Prof. Van Coufoudakis wrote about the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in a Greek Cypriot government booklet, Human Rights Violations in Cyprus by Turkey.
Over on human rights archaeology, I used the booklet and public discussion of Coufoudakis's work to study the opinion of the "progressive" government of the Republic of Cyprus.
The "new" position is the old one, a distortion of history: "Cypriot" cultural heritage is Greek Cypriot cultural heritage; Turkey was the only human rights violator; and Greek Cypriots were the only victims.
Given their progressive public stance, the official booklet's Hellenist nationalist distortion is contradictory and depressing.
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