URGENT - Α fitting reply to NATO's compliments towards Turkey

 

ETHNIKOI PHYLAKES

“ISTAMETHA AGRYPNOI”

P.O. Box 67250,

Zip code 15102, Melissia, Attica, Greece

Phone: +30 210 5248000

E-mail: info@ethnikoiphylakes.org

Web: https://ethnikoiphylakes.org

 

    Melissia, October 5^th, 2022

Ref. No.: Φ2/9/05-10-22

 

Contact person: Mrs Dora Dana

Cell phone: 69_______________

 

To:      NATO Land Command,

            e-mail: lc.registry@lc.nato.int, pao@lc.nato.int

OPEN LETTER

A fitting reply to NATO's compliments towards Turkey

 

            Dear Sirs,

The good and benevolent, i.e. the ideal citizen of Plato's profound wisdom, even in today 's uncontrolled, chaotic and worthless time of ours, is stunned by NATO's incongruous congratulations to Turkey for the successful genocide of the Greeks in Asia Minor.

            When, in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed, it was promoted as the purpose of its existence, "to be a guide, refuge and source of power for those who seek peace and a means of assistance for those who are in danger". It was emphasized that "through its political, moral and military power it would prevent possible aggressive behaviors against anyone of its members, but also against other people wishing to live in peace". The articles 4 and 5 clearly declare the common understanding and assistance towards the state, the territorial integrity of which is threatened.

            Of course, the barbaric pre-determined invasion of the Turks in Cyprus in 1974 is well-known, with the incredible atrocities of rapes, abuses and executions of civilians and imprisoned soldiers. The deafening NATO's silence for over 48 years on the existing and deteriorating crime from one member of the Agreement to another peaceful and civilized State, was painfully worsened with the congratulatory award of the nomads of the Central Asian steppe for the 100 years of uprooting of natives Greeks from their ancestral hearths and the extinction of 3000 years of living history.

            Over 500 years ago, the Christians of Asia Minor suffered the persecutions, the violence and the tortures of the Turks. Even if the Turks changed the names of the cities, where they oppressed the Greeks, even if they falsified the historical truth, the Bosphorus either as "Ekvolai" in Philostratus, or "Keys of Pontus" in Euripides, or "Stenopon Scholiou Porou" in Apollonius of Rhodes, will always weaken and cancel the usurpers’ arguments.

The Sympligades stones, which were crossed only by Jason and thus were fixed; Io, who, disguised as a cow, crossed the Bosphorus (βοῦς+πόρος=πέρασμα, i.e. crossing) and the conqueror of the Persians, Heraclius, will always remind us of the rightful owner.

            The famous Cardinal John Henry Newman had written, several years ago, in 1854, that "this barbaric power, while it has no history of its own, has in its hands the historical names of Constantinople, Nicaea, Nicomedia, Caesarea, Alexandria and so many others, ignorantly keeping in its possession half of the world’s history".

            Ionia is a graveyard of Greek cities. Because only for the Greeks “Pontos” is a specific land, with memories that give birth to life. The spa city of Bursa, Trapezounta, the birthplace of the Ypsilantis and the Muruzides, the cherry town of Kerassunda, the Sardes that gave birth to Dionysus. Pergamos, Ephesus, Halicarnassus.

            And now Smyrna. The prehistoric city that breathed a second life with an inspired design by Alexander the Great. Its layout, its cobbled streets, its impressive crossroads, fascinated the great geographer Strabo so much that he shared it with us. The Romans praised it as a "verger" for its prosperity. And this seductively beautiful city, which survived the Venetians and the Genoese, the horror of the Turkish massacres of 1770, 1779, 1821, remained Greek and Orthodox. A city that was a nucleus of culture in the middle of Turkish subhumanism.

Its people, in Skylitsis' translation, read Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" almost at the same time as the French. The newspaper "Amalthia" sold 2,500 sheets daily. And now, what the descendants of the Seljuk nomads did not eliminate with the slow-death "Labour Battalions", was completed with the Catastrophe of Smyrna.

            The American diplomat and eyewitness George Horton pitifully called the Turks "the plague of Asia". He observes that in 1922 they remain the same as those who ravaged Constantinople in 1453. And so he confirmed the wise English politician W. Glastone, when he wrote about the Turks, several decades before the catastrophe of Smyrna: "A broad line of blood marked their path; where their domination reached, civilization disappeared". And he recorded the unthinkable undertaking, an inferior way of life trying to impose itself on a superior civilization. To force an entire nation to change its language and customs in a single day. It is William Gladstone who mentioned as black the day they first appeared in Europe, because they were proved to be the most anti-humanitarian type of humanity.

            NATO's congratulations reward the course of Turkish brutality that led to the annihilation of Hellenism in Asia Minor. It legitimizes the death of girls due to repeated rapes in public, after having previously being witnesses to the murders of their parents and brothers. The massacres of the elderly and the looting.

            Horton has endless images of extreme savagery with disembowelled people, women and children. The unfortunate one, who, as if in Dante’s Inferno, had all his bones broken by sticks. The unarmed helpless creatures who were nailed with bayonets. The agony stood aside, as women fell with their children over cliffs to avoid humiliation and torture. After five days and nights of implementation and execution of all manifestations of horror, after the torture and slaughter of all the civilian Greek Christians and, of course, of the entire Armenian neighborhood, and while the Muslim neighborhood danced and feasted, the city, the world’s model of spiritual and economic blooming, died.

            We do not know if, for you, the rescue of the Greek genius of the universally respected professor Karatheodoris is listed among the unfortunate events. However, the Turkish bloodthirsty foresight had made sure to hang the honorable editor of the newspaper "Epochi", N. Kapetanidis the previous year.

            And of course, as always, our Orthodoxy had its fair share of hatred. The venerable archbishop of Smyrna Chrysostomos, who refused to abandon his flock to the perverted Turkish rage, was handed over to the Turkish mob who tortured and dismembered him in front of the headquarters of the Kemalist forces. They arrested 459 priests along with him. And because words are painful and embarrassing, we will simply mention that Ambrosius of Mosxonision was horseshoed, Grigorios of Kydonies was buried alive, Zelon of Iconium was slaughtered. Of the 46 churches of Smyrna, only 3 survived.

            In any case, it would be unfair not to congratulate the crew of the allied ships, as well, who not only did not intervene seeing the atrocity unfolding before their eyes - one could walk on water stepping on the corpses of innocent people - but they pushed back into the sea the tragic desperate souls, who managed to climb onto the ships. Perhaps it was an expression of respect in their homelands, since the Turkish army was organized by the Germans, the navy by the British and the military police by the French.

And so, the land of the 7 cities was lost. The seventh candle of the Apocalypse of John also went out.

            However, because we are lucky enough to address the knowledgeable and intelligent, we will make a brief reference to the professor of Biblical Theology and comparative religion, the Reverend Ralph Harlow, an eyewitness to the horrors of 1922, who, leaning on his conscience, denounced that their oil interests and their protection overshadowed the humanitarian ones and human solidarity.

And we will remind you of Professor Frank Weber's conclusion in the thorough and authoritative analysis of Turkish diplomacy during the Second World War in his book "The Evasive Neutral". "Throughout the war, Turkish diplomacy was a brilliant achievement, by all measures except those of honor and moral integrity."

            In conclusion, we consider that it is not out of place to refer to the greatest moral philosopher Socrates, who stated that the impunity of injustice is worse than injustice itself.

            And as for the unbridled congratulations you gave to the Turks, the answer to the ephemeral heartlessness of mortal human nature, when it is unjust, comes from the immortality of the ages and from the greatest epic poet, Homer, whom Smyrna boasts of having given birth to:

"Shame [aidôs] on you Argives!"