A depressingly familiar scenario

Sir,
There was some irony and sarcasm from Mr Kurt Dejgaard of Montreal in his letter last week (‘Greek Cypriots Know Best’). In it he berates George Stephanides for his well meaning letter of May 12 because Mr Stephanides dares to suggest that Greek Cypriots may have some filial concern for Turkish Cypriots.

He mockingly states that no Turkish Cypriots have come to the free areas, that they have had their voting rights taken away, that they are not welcome in their own country (and have gone to London instead) and that that their properties are not protected by the government.

He puts his sardonic comments forward as if they should be a revelation to all Greek Cypriots. In summary he complains that there is no freedom of movement, that there is no freedom of political expression, that people are treated inhumanely and that their human and property rights have been violated.

Mr Dejgaard’s sarcasm may have had an element of humour about it were it not for the fact that the situation he describes is, of course, depressingly familiar to every Greek Cypriot who has been living with the consequences of Turkeys invasion and the imposition of its puppet regime.

Chris Christofi,
London E17