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Cyprus PIO: Turkish Press and Other Media, 01-10-23Cyprus Press and Information Office: Turkish Cypriot Press Review Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office Server at <http://www.pio.gov.cy/>TURKISH PRESS AND OTHER MEDIA A. No.202/01 23.10.01[A] NEWS ITEMS
[B] COMMENTS AND EDITORIALS
[A] NEWS ITEMS[01] PUM to appeal to international courts about the new "passport law""Avrupa" (23.10.01) reports that the Turkish Cypriot Patriotic Union Movement (PUM) has strongly criticized the new "passport draft-law" transmitted to the "legal and political affairs committee", stressing that in case the "law" is accepted by the so-called "Assembly" the party will inevitably begin a struggle against it in which it will be forced to use every method including appealing to international courts.The paper writes that PUM issued yesterday a statement declaring that even if the "law" is accepted, the party will not apply its provisions. According to the statement "the military regime in the northern part of Cyprus is trying to terrify and oppress the Turkish Cypriots with fascist laws". [02] Efforts to lift the so-called embargoAccording to "Halkin Sesi" (23.10.01) Turkey's Sports Minister, Fikret Unlu has said that the «embargoes» applied on the pseudostate by the international community are contrary to the human rights and added that in co-operation with the "officials" of the pseudostate they exert efforts to lift this embargo and pave the way for the athletes "citizens" of the so-called "TRNC" to participate in international sporting events and achieve the recognition of the "TRNC".Talking yesterday at a press conference after a meeting with the so-called "sports minister", Ahmet Kasif, Mr Unlu noted that they wanted to find a solution to this problem within the framework of the international law. Mr Unlu said also that soon the foundations of the so-called "TRNC" Olympic Home would be laid. Turkey will continue to help the pseudostate in the field of sports, he said, concluding that they will also be organizing joint sporting activities. [03] So-called Minister of Finance is participating in Islamic Central Banks meeting in AlgeriaAccording to KIBRIS (23.10.01), the so-called Minister of Finance of the pseudostate Mehmet Bayram, left the occupied areas yesterday for Algeria, to take part in the 26th Meeting of the Governors of the Central Banks of the Islamic countries.The meeting, which is organized by the Islamic Development Bank, will start today and end tomorrow, 24.10.01. The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Cypfruvex Zafer Niyazi is accompanying Bayram. [04] More than 25,000 of hectares were burned from fires in the occupied areas since 1975KIBRIS (23.10.01) reports under banner headlines that since 1975, 13,021 hectares of «State Forest» and 12,844 hectares of private property land were destroyed by forest fires.According to the so-called Forestry Department of the pseudostate during reforestation work carried out in the occupied areas between 1974-2001, 28,741,560 saplings were planted. The so-called director of the «Forestry Department» Altay Kazma said that through a «master plan» they have targeted to reforest within one or two years time the land that was burned down. He said that 44,338 hectares of land should be reforested. [05] Exercise by so-called Civil Defence in occupied KyreniaAccording to KIBRIS (23.10.01) the so-called Civil Defence Drill-code named «Civil Defence Drill 2001» is going to take place on 3 November 2001 in occupied Kyrenia.The drill will take place between 11:00 - 14:00 hours and members of the so-called Civil Defence Personnel, Universities Search and Rescue teams - Ministry of Health personnel, teams from the Police Force, Electricity Authority employees and personnel from the so-called Kyrenia municipality will take part in the drill. [B] COMMENTS AND EDITORIALS[06] Turkish Cypriot columnist writes that Turkey is exerting pressure for CyprusAydin Olgun of "Vatan" (23.10.01) reports that Ankara is taking advantage of the situation in Afghanistan to exert pressure on the USA regarding Cyprus. In his commentary under the title "Ankara is exerting pressure for Cyprus", Mr Olgun writes, among other things, the following:"Taking advantage of the recent events in Afghanistan, Ankara is exerting pressure for Cyprus. According to information leaked from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Motherland, Ankara is insistently defending her opinions and demands on the Cyprus issue especially before the USA. According to the same information, Ankara has taken from Washington the promise that sufficient support will be given to her on the issue of Cyprus in return of her military help on this issue (Afghanistan). The recent political developments in the world and the fact that Turkey offered the USA the necessary support on the issue of terrorism caused great satisfaction in the USA. .According to the information leaked, in parallel with the issue of Cyprus, the USA is planning to relieve Turkey from some of her debts. Among the debts, which are thought to be written off are the five million dollars for military aid. .As far as the help on the Cyprus issue is concerned, this for now will be at least political support to Turkey before the European Union and Greece.However, while Turkey is waging a huge struggle against terrorism, the TRNC too has to do really a lot of things. It must inform the world that Clerides and Simitis are the basic supporters of terrorism and support the Motherland on this issue by undertaking a propaganda campaign." KV/SK Cyprus Press and Information Office: Turkish Cypriot Press Review Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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