Post by Sener Levent on Dec 8, 2005 15:02:56 GMT -5
'You occupy half of a country after a fighting war''. Then you create a state there''..
You transfer thousands of persons from your country to the territories you conquer''.. You distribute, and issue title deeds, to these persons (illegal settlers) the properties of the people (Greek Cypriots) you force under armed violence to abandon.
And you settle for good there 40,000 of your armed forces. You plant a 'restricted military area' sign post everywhere'' You set up military camps and headquarters in the forests and mountains '.. You leave no place without barbed wires'' You force the local population to live behind an iron curtain for thirty years after closing tightly the borders of the country divided into two with the territories under your conquest ''. You allow no bird fly from the borders'.. You do not even give permission to the sick persons begging you to cross for treatment '''.
Suddenly after thirty years, after others died and others were left behind, you came to reason and open partly the walls you erected ''.
'Go ahead, pass, you say, with your passports' ''. Because you partly open the walls you erected you boast and consider this to be a great favour to the people whose land you occupy '.. Although their land is under your occupation you call them 'occupiers' and declare yourselves 'freedom lovers'..'
'I want peace while you do not', you say '''. 'Our offer for peace was in vain', you say complaining '..
With the support of 40,000 troops behind you accuse the other side that it does not accept your conditions for peace''.
At Ledra Street there was a festival yesterday '..Soyer '''.Serdar ''... And the commanders ''.
They gathered at the area where they created a work of art '. They delivered speeches '.
They provoked looking at the Greek Cypriot wall across the road.
'That wall, that wall of yours, is annoying us', they shouted in rage'.
They treated with disrespect a poem of Nazim (Hikmet)! As if Nazim wrote this famous poem for such a wall.
Since when do they consider the shouting of the proletarians against the wall of bourgeoisie to be the shouting of the Turks against the Greeks? Since when have those who divided the country into two pieces like a water melon, those who decorated the half of it with forty thousand soldiers, military camps and headquarters, those who forced us to live for thirty years behind bars, become 'wall breakers'? Since when do they have the desire to demolish walls?
Is this enthusiasm due to the fact that we were not able to make ourselves accepted to the other side with the territories we have been occupying for 31 years and the state we have established? Since when this monstrosity, this bridge you have built in a narrow street, has become a bridge of peace? Will the civilians go over the bridge because the army will be patrolling there? Why has it not been necessary to build bridges at other crossing points and it has been necessary there? Is it very pleasant for you if we live under the psychosis of a continuous war?
The festival at Lokmaci is a festival of helplessness. It is a sign of having submitted to the army, of the obedience of the civilians to the army. Come on, gather in the moldy dry dock of the fourty year old ruins. Light a fire. Dance. Distribute sweet pastry and meat balls. In any case, people are in trouble. It does not matter if they eat some sweets. Those who care about how to open a passage for the army to patrol instead of looking for ways to get rid of the army, what kind of peace could they sign? Many men have been shot at the sentry posts until now. Will they be shot on the bridge from now on'?
You transfer thousands of persons from your country to the territories you conquer''.. You distribute, and issue title deeds, to these persons (illegal settlers) the properties of the people (Greek Cypriots) you force under armed violence to abandon.
And you settle for good there 40,000 of your armed forces. You plant a 'restricted military area' sign post everywhere'' You set up military camps and headquarters in the forests and mountains '.. You leave no place without barbed wires'' You force the local population to live behind an iron curtain for thirty years after closing tightly the borders of the country divided into two with the territories under your conquest ''. You allow no bird fly from the borders'.. You do not even give permission to the sick persons begging you to cross for treatment '''.
Suddenly after thirty years, after others died and others were left behind, you came to reason and open partly the walls you erected ''.
'Go ahead, pass, you say, with your passports' ''. Because you partly open the walls you erected you boast and consider this to be a great favour to the people whose land you occupy '.. Although their land is under your occupation you call them 'occupiers' and declare yourselves 'freedom lovers'..'
'I want peace while you do not', you say '''. 'Our offer for peace was in vain', you say complaining '..
With the support of 40,000 troops behind you accuse the other side that it does not accept your conditions for peace''.
At Ledra Street there was a festival yesterday '..Soyer '''.Serdar ''... And the commanders ''.
They gathered at the area where they created a work of art '. They delivered speeches '.
They provoked looking at the Greek Cypriot wall across the road.
'That wall, that wall of yours, is annoying us', they shouted in rage'.
They treated with disrespect a poem of Nazim (Hikmet)! As if Nazim wrote this famous poem for such a wall.
Since when do they consider the shouting of the proletarians against the wall of bourgeoisie to be the shouting of the Turks against the Greeks? Since when have those who divided the country into two pieces like a water melon, those who decorated the half of it with forty thousand soldiers, military camps and headquarters, those who forced us to live for thirty years behind bars, become 'wall breakers'? Since when do they have the desire to demolish walls?
Is this enthusiasm due to the fact that we were not able to make ourselves accepted to the other side with the territories we have been occupying for 31 years and the state we have established? Since when this monstrosity, this bridge you have built in a narrow street, has become a bridge of peace? Will the civilians go over the bridge because the army will be patrolling there? Why has it not been necessary to build bridges at other crossing points and it has been necessary there? Is it very pleasant for you if we live under the psychosis of a continuous war?
The festival at Lokmaci is a festival of helplessness. It is a sign of having submitted to the army, of the obedience of the civilians to the army. Come on, gather in the moldy dry dock of the fourty year old ruins. Light a fire. Dance. Distribute sweet pastry and meat balls. In any case, people are in trouble. It does not matter if they eat some sweets. Those who care about how to open a passage for the army to patrol instead of looking for ways to get rid of the army, what kind of peace could they sign? Many men have been shot at the sentry posts until now. Will they be shot on the bridge from now on'?