The neo-Hellenic subservience to Turkey and the Stergiadis’ offspring

In vain have been certain na¨ve columnists attempting to persuade us that the Turkish casus belli in case that Greek territorial waters would expand up to12 miles is at last debunked. The notorious casus belli finally has not been obliterated from the official Turkish doctrine while those na¨ve fell in discredit for their subservience to Turkey. Similarly those who are suggesting or attempting to cut our History down in the name of “good Greek-Turkish relations” have fallen short of reputation for showing national indignity. That has resulted in teaching our children a “sterilized” history without heroes and fighters while at the same time Davutoglou on behalf of Turkey is announcing that it intends to use the Muslim minority in Thrace the same way Turkey did with the Turkish-Cypriots from 1954 to the invasion to Cyprus. We show always ready to recoil and subservient to Turkey while Ankara has bee sending Ministers in the occupied territories to participate in the annual celebration for the declaration of the pseudostate (November 15) and it claims to our face that constitution of two single states is the only solution on the island, that is consolidation of dichotomy.

Subservience to Turkey of course has not found sympathizers in the majority of the Greek people. Perhaps that’s why certain TV channels took upon themselves to pave the ground for further compromises on Greece’s side. Every evening the tired Greek working man and the poor mother with her children are bombarded with Turkish TV serials so that they watch the sympathetic view of Turkey and absorb dichotomy of the Aegean, of Cyprus, of Thrace or anything else the solid, persistent and everlasting foreign policy of the neo-ottomans would demand. It is behind our back and while we are lulled with the Turkish TV serials and their juicy baklavas that Turkey does its best to bring us to a difficult position. It is very prominent that the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) has funded FYROM Diaspora’s organization (UMD) with $150.000 so that the latter would organize a visit of 18 U.S Senators’ assistants in Skopjie with the view to promote FYROM’s propaganda inside the U.S. Senate.

The most recent regional and municipal elections pointed out even more incidents of subservience to Turkey. Surprisingly we noticed so-called progressive people to show admiration for Kemal Ataturk, butcher of Armenians and of Greek people in the Black sea region (Pontos) and in Asia Minor’s coastland. I am hopeful that there will be assistants to them more mature and aware of our history in order to help them understand their fallacy. Otherwise such people subservient to Turkey are risking to be considered holdovers and ideological descendants of Aristeidis Stergiadis, of the Greek High Commissioner in Smyrni during 1919-22 who was registered in history as one of the darkest and most invidious figures of recent Hellenism. In the ‘HISTORY OF THE HELLENIC NATION” it is written the following:

“The most common allegation against Stergiadis was his favoritism for the Turkish element, mainly expressed with pressure on the Authorities to render Turks defendants as innocent and instead his persistence on that Greek guilty people would have been punished harshly. Exaggeration, according to unanimous testimonies, that characterized every single action of Stergiadis was also expressed even against clergymen. It is well known that his relations with Gregorios, Metropolitan of Kydonies were ruptured and that he also unhesitatingly interrupted Chrysostomos’ (Metropolitan of Smyrni) preaching during a ceremonial liturgy on the occasion of celebrating victory since, to his opinion, the content was getting away from the religious context while turning to talking nationalistic politics. Indicative of his repugnance to Chrysostomos was also his proposal to the Greek government that the Metropolitan’s salary would have been cut down. (Vol. IE p. 124)

The modern ideological descendants of Stergiadis in the name of the “Greek-Turkish friendship” are persecuting every patriotic voice and are slamming on certain clergymen. Sarantos Kargakos notes that “in the figure of Stergiadis, the Greeks in Ionia saw the seat of an infidel caliph to be taken by another, worse but coreligionist one”. (Campaign in Asia Minor, vol A’, p.213, Athens 2010). The sequence of history is exceptionally preachy. As the Turkish irregulars were nearing Smyrni, Stergiadis first, the censor of patriotism and persecutor of Bishops, ran away and fled aboard a British ship showing indifference to the fate of Greeks. On the contrary, the Metropolitans, whom he had fought against and insulted, stood by their flock and met a martyr’s death. Stergiadis did not dare to set foot in Greece ever again and died in Nice (France) after a 28-year-long stay. His ideological descendants should see what their fixation and obsession with Kemal might lead them to.

Hopefully such spirit of subservience to Turkey taken up some layers of leading elites of our society will not be prevaingl during the 100^th anniversary of the liberation of Macedonia (A’ Balkan War 1912). I suggest that beginning of 01/01/2011 a team of serious scientists would be commissioned under the auspices of the local authorities of the Districts of Central and W. Macedonia (mainly areas concerned with such celebration) and have everything properly done so that in October 2012 those who fought and fell for a Greek Macedonia would be honored free of hazy ideologies, disastrous for the nation..

Konstantinos Holevas,  Political Scientist

 Subservience to Turkey of course has not found sympathizers in the majority of the Greek people. Perhaps that’s why certain TV channels took upon themselves to pave the ground for further compromises on Greece’s side. Every evening the tired Greek working man and the poor mother with her children are bombarded with Turkish TV serials.