London, Thanasis Gavos
Three and a half years ago, the new shadowy Foreign Secretary of the British Labor Party, David Lamy, publicly expressed his highly negative view of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The newly promoted member of the shadow government’s MP had harshly commented in May 2018 on Erdogan’s official visit to London and the honor he received to be received by Queen Elizabeth, in a decision of the British government that had provoked other reactions.
“It makes me upset that our government is rolling out the red carpet for President Erdogan this week and trying to sell him more weapons. “He is a dictator and tyrant who imprisons journalists, has established a regime of barbaric repression and torture and is slaughtering the Kurds,” Lami said in his initial post.
In a second post, he called on his followers to remember that those in charge of the Brexit campaign in the 2016 referendum said how “awful” Turkey is and how “terrible” it would be if it joined the EU, which he says was not going to happen. or otherwise. “Go two years and the same people are being servilely brought before the despotic dictator Erdogan who is violating human rights by trying to sell him even more weapons,” wrote the British shadow foreign minister.
Commenting again on Twitter by then-Prime Minister May on Buckingham Palace’s decision to allow the Queen to listen to the Turkish President, as happened on May 15, he reiterated that the’s government’s servitude to this “tyrant” was “disgusting”. , accusing Ms May of being “too timid” to raise the issue of human rights abuses in Turkey.
It is noted that the 49-year-old MP from the Tottenham district of north London is considered to have a good knowledge of the Cyprus issue, having several Cypriot and Turkish voters in his district, while in the past he has attended various events of the organized Cypriot community.
According to sources, Mr. Lami has in the recent past responded to letters from voters of Cypriot origin with assurances that he supports a solution of a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation in Cyprus, clearly in favor of the withdrawal of all Turkish military forces from the island.
He also argued that the United Kingdom should continue to play an active role in encouraging talks to reach a solution.
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