"My wife told me not to write this. She said no one would care about a country that does not exist. She's right, of course. But I've seen how Australia is helping to gang up on this country-to crush it just because it took action to save its citizens from being killed-and I feel someone has to protest this injustice. The country that doesn't exist is the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus..... You won't find it on our maps. We ban its elected president from coming here. Like all other airlines(other than Turkish), our refuse to help fly you there. Its hotels are three-quarters empty, and its trade is boycotted. It is poor, yet aid organisations won't send a cent. Nor will we. Being wiped off the map like this is crushing the place, as I found out when its government helped me to go over and see for myself two weeks ago. .... Do you know why we're helping to do this to this country and its 200,000 people? No. Nobody even debates it, for the fear of our strong Greek lobby. That's not surprising, when the two of our most influential Greek politicians, Andrew and Theo Theophanous, are Greek Cypriots." Mr Bolt then gives a brief history of events leading up to the Turkish intervention in 1974 which we all know very well - but the rest of the 'civilised world' refuses to see. He then goes on to say: " ... Five days later the Turkish army finally rescued the Cypriot Turks, landing in the north and seizing a third of the land for a safe haven. The Turkish north has since formed its own democratic government. But we-and the world-refuse to have anything to do with it. Instead, we hail the Greek government as government of the whole island, and demand the Turkish army to pull out. Never mind that it came there largely to stop the massacres the world preferred to ignore. This is plain wrong. Cyprus contains two communities which no longer kill each other and that should be good enough for us. We may prefer these communities to unite, but punishing the Turks alone - the victims of massacres - to achieve this is monstrous. If you agree, tell your MP"