THE MIRACLE A True Story PHOTOGRAPHIC APPENDIX The text of a macabre poem titled Hatred and published by the large circulation Turkish newspaper Hürriyet on 18 July 1974, just 48 hours before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus by order of the Bülent Ecevit government. HATRED As long as the vulgar Greek exists in this world By Allah, this hatred won't leave me As long as I see him there like a dog By Allah, this hatred won't leave me A thousand heads of infidel Giaours cannot wash away this hatred. My only aim is revenge When my turn comes to go to battle In one day I'll butcher a thousand Giaours By Allah, this hatred won't leave me A thousand heads of infidel Giaours cannot wash away this hatred. Even if I crush thirty thousand of their heads with a stone Even if I wrench out the teeth of ten thousand And throw a hundred thousand of their corpses into the river By Allah, this hatred won't leave me A thousand heads of infidel Giaours cannot wash away this hatred. The whole world knows how superior the Turk is Who crashed the Greek's fucked world over his head Even if I burn in stokeholes the heads of five thousand of them By Allah, this hatred won't leave me A thousand heads of infidel Giaours cannot wash away this hatred. Even if I slash forty thousand of them with my bayonet And send eighty thousand of them to the devil And hang a hundred thousand of them By Allah, this hatred won't leave me A thousand heads of infidel Giaours cannot wash away this hatred. 168 and 169 Leonidas Koumakis THE MIRACLE A True Story If you prefer a hard copy of the book, please send an email to HEC-Books@hec.greece.org Previous Page | Initial Page | Site Map | Next Page (170th of 204) © For Internet 2001 HEC and Leonidas Koumakis. Updated on 19 June 2001.