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Tue, 17 Oct 2006
Neo-Denktashist Apologism: "Need to be in tune with Turkey"
Neo-Denktashism's spokespeople never fail me. They create gems that try to act as apologist manifestos for their actions. Hasan Ercakica provided a nice example today in Yeniduzen newspaper (see below for complete quote in Turkish). He begins his column by attacking AKEL. He thinks that what Greek Cypriots are doing through by-passing TRNC is ignoring the presence of Turkish Cypriots. This might have made sense if the rest of his article argued that the "government" in north Cyprus was an independent one capable of making its own decisions regardless of Ankara's wishes. However, ironically, his article's punchline is that in order for a political party to come to government and stay there,it should act in tune with Turkey and should never go against it. To me, this is plenty of reason to do precisely what he claims Greek Cypriot administration, AKEL, Papadopolous and others are doing -- i.e. deal with Turkey directly about Cyprus, pressure Turkey in all international platforms etc.
He makes a big deal about the fact that CTP got a vote explosion in 2003 as opposed to others such as Akinci's BDH and Ali Erel's party. He thinks this is because CTP worked in tune with Ankara. Fair enough, this is what we are all saying! That is what Denktash used to be and it is what neo-Denktashists have to be. Funnly enough, he claims the reason is not Turkey's strong grip in north Cyprus ("as an occupying power") but it is Turkish Cypriot wisdom that it is necessary to be in line with Turkey. This is probably also true to some degree but the reason for that wisdom is not because of acts of conscience and goodwill on Turkey's side but it is because of decades long opression and non-democratic actions from Turkey. The point is that the elections in north Cyprus are a farce and artificial population movements never allowed the will of the Turkish Cypriot people to be expressed -- see http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/hamambocu/authors/tdr/tdr11_9_2003.html
It is always amusing to watch them evolve more and more into neo-Denktasist apologists who needs to clear their conscience frequently by making up self-contradictory stories like this.
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