SO NOW YOU’RE DISTORTING HISTORICAL FACTS?
We live in a country full of lies… They’ve come up with this idea that ‘lies are permissible in politics,’ and many politicians in our country have adopted this as their motto.
Especially those who govern this country have taken lying too far.
No, my friend, there shouldn’t be so many lies in politics, or anywhere else…
Broken promises; a constant pretence as though something that doesn’t exist actually does; telling success stories where there is utter failure; making contradictory statements that don’t add up; selling dreams for things that will never happen…
All of these exist, and even more…
We are buried in lies, deceit and nonsense…
Have citizens grown tired of being deceived, or have they become indifferent to these lies, reacting to them in a curiously nonchalant manner?
For example, the health sector is overwhelmed with problems, chronic issues remain unresolved, and yet the Minister of Health keeps boasting…
The new academic year has begun with numerous problems; for example, construction work is still ongoing in public schools, yet the Minister of Education is making rosy statements about the new school year.
The Minister of Transport makes contradictory statements on many issues; for example, he kept saying such things about the so-called new AI operated traffic cameras that everyone’s head was spinning…
These are just a few examples; the situation is no different in other ministries.
Alongside the usual lies, empty promises, and hollow words, now unreal things are being said in the run-up to the election.
Prime Minister Ünal Üstel’s remarks to his party members that they should pass the Public Service Commission written exam and that the president would help them out in the oral exam drew considerable criticism. In fact, this is not something that will happen; it was just an attempt to sell a fantasy…
The Prime Minister said something else that is as unreal/unlikely as what he said about the Public Service Commission exam.
The Prime Minister said, “Guarantees mean a two-state solution. Federation means no guarantees.”
These words made headlines in some newspapers and were prominently featured in many online newspapers…
Surprisingly, the reality is actually the exact opposite of what he said.
Is the Prime Minister lacking in his knowledge of history? Could it be that he is unaware of the Treaties of Guarantee and Alliance?
Is he unaware that the guarantee covers the whole of Cyprus, protecting Cyprus’s security, constitutional order and territorial integrity? Let me repeat, the treaties state ‘territorial integrity’, meaning that the guarantors, Turkey, Greece and the United Kingdom, are not guarantors of separation.
Does the Prime Minister not know that a possible ‘separate state,’ which is not accepted internationally, would eliminate all the rights of Turkish Cypriots arising from the 1960 Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus, and yet he says, ‘Guarantee means a two-state solution’?
I consider it rude and insulting to our readers to write and remind them of these things as if I were teaching a primary school kid. However, the country’s Prime Minister is distorting the facts for the sake of the election.
If you want to defend the ‘two-state solution,’ go ahead, build your election campaign around it, it’s your business, but don’t distort the facts and don’t pretend as though you don’t know the existing agreements.
Is it worth it for the people running this country to distort the facts so much for the sake of an election?
In the past, they would have had so-called experts and academics say such unreal things; now they themselves have resorted to lies.
No, a Prime Minister cannot and should not do this. Not everything is permissible for the sake of an election…
This article was originally published on 19.09.2025