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We don\u2019t know who wrote these slogans, but the issue should not be politicised,\u201d he said, suggesting that inaccurate information may have reached the occupied areas, leading to accusations of racism and xenophobia against the Greek Cypriot community.<br \/>\n<strong>Political exploitation<\/strong><br \/>\nMehmet expressed concern that the incident was being \u201cexploited\u201d to create tension.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are trying to exploit the situation and create tensions around other issues,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nHe also noted that similar slogans have been written on nearby establishments. \u201cIf you go to the wider area, you will see that such slogans are almost everywhere,\u201d he said, stressing that Turkish Cypriot journalists who visited the mosque yesterday were unaware of the true meaning of the slogans.<br \/>\nHe also refuted statements made by the \u2018ministry of foreign affairs\u2019 in the occupied north which accused the Greek Cypriots of xenophobia and having a racist mentality towards the Turkish and Islamic communities of Cyprus.<br \/>\nRead more:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-in-cyprus-com wp-block-embed-in-cyprus-com\"><\/figure>\n<p>graffiti. vandalism, religiously motivated attack, sports-related slogans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayhan Mehmet, the representative of Turkish Cypriots in Limassol, clarified that recent vandalism at the Jedit Mosque was not religiously motivated but rather sports-related slogans. The graffiti also affected a nearby Turkish Cypriot cemetery, and Mehmet emphasized that the issue should not be politicized or exploited to create tensions. He refuted accusations of racism and xenophobia against the Greek Cypriot community, stating that similar slogans were found in other establishments in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[383,8386,1240,2536,2460,3139,3,413,2167,10227,3716,2796,3755,24,148,6428,7575,9729,4647,2254,10380,6386,421,10381,6425,468,114,268,649,495,6305,9109],"class_list":["post-12229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-attack","tag-cemetery","tag-clear","tag-communities","tag-community","tag-cypriots","tag-cyprus","tag-cyprus-problem","tag-exploitation","tag-graffiti","tag-greek-cypriots","tag-issues","tag-journalists","tag-limassol","tag-local","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-mosque","tag-occupied","tag-occupied-areas","tag-racism","tag-religiously-motivated-attack","tag-situation","tag-sports","tag-sports-related-slogans","tag-tension","tag-tensions","tag-top-news","tag-turkish-cypriot","tag-turkish-cypriots","tag-vandalism","tag-who","tag-xenophobia"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Limassol mosque vandalism being \u201cexploited to create tensions,\u201d says T\/C official<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ayhan Mehmet, the representative of Turkish Cypriots in Limassol, clarified that recent vandalism at the Jedit Mosque was not religiously motivated but rather sports-related slogans. 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