GRASS-ROOTS POWER: AVALANCHE AGAINST JENNIFER LOPEZ PERFORMING IN OCCUPIED CYPRUS

For Immediate Release: July 8, 2010

Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel. (917) 699-9935

NEW YORK—Following the initiative taken up by Cyprus Action Network of America
CANA on June 30, 2010 to respectfully protest American celebrity Jennifer
Lopez’s illegal visit to Turkish-occupied Cyprus, thousands of Greek-Cypriots
in the homeland and the diaspora answered the call by bombarding multimedia with
the truth and media began to listen. Beginning with a report by Helena Smith of
the GUARDIAN UK on July 5 th, an avalanche of international news reports have
been issued citing the illegal Turkish invasion and illegal Turkish-occupation
of Cyprus in regards claims of Lopez’s illegal visit to Turkish-Occupied Cyprus.
We also have gained the support of Greek-Cypriot advocacy groups in Cyprus and
around the world, below follows extensive links documenting all our successful
efforts to send out a cry for help worldwide for justice for CYRPUS. Moreover
the call for justice was made by two Greek-Cypriot Refugee women, Mrs. Fanoulla
Argyrou who wrote the letter “Dr. Ms Jennifer Lopez, 800 Greek-Cypriot women
were raped by Turks in 1974…” which has been translated following massive
demand in Greek and Spanish and circulated in three languages was quoted by the
Guardian and international media syndication, and Refugee mother and President
of CYPRUS' MOVEMENT OF REFUGEES & DISPLACED MOTHERS Markella Isaia-Chakka's
letter to Jennifer Lopez has made such an impact that it was also translated in
French. The campaign starts to permeate in the French-speaking world, as the
Agence France-Presse has syndicated the story, and it has also been reported by
the largest French TV network TF1.
http://lci.tf1.fr/people/2010-07/jlo-cree-un-incident-diplomatique-a-chypre-5918233.html

1) The following lists links to international news on our campaign from UK,
America, CANADA, Europe, Africa, Israel, and Asia:
UNITED KINGDOM

Guardian UK:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/05/jennifer-lopez-northern-cyprus-gig

Telegraph UK:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7873956/Jennifer-Lopez-urged-to-cancel-Cyprus-concert.html

Independent UK:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/anger-as-jennifer-lopez-set-to-rock-north-cyprus-2020327.html

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

AHN All Headline News
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7019201615

ABC World News:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=11106809

The Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/music/news/e3ifb9f290da772a7b4eedd4821d38db1d5

Improper Magazine
http://www.theimproper.com/?p=9570

CANADA:

The Toronto Sun:
http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrities/2010/07/06/14621171.html

AUSTRALIA:

The Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/jlos-birthday-trip-turns--political-20100706-zysr.html

ASIA

The Malaysian Insider:
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/showbiz/article/anger-as-jennifer-lopez-set-to-rock-north-cyprus/

Asian News International/DailyIndia.com:
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/384651.php

SOUTH AFRICA

Eyewitness New Africa
http://www.eyewitnessnews.co.za/articleprog.aspx?id=43521

EUROPE:

Network TF1 France
http://lci.tf1.fr/people/2010-07/jlo-cree-un-incident-diplomatique-a-chypre-5918233.html

France 24 France
http://www.france24.com/en/20100706-anger-jennifer-lopez-set-rock-north-cyprus

Interia Poland

http://muzyka.interia.pl/pop/news/jennifer-lopez-i-wojna-o-cypr,1502672

Rambler media group: Russia
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/07/06/lopez/

Holland The Netherlands: Bruno.nl
http://www.bruno.nl/nieuws/5464/jennifer-lopez-schokt-griekse-cyprioten.html


ISRAEL:

Ynet in Israel, look for mention of Cyprus Action Network of America, written
backwards the Hebrew way, in English:
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3915836,00.html


SITES, BLOGS, NEWSPAPERS IN CYPRUS, GREECE AND GREEK CYPRIOT DIASPORA
Numerous news sites and literally hundreds of websites and blogs followed the
story of the protest against Lopez’s illegal visit including Digital Spy,
OneIndia, Yahoo News, Philippine Daily Inquirer, ContactMusic.com (UK), USA News
Week (USA), and award winning journalist Tony Phyrillas’s blogs the Talking
Politics with Tony Phyrillas and Reading AHEPA. As well as Greek-American news
site the Hollywood Greek Reporter, and major Greek newspapers and news services
in Greece and Cyprus such as daily newspaper Simerini and Eleftherotypia in
Athens as well Voice of America based out of Washington DC and The National
Herald in New York and the London newspapers Eleftheria and Ta Nea.
Simerini

http://www.sigmalive.com/simerini/news/local/282274http://www.sigmalive.com/simerini/world/epikairotita/283454
http://www.sigmalive.com/simerini/columns/antistaseis/282784


Eleftherotypia:
http://www.enet.gr/?i=issue.el.home&date=06/07/2010&s=to-anagnwstiko-ths-teleytaias-selidas


Kypriako Pontiki
www.pontiki.com.cy

Ta Nea London
www.greeknews-tanea.com


Eleftheria London
www.eleftheria.co.uk

Voice of America:
http://www1.voanews.com/greek/news/turkey/Jennifer-Lopez-Cyprus-Turkey-07-06-2010-97900079.html

Hollywood Greek Reporter:
http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2010/07/04/jennifer-lopezs-decision-to-celebrate-birthday-in-occupied-cyprus-creates-political-turmoil/

Tony Phyrillas

http://talkingpoliticswithtonyphyrillas.blogspot.com/2010/07/stop-jennifer-lopez-from-visiting.html
http://williampenn61.blogspot.com/2010/07/stop-jennifer-lopez-from-visiting.html

SUPPORT FROM CYPRUS DISPLACED MOTHERS AND REFUGEES:

Mrs. Markella Isaia-Chakka President of CYPRUS' MOVEMENT OF REFUGEES & DISPLACED
MOTHERS has sent the following letter to Jennifer Lopez. The original letter
is in the PDF link and Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) has permission to
distribute through our activists, please distribute widely

http://cyprusactionnetwork.org/cyprus_mothers

The French Translation is made available on the website of Agora Dialogue links
follows below:
À L’ATTENTION DE: Madame Jennifer Lynn Lopez

http://agora-dialogue.com/?p=8663

GRASS-ROOTS POWER: THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS

Despite the millions spent on high profile public relations specialists and
media agents to bring the American star Jennifer Lopez by Turkey in order to
falsely “legitimize” the crimes against our people and the theft of our
homeland, it was our grass-roots, our ordinary people who turned it on them and
instead the entire world was reminded of the truth. The truth that Turkey is
guilty of crimes against humanity that include the illegal-invasion and ongoing
illegal-occupation of our people, our heritage, our culture. This is a power
that comes from the beating heart of our ordinary people. We cannot, of course,
ignore the world around us, nor fail to think clearly about how best to tackle
the challenges ahead. We owe that to ourselves and to future generations. The
bottom line is this: Stay active, speak out, stand strong.
Many thanks to our friends and supporters on the tough road to the final
victory—worldwide recognition of the Turkish crimes perpetrated against the
Greek-Cypriot people and full restoration and full restitution. In other words:
Justice.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING GROUPS, ASSOCIATIONS AND SITES:

THE MOVEMENT FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE IN CYPRUS, CYPRUS' MOVEMENT OF REFUGEES &
DISPLACED MOTHERS ,ADOULITI KIRENIA, EFYLAKAS,TO KYPRIAKO PONTIKI newspaper in
Cyprus www.pontiki.com.cy, American Hellenic Council AHC, HELLENIC ELECTRONIC
CENTER (HEC), AMERICAN HELLENIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION AHEPA,
METOPO CYPRIOT STUDENTS MOVEMENT UK, THE NATIONAL HERALD ETHNIKOS KIRIX, NEOS
KOSMOS newspaper AUSTRALIA, daily newspaper Simerini in Cyprus, award winning
Greek-American journalist Tony Phyrillas, Hollywood Greek Reporter news site ,
www.agora-dialogue.com , http://hellenicvanguard.blogspot.com/,
www.parisstylianides.com and many websites and blogs in Greece and Cyprus and
around the world, the Cyprus IndyMedia Collective, http://CyprusIndyMedia.org
along with all the other groups above that are endorsing this campaign.
IndyMedia is an independent, grassroots global organization with branches all
over the world; the Cyprus local is 100% in support of this campaign.

And Most especially the Facebook group with 17,0000 members and climbing
“AGAINST JENNIFER LOPEZ PERFORMING IN OCCUPIED CYPRUS”

http://www.facebook.com/pages/AGAINST-JENNIFER-LOPEZ-PERFORMING-IN-OCCUPIED-CYPRUS/129154837124167

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