By ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ (GREEK) TÜRKÇE (TURKISH)
As soon as the appointment of Marco Rubio to the State Department was announced in the US, in Turkey all hell broke loose. The Grey Wolves and the far-right publications once again used AKEL’s phraseology, talking about butchers and massacre/genocide in Gaza.
It is true that especially in the last 20 days we have experienced a lot of things.
The President of the Republic travelled to Washington where he had a meeting with the outgoing President of the United States Joe Biden. Strong messages in all directions about the spectacular progress in the last two years of a course that began under the previous Trump Presidency and which has changed the position of Cyprus in the region and internationally. In Turkey, always about the meeting, the opposition spoke of a Turkish diplomatic disaster and blamed Tayyip Erdogan for his stance. For any stance he took so strongly, for the past several years.
In Cyprus, Efthimios Diplaros said he was given the opportunity to be a minister but, he said, he couldn’t imagine himself in a ministry. But he could, he said, completely spontaneously I suppose, imagine himself in the leadership of DISY. But for now, he says, he supports the current President, Annita Demetriou. My guess is that he threw the two together, that is, the fact that our country’s ministries don’t suit him and the fact that he can indulge us and become the leader of the largest party, to make people say “here’s one who makes us start our day pleasantly”.
Only it seems that Efthimios is being encouraged by Foulis [Editor’s note: reference to Averof Neofytou] to further undermine Annita and have a President under his influence this time, so that he can repeat the project of 2023. Who is more tragic than the two great men of DISY I am not able to tell you. But I would not be in any hurry to laugh in a country where 70,000 voted for Fidias. If you want more proof that anything goes in this madhouse I have plenty more for you. Tell me.
As soon as the appointment of Marco Rubio to the US State Department was announced in the US, in Turkey all hell broke loose. The Grey Wolves and the far-right publications once again used AKEL’s phraseology, talking about butchers and massacre/genocide in Gaza. What is surprising is that the Grey Wolves and Devlet Bahceli, unlike AKEL, did not also adopt Hamas’ propaganda of “17. 000 dead children”, according to AKEL’s phraseology, just as they were not silent when Putin and Assad were razing Syrian cities with people inside and with 80-90% of the victims of the war being civilians, and did not even consider shortly after the massacres of 7 October to invite the Iranian Ambassador who orchestrated them to the party leader’s office.
The War in Gaza, as destructive as any war, does not have a ratio of 1:9 (combatants to civilians) as most wars according to the UN (and the Syrian one) but 1:1.5 which is the lowest war ratio in modern times by far. It’s just done by Jews in a part of the world where Jews according to left and right wing antisemites have no right to live even though it is their historic homeland. And we are not talking about Gaza, of course. The left-wing antisemites even claim that anyone (non-Jewish at least) who seeks asylum somewhere is a victim of the evil western world and must receive protection by us, while when the war is being waged by the Jews they speak in broad terms: 40,000 dead. If more than half of them are members of Hamas, they don’t care. It is always the Jews’ fault.
Before long (20 days passed by), the President would meet Erdogan in Budapest and they would have coffee, including the Turkish Foreign Minister with whom he would meet again a few days later in Baku, while our Foreign Minister would meet the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan for the first time and they would agree to continue the dialogue. A very important development with a country that has no diplomatic relations with us, supports the pseudo-state, until recently had no contact with Cyprus and is important energy-wise for Europe.
In Turkey again, all hell broke loose. In Cyprus, everything was nullified, flattened, while the news was dominated by the obsession with the “Philippa Fund” [Editor’s note: reference to the Independent Social Support Body], the… hero Odysseas [Editor’s note: reference to Odysseas Michaelides] and the evil Supreme Court with the “corrupt” judges when their decisions do not suit the populists and various other things. Leaving the IMF’s upgrading of our economy’s forecasts, as well as the upgrades of rating agencies a little earlier, for the single line columns.
A friend was asking me the other day if I wasn’t afraid to spend such long periods in Israel in the midst of war. The truth is that not only am I not afraid, but there are times here when I am afraid or at least despair very often.
In the Middle East people still have hope. Even there.
Here if they hope, they are either on something or they are not. But they should.
