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| 30 DEC 2005 | Cyprus Weekly Rights Court clouded verdict |
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| 19 DEC 2005 | Times Cherie case provokes diplomatic row Guardian Cyprus News Agency Kathimerini Independent |
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| 18 DEC 2005 | Sunday Mail Cherie Blair steps into Cyprus land row Sunday Mail |
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| 17 DEC 2005 | BBC Cypriot anger at Cherie land case |
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| 30 NOV 2005 | Times Literary Supplement The empty spaces where Greeks once were |
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| 05 AUG 2005 | Guardian Turkey rebuffs French demands ahead of EU talks Kathimerini Kathimerini Kathimerini |
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| 03 AUG 2005 | Guardian France may bar Turkey's EU bid |
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| 04 AUG 2005 | Kathimerini Anorthosis defies the odds – Cypriot club ousts Turkish runner-up Trabzonspor from Champions League qualifiers |
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| 03 AUG 2005 | Kathimerini Paris backs Nicosia Turks urged to accept Cyprus; Karamanlis puts off Ankara trip |
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| 01 AUG 2005 | Financial Times Turkish parties split over customs deal with Cyprus "By refusing to recognise the government of a member state of a union it wishes to join, Turkey may still face problems in its own EU aspirations" Kathimerini Kathimerini |
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| 31 JUL 2005 | Sunday Mail Turkish Cypriots grapple with property conundrum Sunday Mail Sunday Mail Sunday Mail |
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| 29 JUL 2005 | BBC Turkey signs EU customs protocol ""it is regrettable... that a candidate for accession declares that it does not recognise one of the member states of the union it wishes to join"" read more> |
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| 26 JUL 2005 | The Times Turkey's accession to the EU (Letter by Martin Packard) "Sir, Whitehall’s over-ardent lobbying for Turkish assession to the EU has not only flown in the face of popular EU opinion but has almost certainly been counter-productive and done a disservice to Ankara. It has, not surprisingly, been widely seen as principally designed to further British interests: the blocking of any EU movement towards federalism and the maintenance of a British imperial presence in Cyprus." read more> |
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| 22 JUL 2005 | Cyprus Weekly British MPs back one Cyprus, reject Annan Plan "Members of the British and the European Parliaments from all parties strongly supported the reunification of Cyprus as a single state, rejecting the partitionist provisions of the Annan Plan during the various events staged here this week to mark the anniversary of the Turkish invasion and occupation. MP Simon Hughes, the Deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, told me that "the UK as a guarantor (of Cyprus independence) has an obligation to help restore a united Cyprus. We did not guarantee two, we guaranteed one Cyprus."" read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly |
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| 19 JUL 2005 | Guardian Europeans reject Turkey, poll shows "Turkey's campaign to join the EU suffered a blow yesterday when a survey found that only just over a third of Europeans back its membership... The opposition in Europe's two German-speaking countries and France was reflected in the poll. Austria led the way, with 80% of those questioned opposed to Turkish membership. This was followed by Germany (74%) and France (70%)." read more> |
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| 18 JUL 2005 | Athens News Agency Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 the biggest crime in Europe in second half of 20th century, Cyprus envoy says "... Turkey occupied 37 percent of the territory of Cyprus and carried out the greatest national cleansing campaign, in relation to the size of the population, in modern European history. Georgis reminded that the rejection of the Annan plan by 76 percent of the people of Cyprus was not a denial of the solution. It was the denial of the acceptance and legalisation of the invasion's fait accomplis." read more> |
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| 16 JUL 2005 | Kathimerini Cypriots observe 31st anniversary of island’s division "Since Cyprus’s EU accession, Papadopoulos has been telling the European body that any reunification must comply with basic EU laws and principles, particularly the right of citizens to move freely and live and work anywhere within the Union. This would automatically clear the way for the refugees return." read more> |
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| 15 JUL 2005 | Cyprus Weekly 31 years on, Tassos insists: rights remain a must for Cyprus settlement "... the objective of our side is a mutually acceptable, viable and workable settlement, while the objective of the Turkish side is the political upgrading of the pseudo-state, the dissolution of the Cyprus Republic, the creation of two separate legal entities and the maintenance and deepening of the division of the geographical space, of society, the economy and the institutions... the Turkish side remains immovable in its positions and attached to all the many advantages that the Annan Plan has offered unjustly and inexcusably to the Turkish Cypriot community and to Turkey, ignoring the just and logical demands and concerns of the Greek Cypriot side... Thirty-one years since then, the wounds remain open and painful. Enslaved towns and villages, an occupation army and swarms of settlers, refugees, missing and the enclaved keep these wounds open and prolong the terrible drama of our martyred people... if absolute justice is unfeasible under the circumstances, this does not mean that basic law cannot apply and be implemented in the case of Cyprus." read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus News Agency |
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| 08 JUL 2005 | Cyprus Weekly No confirmation over remains "THE government cannot confirm reports that the skeletal remains of 60 Greek Cypriots declared as missing are being temporarily stored in the basement of the Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’." read more> |
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| 29 JUN 2005 | Guardian Buyer beware: how the bottom fell out of the Cypriot holiday dream "As ever more Greek Cypriots, exploiting EU law, launch legal proceedings for properties they were forced to abandon during the 1974 Turkish invasion, many of these UK citizens have discovered that their title deeds are worthless... Alarmed by the leap in claims, the Foreign Office urged would-be British buyers to seek independent legal advice before entering into any deal... In a landmark case with possible repercussions for thousands of UK property owners, Linda and David Orams, an East Sussex couple, lost their appeal against a court order, issued in the Greek-run south, to demolish their villa and return the plot to Miltiades Apostolides, its original owner, who says he still has the title deeds 30 years after fleeing the north... The Orams face the prospect of having their home in Hove seized... But Greek Cypriots, heartened by support from the European court of human rights, show no sign of backing down. For them, the new settlers are the owners of ill-gotten gains... "The original owners never stopped having legal title to their land," said Kypros Chrysostomides, a spokesman for the Cypriot government. "What all these people have done is not only immoral but illegal."" read more> |
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| 03 JUN 2005 | Cyprus Mail Could Turkey’s draconian new press laws impact on Cyprus? "JOURNALISTS in the north said yesterday they would act to support colleagues in Turkey falling foul of new laws forbidding the media from expressing views on Cyprus contrary to Turkish state policy... rights activists in Turkey are incensed by the severe restrictions it places on press freedom. Not only does the law restrict journalists from expressing views on Cyprus, including suggestions relating to the removal of military forces... it also could be used against journalists suggesting massacres of Armenians in 1915 actually took place. "Journalists could be sent to prison for up to 15 years for expressing such views," editor of the outspoken [Turkish Cypriot] daily Afrika Sener Levent." read more> |
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| 02 JUN 2005 | Cyprus Weekly Turkey beefs up US weaponry in Cyprus "CYPRUS yesterday denounced Ankara for bolstering its occupation forces with upgraded US-made weaponry... Nicosia will also protest against the "provocative" presence of Turkish war ships off the Famagusta coast... 16 US M-48 tanks, six armoured vehicles (MII3) and 18 M115 artillery pieces were off loaded in the north between May 16-31... Nicosia has previously protested to the EU against the Turkish army’s "transfer to the occupied north fully-equipped and modernised US-made tanks and a significantly large number of armoured personnel carriers."... Turkish occupation forces have three times the number of tanks than the National Guard... Turkey maintains more arms and troops on the island in 2004, than it did in 2000... In the past, Washington has pressured the government to remove a meagre stockpile of US-made weapons given to it by Greece... Turkey has a huge arsenal of American hardware on Cyprus but escapes censure... The number of tanks stationed in the north has risen by 67% since 2000 and APCs are up by 74%."" read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Mail |
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| 28 MAY 2005 | Cyprus Mail Government hits back at Amnesty criticism of referendum campaign "THE GOVERNMENT yesterday hit back at Amnesty International’s latest report on Cyprus, which suggested that freedom of expression had been suppressed in the run-up to last year’s referendum on the Annan plan... Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides denied the accusation yesterday, saying there had been complete freedom of discussion on the Annan plan. He said there was no evidence that the situation as described in the Amnesty report had actually occurred... He said Amnesty was merely reporting on the basis of articles in the press in Cyprus and abroad, not reporting proven incidents based on first-hand information... “There was complete freedom of expression and discussion on the Annan plan in all sectors,” Chrysostomides said." read more> Cyprus Mail |
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| 27 MAY 2005 | Cyprus Mail British fugitive on arrest warrant over massive development in north "A EUROPEAN arrest warrant and Interpol ‘red bulletin’ has been issued against Gary Robb, one of the north’s most notorious British fugitives, for carrying out construction projects on Greek Cypriot-owned properties, according to reports in the Turkish Cypriot press yesterday." read more> |
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| 25 MAY 2005 | Cyprus Mail 32,000 passports for Turkish Cypriots "... state services have issued 32,200 passports, 63,600 birth certificates, and 57,300 identity cards to Turkish Cypriots..." read more> |
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| 20 MAY 2005 | Cyprus Weekly Commissioner Rehn's fumbled words "He avoided pointing out... that this "free movement" is anything but that as the Turkish side continues to restrict the right of Greek Cypriots to return to the north and to regain their properties, a right recognised by the Human Rights Court of the Council of Europe that has found Turkey guilty repeatedly on this count and ordered not only to recognise the refugees right to return, but also ordered it to compensate them for the loss of use of their properties all these years... While speaking of the "isolation" of the Turkish Cypriots, he avoids any reference to the fact that this "isolation" was imposed as a sanction by the UN Security Council. This sanction called on all UN member states to observe it as long as Turkey continued to reject the Security Council resolutions demanding the withdrawal of the Turkish occupation troops and mainland settlers, and the return of the ethnically cleansed Greek Cypriots refugees to their homes in the north... Rehn has clearly failed to grasp, or deliberately ignores, the very valid reasons for which the Greek Cypriots rejected the Annan Plan so overwhelmingly -- first and foremost the permanent division of the island on a racist basis, with permanent restrictions on the refugees right to return and to regain their property, in violation of the decisions of the Rights Court, and the fundamental principles of the EU acquis." read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly |
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| 19 MAY 2005 | Cyprus Mail Help me get the settlers out "AN ELDERLY Turkish Cypriot man yesterday appealed to the Cyprus government to help him remove a family of Turkish settlers from his home in north Nicosia... Dervlis Niayazi, 74, told reporters he wanted to bring his case before the European Court of Human Rights." read more> |
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| 18 MAY 2005 | Cyprus Mail President: ECHR needs to rethink rulings procedure "PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday urged European leaders to re-evaluate the practical execution of judgements by the European Court of Human Rights, saying it was an urgent task..." read more> |
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| 15 MAY 2005 | Cyprus Mail Government fury at Congress visit to the north "THE government has made strong representations to the US over a planned visit by a group of Congressmen to the north of the island, calling the move provocative and insensitive... the visit violated Security Council resolutions, provoked public sentiment and followed a series of other unacceptable moves by the US “that aim at upgrading the status of the illegal Turkish Cypriot occupation regime... It is unacceptable to sacrifice international law and small states for the sake of political expediency.”" read more> |
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| 13 MAY 2005 | Cyprus Weekly Double talk from Rehn "But if Turkey has to comply with the Court's verdict on the Ocalan case, because the Court is "a fundamental implementor of Human Rights and the rule of law,'' why doesn't this apply equally in the case of Cyprus? It can only be said that Cyprus is dismally disappointed with this double-standard approach and the insistence by the EU Commission that politics take precedence over the decisions of the Rights Court. Why have a court in the first place, if this is the case?" read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly |
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| 09 MAY 2005 | Guardian Cypriots battle over luxury real estate "Europeans who long bought property in northern Cyprus at bargain prices – often land confiscated from Greek Cypriot refugees who fled after a Turkish invasion 31 years ago split the island – now face the prospect of losing it because of Cyprus' entry into the European Union... The invasion forced nearly 200,000 Greek Cypriots to leave their homes in the north and 40,000 Turkish Cypriots to relocate there from the south. More than 150,000 settlers from mainland Turkey also have arrived in intervening years, taking over Greek Cypriot properties in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Now British newspapers are warning citizens not to buy in northern Cyprus... The London Observer wrote in a full page report that buying such holiday property "could become a legal and financial nightmare. Recent court rulings by the Human Rights Court of the Council of Europe and a Greek Cypriot court have reaffirmed the property restitution rights of Greek Cypriot refugees... Before the Turkish invasion of 1974, 82 percent of northern Cyprus territory was Greek Cypriot-owned and 16.5 percent Turkish Cypriot, according to Cypriot government statistics." read more> |
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| 25 APR 2005 | Agence France Presse Briton held for Cyprus land ad "A Briton living in the south of Cyprus has been arrested and charged with involvement in the illegal sale of Greek-Cypriot property in the island’s Turkish-occupied north... The suspect was charged with illegally advertising on the Internet the properties of Greek Cypriots displaced by Turkey’s 1974 invasion... Authorities also issued warrants for the arrest of the two other Britons who own the real estate firm." read more> |
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| 23 APR 2005 | Guardian Forgotten holocaust "...between 1915 and 1923 the Ottoman Turkish authorities orchestrated the killing of 1.5 million Armenian Christians... Henry Morgenthau, then US ambassador to Istanbul, reported "cold-blooded, calculating" slaughter... Turks should no more be allowed to deny their responsibility than Germans for exterminating Europe's Jews. (Hitler, whose crimes areremembered, once scornfully asked who remembered the Armenians)." read more> Guardian |
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| 22 APR 2005 | Times 'Mothers threw their children in the lake rather than let the Turks have them' "...90 years after Ottoman troops began the slaughter of up to 1.5 million Armenians... a growing number of Western governments are rejecting the official Turkish line. A European diplomat described it as “baloney”... “It is a just claim of the Armenians that Turkey’s entrance into the European Union should come after admitting genocide... The event is recognised as genocide by 15 countries including Russia, France and Switzerland, but not by Britain or the US.”" read more> Cyprus Mail Cyprus Mail |
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| 21 APR 2005 | Cyprus Weekly EU’s blunt message to Turkey: Normalise! "THE European Union yesterday urged Ankara to normalise relations with the Republic of Cyprus... The Luxembourg draft had hung in the balance because of reported objections by London and Rome to references on Cyprus they saw as too demanding on Ankara." read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly |
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| 20 APR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Britain blocks EU missive on Turkey "BRITAIN, followed by Italy, yesterday blocked the “common position” which the EU was going to issue at the Association Council with Turkey... " read more> Cyprus Mail |
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| 19 APR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Government refuses to recognise elected Kormakitis mukhtar " “The policy, originally, was to get rid of the Maronites ...Now that the Turkish Cypriot authorities realise that eventually they will die off, they leave them in peace.” In 1974, thousands of Maronites streamed across the Green Line, leaving their homeland for an uncertain future in the south after Turkish troops invaded northern Cyprus. “1974 turned the whole community into refugees,” said Antonis Hajji Roussos, the Maronite parliamentary representative. “Gradually, everyone left and only the old people remained.”" read more> |
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| 18 APR 2005 | Armenian Press Turkey's promises to open archves are empty promises, Swedish professor says ""I have no other choice but see upon the promise of opening the archives by the Turkish authorities as nothing but empty words, so I have decided to take up the issue with our foreign minister and submitted a written application..."" read more> |
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| 15 APR 2005 | Guardian Britain ups the heat on Cyprus "Greek Cypriot spokesmen complain that their government is being punished for opposing the Annan plan last year... The Greek Cypriots' objections include the plan's acceptance of Turkish troops in the north, unsatisfactory provisions on Greek Cypriot property rights, and the status of an estimated 120,000 Turkish settlers... Soteris Georgallis of the Cyprus high commission said a solution could be found. But his government would resist pressure for "illegal" trade and air links with the north, if necessary through the European courts." read more> |
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| 14 APR 2005 | BBC N Cyprus property row hots up ""I was in the national guard service. About 50 people from my engineering regiment were captured. Only 18 survived..." Mr Apostolides says he wants a solution, but believes the building boom in the north is erecting another obstacle... He says he hopes the Orams case will make foreigners think twice... The British parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee warned this month that British citizens intending to buy property in northern Cyprus "risk exposing themselves to legal action by Greek Cypriots who may be the rightful owners of those properties"... But if the courts uphold their original judgement, lawyer Mr Candounas says he will use Cyprus' new EU membership to try to have the judgement registered in the UK, and will go after the Orams' assets there." read more> |
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| 13 APR 2005 | Cyprus Mail UN investigates attack on elderly enclaved woman "UNFICYP is investigating a break-in and attack on a 75-year-old enclaved Greek Cypriot woman in the Karpasia village of Leonarisso in the early hours of yesterday... the woman was brutally beaten by three intruders and then robbed." read more> |
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| 09 APR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Turkey welcome’s Straw comments on trade and direct flights "TURKEY has welcomed comments by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw earlier this week calling for direct trade and flights to the north... he said, adding that the British government has no intention of contravening international law." read more> |
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| 07 APR 2005 | Cyprus Mail UK developer ‘unaware complex was on Greek Cypriot land’ "THE HEAD of the UK-based Lewis Trust Group (LTG) that has taken over a project to turn a 270-donum plot of Greek Cypriot-owned land in the Karpas peninsula into a high-class tourist resort says he did not know the land on which he will build was Greek Cypriot." read more> Cyprus Mail |
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| 05 APR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Commission raps Ankara over protocol "THE European Commission has made it abundantly clear to Turkey that it cannot annex a statement that it does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus to the protocol extending the Ankara Agreement (customs union) to all 25 member states. It has given assurances to the Cyprus government to this effect, sources told the Cyprus Mail... Ankara is refusing to allow Cypriot ships to dock at its ports and the use of airports by Cypriot airplanes" read more> |
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| 03 APR 2005 | Sunday Mail Fed up with British policy "I am getting very annoyed with the current British government in constantly downplaying the wrongful actions of Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots... but still Turkey will not recognise the Republic of Cyprus... Britain, as a guarantor power under the 1960 Cyprus agreement and an EU member, should be putting more diplomatic pressure on Turkey to recognise the Republic and for Turkey to withdraw its troops from the island and take back all their illegal settlers that are sitting on Greek properties if any future fair deal is reached... Instead, the current British government is so hell bent on admitting Turkey into the EU it wants quick fix solutions such as the Annan plan, which meets all of Turkey’s requirements, and is putting pressure on the Greek Cypriots to accept any loose-worded deal that pleases Turkey... Anyone would think that Britain has zero unemployment, that it needs thousands of Turks who will end up on their shores in search of better work opportunities if and when they join the EU. Instead of defending a fellow EU member state in the Republic of Cyprus, the British government chooses to appease the Turks with every chance they get... In the end, the British people should be asked in a referendum whether they want the Turks or not in the EU. Turkey needs the EU more than the EU needs Turkey." read more> |
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| 02 APR 2005 | Cyprus Mail North tourism posters vandalised in London "Under a picture of a sandy beach with the slogan ‘North Cyprus, a sanctuary of unspoiled beauty', vandals scrawled ‘Until the Turks came along’... Similar posters were banned from the capital's buses after London Mayor Ken Livingstone received complaints from members of the Greek Cypriot community who found them offensive..." read more> Cyprus Mail |
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| 01 APR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Cyprus celebrates start of EOKA struggle "VETERANS of EOKA, the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters, will today celebrate the anniversary of the start of the uprising from British colonial rule, with a series of events in the capital." read more> |
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| 25 MAR 2005 | Cyprus Weekly Shame on you [Kofi Annan] "The highly unsatisfactory approach by the UN Secretariat to the human rights situation in Cyprus and the whitewash of Turkey's guilt in this connection, is underlined vividly by the first ever report on Cyprus by the UN Human Rights Commission... after the very strong plea by Kofi Annan to the United Nations to make respect for human rights one of its main priorities. Annan's plea, and his failure to practice what he preaches in the case of Cyprus... comes as further proof of the deliberate effort by the UN secretariat to absolve Turkey of any blame, or involvement in the continuing gross violation of human rights in Cyprus." read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly |
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| 23 MAR 2005 | BBC Cyprus advert is banned on buses "Posters advertising northern Cyprus as a holiday resort have been banned from London buses after complaints. Some London-based Greek Cypriots, still angry over the 1974 invasion by the Turks, found the adverts offensive... Many Greek Cypriots say the properties they were driven from are being used as holiday homes." read more> Evening Standard |
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| 20 MAR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Tory MEP slams Straw comments "Villiers said the British Labour government ''is so blinded by its desire to see Turkey become a member of the EU that they are prepared to just ignore fundamental issues''... the issue of whether Turkey got a date to open accession negotiations was a hugely important bargaining chip which British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the EU could have used powerfully to put pressure on Turkey to pull its troops out of Cyprus. ''The only concession Turkey gave in exchange for a date was to promise to recognise the government of Cyprus. Now it looks as though Labour are going to let them get away without even fulfilling their promise on recognition,'' Villiers said." read more> |
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| 18 MAR 2005 | Reuters Turkish Rights Group Says Abuses Still Widespread "Human-rights abuses including torture and curbs on freedom of expression remained widespread in Turkey in 2004 despite a flurry of EU-inspired reforms, a leading Turkish rights group said on Friday... "Torture is still very widespread, the right to life still cannot be guaranteed and (freedom of) thought continues to be criminalised and punished,"..." read more> Reporters Without Borders Agence France Presse |
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| 16 MAR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Ken Livingstone bars ‘TRNC’ ads in London "The decision was taken on the basis that the advertisements could cause offence to a large segment of the population. There are around 200,000 Greek Cypriots living in London." read more> |
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| 15 MAR 2005 | Hellenic News of America Syria Out of Lenanon – Turkey Out of Cyprus "The failure to call for the removal of Turkish troops from Cyprus is a striking example of the double standard in Turkey’s favor. It is particularly distressing as the Turkish troops which invaded Cyprus caused substantial loss of lives, huge destruction of property and 200,000 Greek Cypriot refugees. Today, Turkey’s armed forces occupy 37.3% of Cyprus. The reasons to call for the removal of Turkish troops from Cyprus are as compelling, and more so, than getting Syrian troops out of Lebanon." read more> |
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| 13 MAR 2005 | Sunday Herald Tortured minds "For a government which desperately wants to join the European Union, the Turks have an unfortunate penchant for arresting their political opponents. It doesn’t take much to put you on the wrong side of the law here. One of the charges against Ragip Zarakolu is of insulting the memory of Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern Turkish state, who died in 1938. In mature democracies such as our own, where Blair-baiting and royalty-ribbing are the media’s favourite bloodsports, half the nation’s press would be in Pentonville if such a charge existed." read more> Cyprus Mail |
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| 11 MAR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Refugees band together to protect properties "... law suits will be filed against anyone deemed to be taking advantage of Greek Cypriot property without entitlement... scores of refugees have already started collecting dossier evidence to incriminate those illegally using their property in the north." read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly |
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| 09 MAR 2005 | Turkish Daily News Why are we frightened of minorities? " These people [Greeks and Armenians] either donated their property to their churches, or the churches themselves purchased it. In time, we seized some of it, and for the rest we banned them from hammering even a single nail. We made them incapable of doing anything... A group of women hold a rally. It doesn't matter what the rally is about. They are just voicing their opinion... Do you think they deserved to be attacked violently, pulled through the streets and get their faces smashed? Did they have to be treated this way? Who is ordering the police to do such things? What kind of people are in charge of these policemen? What happened to Turkey adhering to the Copenhagen criteria? read more> |
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| 08 MAR 2005 | Washington Times Cold Turkey "No one noticed as Turkey, an erstwhile ally, nabbed the gold medal recently in the global anti-American stakes." read more> BBC Financial Times Cyprus Mail |
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| 07 MAR 2005 | Bloomberg EU Criticizes Police, Says Turks Must Implement Laws |
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| 06 MAR 2005 | Cyprus Mail US report a blatant threat |
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| 04 MAR 2005 | Cyprus Mail ‘We will block Turkey over protocol’ Cyprus Mail |
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| 03 MAR 2005 | Cyprus Mail ‘As long as the arms belong to Turkey, we’re not doing anything wrong’ US stands firm on tanks delivery to north Cyprus Mail| |
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| 02 MAR 2005 | US State Department briefing for journalists Cyprus Mail Cyprus Mail |
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| 01 MAR 2005 | Cyprus Mail Tassos: Turkey will come round sooner rather than later Cyprus Mail |
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| 19 FEB 2005 | Cyprus Mail Christofias attacks Americans "“I am not surprised that a trade mission from Turkey, representing US interests, was in occupied Cyprus on Thursday. This is part of Washington's moves, after the Greek Cypriots rejected a UN proposed solution, to raise obstacles for the Greek Cypriot side and upgrade the institutions of the illegal regime,” he said... "This is contrary to UN resolutions on Cyprus and to international law and order." Christofias said the isolation of the Turkish Cypriots was of their own making, the result of declaring their own breakaway state in 1983."... "We do not wish to see the Turkish Cypriots isolated. The isolation is the result of the continuing Turkish occupation and the secessionist move by Ankara,” he said..." read more> Turkish Daily News |
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| 18 FEB 2005 | Cyprus Weekly Wise words by Annan "UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared this week that it is the absolute right of the people of a country to adopt their own constitution. There must be no attempts by outside powers to impose anything the people do not like, he added." read more> ILLEGAL ENTRY: The US trade delegation disembarks at the illegal Tymbou airport in the occupied north Cyprus Mail Cyprus Mail |
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| 17 FEB 2005 | Wall Street Journal COMMENTARY: The Sick Man of Europe – Again "On a brief visit to Ankara earlier this month with Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith, I found a poisonous atmosphere -- one in which just about every politician and media outlet (secular and religious) preaches an extreme combination of America- and Jew-hatred that (like the Turkish artists) voluntarily goes far further than anything found in most of the Arab world's state-controlled press. If I hesitate to call it Nazi-like, that's only because Goebbels would probably have rejected much of it as too crude... Forgotten have been decades of U.S. military assistance. Forgotten have been years of American efforts to secure a pipeline route for Caspian oil that terminates at the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Forgotten has been the fact that U.S. administrations continue to fight annual attempts in Congress to pass a resolution condemning modern Turkey for the long-ago Armenian genocide. Forgotten has been America's persistent lobbying for Turkish membership in the European Union." read more> |
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| 15 FEB 2005 | NTV MSNBC European Council calls for religious reforms in Turkey "... the public and the media in Turkey held an attitude that looked down upon minorities. In Turkey's schools books, especially those referring to the Armenians and Greeks, had humiliating and slanderous statements in them, the report said, adding that Turkey should see these elements of society as being part of its cultural wealth. The report also cited instances of some people being attacked for being Jewish and that some parts of the Turkish media made anti-Semitic statements." read more> |
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| 12 FEB 2005 | Cyprus Mail 'Annan is not being objective' "THE GOVERNMENT yesterday described as partial the UN Secretary-General’s call on the Greek Cypriot side to make known what changes it sought on the Annan plan, insisting that the international community was well aware of Greek Cypriots’ concerns." read more> Turkish Daily News |
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| 11 FEB 2005 | Cyprus Mail 'Turkey hasn’t changed a bit' "TURKISH Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul’s criticism of DISY leader Nicos Anastassiades comment that some Turkish troops should be removed from Cyprus showed that Turkish policy has not changed, the government said yesterday." read more> Cyprus Mail 'Cypriots have feelings and dignity' ""Britain must understand that Cypriots have “feelings and dignity”, which they stand up for, and he called on the British ''to stop challenging the feelings of the people of Cyprus on a daily basis, for our benefit and theirs... In an effort to make her [Britain] understand that, while choosing Turkey over Cyprus, she must understand that the Cypriots have feelings and dignity, which they cannot but stand up for"... If the Greek Cypriot side was now seeking changes to the Annan plan, this was because so many of the plan’s provisions "bore Britain’s fingerprints, and in particular those of Lord David Hannay, who now comes up with books from which to hurl his thunderbolts at us," he said referring to Hannay’s book launch on Monday..." read more> |
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| 08 FEB 2005 | Cyprus Mail 'Britain is our nemesis' "Christofias was fiercely critical of Britain, which he described as "Cyprus' longtime nemesis". The communist party leader went on to accuse the British government of deliberately trying to undermine the Republic of Cyprus in its efforts for a just and viable settlement. Asked yesterday how Cyprus could break the former colonial power’s hold, Christofias said few doubted Britain’s nefarious role. "Even within the British Parliament there are many who agree with this analysis," he added. Throughout the post-war period, Cypriots had been trying to struggle against "Britain’s efforts to maintain Cyprus for its military purposes"... Christofias added Britain had played a part in all the critical junctures of Cyprus’ history, in 1960, 1963 and 1974, accusing London of exploiting rival nationalisms for its own purposes of divide and rule... the AKEL chief said Britain was using its leverage to promote an EU directive authorising direct trade with the breakaway regime in the north. "This is because they want to enforce use of the illegal airports and ports in the north, bypassing the legitimate government of the Republic... those who sneakily shift responsibility for a new initiative on our side" to turn to Turkey instead, adding that Ankara’s stance was key to progress. He also warned of a concerted effort to discredit the Greek Cypriot side, charging the United States of colluding with Britain in a Machiavellian approach to the Cyprus issue... "bear in mind the hostile statements and threats issued at Cyprus both before and after the referenda." ... According to the AKEL boss, the powers at be in the United States have been striving to extract from the UN Secretary-general a report that would render Security Council Resolution 541 null and void. That resolution designated the breakaway regime as illegal, and called on all UN members to refrain from any dealings with it... Similar sentiments were echoed yesterday by EDEK chairman Yiannakis Omirou, who asserted that “those who claim that Turkish Cypriots are isolated should be ashamed of themselves... How can they say that, when Turkish Cypriots are entitled to free health care, have identity cards issued, and thousands of them are employed in the south?... To claim that we are responsible for the Turkish Cypriots’ economic or other isolation is intolerable hypocrisy... We shall not submit to pressure, and we shall certainly not consent to our own undoing."" read more> Cyprus Mail Cyprus Mail letters |
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| 07 FEB 2005 | New Statesman Arrested without reasonable cause "In 2002 the European Court of Human Rights, ruled against Turkey ... Turkey was yet again found to be a torturing nation... It had been hoped that Turkey's proposed membership for the European Union might lead to an improvement of its disastrous track record, especially in the areas of democracy and treatment of minorities. However, only in December last year Turkey sought to confound that optimism by disbanding the ground breaking Torture Prevention Group, seizing files and computer data with many victims details on them. Remzi's arrest shows that rather than enter a meaningful dialogue to achieve a peaceful and democratic solution to the Kurds problems Turkey has chosen to attack Kurdish leaders at home and in the million strong diaspora in Europe. Turkey claiming to defend democracy from terrorist attack while furthering its own draconian measures." read more> |
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| 04 FEB 2005 | Cyprus Mail UK 'watching Orams case closely' "THE BRITISH government is keeping a close watch on the case of a British woman sued for possession the property of a refugee in the occupied north and is advising its citizens to seek independent legal counselling before buying property in the north." read more> Cyprus Mail |
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| 02 FEB 2005 | Cyprus Mail Property market slumps in the north "Seventy to eighty per cent of our business has been lost. It’s just one blow after another" read more> Cyprus Mail |
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| 30 JAN 2005 | Cyprus Mail Vassiliou insists property bill will not target Turkish Cypriots " The Turkish Cypriot breakaway state has embarked on a frenzy of property sales to eager European opportunists, mostly British, seeking properties at bargain prices. The amendment would allow district courts to issue European arrest warrants for people holding properties illegally. Current legislation, in force for the past 40 years, provides for a maximum penalty of six months in jail or a £400 fine for offenders." read more> Cyprus Mail letters |
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| 25 JAN 2005 | Kathimerini Ball in our court "... developments toward a settlement on the Cyprus problem have stalled due to unwillingness on behalf of the big powers... In truth, reluctance on the part of the United States – and by extension from the United Nations – is utilized as a lever for putting pressure on Nicosia. Current inaction is portrayed as the consequence of the resounding Greek-Cypriot "no" vote to the peace plan drafted by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Accordingly, the rejection of the Annan blueprint is painted as a reprehensible verdict so as to overcome potential Greek-Cypriot resistance to another ill-conceived plan in the future. It is also a way of maximizing the negative fallout on Nicosia should the Greek-Cypriot population reject another UN solution." read more> |
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| 22 JAN 2005 | Guardian Britons fight to hold on to Cypriot home "... title deeds to the properties remain with the nearly 200,000 Greeks who were forcibly displaced at that time. Last year, the European court of human rights issued a ruling establishing Greek Cypriots as the "only true and lawful owners" of the land. Inevitably, most British residents are apologists for the veteran Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, an unflinching opponent of reunification. "The fact is that Greek Cypriots never lost their legal title to their properties," government spokesman Kypros Chrysostimides told the Guardian. As the Orams had discovered, buyers "ran the risk" of being sued at any time. He added: "In the wake of Cypriot entry to the EU last year, they could expect to be hauled before UK courts for trespass, or conspiracy to commit trespass to such properties."" read more> |
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| 18 JAN 2005 | Kathimerini Turks violate Greek waters, EU norms "It appears that Turkey’s supposed harmonization with European norms and principles has had little effect on its attitudes toward Greece. Giving Turkey the green light for membership negotiations with the European Union has only resulted in an escalation of Turkish provocations toward our country." read more > |
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| 14 JAN 2005 | Cyprus Weekly EU Constitution – Magic wand for a Cyprus settlement "...its implementation will automatically nullify all the unacceptable pro-Turkish provisions of the controversial Annan Plan that grossly violate the European Convention of Human Rights by legitimising the consequences of the ethnic cleansing war crime committed by Turkey, as well as the violation of other fundamental human rights and basis democratic principles... a settlement must be firmly based on full compliance with all the clauses of the EU Constitution, without any derogations, as envisaged by the Annan Plan and those who back it, despite its overwhelming rejection by the Greek Cypriots." read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly |
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| 09 JAN 2005 | Cyprus Mail letters Embracing the Republic of Cyprus "The very thought that a mere 100,000 Turkish Cypriot people can form a sustainable independent economy while establishing and maintaining a modern infrastructure with a miniscule 40,000 odd working population of a predominantly agricultural nature is attainable only in the wishful dreams of their leader Rauf Denktash and his supporters." read more> Cyprus Mail letters |
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| 07 JAN 2005 | Cyprus Weekly Perfidious Albion in all its glory! "Britain not only rejected this approach [Cypriot independence and constitutional order], betraying its treaty obligations completely, but gave Turkey the green light to proceed with its one-sided intervention in violation of the same treaty and the principles of the United Nations Charter... But the most shocking revelation is that the British government gave full backing from the beginning to the occupation by Turkey of more than one third of Cyprus. It is absolutely incredible that Britain did this while foreseeing at the same time that "the particularly difficult problem (of the Turkish occupation) will be the possible enforced transfer of the Greek Cypriots from the Turkish-occupied zone.'' read more> Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly Cyprus Weekly |
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| 05 JAN 2005 | Cyprus Mail UK government failed in its duties "OFFICIAL confirmation from 30-year old declassified documents revealing that Britain deliberately turned a blind eye to the Turkish invasion in 1974 indicates that the government in the UK failed in its duty as a guarantor power on the island, the government said yesterday. As one of the island’s three guarantor powers, along with Greece and Turkey, Britain’s role under the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee was to uphold the integrity and independence of the Cyprus Republic. It let it be understood by Ankara that it would not only put no obstacles in its way but that it would even assist, by imposing obstacles on Greece..." read more> |
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| 04 JAN 2005 | Worldpress.org Turn the page, but read it first: Why Europe and Turkey must now address the Armenian Genocide "In a gruesome and purposeful affair carried out over less than a year, an estimated 1.5 million people were killed. Many more fled to Russia and Syria. The remainder were swept up in cleansing campaigns over the following decades. As a result, Turkey’s Armenian population dropped from 10-15 percent to 0.1 percent of Turkey’s overall population, and all in Istanbul [Constantinople]." read more> |
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