Cypriot Greek boy missing for 33 years in Turkey?

[AQMessiah]

Found this interesting:

[Alexios]

Little Christakis is the youngest G/C that went missing in 1974.His mother always claimed that the boy must be alive.Actually Clerides and Denktash took a personal interest in the case and Denktash had reassured that the boy was in hospital. He then arranged for his return to his family but when they went to Ledra Palace to pick him up, they were told that the boy could not be found or sonething vague like that.After 33 years of agony, Politis published yesterday, an official Turkish army report that the boy was hospitalized in Ankara. The mother is absolutely certain that Christakis was adopted by a childless doctor or army officer.All she wants, she told reporters, is to find her son and to see that he is well.

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[Alexios]

Politis published today that the published report bears the code SVL ISL: 133-75, ie Department of Civil Matters (of the Turkish army) The Turkish Ministry Of Interior, Politis says, is expected to react today and give some explanation as to why the boy was lost...
Let us hope that this case will be seen as a purely humanitarian matter and every effort made to find out what really happened...

[depurple]

My wife's cousin (Androulla) who is born in Australia was on Holidays in Kyrenia when the Turks captured her with others and put them on a boat from the harbor for Turkey:
Why the Turks did this who knows?
Call this the Ottoman mentality!
Anyway back to the story: Half way to Turkey an English patrol boat pulled up besides the Turkish boat and boarded her: The British Army officer asked if there where any foreigners on the boat and Androulla and a few others raised their hands:
Androulla said there was arguing amongst the Turkish Soldiers and the British about letting the foreigners off the boat:
BUT in the end you know that Turks put their tail between their legs and let the poor foreign people off the boat:(They must of new that the British take no shit from anyone)!
Till this day Androulla says there where at least another 200 on the boat: Men, women and children! What ever happened to them?Only God knows!
Also to this day Adroulla get another,are just thinking about what happened:
She was 16 years old and born in Australia so that experience will scare you for life:
So maybe this boy is in Turkey:
Anything is possible!
I have seen the little boys photo:
They mother must be devastated:
DP:
PS The Turks had a reputation of taking young children and telling them that their parents where killed by Greeks, Armenians and Kurds!
OH!
I forgot to mention that the Turks cuts off my Great grandmothers two thumbs when she was 5 years old for speaking Greek in front of them many year ago!
All I can say is it will be a sad day for the EU if Turkey ever joins before becoming EU criteria!
DP:

[Alexios]

Clerides: Denktash never told me child was dead
By Alexia Saoulli

FORMER president Glafcos Clerides yesterday denied ever being told the five-year-old boy that had vanished without a trace during the 1974 Turkish invasion after receiving treatment for a bullet wound had died.

“[Former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf] Denktash never told me or anyone else that the child was dead,” Clerides said. “If we had known he was dead we would have asked for his remains and arranged a burial.”

The 83-year-old was speaking at a news conference to clarify his side of the story involving Chistakis Georgiou’s disappearance 33 years ago.

In 1975, Denktash told Clerides at a meeting that the child was alive and well and receiving treatment in hospital.

Clerides said: “We called the child’s mother into the room and told her this. Denktash said he would investigate and tell me at our next meeting which hospital the child was at.

I asked that it be arranged that she either visit the boy daily or that she go and bring him back here. He said first he had to determine what hospital the child was in before the necessary steps were taken. At subsequent meetings he said he’d never managed to find out what hospital the child was in.”

But former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash denies this version of events. Instead he said that after conducting an official investigation into the child’s whereabouts he had in fact discovered the youth had died and informed his mother of this fact.

Speaking to Turkish Cypriot daily, Gunes, Denktash said: “Every mother lives in hope until seeing the body of her child. This woman contacted me afterwards. I understand the pain of this woman and her hopeless expectation. But I think that the things they [Greek Cypriots] are saying such as that ‘the child has been sent to Ankara, he was adopted, he has even called his mother and talked with her on the phone’ are games for conducting propaganda against Turkey.”

Nevertheless Denktash’s statements contradict an interview he gave to CyBC in 2001, where he said he had been told the five-year-old had been taken to Turkey.

During the interview, he also admitted that perhaps the information had been wrong or flimsy, that traces of people were often lost and that perhaps he’d acted prematurely by telling the boy’s mother such a thing, simply to keep her happy.

“We never established whether the boy was actually taken to Turkey or not,” he said in 2001.

Meanwhile further complicating matters Politis yesterday quoted a Turkish corporal who had served in Cyprus in 1974.

Mehmet Mercan told the daily he remembered the child and his mother who came for treatment to the makeshift hospital in Dikomo, where he was responsible for the wounded.

Mercan told the paper he had taken the boy into his arms and taken him inside the hospital, where the “military doctors showed a great interest”.

He then said he remembered the boy had been transferred to Adana; “after that I cannot know what happened” to him.

Christakis’ disappearance has made headlines since Politis on Sunday revealed Turkish military documents confirming the child had been transferred to Turkey for treatment. According to the paper, the document had been prepared at the request of the special war bureau in Ankara.

The new evidence has given his now 71-year-old mother, Mirofora Georgiou, fresh hope that this is the year she and her youngest child will finally be reunited.

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007 http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=31115&archive=1

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DP...

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[repulsewarrior]

If true, it merits headlines worldwide, and I hope for this mother, having waited so long, it is.

[AQMessiah]

Is this something that happens often? There was a rumor that a Cypriot Greek soldier (?) was seen in a Turkish prison but I don't think it was ever considered fact.

[Birkibrisli]

If it can be established that this boy had made it to hospital in Adana,Turkey alive,I'd say there is 99%chance that he is alive and living as a Turk somewhere in Turkey.He probably cannot even remember his life before being wounded.On the other hand perhaps he remembers everything.My point is that his welfare and mental health must be given the utmost priority during the investigations,and qualified psychiatrist must be consulted before anything is disclosed.Imagine if this man is now happily married and living as a Turk,and all of a sudden his life is turned upside down,mainly for political reasons!!??Cyprus problem has caused enough heartache for tens of thousands of us,they must be very careful that one more life is not added to this carnage...

[pg]

Since we are speculating anyway...: if the boy was recovering in a army hospital and after a few months was adopted by someone - it would most likely be someone related to the army - so he would have been brought up in an army family...

[Get Real!]

This whole story is tragic but to suddenly turn someone's life upside down can only worsen things.