Building a bicommunal solution on Cyprus
At a time when, in the words of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, “the world is a mess,” it’s disturbing to see and read ugly depictions of Cyprus as though it’s a war zone.
Accordingly, I was disappointed to open up a recent copy of The Washington Times and discover an op-ed by Victor Davis Hanson (“Occupation hypocrisy: Gaza vs. Cyprus,” Aug. 14), implying that our situation is little different from the missile launches and airstrikes in Gaza and Israel, and a cartoon depicting blood from a Turkish flag dripping on one belonging to Greek Cyprus.
Both fail to acknowledge the most basic of realities: Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots haven’t fired bullets at each other in decades.… Seguir leyendo »