Turkey's 'Crimes against Humanity' and Illegal Occupation of Cyprus

In this mailing: - Uzay Bulut: Turkey's 'Crimes against Humanity' and Illegal Occupation of Cyprus - Daniel Greenfield: The Foreign Billionaire Funding the Dem Attack on Hunter Biden Investigation [] [Turkey's 'Crimes against Humanity' and Illegal Occupation of Cyprus]( by Uzay Bulut • January 4, 2023 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - [T]he invading Turkish forces [in 1974] murdered innocent civilians, raped women and children, and plundered northern Cyprus. They forcibly displaced around 170,000 Greek Cypriots, or a third of the total population of the Republic of Cyprus.... - "The widespread or systematic practice of enforced disappearance constitutes a crime against humanity as defined in applicable international law and shall attract the consequences provided for under such applicable international law." — United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006. - According to the statistics, the highest number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights, after Russia, involved Turkey.... In 2021, Turkey topped the list for the number of ECtHR judgments that found violations of freedom of expression. - "[T]here has been a collective decades-long failure to uphold the rule of law in an adequate manner befitting the post-1945 legal order." -- Dr. Klearchos A. Kyriakides, "The Search for Security via Answers to Questions on Law, Criminal Justice and Impunity," forum.agora-dialogue.com, June 17, 2017 - Dr. Kyriakides also notes the failure of Turkey to become a state party to more than 70 instruments of international law. - For criminal justice to be served in Cyprus, Kyriakides [recommends]( that a new independent international criminal tribunal in the lines of the tribunals established by the victorious Allies in Nuremberg or by the UN Security Council in relation to the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda should be established concerning the crimes Turkey and its agents committed in Cyprus. - "[C]ontrary to international humanitarian law, the United Nations shoulders at least some of the responsibility for fostering a culture of impunity. The United Nations has never established any independent international criminal tribunal for the Republic of Cyprus along the lines of the precedents established...." — Dr. Klearchos A. Kyriakides, "The Search for Security via Answers to Questions on Law, Criminal Justice and Impunity," published in connection with the "Conference on Cyprus" in Geneva, on June 28, 2017. - Investigations could warrant an independent Nuremberg-style or Hague-style tribunal to deal with the war crimes committed. Invading Turkish forces in 1974 murdered innocent civilians, raped women and children, and plundered northern Cyprus. They forcibly displaced around 170,000 Greek Cypriots, or a third of the total population of the Republic of Cyprus. Turkish forces have since occupied 36% of Cypriot territory, and the fate of hundreds of missing people remains unknown. Pictured: Turkish Army soldiers and tanks on parade in Nicosia, in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus, on July 20, 2021. (Photo by Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP via Getty Images) On August 15, 1974, Pavlos Solomi, 42, and his son, Solomis Pavlou Solomi, 17, were arrested by Turks at their home in the Cypriot village of Komi Kepir during the second phase of Turkey's military invasion of Cyprus. Panagiota Pavlou Solomi spent the remainder of her life trying to find her missing husband and son. Finally, 43 years after their abduction, in 2017, their remains were found in Galatia Lake by the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP), which exhumed what was left of them. A funeral was held for the murdered father and son in March 2018, but not in their beloved village of Komi Kepir. That village is still illegally occupied by Turkey. The family buried the corpses in the free region of the Republic of Cyprus, where they currently reside. In 2008, the French news magazine L'Express reported on the plight of Mrs. Solomi: [Continue Reading Article]( [] [The Foreign Billionaire Funding the Dem Attack on Hunter Biden Investigation]( by Daniel Greenfield • January 4, 2023 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - Will Hansjörg Wyss, the Swiss billionaire allegedly backing CFA, be on the council of proud Americans? It would be awkward for the foreign tycoon to sit on a "council of proud Americans" since he is not, as far as even the media has been able to determine, an American citizen. - Instead, he appears to be living in America under an investor visa. - That hasn't stopped the wealthy European from using his fortune to drastically influence American politics with the complicity of the IRS, the FEC and the rest of the government. - Wyss co-founded Synthes, a medical device manufacturer focused on repairing broken bones. In 2010, Synthes pled guilty to illegally experimenting on patients: its president, and its spine division president and two other executives were sentenced to prison. Even though a manager testified that Wyss had made the decision not to go through clinical trials, and owned half the company, he was not charged and has gone on funding the extreme causes of the Left. - The five Americans who died were not so lucky. Some of the dead, like Barbara Marcelino, showed signs of the cement used by Wyss' company in their lungs. - NBC News has reported that Courage for America has a "seven-figure budget and support from the Hub Project, a giant Democratic dark money network, the group plans a robust operation including polling, paid advertising and social media campaigns, along with traditional opposition research and communications." - But what NBC didn't bother to mention was that the Hub Project appears to have been set up by the Wyss Foundation. A complaint by Americans for Public Trust noted in a filing that the Hub Project's business plan "recommended that the group 'be solely funded by the Wyss Foundation at the outset' and that it would work behind the scenes to "dramatically shift the public debate and policy positions of core decision makers." - Not only are CFA's donors secret, but so are its staff and leadership. Instead of listing its staff, CFA references its "council" to divert attention from who is running the show. - That's suspicious behavior for an organization that claims that it's all about transparency.... Nothing says integrity like a dark money machine helping Biden and his cronies intimidate elected officials investigating his corrupt activities. - This plot to fight investigations into corruption and abuses by the Biden administration has only revived questions about Wyss and his money machine. And the legality of his ongoing efforts to influence our political system for the benefit of the Democrats and the Left. - While the IRS investigates conservative nonprofits on behalf of its allies in the White House, it allows leftists foundations and nonprofits, especially those allied with Biden, to flout the law and corrupt our system. - This is the definition of corruption. Will Hansjörg Wyss, the Swiss billionaire allegedly backing "Courage for America", be on the council of proud Americans? It would be awkward for the foreign tycoon to sit on a "council of proud Americans" since he is not, as far as even the media has been able to determine, an American citizen. That hasn't stopped the wealthy European from using his fortune to drastically influence American politics with the complicity of the IRS, the FEC and the rest of the government. Pictured: Wyss in 2015. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Oceana) "We are proud Americans speaking up against an extreme agenda that is putting money and power over everyday Americans," Courage for America's mission statement claims. If you have any doubt whatsoever that CFA is an American organization, its home page is decorated with a flag draped over a barn. The 'O' in its logo even includes flag symbolism. CFA has announced that it is "forming a council of proud Americans" to fight Republican investigations into the foreign business dealings of Hunter Biden and the rest of the Biden clan. Waving the flag to cover up the intimidation of elected officials investigating dirty deals with Chinese and Russian oligarchs is a new low even for Biden and his cronies. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. 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