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September 28, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/ottolenghi/363281

Northern Cyprus vs. Israel

(Commentary) Emanuele Ottolenghi - There is a certain irony in the fact that a boat full of Jews for Justice for Palestinians is setting sail for Gaza from Northern Cyprus. Northern Cyprus is an illegally occupied territory that belongs to EU-member Cyprus, seized by force in 1974 by the Turkish army. Its legal status as a fictionally independent state is only recognized by Turkey (the occupying power). Turkey forcibly removed hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks from that territory and settled its own population to permanently alter the ethnic balance of the area.

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