television station. Twoofthelargest GreekCypriot political parties, nISIandDIKO,criticized thescreening ofthisfilm. Various otherorganizations putoutstatements condemning theaction. People demonstrated onthestreets. Ifallthiscommotion overaTurkish filmreflects thesentiments oftheGreekCypriots towardstheTurkish Cypriots, isitcredible todrawanalogies between thedivision ofGermany andthedivision ofCyprus? Thefivemenwhoweretriedandconvicted inmycountry crossed ourborderillegally, nottogototheirbirthplace asalleged byMr.Mavrommatis, buttohauldownanddesecrate Ourflag. Theywereengaged inahostile andhighly provocativeact,eggedonbytheGreekCypriots whowantnopartnership withtheTurkishCypriots. Theywerecourting arrest andtrying tocreate tension ontheisland.Theysucceeded indoingtbat,andgotshortprison termsfortheirfolly. Indefending theprovocative actions ofthesereckless men, Mr~Mavrommatis revealsthehollowness ofhisGovernment·s claims aboutbeingmoderate, beingflexible andbeingdesirous offorming anewpartnership withtheTurkish Cypriots~ Finally, letmecomment about Mr~Mavrommatis' remarks onthesubject ofhumanrights. For11longyearsafter1963,thehumanrightsoftheTurkish Cypriots,andveryoftentheirrighttolife,weretrampled onbytheGreekCypriots. Itis onlyafterourliberation in1974thatwehavebeenabletoresume ourpeacefullivesinfreedom and security~ Asonewhohaspersonally witnessed andsufferedthecruelpolicies oftheGreek Cypriots~ Iaminclined nottotake Mr~Mavrommatisseriously whenhesuddenly startslecturing onhumanrights. (Signed) OzerKORAY Representative oftheTurkish Republic ofNorthern Cyprus Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld Library