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Thursday, 1 June 2023 - 19:00, Casteliotissa Hall
It is with great pleasure that I address you tonight on the occasion of the presentation of George Angeletopoulos' book "Hürriyet and Turkey's Cyprus Policy (1948-1955)", which is published by Rizes Publications.
The author, faithful to historical research, alongside his diplomatic career, completed his doctoral thesis entitled "The role of the Hürriyet newspaper in the emergence of the Cyprus issue as a "national issue" of Turkey, 1948-1955" at our own University of Cyprus; at the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy, under the supervision of Associate Professor Petros Papapolyvios.
Mr. Angeletopoulos' new book is a historical and methodological originality: On the one hand, it draws valuable material on the course of the Cyprus issue in the 20th century from accessible Turkish sources - in our case the press; on the other hand, it combines historical interpretation with tools derived from the science of political communication.
The common denominator is to demonstrate how a Turkish newspaper, in this case Hürriyet, exerted a continuous, persistent and effective influence on the "mind and heart", of both the then Turkish public opinion and the two successive Turkish governments, the Republican People's Party under Inonu and the newly elected Democratic Party under Menderes.
It is precisely this influence that ultimately succeeded not only in elevating the Cyprus issue, until then marginal in Turkey, into a major "national issue", but also in shaping the terms in which, unfortunately, it is projected even nowadays from the Turkish side: A Cyprus and a Greece that are "too small" for the appetites of a "big and powerful Turkey", which uses our fellow Turkish Cypriots as an alibi for its illegal political and military presence on our island.
The book, through the examination of one thousand three hundred publications of this newspaper in the period 1948-1955, highlights this Turkish "agenda" in detail.
Through this examination of the publications, Mr. Through this examination of the publications, Angeletopoulos gives the reading public, whether researchers, journalists, diplomats or politicians, the opportunity to understand how various important milestones in the course of the Cyprus problem were presented to Turkish public opinion, thus making his book a useful and indispensable tool for all scholars of Cyprus.
Mr. Angeletopoulos put his love and care into the publications of Hürriyet, and all those that seem so topical and so familiar are read by the reader today and the reader wonders whether the Turkish state's targeting has changed since then. He wonders whether it intends to do its own self-criticism and move forward with dialogue, understanding and equality towards a European future, without September, without invasions and "rigid guardians".
Dear friends
I congratulate George Angeletopoulos on the result of his scientific work presented today, as well as the distinguished scientists and friends who will speak about it. Undoubtedly this book will be a useful tool for politicians, diplomats, researchers and scholars of the Cyprus issue.
I also congratulate Rizes Publications for the excellent publishing result, but also for the systematic promotion of scholarly works on the history of Cyprus, through the series "History of Cyprus", of which this book is a part.
Dear George, we look forward to the next one!
Congratulations, well done on your new book!
(NΓ/ΣΧ)
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