The
Turkish government is thought to restore injustice of properties that had lost by old times for Greeks too, it looks to me very POSITIVE but DIFFICULT in practice.
A polite relative found us who has Turkish
identity, whom her Greek mother had married an Armenian and we are co-owned. And here we are . With a bus that leaves
Larissa station in the center of Athens at 5 pm and you wake up in the morning in TAKSIM the old city of Istanbul,something like constitution square or
monastiraki in Athens.
In the bus that owned by the Turkish company Deryas, has nothing
to do with ours Busses with headphones,
music, movies and service, as if we are on an airplane!!, and the price just 100
euro round trip ... Bravo the Turks I thought.
In proxy the official translator was the priest Father Nicholas, who runs a
church in downtown TAKSIM... the holy Trinity, civilized as all the priests should be
into the city, with a swit and a small
goatee. .In The top point of TAKSIM is this church that still works !! And came
to me a thought since what I learned in the school, that they are barbarians
and persecutors agains other religions!!, are not civilized like us!!.
Did you see we the civilized, the Mosque in Monastiraki
<<shines>> with captured smuggled shops operating on the ground
floor, even wooden sex vibrations you can buy!!.Hei we are not uncivilized ,what do
you think we are not like them, we respect foreign tradition and faith,. we
have been exporting culture we are not like them!
The lawyer in the City very
polite when we finished with the power of Authority, I told him a joke -<<when we
will get the money we could invest together in the important need, trash to energy>>.
I believe that
we will not take any money , but I said it as a joke and I laughed loudly.
We have plants like that here the translator replied, and I thought that she
did not understand the question, and I laughed into my self and I said to
me, we are Europeans and we have
not, and will have these uncivilized.
My wife and her brother infront of the holy trinity church, in TAKSIM
After we lit a candle (that tradition
still likes me ) in the church, that is open
all the time in the center of TAKSIM!! We ate at a restaurant where we found
similar rates of todays prices in
Greece.Then the next day at noon we took the road back. Watching from the bus outside
passing through the modern city, I became astonished skyscrapers,shopping
centers,and residential complexes unbelievable nice !!, Years ago I had made
some imports from there and I met their processing in shoe industry, with huge
exports to Arab countries, and I became astonished too!! Hey these uncivilized
left us behind them I thought.
It started been dark night, as usually I slept on Bus, the next
morning I woke up at Inofyta the Industrial area just before Athens.Years ago in
that Industrial area was full of liveliness and productivity. Now looked as a
bombed city, abandoned industrial plants , on some of them with old writing,
for rent, or available for rent and
selling, looking at these
<<big>>properties I was thinking how they will be received taxes from
that <<big property.>>
I saw only a polished tax Authority, and a Piraeus bank, it
started catching me depression thinking that from a hundred factories, left
about ten, by whom we will collect taxes,and to whom we will lend!!
Arriving home I turned on the TV to see the news with
the new government in Greece, in a show one journalist, had first invited the
new labor minister, and he asked him some question like what will happen with the control of labor
violations, the Minister said that he will increase the body of inspectors and with
repeated checks will crack the violations in employment.
Courage mr.Minister have been left very few,you would
beat them easily, will not stay none of the bloodthirsty employers, they only
know how to work, nor to protest they do not know, you will find them there to work
until night, dirty and working hard,go to eliminate them.... these greedy people. We do
not need them we will take all factories under public control in order to make
them healthy, as we had done in 1981, and we grew up their debts to the sky,
and we sold them after years for a penny . without taking a lesson after that,
how useful are our craftsmen !!! COURAGE
COURAGE Mr. Minister few left we will melt them !!
For my curiosity I serch in Internet W.t .E plants in Turkey and I found huge
factories!! with Swedish technology!!
Eventually
maybe the opposite is true, they are developed and we are underdeveloped; .... I
apologize to those who don't like to see any mistakes in themselves, and in their
country ..... but this is the truth in my view.
Panos Paliokostas
P.S
About the comparison of the church of the Holy Trinity
in TAKSIM, and the mosque in Monastiraki I suggest and I will try to convince the
Greek society . The Mosque to be
repaired and instead of being a house of worship to become Library keeping works
by Arab philosophers, who have translated our Balkan classics, also to host interfaith Congresses
for understanding different religions, and lectures in direction to change the
education system everywhere in Balkans, and instead of competitive dogmas in regions,
to be taught the basics of all religions and philosophy. .For The shops that
operate in the mosque to find a place to gather all them together, and to offer voludary the cultural places they use
, and we to advertice their offer, so they will work better in their new place.
Then to promote the project internationally, that will certainly bring tourists, Congresses,lectures and investments, from Turkey
and from other rich Arab countries,and not only.
