{"id":19381,"date":"2025-03-21T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/?p=19381"},"modified":"2025-03-24T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T08:20:13","slug":"this-oppressive-mentality-is-not-far-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/this-oppressive-mentality-is-not-far-from-us\/","title":{"rendered":"THIS OPPRESSIVE MENTALITY IS NOT FAR FROM US\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here’s your \u2018guarantor<\/strong>.\u2019 I shudder even more when I imagine that this antidemocratic mentality, left to the mercy of an \u2018authoritarian<\/strong>\u2019, also governs the northern part of Cyprus.<\/p>\n Without democracy and law, there is no life. ***<\/p>\n To arrest people, first a \u2018terrorist organisation<\/strong>\u2019 is invented, then a\u00a0\u2018membership<\/strong>\u2019 link with that organisation is fabricated, and then detentions ensue. It’s horrible. Life is carried out under the conditions of martial law and in a climate of fear…<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n There is no ground left in Turkey to talk about politics, the will of the people, human rights and freedoms. I would like to think that it will not go on like this and that this atmosphere of horror will change. I hope that the enlightened people of Turkey, the youth and progressive people who would like to claim their freedom will push back this backwardness, corruption, bigotry and lawlessness, resist, and establish a just and egalitarian order…<\/p>\n This requires solidarity.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n All these events are of close relevance to all of us as islanders. The most important actors of that intervention are here, again, now… We cannot plan the future of Cyprus with a mentality as such. The more we see all of this, the more we realise the importance of owning up our will, our values and our homeland as a whole.<\/strong><\/p>\n We must go through the wringer of nationalist touting, and intolerance to democracy and freedoms with utter consciousness, determination and courage.<\/p>\n Those who say, “Don\u2019t poke the bear<\/strong>\u201d… The sort of oppression we currently watch on television screens is not far from us!<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n One morning, you can get arrested as a member of a \u2018criminal organisation for peace in Cyprus<\/strong>\u00a0\u2019… If we do not put ourselves together, if do not stand up for our values and govern our country bu our own will, this mentality will continue to enslave us.<\/p>\n This article was originally published on 19.03.2025<\/em><\/p>\n Source: THIS OPPRESSIVE MENTALITY IS NOT FAR FROM US\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \n
\nAnyone who opens their mouth is detained.
\nEspecially if they are a threat to the government, a rival for Erdo\u011fan!<\/p>\n
\nOppression is the only thing there could be.
\nWho wants to live under a police blockade?<\/p>\n
\nA country of coups, a geography of oppression…<\/p>\n
\nTalking is forbidden!
\nTaking action is forbidden!
\nThinking is forbidden!
\nDoing politics is forbidden!
\nGetting elected is forbidden!<\/p>\n
\nWe know very well that the northern part has become a sub-government of Turkey.
\nIn 2020, we saw, lived and experienced how the presidential elections were rigged through the use of pressure and threats.<\/p>\n
\nIt is as if they are messing with the nerves of the society…<\/p>\n
\nThe chaos we are experiencing thanks to the state of the \u2018Turkish Lira\u2019 is as clear as daylight…
\nWe are becoming poorer, we cannot see our future, we are confronted with political Islam and backwardness, and we are turning into an appetizer on a table of different sorts of bargains, all of which relate to our homeland.<\/p>\n
\nThat bear is spreading its terror all around.<\/p>\n
\nYou may even turn out to be the \u2018Leader of an Organisation<\/strong>\u00a0\u2019…
\nThis is the kind of mindset we are talking about!<\/p>\n