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The leaders of this country remained, as always, pathetic viewers of the  rhetorics and actions of the \u201cevil demon\u201d of Cyprus\u2026\u201d (\u201cEvil demon\u201d translates  to Gt. Britain, President Christofias older statement).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">5) PSEKA\u2019s Full Page Folly<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The Cypriot government funded organization PSEKA and its affiliates took  out a full page ad in The New York Times last weekend. Reportedly such ads cost  in the area of $120,000 (we feel sorry for the poor Greek Cypriot taxpayer) and  almost a week later the only American\u00a0\u00a0 news citation this costly \u201cfull page ad  folly\u201d gained was one (1) blog entry. This brings us back to what Christopher  Hitchens wrote in his famous article way back in 1995 about the failure of the  so-called Greek Lobby in America, the only difference with 1995 and last week is  that now the price for the \u201cfull page ad folly\u201d has literally doubled<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u201cThen there is the occasional humiliation of what is known in the trade  as &#8220;the full-page folly.&#8221; It costs up to $56,000 to take a whole page of The New  York Times as an advertisement. Every now and then, the baffled reader of that  newspaper is flipping through and sees an old photograph of a refugee camp in  Cyprus, say, or a coin minted by Philip of Macedon. Underneath is some text,  usually about half of it in grammatical English, stating an inalienable Greek  claim. There might be the name of some indecipherable organization, or an  exhortation to write to the President of the United States and tell him all  about how you feel. And that\u2019s it. No follow-through; no education; no  &#8220;enlightenment.&#8221; This really upsets the hard-working Hellenic press officer I  cited earlier, whose whole annual budget is a fraction of the above figure and  who can hardly take an honest reporter for a souvlaki. &#8220;There are commissions on  those full-page ads. That\u2019s where the money goes. It\u2019s everybody taking their  cut. It\u2019s a rousfeti.&#8221; I feel his pain.\u201d\u2014Christopher Hitchens writing in Dead  End: Greek Lobby in America:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">URL: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/lobbyforcyprus.org\/press\/press1998-1940\/Ody1195.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/lobbyforcyprus.org\/press\/press1998-1940\/Ody1195.htm\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/lobbyforcyprus.org\/press\/press1998-1940\/Ody1195.htm<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The following analysis is provided by Fanoulla Argyrou:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u201cI may be cynical but allow me to comment as follows:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The ad is carefully worded so as to conceal all those things IT OUGHT TO  DEMAND and evidently DOES NOT.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">This ad is placed by PSEKA the organisation funded by the Cypriot purse to  enlighten abroad on the Cyprus issue. Therefore and although in its second part  it does number those things Turkey did, in its third and most vital part\u00a0\u00a0AVOIDS  DEMANDING THOSE THINGS IT OUGHT TO DEMAND OF TURKEY, the aggressor.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Demands the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus but  says NOTHING about the immediate withdrawal of ALL SETTLERS which as the ad  numbers correctly in part two exceed 160,000.\u00a0\u00a0Why, because President  Christofias, pledged to accept 50,000 of them (initially?) and because Turkey  needs them to seal the vacuum left by the uprooting of the 200,000 refugees whom  they do not want to return?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Calls upon Turkey to support the reunification of Cyprus and  self-governance of the entire island. What does that mean exactly if not the  \u201cre-unification\u201d of the two \u201cconstituent states\u201d? Because Cyprus was never a  country in two parts so as to\u2026 re-unite, but one Republic of Cyprus . How do  they interpret the \u201cself-governance\u201d in one\u00a0\u00a0Republic?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They spare not a word in their claims about the missing persons, the  enclaved, the restoration of our 500 or so churches desecrated by the Turks, the  return of the 200,000 refugees to their homes and they jump the fence to\u2026 call  upon Turkey to lift the Casus Belli clause against Greece, to allow the  Ecumenical patriarchate\u2026, to negotiate with the Kurds and be a \u2026 partner in  peace and understanding in the E. Med!!! Why on earth did they have to include  all that when they missed the essentials required by their\u00a0\u00a0MANDATE and PURPOSE  IN EXISTENCE? I have no problem in supporting all these but I find it out of  order and out of their MANDATE for PSEKA (International Justice Committee for  Cyprus) to refer to such matters when its sole reason for coming into being is  the enlightenment of the Cyprus problem. And this ad has failed to do the  minimum.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Avoids the most crucial point: To call upon Turkey to respect the  human rights of all Greek Cypriot refugees which she violated with the invasion  and make good by allowing them to return. Not a single word about that most  crucial point and which is the core of the problem and why the Cyprus issue is  still an open wound. What is the point of referring to the ousting of 200,000  people and their ethnic cleansing if you DO NOT CALL UPON TURKEY TO REINSTATE  THESE PEOPLE AND RETURN THEIR STOLEN PROPERTIES.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">It is regrettable the least to read so many articles written especially in  American newspapers, blogs, websites, by distinguished authors, writers,  journalists, academics about Turkey\u2019s criminal record on Cyprus and who promote  all those elementary demands for proper justice for Cyprus. Yet, what do we  find? So much hesitation in doing just that from organisations of our own, that  have been set up to defend the violated human rights of our people! One such in  the link below. The author does not mince his words. A big thank you to all  these distinguished people who albeit circumstance are helping in enlightening  the world of the true facts about the Cyprus issue and what is really going on  in Cyprus since 1974.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">After all nothing is static in politics and thanks to the flotilla incident  on one hand and the Jennifer Lopez on the other, the barbaric invasion of Cyprus  and ongoing brutal occupation of half of our country by Turkey and the crimes  committed by the Turks, are brought back to the front line of world politics.  And all that despite the despicable efforts of London which LEADS the strategy  on Cyprus aided (as always) by American politicians who follow &#8211; especially the  anglophile group that exists within the American political establishment in  Capitol Hill \u2013 and takes care of that\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/camerons-despicable-toadying-to-turkey.html\" title=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/camerons-despicable-toadying-to-turkey.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/camerons-despicable-toadying-to-turkey.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">These are the articles that Cyprus is crying for but\u00a0\u00a0finds no fingers to  hold the pen for and not for bizonal bicommunal federal racist TURKISH  solutions\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Another leader article in Simerini of Cyprus 29 July 2010 by journalist  Costakis Antoniou\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIgnorant Cameron and pathetic Christofias\u201d is a strong  indictment of the failures of our leaderships. The article ends saying: \u201c\u2026 If  President Christofias abandoned to one side the courtesies and spoke with the  language of truth to Mr. Cameron, he would have created the adequate scepticism  and adequate interest of the British Public Opinion, and also within the  European P.O. But, is it time now to reveal the true face of Turkey ?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The leaders of this country remained, as always, pathetic viewers of the  rhetorics and actions of the \u201cevil demon\u201d of Cyprus \u2026\u201d\u00a0\u00a0(\u201cevil demon\u201d is a  slogan for Gt. Britain once exclaimed by President Christofias himself!).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/simerini\/columns\/thesi\/290991\" title=\"http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/simerini\/columns\/thesi\/290991\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">http:\/\/www.sigmalive.com\/simerini\/columns\/thesi\/290991<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">It seems the same applies to\u00a0\u00a0our American \u201cleaderships\u201d\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Well, my original reservations even before seeing the actual ad are not  only justified but confirmed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Thank you, Regards Fanoulla Argyrou. \u201c<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release: July 30, 2010 Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel (917) 699-9935 NEW YORK\u2014The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) sends out its regular breakdown of news and translated articles from the Greek-Cypriot press and analysis on developments in the field of justice for Cyprus and grass-roots peaceful resistance against the Turkish racist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[457,458],"class_list":["post-41381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vivvo-category-20","tag-cana","tag-cyprus-action-network-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136313,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41381\/revisions\/136313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}