The Mayor of Nicosia Eleni Mavrou has sent a letter to the Mayor of Istanbul Kadir Topbas, claiming that Mr Bulutoglulari who was invited to the Summit as the Cyprus Turkish Mayor of Lefkosia is only a local representative of the Turkish Cypriot People.
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Mr Bulutoglulari reiterated that he did not expect such a statement by Mrs Mavrou and added that he will convey his views on the issue to the foreign ambassadors in Cyprus. He noted that he could not cooperate with Mrs Mavrou from now on. I will not build the Mia Milia refinery with Mavrou, despite the pressures to be exerted by the EU, said Bulutoglulari noting that soon he will close the valve of the refinery to the Greek Cypriots.
We are not obliged to clean their dirt, he noted and added: At any case they are not paying the 35 million euros which are in their share. In this case we will build the part of the project which falls into our share. And we will close the valve to them.
Sooo.. what do we have here? The mainland Turks inviding Eleni Mavrous as Mayor of Greek Nicosia and Bulutoglulari as Mayor of Turkish Nicosia !!! The issue of separate municipalities that dates back from the 60s…. And then Bulutoglulari threatening to close the link of the total Nicosia swearage system to us a project that is being financed by the EU and according to which the TC side would take 75% of the irrigation water produced by that!!!
Fine! I would say let’s forget about taking our swearage to the other side and lets bypass it to our own plant in the free areas and have 100% of the irrigation water produced. What’s the point cooperating with people who cannot even honour their signatures, and their contracts with the EU