Die Organisation der Angehörigen von Vermissten und Kriegsopfern beider Gemeinden, "Gemeinsam können wir es schaffen"hat mit dem Europäischen Parlament eine Initiative für eine gemeinsame Gedenkstätte gestartet, indem er Briefe an den Präsidenten des Europäischen Parlaments und die Fraktionen verschickte.
In dem Brief an die Präsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments, Roberta Metsola, heißt es: "Wenn es im Europäischen Parlament ein Denkmal geben soll, sollte es allen Opfern der Zypern-Tragödie gewidmet sein."
Der Brief wurde im Namen des Unternehmens an Metsola geschickt "Gemeinsam können wir es schaffen" Organisation durch ihre Gründer Petros Suppuris und Hüseyin Akansoy. Suppuris verlor seine gesamte Familie beim Massaker von Palekitire, während Akansoy seine gesamte Familie beim Massaker von Muratağa-Atlılar-Sandallar verlor. Für ihre friedlichen Aktivitäten wurden sie 2012 vom Europäischen Parlament mit dem Europäischen Bürgerpreis ausgezeichnet.
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Von notnotnotnotgolifa
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That would kinda require some sort of an acceptance of guilt from all parties, therefore, it’s impossible. It’s much easier to blame Turkey 🙂 That’s why the 74 monument got approved and will be erected.
This was a monument to the Turkish invasion and occupation, Turks are not victims.
Isolated massacres are incomparable to the crimes of Turkey that are currently being commited.
This is another attempt of Turkey to turn the eyes away from their occupation.
What’s the Palekitir massacre? I can’t find it anywhere online
We could put a statue of Sevgul Uludag instead. The one person who has made a difference.
Every time the topic comes up, it somehow turns into a debate about „both sides“ again. The 1974 invasion was the event that caused the biggest tragedy on the island nobody denies that people suffered on all sides, but pretending the impact was equal is just delusional. The monument is about acknowledging what actually changed Cyprus forever, it’s sad that even this gets twisted into another round of whataboutism instead of reflection what went wrong
The victims of the invasion were from the military of a foreign country, that their goverment supported and downplayed their invasion and illegal occupation for over 51 years now, and gaslights the world for their war crimes. The significance of this event, cannot be thrown in with the rest of the intercommunal fighting and orders of a few extremists and instigators, that nobody denies that they were painful or wrong. Who benefits from denying the majority of Cypriot victims, the aknowledgement of who the perpetrator is?