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THE CYPRUS government’s efforts to stop a ferry link between Syria and the occupied port of Famagusta have failed, as its maiden voyage took place on Thursday.

Turkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris yesterday confirmed that “the special ferryboat trip organised by the Akgunler Maritime Ltd on the eve of the Ramadan Bayram from Famagusta port to Syria’s Latakia, took place yesterday [Thursday].”

The paper added that regular scheduled service would start on October 18.

Speaking to the media, ‘Foreign Minister’ Turgay Avci said the north would continue to establish and develop bilateral contacts. “We are implanting the proactive policy,” he said. “Now we are leading and the Greek Cypriot administration follows us.”

Asked whether the Cyprus government was riled at missing out on the Latakia Ship, Avci said: “The Greek Cypriot administration will miss a lot of ships, that is: the Greek Cypriot intransigence and the mentality that ‘I do whatever I want and I can strangle the Turkish Cypriots’ will gradually end.”

He added that the Greek Cypriot administration continues to exert heavy pressure on Syria to stop the ferry services to Latakia.

The government, through its spokesman Vasilis Palmas, claimed on Thursday it was unaware if the ferryboat had indeed left Famagusta.

DISY president Nicos Anastassiades yesterday blamed the development on President Tassos Papadopoulos’ political moves.

“We are observing countries that are friendly with Cyprus not only abandoning us, but semi-recognising an illegal regime,” said Anastassiades, expressing his sadness over the new ferry route.

“This, unfortunately, is the certainty that President Papadopoulos is offering us his up-to-date politics,” he added.

The DISY president pointed out the indifference he had experienced abroad over the Cyprus problem.
“There is total indifference over the occupation, the refugees, the division and all that is imminent to happen. All we hear is that we need to do something to lift the isolation of the Turkish Cypriots,” he added.

On Thursday, a Syrian official told AFP that “the coastal connection of the two counties is now a fact”.
Foreign Minister Erato Kazakou-Markoulli and EDEK honorary chairman Vasos Lyssarides will be going to Damascus to hold talks on the matter.

Meanwhile, ‘Prime Minister’ Ferdi Sabit Soyer pointed out that it would be wrong to interpret this as Syria’s diplomatic recognition of the ‘TRNC’, but added that it was a step in the right direction of lifting “the international isolation imposed on north Cyprus”.

Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2007

Time will work against the "RoC" as these events will increase and with EU experiencing the GC style of finding a solution and the guilt of not keeping their promise to the TC people the chasm will get wider and wider.

[Piratis]

Correction to the title:

Criminal Turks hail yet another illegality

[Get Real!]

The ferry carries the Georgian flag and has been officially asked by the Georgian government to remove the flag if the illegal trip proceeds.

[Viewpoint]

Correction to the title:

Criminal Turks hail yet another illegality

Feeling sick Piratis?, I know anything positive for us and u sick to your stomache...maybe you guys need to take a reality check and understand that you should take measures to close the chasm that exsists rather than continu with your plicies of the last 44 years which have not got you anywhere with the TCs.

[phoenix]

Weren't Turkey and Syria on the brink of war in 1998 because of Turkish plans to build dams along the Euphrates ? Syria lies downstream.

Perhaps Syria had its arm twisted in some kind of double-dealings / blackmail by Turkey to do some exchange.

Or is that too cynical?

[Viewpoint]

Weren't Turkey and Syria on the brink of war in 1998 because of Turkish plans to build dams along the Euphrates ? Syria lies downstream.

Perhaps Syria had its arm twisted in some kind of double-dealings / blackmail by Turkey to do some exchange.

Or is that too cynical?

Dont look for excuses...this type of development will inrease over time especially with the Islamic countries, thank the GC intrangience for these changes.

[Get Real!]

Correction to the title:

Criminal Turks hail yet another illegality

Feeling sick Piratis?, I know anything positive for us and u sick to your stomache...maybe you guys need to take a reality check and understand that you should take measures to close the chasm that exsists rather than continu with your plicies of the last 44 years which have not got you anywhere with the TCs.

All renegades will conform with time and who knows… maybe in the future I’ll take you to the national football matches so that you too may marvel at the skill of the RoC national team so if you're a good lad I'll even buy you a scarf.

[phoenix]

Weren't Turkey and Syria on the brink of war in 1998 because of Turkish plans to build dams along the Euphrates ? Syria lies downstream.

Perhaps Syria had its arm twisted in some kind of double-dealings / blackmail by Turkey to do some exchange.

Or is that too cynical?

Dont look for excuses...this type of development will inrease over time especially with the Islamic countries, thank the GC intrangience for these changes.

You can't deny Turkey uses her "persuasive" powers. But how long will these countries continue to yield to Turkey's bullying tactics before they say enough.

I guess Turkey knew what it was doing when it gave up being secular recently. Wearing scarfs is not such a high price to pay to "persuade" other Muslim countries they are all in this together.

[Viewpoint]

Correction to the title:

Criminal Turks hail yet another illegality

Feeling sick Piratis?, I know anything positive for us and u sick to your stomache...maybe you guys need to take a reality check and understand that you should take measures to close the chasm that exsists rather than continu with your plicies of the last 44 years which have not got you anywhere with the TCs.

All renegades will conform with time and who knows… maybe in the future I’ll take you to the national football matches so that you too may marvel at the skill of the RoC national team so if you're a good lad I'll even buy you a scarf.

If there are TCs in he team andwe have rights in running the "Roc" then why not otherwise I have no desire to support a GC team as they have nothing to do with me or my community.

[Viewpoint]

Weren't Turkey and Syria on the brink of war in 1998 because of Turkish plans to build dams along the Euphrates ? Syria lies downstream.

Perhaps Syria had its arm twisted in some kind of double-dealings / blackmail by Turkey to do some exchange.

Or is that too cynical?

Dont look for excuses...this type of development will inrease over time especially with the Islamic countries, thank the GC intrangience for these changes.

You can't deny Turkey uses her "persuasive" powers. But how long will these countries continue to yield to Turkey's bullying tactics before they say enough.

I guess Turkey knew what it was doing when it gave up being secular recently. Wearing scarfs is not such a high price to pay to "persuade" other Muslim countries they are all in this together.

excuses excuses why dont you ask why the GC admimistration has done nothing in the last 4 years?? stopping blaming everyone else but yourselves.