• LAST week, the Design Centre in Islington hosted an exhibition which was very offensive to Greek Cypriots.

It was called the “North Cyprus Festival”. A festival is a happy event of celebration as if all is well in north Cyprus. Nothing could be further from the truth for the Greeks expelled from their homes there. Wanton, deliberate, almost total physical and cultural destruction and obliteration of Greek history, systematically by Turkish occupying forces, hardly warrants the term “festival”.

The exhibition promoted the sale of Greek-owned lands, which has been condemned by the UN, EU, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. Rather, this is a festival of apartheid in occupied northern Cyprus, a pseudo-state recognised by none but its occupier, Turkey.

We would like Londoners to be aware of this injustice in a city that is supposed to pride itself on equality, diversity and freedom. In occupied north Cyprus there is no equality for Greek Cypriots expelled from their ancestral lands.

The Turkish occupiers even rewrite history for their imported illegal colonists, claiming that Cyprus was always Turkish and denying the historic realities of 4,500 years of Greek culture and inhabitation, Ottoman Turks having invaded in 1571.

Talk about fake news.

ANDY KYPRIOS, N4