The ten American companies' names (as
published) are the following:
Shaw/Stone & Webster -infrastructure and energy,
El Paso - energy,
FedEX Express - mail and cargo,
Cushman & Wakefield - immovable properties,
Comsat - telecommunications,
Oracle - software, GNC -
vitamins and health products,
World Trade Centre, small and medium-size companies
support,
Raymond James -investments,
American Express Bank - banking.
--- The
following letter is intended to convey to you our concerns that your
announced visit to the Turkish occupied territories of Cyprus is against
international law, and will obstruct and violate the human rights of
200,000 Greek Cypriot civilians who were ethnically cleansed by the
invading Turkish military on July 20 and August 14, 1974. I am certain that
you are unaware of the crimes and atrocities that have occurred in the
Turkish occupied territories of Cyprus, and would like to ask that you halt
your prospective plans to visit these territories. Merely visiting the Turkish occupied
areas of Cyprus is an unintended assault on the sovereignty and rights of
the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus, and serious political
and diplomatic fallout will emanate from your prospective visit, and/or
subsequent activities.
---The
citizens of the Republic of Cyprus voted in a democratic referendum last
April 24 to reject the United Nations conceived plan for Cyprus. Your
prospective visit to Cyprus, and subsequent plans that are being considered
for the occupied territories of Cyprus may be construed as blatant sabotage
against the declared will of the Cypriot people, and of the diplomatic
process that is intended to lead to a permanent and negotiable settlement
that is fully consistent with the 1959 accords that established the Republic
of Cyprus as a sovereign state, with dozens of United Nations Resolutions,
with various rulings of the legal body of the European Union which has
ruled that Turkey is in violation of international law by depriving the
Greek Cypriot victims of Turkish ethnic cleansing of access to their homes
and land. Any visit to the occupied territories of Cyprus will strike a
blow against the democratically elected government of the Republic of
Cyprus, and will serve to indicate your support for the appointed representatives
of Ankara who are serving in the occupied territories not by democratic
means, but by the power of Turkish tanks and weaponry.
--- I
respectfully urge that you reconsider your decision and reverse your plans
to visit the occupied territories of Cyprus. By doing so, you will gain the
goodwill and respect of the internationally recognized and fully democratic
Republic of Cyprus, and you will be contributing to the future peace and
stability of Cyprus by refusing to extend support to the Turkish occupation.
Please do not violate the rights of the 200,000 Greek Cypriot refugees who
were driven from their homes because their presence in their land
obstructed the expansionist appetites of Turkey's military influenced
governments. I respectfully beseech you not to extend support to the
Turkish colonization of Cyprus which violates the rights of both the Greek
majority and the Turkish minority. Members of the latter community have
been overwhelmed and terrorized into fleeing Cyprus as a result of the continued
settlement in the occupied territories of the infamous Turkish Grey Wolves
organization which was founded by a Nazi sympathizer named Alparslan
Turkes.
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The occupation rulers in the occupied territories of Cyprus are
representative of Turkish ultranationalism, racism, and extremism. They
have been presiding over the destruction of the religious and cultural
heritage of Cyprus by destroying Greek Orthodox Churches of immense
religious and historical significance. The infamy of this cultural genocide
has been taken up by the American legal courts which in 1989 returned
several Greek Orthodox Mosaics that had been plundered from a Cypriot
Church to the jurisdiction of the Republic of Cyprus. There are numerous
legal rulings that have dealt with the consequences of the Turkish
invasions and occupation of Cyprus, and all have unanimously ruled against
Ankara and its chosen representatives in the occupied territories. The
occupied territories of Cyprus are ruled by unsavory political extremists.
-- For
the welfare of all Cypriots who suffer as a result of the Turkish
occupation of Cyprus, please reconsider and do not visit the Turkish
occupied territories of Cyprus.
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