(occasional)

on various subjects and on public statements from diverse sources,
     juxtaposed to history and contemporary realities.
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1. The personal credibility of the President is destroyed and the element of trust disappears.

2. The authority of the Constitution is compromised by obfuscation, lack of clear evidence, and non-compliance.

3. Upon completion of term of Office and subsequent unveiling of non-compliance, a serious precedent is set for future disregard of the Constitution.

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Entertain yourself by learning about the

Antics of the Turk

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    In recent years Hellenes are outraged by shocking attempts of several phoneys to copy and plagiarise their Hellenic products and civilisation.  Thus the brand "Fetta Cheese", etc.  Skopjans are hell-bent on displacing us from owning our Macedonian Hellenising legacy.  In Asia Minor's Anatolia Turks contended that our Greek-Orthodox Saint Nicholas (Bishop of Myrha Lykeias) is a Turk, and issued a post stamp for this, (even though they had slaughtered the Saint's Christian faithful successors). only to have the Saint's stolen holy remnants (which were stolen by Italian corsairs) returned to serve as shrine for the tourists' dollars.  In Britain the authorities refuse to return the Parthenon marbles which were robbed from there.  

    Now Turks who have roughly five centuries putrid history, pretend they possess European history by plagiarising as their own, our four or more millennia cultural achievements.  Thus in this case, our classical ship "Cyvele" is misrepresented as an ancient Turkish event in founding the city of Marseilles (Massalia) in the history of Europe, i.e. "celebrating that ancient Turks were the founders of that city".  We expect our Hellenes and the world at large to know that Hellenic and Byzantine historical achievements can neither be copied nor plagiarised.  Absolutely NOT, Asia Minor and Byzantium (Turkey's former names) celebrates millennia-standing civilising history.  Anything ancient in Turkey is NOT Turkish but Hellenic/Christian.

Then, who should own our ancestral legacies and history in Asia Minor - Byzantium (now Turkey)?

    Unlike the Hellenistically kindred nations of Europe whose accession was just their own home affair, Turkey is an allien who drastically slaughtered and still opposes/harrasses Hellenism and Christianity which are the founding tenets of European and other other nations.  On the contrary, Turkey needs to account to, and to settle with, the nations (indigenous Hellenes, Armenians, Assyrians, and beyond), for its centuries-long bestial enslaving and inhuman oppression over their peoples and cultures.  Now how can this allien oppressor and adversary still, be allowed to participate in Europe's benefits without first RECONCILING with its long-persecuted Hellenes and others victims.

    With its "Turkishness" chauvinism, it is fraught of barbaric brutality and gross violations of human rights, enslaving peoples, slave markets, slave harems, kidnapped janissars, holocaust genocides, displacements and ethnic cleansing, misappropriating and defiling faith and culture institutions, properties and cemeteries, wholesale slaughters, etc.  It stands accused of slaughter and oppression even as recently since its inhuman pogrom on Constantinople of 6/7 September 1955, its barbaric aggression in Cyprus, its harrassment of the millennia-standing Ecumenical Orthodox Church, and then its tyranny over its Allowites, Kurds, and non-Turkic ethnicities.

    It needs to settle its putrid past with all the tyrannised "Ethnicities of Turkey".  European governments must not compromise on these scores.  In a Europised Turkey there needs to be unfettered freedom of worship and cultural expression, free observance of "Ethnicity" education, free ownership of institutions and pre-Turkish and traditional history, etc.  It needs to shed its chauvinistic "Turkey for Turks only" and open up its constitution to embrace its Hellenic/Byzantine and all its other indigenous Ethnicities, where its indigenous Helleno-Europeans and its other Ethnicities get recognised Ethnicity rights, viz. freedom to honour, observe, and to cherish and exercise their ancestral civilisation, language, and worship.

    If Turkey wants to advance its nationhood as European the Australian experience does serve as a plausible precedent.  Australia realised that the aboriginees (indigenous natives inhabitants) populations are humans who lost their lands and everything to the invading white (British, etc) people.  It declared "SORRY" to these natives.  Not only that, but with its famous Mabo legislation, restored native land titles to them.  It gave them ethnicity rights, and citizenship, and enacted its RECONCILIATION programs.

    Turks on the other hand, have vanquished the Hellenic Byzantine civilisation (incidentally the founding tenets of Europe), and slaughtered the millennia-long indigenous populations, which were Europeans.  To Europise itself, it should come to TERMS with its victims.  I have previously posted a report concerning such terms according to our Australian Mabo legislation and Reconciliation program.  At first opportunity I shall elaborate on what is required and expected in Turkey's European directions.  Presently I outline some requirements as follows:  - restoration of all captured, seized, or plagiarised indigenous institutions back to the ownership of their originators,  - recognition of and granting "ETHNICITY rights in Turkey" and RECONCILIATION, to its indigenous populations,  viz, Hellenes, Armenians, Assyrians, etc, of Turkey.  It is only then that Turkey may be accessed as European nation.

George Savva Eleftheriades, OAM, GCSCG, CETr, JP gse@tadaust.org.au