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Illegal promotion of
holidays in occupied Cyprus
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Draft Letter of Protest
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Please use the following draft letter as a guide
and send your complaints to
the following e-mail addresses and web site.
gary.mcgregor@standard.co.uk,
letters@standard.co.uk,
editor@standard.co.uk
Advertising Standards Authority
http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/complaints_form/
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am
writing to express my utter disgust at a full-page advert which appeared on
Page 70 of the Friday 18 February 2005 edition of the London Evening
Standard entitled "North Cyprus".
The advert in question encourages readers to break British and European
Union laws and the laws of the Republic of Cyprus by promoting travel to
the illegally occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus via an illegal port of
entry and through the use of an illegal airline. It also encourages readers
to violate the property rights of 200,000 Greek Cypriot refugees who are
considered by the European Courts to be the legal owners of 95% of the land
and property there and who were brutally ethnically cleansed from their
homes ever since the two savage Turkish invasions of Cyprus of 1974 and
whose land and property is being illegally exploited by the illegal Turkish
military occupation regime and the Turkish Cypriots and 150,000 illegal
Turkish Colonists imported from Anatolia in violation of the Geneva
Convention.
Contrary to the claims in the advert which describes the occupied areas as
"unspoilt", 40,000 illegal Turkish occupation troops have been
stationed there for over 30 years in violation of repeated UN resolutions,
the UN Charter and international law, and over 500 Christian Churches have
been systematically desecrated, destroyed and looted and the homes of the
refugees have been torn down to make way for illegal hotels and
developments.
The promotion of travel to occupied Cyprus is a direct violation of UN
Security Council Resolutions 541 (1983) and 550 (1984) which declare the
secessionist state set up by the Turkish occupying forces in Cyprus to be
"legally invalid" and call upon all members not to recognise or
facilitate this entity and its organs in any way and not to engage any
action which might exacerbate the situation. These resolutions and numerous
others call upon all UN members to respect the sovereignty, independence
and territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus which is regarded the
only legitimate government and respective of all of the island territory
and which has declared all ports and airports in the occupied areas illegal
and closed to traffic. The exploitation of refugees property is illegal
under Cyprus law.
Since the advert breaks the law I demand that it is removed from the
Evening
Standard immediately and that a full-page apology is published. I also
demand that the Advertising Standards Authority investigate the Evening
Standard for impropriety and take action against it to stop this form ever
happening again.
Yours faithfully,
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1600+ men, women and children
still missing
up to 70,000 held hostage in concentration camps
5000+ massacred
thousands raped and tortured
200,000 ethnically cleansed
500+ churches desecrated or destroyed
murders of refugees continue to this day
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