“Dear Ms Jennifer Lopez, 800 Greek Cypriot women were raped by the Turks in 1974…”by Fanoulla Argyrou  [TRADUCCION AL ESPAÑOL]  "Estimada Señora Jennifer López, 800 mujeres griego-chipriotas fueron violadas por los turcos en 1974..."

Es con consternación y escándalo con que el pueblo de Chipre, y especialmente las mujeres griego-chipriotas en la República de Chipre y en otras partes del mundo, oyeron la noticia de que usted tiene la intención de asistir a la inauguración de un hotel en la parte de nuestro país ocupada por Turquía y celebrar allí su cumpleaños.

Nuestro país fue bárbaramente invadido en Julio de 1974 por parte de Turquía. En el proceso fueron más de 5.000 los asesinados despiadadamente por Turquía , la mayoría civiles desarmados, mujeres, hombres, niños y ancianos, 200.000 griegos-chipriotas desarraigados por medio de la fuerza haciéndolos refugiados en su propio país, más de 160.000 colonos turcos fueron importados de Anatolia para rellenar el vacío que dejaron con la persecución de los 200.000 griegos-chipriotas, 1.619 siguen desaparecidos, presuntamente asesinados, y desde entonces Turquía se aferra al 37% de la isla con la fuerza de sus 43.000 del ejército turco. En nuestra zona ocupada, tenemos más de 500 iglesias cristianas y cementerios que han sido profanados por los turcos, los cuales se han transformado en establos, baños, mezquitas, cafés y clubes nocturnos (espero que no estén planeando entretenerse en una de ellas!)

Estamos conmocionados y consternados por oír hablar de su viaje para celebrar su cumpleaños con su marido e hijos en nuestro país bajo la ocupación y la invasión turca. Usted va a celebrar su cumpleaños en nuestras tierras y propiedades robadas, cuando a nosotros no se nos permite regresar y disfrutar de nuestras tierras y propiedades.

Sin embargo, lo más impactante en su caso es que está permitiendo ser utilizada por los agresores, violadores de derechos humanos, y abusadores para satisfacer sus fines políticos de reconocimiento de su pseudo entidad que nadie reconoce, salvo el propio agresor, Turquía. Además está prohibido ser reconocido por dos resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad (Naciones Unidas). ¿Esto no tendría un impacto adverso en su personalidad y su biografía?

Buscando a través de Internet nos encontramos con que usted es elogiada por beneficencia en “Childen’s Health Fund’s”, ayudar a las víctimas del huracán Katrina, y obras de caridad en Amnistía Internacional sobre los asesinatos de las mujeres mexicanas de Chiapas, México. http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/93-jennifer-lopez

López, se unió a Amnistía Internacional para poner en marcha un sitio web bilingüe destinado a crear conciencia sobre el feminicidio de México, luego de saber que 350 jóvenes mujeres han sido asesinadas en la Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua desde 1993…”

Celebrando con los violadores?

Bueno, ¿no es doble moral de su parte, luego de haberse unido a Amnistía internacional para crear conciencia sobre el feminicidio de México por el asesinato de 350 mujeres jóvenes, honrar con su presencia y la de sus hijos pequeños a los asesinos y violadores de nuestras mujeres y niños durante julio y agosto de 1974?

De acuerdo a las estadísticas oficiales de la República de Chipre, más de 800 mujeres y niñas incluyendo abuelas, fueron violadas salvajemente y asesinadas delante de sus familias. La narración de los horribles crímenes del siglo por los turcos, fueron publicados en detalle sin precedentes en el periódico británico “The Sun” el 5 de agosto de 1974 y dos años más tarde fue confirmado oficialmente, y condenado por el Consejo de Europa. Turquía fue declarado culpable!...

Durante julio y agosto de 1974 por las violaciones de nuestras mujeres y niñas, fue que el Gobierno de Chipre tuvo que pedir ayuda médica a los hospitales británicos de las bases británicas en la isla. La ley británica tuvo que ser modificada para que los médicos de las bases británicas pudieran operar y ejecutar abortos sin ser demandados.

Soy una refugiada griego-chipriota de la Chipre ocupada, y no puedo regresar a mi hogar y a mi propiedad. Mis padres murieron refugiados sin poder regresar al hogar de sus ancestros. ¿Cómo se sentiría en nuestra posición? ¿Cómo cree que la gente de todo el mundo va a ver su postura de honrar a los violadores de nuestras hermanas, madres y abuelas cuando usted está promoviendo el conocimiento de los asesinatos de 350 jóvenes mujeres mexicanas? ¿cómo piensa añadirlo a su trabajo caritativo?

Los turcos andan grandes longitudes para asegurar el apoyo de personas como usted a fin de promover sus ambiciones y objetivos políticos. ¿su trabajo caritativo y status le permiten dar credibilidad a los violadores turcos, ladrones, invasores, ocupantes de nuestras propiedades robadas?

A continuación, lea alguna de las horribles atrocidades de la violación y asesinato causado a nuestra gente, nuestras mujeres y niños que ha sido publicada en “The Sun” el 5 de agosto de 1974 la primera página, con la característica titulada “BÁRBAROS” y en el subtítulo “The Sun dice VERGÜENZA DE ELLOS”

Por favor, no permitas ser utilizada por los turcos. Busque en su conciencia y no nos de razones a nosotros de decir “VERGÜENZA DE TI TAMBIEN”

Por favor, tómese unos minutos y lea el informe que sigue, escrito por el periodista Iain Walker quien cubría la invasión turca y recogió pruebas de primera mano de las atrocidades de los turcos.

El 23 de enero de 1977 el diario británico “The Sunday Times” obtuvo una copia de un informe secreto del Consejo de Europa, que encontraba a Turquía culpable de violar los siete artículos de la Convención Europea de Derechos Humanos, publicado en primera página una masiva acusación del gobierno de Ankara por el asesinato, violaciones y saqueos por el ejército turco en Chipre, durante y después de la invasión turca en 1974. con una “percepción exclusiva” titulada “Atrocidades Turcas: Lo que el informe secreto revela”, y para la furia del gobierno turco, el periódico publicó extractos de lo que el reporte refiere en cuestión de testimonios de las propias víctimas, los violadores de las jóvenes mujeres griego-chipriotas, madres y abuelas, alcanzando un número de más de 800 …

Todas estas pruebas, junto con el detalle analítico de nuestra destrucción cultural y religiosa en la zona ocupada de Chipre, donde usted planea celebrar su cumpleaños con sus hijos y su marido, han sido publicadas en numerosos artículos, comenzando con “Guardian” en Londres 1976. Otro desvastador informe por los turcos, escrito por Michelle A. Vu en “The Christian Post”, el 29 de abril de 2008, titulado “La situación última en la Iglesia ocupada de Chipre ”. También la Iglesia ortodoxa de Chipre ha demandado a Turquía por la destrucción religiosa de nuestras iglesias cristianas y el caso está en espera de audiencia en el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. (Todos estos documentos están en su totalidad y con las fuentes originales en el libro publicado en la República de Chipre en 2009 titulado “Verdad Sangrienta” [original: “Bloody Truth”]. Un libro bilingüe (Griego-Inglés) para iluminar a la gente en la difícil situación de nuestra nación y nuestro pueblo por la justicia y la libertad. Les enviamos el enlace para leer este libro en inglés en formato pdf.[enlace en texto original.]

El pueblo Griego-Chipriota no acepta entregar sus tierras y la mitad de su país a Turquía para que ella legitime sus crímenes. Por lo tanto turquia está tratando de muchas formas dudosas, tal como en su caso, de recabar apoyo a su pseudo-entidad que ningún otro país reconoce, aparte de ella.

Espero que pueda cambiar de opinión y no ceda a la despiadada promoción política turca.

Le saluda atentamente,

Fanoulla Argyrou

Journalist/Researcher/Author

London29.6.2010

05 August 1974

Source: The Sun

Author: Iain Walker

Comment: The following article appeared in The Sun of London on 5 August 1974

BARBARIANS

The writer documents some of the brutal atrocities committed by the Turkish military in its illegal invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

''Sun reporter Iain Walker sends a shock report from Cyprus on the Turkish invaders

BARBARIANS
NICOSIA , SUNDAY

'My fiance and six men were shot dead. The Turkish soldiers laughed at me and then I was raped.
GREEK CYPRIOT GIRL AGED 20

'The Turkish soldiers cut off my father's hands and legs. Then they shot him while I watched.
GREEK CYPRIOT WOMAN AGED 32

'They shot the men. My friend's wife said 'Why should I live without my husband?' A soldier shot her in the head.
GREEK CYPRIOT FARMER AGED 51

A HORRIFYING story of atrocities by the Turkish invaders of Cyprus emerged today. It was told by weeping Greek Cypriot villagers rescued by United Nations soldiers.

THEY TOLD of barbaric rape at gunpoint ... and threats of instant execution if they struggled.
THEY TOLD of watching their loved ones tortured and shot.

The villagers are from Trimithi, Karmi and Ayios Georhios, three farming communities west of the holiday town of Kyrenia , directly in the path of the Turkish Army.

Sheltered
They had been trapped since the fighting began two weeks ago and were only evacuated to Nicosia by the UN on Saturday. And today at a Nicosia orphanage they told me their tales – simply and without any prompting.

A 20-year old girl in a pretty yellow and white dress sat under a painting of Jesus tending his flock as she described how she was raped.

She had been visiting her fiance who worked in a hotel near Kyrenia when the Turks attacked. For the first 24 hours she sheltered with other villagers in a stable until they were discovered by Turkish soldiers. She then watched as her fiance and six other men were shot dead in cold blood – only a few minutes after they had been promised that they would not be harmed.

She said: ''After the shooting, a Turkish soldier grabbed me and pulled me into a ditch. I struggled and tried to escape but he pushed me to the ground.

''He tore at my clothes and they were ripped up to my waist. Then he started undressing himself.

Baby
"Another Turkish soldier who was watching us had a nine-month-old baby in his arms and, trying to save myself, I shouted that the baby was mine.

''But they laughed at me and threw the baby to the ground. I was then raped and I fainted soon after.

''When I came to my senses I saw 15 other soldiers standing round watching. The first soldier was taking off my watch and engagement ring. Others were going to rape me - when one of them objected and told them not to be animals.

''I will never forget him for saving me. He was quite unlike the rest - more like an Englishman with blond hair and blue eyes. He spoke to me in English.

''He helped me to my feet and said, 'All is OK now.'

''The others tried to stop him, but he pulled out his gun and pushed his way through and gave me back to the other women.

''When I had recovered, after a few hours, I went to where the bushes had been burned by the shelling and rubbed charcoal over my face and hands, so I would be ugly and they would not do that to me again.''

The girl, too ashamed to reveal her name, added: ''I cannot put into words the horror I feel at what happened to me. I think I would have preferred it it they had shot me.''

Mrs Elena Mateidou, aged 28 was awakened by Turkish soldiers at Trimithi.

She said: ''My husband and father were told to take off all their clothes and they walked us down a dry river bed.

''Then the soldiers separated the women and children and ushered us behind some olive trees. I heard a burst of shooting and knew that they had been killed.

''Later they took us back to the village with our hands tied behind our backs. Two soldiers took me into a room in a deserted house where they raped me.

Bodies
"One of them held a gun to my head while it was happening and said if I struggled he would shoot.

''Afterwards, a soldier took off my wedding ring and wore it himself.''

Mrs Mateidou added: ''I saw another woman being pulled into a bathroom where she too was raped.

''Later I went back to the olive groves and found the bodies of my husband and father along with five other men. My father had been stabbed and my husband shot in the belly.''

Later, United Nations soldiers brought the villagers food. ''The Turks took it away and ate it themselves said Mrs Mateidou.

Another woman who had been an intended rape victim was Miss Phrosa Meitani, aged 32.

She said: ''When I saw what was happening, I ran as quickly as I could. I saw the soldiers pointing guns at me, but I was too frightened to care.

''I hid in the olive groves and tried to get back to where I had been separated from my father.

''I watched from the bushes as they cut off his hands and legs below the knee with a double-edged cutting knife.

''At first he screamed, and beat at them with his fists, but then he became quiet and did not utter a word. Then they shot him in the stomach while I watched.

Farmer Christos Savva Drakos, 51, saw his wife and two sons murdered.

''I was watering my orchard when the bombs started to explode,'' he said.

Shooting
''With the rest of the village we tried to run away through the groves and river beds but the Turks caught us and we surrendered.

''They searched us but no one had a gun.

''The the shooting started. It was one by one to start with and I heard my 16-year-old boy Georgios saying in a calm voice 'Daddy, they have shot me.'

''I pulled him down and we fell behind a rock, He died there in my arms. ''An officer had been attracted by the shooting and he ran up to see what was going on.

''He was furious with his men and ordered them to stop.

''My wife and my other boy Nicos, who was only 13, were dead.

''My friend's wife was terribly badly injured and she told the officer: 'Why should I live without my husband? Shoot me'.

''The officer shrugged his shoulders and walked off and a soldier shot her in the head.''

Face
If the Turkish authorities deny these allegations I will remember the drawn face of that old man cowering in a corner, his body racked with tears.

This elderly man was no actor, or a man ordered to lie for political propaganda.

He was a poor man who had lost everything he ever possessed or loved in the world.

Hotel manager Vassalious Efthimiou was the only survivor in a party of men seized by the Turks.

He said: ''They separated the men from the women and shot the 12 men.

''Those killed ranged from a 12-year-old boy to an old man in his 90's.''

His brother-in-law was shot dead while holding Efthimiou's four year-old daughter, Estella, in his arms.

Bullet
Today, Estella showed where a bullet had hit her thigh.

Efthimiou saved his own life by snatching his other daughter, Charian, aged two, and running.

He said:''I ran until my legs would carry me no longer, and I fell.

''I managed to make my way back later to a village where all the women were trembling with fear and shock.

''I handed my daughter to my wife and said I must save myself.

''I hid in a deep well in my sister's farm for seven days and nights, sitting on a little bar with my feet in the water.

''When I could not take any more I came up.''

Efthimiou and his 37-year-old wife, Helen, run the Mermaid Hotel at Six Mile Beach , Kyrenia, a popular hotel with British tourists.

PRESIDENT Glafkkos Clerides of Cyprus flew into Athens today and accused Turkish troops of mass murders and rape.

Denial
He also claimed about 20,000 Greeks had been forced out of their homes around Kyrenia.

THE TURKS issued a denial.

A spokesman said: ''The Turkish military authorities deny reports of killings and any other atrocities by Turkish troops in any area under Turkish occupation.''

THE SUN SAYS Shame on them
AS THE POLITICIANS vie to take credit for bringing a ''ceasefire'' to Cyprus , reports of appalling atrocities are filtering through from that tragic island. For, while the peace talks went on, Turkish soldiers were killing and terrorising innocent civilians. The behaviour of these troops will shock the world. As they are in Cyprus in the name of Turkey , that nation must immediately take action against the animals that wear its uniform...''