Letters On Cyprus Issue  

Greek Cypriot ‘grief’ over Sept. 11 attacks is hypocritical

Greek Cypriot representative Erato Kozakou-Marcoulis’ purported grieving over the Sept. 11 villainies can be likened to Judas’ weeping over the Cruxifixion (“Embassy Row,” Oct. 1).

The Greek Cypriot administration was conceived in EOKA terrorism. Sponsored and financed by Greek-Cypriot “mainstream” leaders hoping to annex Cyprus to Greece, the terrorist group EOKA keenly, relished massacring hundreds of Turks and British and Greek-Cypriot civilians between 1955 and 1959 and was condemned by the United Nations.

Mrs. Marcoulis represents an administration that celebrates EOKA’s malevolence with the fanfare of July Fourth in the United States: parades, singing and phantasmagoria. Indeed, Greek Cypriots shifted their National Day celebration from Aug. 16, the birth date of the 1960 Republic of Cyprus, to Oct. 1 as an oblation to EOKA’s founding.

The Greek-Cypriot government also aided and abetted convicted Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan with two false passports. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States; it is a felony for a U.S. citizen to assist it in any way. The United States collaborated with Turkey in apprehending Ocalan in Kenya, PKK terrorist training camps dot the Greek Cypriot administration in South Cyprus, according to persistent reports. Subsidiary establishments of PKK openly collect money and raise funds in South Cyprus to finance the terrorist activities of PKK.

Even indicted archvillian Osama bin Laden enjoys a Greek-Cypriot welcome mat, Former U.S. Director fo Central Intelligence James Woolsey revealed in an interview with the Italian daily La Republica on Sept. 19 that Greek Cypriots have been hiding bin Laden’s banking machinations like the Swiss hid Nazi gold, Mr. Woolsey lamented: “The worse country of all (in laundering terrorism financing is the Greek Cypriot state. They want to enter the EU, and we have advised our friends in Brussels to visit the island and say: ‘You will enter the EU, but only in 400 years, unless you hand over information concerning bin Laden’s money straight away.’” Greek Cypriots also laundered money for indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic. No Greek Cypriot tears poured forth last year when the Greek terrorist organization November 17 brutally murdered British Defence Attache Stephen Saunders in Athens.

Gen. Wesley Clark, the former NATO Commander, during an interview on CNN on Sept. 14, linked South Cyprus to international terrorist activity and stated that the Greek Cypriot part of the island was a prime transit point for terrorists en route to Europe and the United States.

In sum, doesn’t Mrs. Marcoulis represent an administration that would host the Last Supper for Jesus and breakfast the next morning for Pontius Pilate?

AHMET ERDENIZ
Representative  
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus  
Washington