Dalaras speaks out in Turkey about Cyprus

Mama mia! I wouldn’t have thought that famous Greek singer Yiorgos Dalaras would use a stone-age old graffiti slogan to surprise positively the Turks. The slogan ‘the Aegean belongs to the Fish’ is as old as the Noah’s floods and had appeared on an Athens street as graffiti even before Noah was born… Now Yiorgos Dalaras make use of it to impress the Turkish people obviously on the occasion of his concert in Istanbul on Friday night.

In an interview to Turkish daily Hurriyet, Dalaras tries to approach the Greek-Turkish dispute on the Aegean Sea in a metaphysical-religious, profound and yet simple-minded way and says among others, that “God has not set boundaries between the countries”  etcetera etcetera etcetera…. and that in fact the much disputed sea “belongs to the Fish”. That’s correct! As some internet user commented on the news247.gr that published the interview in Greek “Concert halls belong to the people and therefore Dalaras should give concerts without a ticket – for free”.

Commenting on politics, Dalaras told Hurriyet, that politics is “not a faithful wife, but a dirty woman”. I don’t know what he drinks, but it must have been a cocktail mix of frustration and memory faiding. To hear such a statement by a man whose wife, Anna Dalara, was serving as deputy Minister in the Papandreou government until last June sounds weird. I’m a bit too lazy right now to write some kind of feminist criticism as well… “Dirty woman”? Why not “Dirty man”?

Last year, Yiorgos Dalaras was accused of being ‘Turco-phobe” while in Turkey. The singer had given many concerts for the missing of Cyprus. Now he grew older and wants peace. Me too… and I claim my right to want to live in a gibberish-free world…

Dalaras’ interview as published by Greek portal news247.gr

On the occasion of his visit for a concert in Istanbul, Turkey, Greek singer George Dalaras, in an interview to the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, amazed by his statements on the Aegean, noting that “it belongs to the fish.”

“People are born to live together. We live side by side for thousands of years. If you fly a little higher will not see the lines on the map” he said, adding:

“The maps are printed and the boundaries set by the mathematicians and land-surveyors. God does not print. About the Aegean Sea, some say it belongs to  Turks, others say to Greeks. But in fact the Aegean Sea belongs to the fish, ” he said characteristically.

The singer referred also to the Cyprus issue, noting that there are problems coming from three sides, Turkey, England and Greece.

“These countries weave such a knot that issue was led to an impasse. However, the soldiers want to leave, and there are people who want to unite and live together,” he said.

Asked about what was the source of pain in Cyprus, he replied that it is the fault of the nationalists and those religion-zealots.

 While referring to politics in general, he noted that “politics is not a faithful husband, but a dirty woman.”

“Everything is ready for a solution in Cyprus. Greece withdrew. Turkey does not do anything. In the middle stands England that provokes and incites  everyone,” he says.