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Turkey in Cyprus versus Israel in Gaza

Turkey in Cyprus vs. Israel in Gaza
By DANIEL PIPES

Northern Cyprus shares features with Syria; resembles 'open-air jail' more than Gaza.

In light of Ankara’s recent criticism of what it calls Israel’s “open-air jail” in Gaza, this week, which marks the anniversary of Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, has special relevance...

• The subsequent occupation of 37 percent of the island amounted to a “forced ethnic cleansing,” according to William Mallinson in a just-published monograph from the University of Minnesota. In contrast, if one wishes to accuse the Israeli authorities of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, it was against their own people, the Jews, in 2005.

• The Turkish government has sponsored what Mallinson calls “a systematic policy of colonization” on formerly Greek lands in northern Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots in 1973 totaled about 120,000 persons; since then, more than 160,000 citizens of the Republic of Turkey have been settled in their lands. Not a single Israeli community remains in Gaza.

• Ankara runs its occupied zone so tightly that, in the words of Bülent Akarcal, a senior Turkish politician, “Northern Cyprus is governed like a province of Turkey.” An enemy of Israel, Hamas, rules in Gaza.

• The Turks set up a pretend-autonomous structure called the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.”

Gazans enjoy real autonomy.

• A wall through the island keeps peaceable Greeks out of northern Cyprus. Israel’s wall excludes Palestinian terrorists.

AND THEN there is the ghost town of Famagusta, where Turkish actions parallel those of Syria under the thuggish Assads...

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