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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 02-08-11
CONTENTS
[01] CPJ protests "sentences" of Turkish Cypriot journalists
[02] Christofias says Ankara to blame for deadlock
[01] CPJ protests "sentences" of Turkish Cypriot journalists
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CPJ protests "sentences" of Turkish Cypriot journalists
by Apostolis Zoupaniotis
New York, Aug 11 (CNA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a
New York based non-profit, non-partisan organisation, dedicated to the
freedom of press around the world, issued on Friday a news alert
following the illegal "sentences" imposed on editor-in-chief of Turkish
Cypriot daily "Afrika", Sener Levent, and editor Memduh Ener, "by a
'court' in the Turkish breakaway region of northern Cyprus, for
libeling Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash in a July 1999 article
titled 'Who is the number one traitor?'"
[02] Christofias says Ankara to blame for deadlock
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Christofias says Ankara to blame for deadlock
Nicosia, Aug 11 (CNA) - House of Representatives President Demetris
Christofias said today that Turkey and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf
Denktash were to blame for the deadlock in efforts to solve the Cyprus
problem, due to their insistence on "two separate states".
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