This week, probably December 14 or 15, the European Union must come to grips with the
issue of the admission of Turkey in its fold. While this idea has been promoted from a
variety of vantage points, its viability remains to be seen.
The Turkish regime has attempted to establish grounds for negotiations on subjects which
are not negotiable, as some European politicians noted: While applying for entry to the
European Union, they have not recognized Cyprus, one of its members. The last Turkish
proposal of offering Cyprus access to one port and one airport in exchange for allowing
the occupied zone to operate the port of Famagusta and the airport at Tymbou, effectively
results in the de facto recognition of that part of the Republic of Cyprus which is
governed by Turkey's proxies and occupied by its troops.
The first title we list, In Turkey's Image by Dr. Christos Ioannides, reports in
great detail on the conquest, occupation and systematic colonization of Cypriot territory
by Turkey in 1974, including the methods it used to expel the Greek Cypriots from their
ancestral land (or ethnically cleanse it, to use a term favored more recently...) and to
change its ethnic character by defiling Christian churhes and destroying the evidence of
primeval Greek habitation. This process still is taking place, even as the Turks demand to
be accepted into the European family!
It remains to be seen whether Europe will insist on upholding its values or will succumb
to predator politics.
The second title, Greeks in English-Speaking Countries, edited by Dr. Ioannides, includes
contributions by a large number of scholars and concerns issues affecting thriving Greek
diasporic communities which paradoxically in great part discovered and mobilized
themselves as a result of the Cypriot tragedy.
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In Turkey's Image
The Transformation of Occupied Cyprus into a Turkish Province
Christos P. Ioannides
"A meticulous culling of information illustrating the systematic Turkish colonization
of the areas of Cyprus that have been under its occupation since the invasion of 1974 . .
. The major conclusion of the book is that Turkification, under the tutelage of the
Turkish military, has severely undermined the autonomy of the Turkish Cypriots and may
well destroy their distinctive identity, thereby eliminating any serious possibility of
reuniting the divided island republic . . . 'In Turkey's Image' is an
unusually formidable contribution by a fine Greek Cypriot scholar . . ."
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ISBN: 0-89241-509-6 Price: $30.00
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Greeks in English-Speaking Countries
Culture, Identity, Politics
Edited by Christos P. Ioannides
The book takes its title from a pioneering conference that was organized by the Speros
Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, co-sponsored by the Hellenic Studies
Forum, Melbourne, Australia, in cooperation with the Hellenic Studies Institute of South
Australia, Adelaide and the Humanities Department of California State University,
Sacramento.
The essays gathered in this volume cover a broad range of subjects and are grouped under
the following themes:
· Greek ethnicity and culture in English-speaking countries;
· Hellenism and Orthodoxy in the diaspora: toward convergence or divergence;
· Education and Greek identity;
· Greek diaspora women in the 1990s: beyond the kale noikokyra (good housewife) image;
· Linkages between the diaspora and Greece;
· The sense of "Greekness" in literature and the arts among the diaspora
Greeks;
· Politics and the diaspora.
The last category covers the sub-themesof the Cyprus and Macedonian issues and diaspora
political activism; Greeks in politics in the U. S. and Australia.
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ISBN: 0-89241-568-1 Price: $60.00
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